Hugh's Chicken Run (Merged Discussion)

Smudge32

Just thought I'd let you know that I printed all this out and laughed my head off for 30 minutes. What a great argument!!

Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch where the man gets knocked into the canal with a fish. Maybe you should all start fighting with chickens.

By the way, before anyone starts: I know it's a serious subject and I'm firmly on the side of the free range chickens on this one. Just went into Tescos where they had loads of reduced eggs for sale. Half barn eggs and half free range, all for 12p a box. Everyone still picked up barn eggs!! Tch! Tut!

boredofbeingathome

Lotus-eater wrote: »

So the Willow farm is the one we saw in James fowl dinners. That looked ok.
I was in Asda today, not one piece of, or whole freerange chicken, not one! Couldn't even see a spot for it.
Bit pi**ed off with Asda over the whole thing, at least tescos and sainburys are talking about it and starting to do something.

It was the same in our local asda, and the free range eggs were 1.80 for 6, people wont buy at those prices. The only thing i bought- free trade bananas!! Won't shop there again for a while and i only popped in because the petrol is cheaper there than anywhere else.

geordie_joe

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

It was the same in our local asda, and the free range eggs were 1.80 for 6, people wont buy at those prices.

Large free range eggs were 6 for 99p at my local fruiters on Monday. Could it be that ASDA saw the increase in demand for free range eggs and increased the price?

After all, it is simple business that wen demand outstrips supply the price goes up. Shops don't drop prices unless they have more supply than demand.

competitionscafe

geordie_joe wrote: »

Large free range eggs were 6 for 99p at my local fruiters on Monday.

Yes - it's a myth that supermarkets are the cheapest place to shop for food - £1.29 for 6 organic free-range eggs at my local health food shop - £1.75 to £2.05 at my local Sainsburys (depends on size and if you choose Sainsburys Woodland organic or Sainsburys own brand organic). Sainsburys free range (non-organic) is £1.28 for 6 medium, so not bad compared to that £1.80 quoted for Asda. My veg box scheme also does 6 organic eggs from their own chickens for £1.40.

tiggyloo

arkonite_babe wrote: »

my local Sainsburys were completely sold out of all free range and organic chicken last night, not one to be had at all. Lots of cheap stuff on the shelves though.

the same in the little sainsburys in york last night. people seemed to be looking and passing by.

tiggy

margaretclare

I've just watched the second episode of 'Hugh's Chicken Run' - didn't see it the first time round. I've been committed to free range for years but have only recently managed to convert my DH, who does the shopping because he enjoys it. From last week, this is a free range household!

I'm beginning to convince him even about his love of Tesco. He went there today and couldn't find some of the things he was looking for - not food items. I said 'I told you - it's just too big, you walk miles looking for one small item'. It took him longer to queue up and pay than it did to look for half a dozen items.

We got a small free-range chicken yesterday in Waitrose - 1.37 kg for £5.88. I liked Hugh's recipe for chicken risotto for using up chicken left-overs and we might try it, although we tend to use the left-overs for chicken sandwiches in wholemeal bread.

I felt sorry for Hayley last week because she was being slammed so much, her weight was commented on etc. Seeing it today, I thought she was a bossy-boots with a closed mind who would not change her opinion no matter how much evidence was presented to her. She just chanted her mantra of 'it's not my budget' without even considering the possibility of quality rather than quantity and making the meat go further. She would really benefit from some of those old WWII recipes - the women of that generation were forced to make all meat go very much further, not only because of their budgets but because of rationing.

I'll be using my local butcher a lot more and also Woodford Meats Farm, which is about 3 miles away.

Margaret

nearlyrich

I just bought a free range chicken from my usual butcher, one of two butchers that I use, it was about £4.70 and it will feed upto six people for a roast dinner on Monday evening. Then on Tuesday the leftovers will go into a rissotto or sandwiches depends who gets there first.

We looked at the 2 for a fiver birds in Tesco and they were quite small and we would have needed both for one meal. We have had the Willow farm from tesco but they are upto £7 (or were last time I bought one).

I just watched "Jaimie's Fowl Dinners" today and it's made me more sure that Free range eggs and chicken are firmly on my menus and the bit where he showed the mechanically recovered meat made me feel ill. I am so pleased I don't buy processed food.

nc1967

These seem now impossible to get from our Tesco - everytime I look the shelf is bare.
On asking a member of staff I was told 'we have sold our allocation for today!!'

Come on Tesco - don't try to bully us we want free range

~Chameleon~

nc1967 wrote: »

These seem now impossible to get from our Tesco - everytime I look the shelf is bare.
On asking a member of staff I was told 'we have sold our allocation for today!!'

Come on Tesco - don't try to bully us we want free range

There is very limited supply at the moment as demand has gone through the roof, so yes, I should imagine each supermarket will be getting "rations" of free range chicken for the next few months.

prettypennies

I have been buying organic meat for several years now from various sources.

Abel and Cole have recently started offering their full service in our area and the meat from them has been very good. I had a Fore rib for Christmas lunch this year which was blinding.

My family are big chicken fans but I try to limit chicken to once a week because it is quite pricey (tend to buy thighs for stews and curries).

We had pork, apple and juniper berry casserole for lunch today. With one pack of pork (500g for £5). I made enough for 4 post swimming appetites with enough leftover for 2 packed lunches (by adding carrots, shallots and apple slices to bulk it out and serving with roasted seasonal veggies - parsnips and beets v. reasonable at the mo).

This week I had my first monthly meat box from www.wellhungmeat.com
I though a breakdown of the contents might be of interest to people thinking of switching to organic. Total Cost of the box was £67 + £8 delivery

Meat

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Weight

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Individual Cost

Whole Chicken

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2.07kg

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£16.54
Chicken Thighs

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0.39kg

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£2.92
Chicken Thighs

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0.39Kg

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£2.92
Lamb Breast

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0.70kg

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£4.89
Lamb Chops

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0.65kg

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£10.96
Rump Steak

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0.31kg

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£7.28
Rump Steak

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0.31kg

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£7.28
Steak Mince

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0.80kg

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£5.21
Steak Mince

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0.57kg

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£5.12
Pork Sausages

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0.4kg

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£4.00
Mutton Leg Fillet

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1.62kg

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£21.79