The price of goose

stephen77

Ballymackeonan wrote: »

Lidl did frozen geese (from Hungary) for £21.99 last Xmas - I've had these for a couple of years and they're excellent.

after christmas I think they dropped the price down to like £12.99 or some thing.

Either lidl or aldi did. I just had a little freezer at the time and 4kg goose to much for two people.

Mrs_Arcanum

The M&S ones were around £45 prepared & ready to cook. A fresh one from the butcher will be around £30-£40 depending on weight. Always used to get the butcher to bone mine then I could separate out the fat and render it down for presents and roast tatties and not have to constantly be draining the fat off.

tbw

Just steer well clear of the ones from Tesco! I paid nearly £30 for a fresh tesco goose the Christmas before last and it was dreadful. I'm a fairly good cook and it was prepared properly but , apart from the vast quantities of goose fat, it was one hell of a lot of bone and very little meat. I know goose and duck have a high bone to meat ratio but I certainly expected to be able to feed my DH and me (there were just 2 of us that year) for at least 2 meals each plus maybe a bit left for a sandwich.

In fact I struggle to get enough decent meat off for just Christmas Day lunch for the 2 of us - and the mass of bones went stright into the dustbin. Good job I did plenty of veg and trimmings otherwise this would have been the first Christmas Dinner where I was still hungry!

I'm not sure what went wrong but, judging by the speed at which Tesco refunded me the full price, I suspect I wasn't the only cross customer. Several friends have said that Aldi and Lidl frozen geese are fairly foolproof but the disappointment has put me right of buying a goose ever again. Shame really - I only got one because my DH has always had fond memories of old fashioned Christmases with a goose and I wanted to surprise him. There is a fine line between surprise and shock !

Piggo_2

We had a Goose from our local butcher last year it was about £45 and really nice. Fed 6 of us with none left over!

hkminca

All the geese in the major supermarkets are supplied by the same food company (I used to work for them), the same goes for bronze turkeys - the birds are EXACTLY the same, just the price and packaging that is different.

However Aldi and Lidl source products from different suppliers and will no doubt be cheaper.

I would say the average goose would only serve 3-4 people - the serving size is normally based on less than 100g of meat each - as if you're going to pay that much and then eat such a small amount!

Lovemarmite

We got one from Aldi 3 weeks ago for around £6.99 was a good size too!

hebgoose

Hi Alison

I'm not sure about M&S but Waitrose currently sell frozen Norfolk goose for £45. I think it comes in one size - 'medium' (which, if I remember rightly, is 4.5kg). Generally speaking, British goose seems to sell online for £10-£13 per kg. It's a bigger product in Eastern Europe and as a result they have a much larger goose industry. This allows supermarkets like Lidl and Aldi to import and sell it at much much lower prices than the British equivalent.

I actually run The Hebridean Goose Co. which Seakay kindly provided a link to above (Thanks!) and - cue plug - our 2011 Christmas geese range from £42.00 to £58.00.

David MacDonald

janz70

Lovemarmite wrote: »

We got one from Aldi 3 weeks ago for around £6.99 was a good size too!

I think you will find that was duck for that price not a goose

Aldi have frozen geese in from 30th Nov 2011 for £19.99, as do Lidl but thiers currently reduced to £17.99 (but for how long???)

PS If a bucher or local farmer can do it for that price I'll have one

im-lost

janz70 wrote: »

I think you will find that was duck for that price not a goose

Aldi have frozen geese in from 30th Nov 2011 for £19.99, as do Lidl but thiers currently reduced to £17.99 (but for how long???)

PS If a bucher or local farmer can do it for that price I'll have one

wow, you can remember the prices and everything they sold in in Aldi nearly 4 months ago, have you ever thought of counting cards

meritaten

you dont need to remember prices from Aldi - they have a website and a leaflet which is really handy!
I remember that the goose I had from Aldi the year before last was £16.99 cos I couldnt believe the price! it was the same size as the turkey I had ordered from a local butcher - but was half the price!
last year I bought Aldis Turkey Crown and a couple of their beef joints.
This year I see they are having Fresh Meat in - I will prob buy that.