Free Range Chickens

[T8Ter]

We (family wise) would normally spend £60 on a turkey, so I don't think £40 is expensive personally, not for a free range, happy turkey.

Recently though we've only been buying crowns. This year, we're (as in 'my' family (wife, daughter)) are having xmas at home.. quite fancy something different (maybe goose?) but it's impossible to find locally, of decent quality.. hopefully I've not left it too late in Cardiff!

Hi Chris,
Try J T Morgan in Cardiff Central market, lovely meats there with good provenance, but you may need to think about ordering now.

[Hilary B]

The biggest problem is that people are so used to buying cheap meat. Meat should not be that cheap!
£10 for a chicken isn't over the top. Not that long ago chicken was an expensive meat that people couldn't afford to eat that often, then came along factory/large scale farming and the standards got lower and lower, the meat got cheaper and cheaper, till we are now too used to meat that is ridiculously cheap.
If you reared a few birds yourself, you'd really find out how much it costs to rear a decent bird. And then you wouldn't mind paying decent money for a decent one.

(Says the man whose OH bought a cooked, reduced end of day chicken from Asda for £1.30 last week ) But I have also reared my own.

I occasionally buy the ultra-cheap 'reduced for quick sale' because if it doesn't sell at all, it gets binned, and that is waste. I hate the idea of throwing away meat!