Chicken breasts price comparison

lynnysinger

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I have just come back from booker's

and they have 5kgs fresh chicken breasts for £19.99

a guy in front of me was buying 3 packs... i asked him how many where in the pack, and he said approx 15 - 20

so it works out approx £3.98 a kg, dont thin there was any vat on them

that is the same as makro. no vat. when we can get to makro always buy them. i then freeze them in pairs as they are really big. next best is aldi:T

trent7176

I have just come back from booker's

and they have 5kgs fresh chicken breasts for £19.99

a guy in front of me was buying 3 packs... i asked him how many where in the pack, and he said approx 15 - 20

so it works out approx £3.98 a kg, dont thin there was any vat on them

lynnysinger wrote: »

that is the same as makro. no vat. when we can get to makro always buy them. i then freeze them in pairs as they are really big. next best is aldi:T

Can I just point out that in the UK? THERE IS NO VAT ON FOOD EVER!
Apart from confectionary and take away or restaurant food.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

there is vat on certain food products.

so to cover my butt so to speak, this is why i said about the vat..


I have chickens breasts that i bought on christmas eve reduced to 50p a pack of two, so once i have sued them up, i think i will buy a pack in booker's..

malefic

We get our chicken from waitrose, ideal for making meals when they are all individually wrapped.
Must admit we get all of our meat from waitrose - okay we pay a little bit more but their meat always seems the best taste with the less waste.

geordie_joe

terra_ferma wrote: »

why don't they give price per kg though? I thought that would be a legal requirement.

No, they only have to give the price per unit, they can decide what the unit is. If you dig deeper into the site it says a serving is 227g. That was for the chicken breasts, it might be different for other meat products.

So it's near enough 5kg for £32.50. Plus delivery.

terra_ferma

malefic wrote: »

We get our chicken from waitrose, ideal for making meals when they are all individually wrapped.
Must admit we get all of our meat from waitrose - okay we pay a little bit more but their meat always seems the best taste with the less waste.

I'm a great fan of waitrose and buy meat from there too, but I must admit that once I was cooking half fillets from them and half from another brand (S's or Co-op, but probably S's), and once I took them out of the wrapping I could not tell the difference. Even when I cook I can never tell which ones I'm using if I forget to look when I get them out in a hurry.
Must say I was disappointed as I love their food, and still buy their chicken when it's on offer.

terra_ferma

geordie_joe wrote: »

No, they only have to give the price per unit, they can decide what the unit is. If you dig deeper into the site it says a serving is 227g. That was for the chicken breasts, it might be different for other meat products.

So it's near enough 5kg for £32.50. Plus delivery.

I'm not sure they can use whatever unit they choose, according to information I found, like this:
http://www.u.tv/news/Supermarkets-confuse-consumers-with-product-pricing/ab5863de-ec33-4425-a302-b059ae3dfe49

Maybe you have different information?

I would say that whatever the law says I'm not sure I want to buy from a company that for whatever reason feels the need to use pricing that is confusing and not transparent.
What else are they hiding? Are they finding ways round food hygiene and H&S laws? (not saying they are, just my perception of them as a company)

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I have never bought chicken breasts on their own as I would rather buy a complete chicken and cook it in the SC overnight and the meat just falls off the bones and the stock is wonderful as a base for soup.I have just cooked a fresh 1.7kg chicken last Thursday and from that I had five sandwiches four dinners and six pasta single portion based dinners for the freezerThat's 15 meals for a fiver plus I will make one and a half litres of chunky vegatable soup at least from my chicken stock which shoulld do me for six lunches with maybe some fruit or a yoghurt to follow.

kazmeister

terra_ferma wrote: »

looks interesting this westin gourmet.
why don't they give price per kg though? I thought that would be a legal requirement. it just makes things a bit more difficult to compare. Price per serving is a gimmick.
Might give it a go tough, thanks.

As someone else mentioned earlier, they do give the weight in the more information. The thing with these is the quality. I too used to buy farm foods but they do contain a lot of water as do a lot of the other makes, I havent found this with Westin. I think the reason they price per serving as they supply to a lot of caterers and they need to know a price per portion.

maestro2001

Sainsburys have frozen chicken fillets reduced at the moment.

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp?bmUID=1326036118748

Works out at £3.98 a kilo.