Where is the cheapest chicken in dublin?

rubadub

I saw tesco have part boned chicken for 50% off at the moment, works out about €1 per fillet, which is not amazing, but good enough, and they are not as "watered down" as the skinned, unboned ones.

Are there any butchers with them cheap? I saw people mentioning some that do 10 for €10 I think. I was thinking of getting a load of them and freezing them.

Dunnes used to do frozen ready cooked fillet pieces, 400g for €3 but I have not seen them recently. I did get turkey mince there, 500g for €2.79 but I think it may have been priced wrong, alongside it was the exact same packaging & description, same best before but 400g was €4.something.

brianthebard

Aldi and lidl do that frozen muck. Sorry but I don't think the words cheap and meat should be put together...


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I_and_I

Cheap mince is dodgy usually higher fat content. And cheap meat is probably not a good idea if you are eating it for nutritional reasons, plus it always seems like some kind of scam.

JayRoc

Fenelons in Stillorgan Shopping Centre do 30 good size, good quality, chicken fillets for €30. No water-filled muck, it's good stuff, couldn't recommend that place highly enough.
And I know several lads who wouldn't be prepared to sacrifice their gains with poor-quality meat who use the same butcher.

rubadub

Fenlons in stillorgan is one place I did go to, but that is about 3 years back now when I lived there. I did find them quite watered down but the worst was I got them a few times and they were semi frozen, I reckoned they must have been freezing them every night and defrosting during the day.

I think freezing/deforsting only affects the taste and not bacteria like you used to hear, but I might be wrong.

I dont buy mince beef anymore, I get rib steak and cut it up really finely, trimming off all the fat, it works out cheaper than any "lean" mince I have seen.

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Possibly but people here would tend to buy in bulk more and could get better deals. Might know a resturaunt suppliers who sell it by the crate or something.

Reyman

I'd be wary of very cheap chicken. Ask where it comes from?

Thailand perhaps - Asian flu region.

NewFrockTuesday

Bradys butchers do 6 large fillets for €8 - its buy 5 and get 1 free. They are really firm and come from their own farms. All the meat in there is excellent.

I know there is one shop in Fairview beside the Centra and they have a few others dottted around Dublin.

Mayhap a little more expensive but well worth it.

A work collegue buys 20 fillets for €20 up on meath street. I wouldnt touch them with a bargepole but he seems happy enough with them.

rubadub

Dellgirl2 wrote:

Mayhap a little more expensive but well worth it.

That is cheap, esp. if they are a decent size, they are €2 each in the dunnes butcher counter. In tesco 2 "value" ones is 3.49 and they are a decent size, so that is good value.

Thailand perhaps - Asian flu region.

****! I think those frozen dunnes ones could have been from there, a lot of languages on the pack is a bad sign.

brianthebard

Not knowing where you live or what size your freezer is I don't know how much help this is, but have you thought about going directly to the factory and buying in bulk from them? I imagine you could get it at about cash and carry price, although I've never done this so I haven't a clue how feasible it is. Plus I don't know any meat processing companies in Leinster.

TerrorFirmer

I normally get my meat in Super Valu, 10 euro for 8 fillets, not too bad and they are a decent size.

irlirishkev

I go to my local butcher (Craft Butcher) on Parnell Street, and get 12 fillets for 10euro. I'm no chicken expert, but they taste fine to me!

Saruman

Does it matter if the checken even had the flu? I mean unless you eat it raw you will be grand. Cooking it should get rid of anything thats on it.

Anyway Tesco and Dunnes are usually the cheapest. Though Centra (and i assume Super valu too) has nice ones too.

hardtrainer

Cheap isn't always best in this case. Chicken is still chicken but the nutritional value is not the same. Cheap, factory reared chickens are fed high calorie food to make them grow fast. They are bulky and the breast is large and dense, but is higer in fat and lower in protein than a free range (slower maturing) bird.
I prefer to buy whole chickens. You can normally get an extra large chicken (2.2kg) for €5.99 in dunnes. These birds are about 60 days old, so not exactly slow grown, but not the poorest of birds either. You can read the name of the farmer on the pack and call him too, if you want (I've done it once, to get the age of the bird and the food he used), so you know it's an irish bird (lower carbon footprint etc :-)). Anyway, I can get about 1.7kg of good quality meat from a bird of that size. The average chicken breast is about 100-150g, so 1.7kg is equivalent to about 12-15 chicken breast fillets, and all for just €5.99 :-)

Obviously you have to remove the meat from the carcass, but thats quick and easy once you get the hang of it. Or, you can just cook the whole thing (tastes better that way anyway) and then remove it from the bone.

rubadub

hardtrainer wrote:

I prefer to buy whole chickens. You can normally get an extra large chicken (2.2kg) for €5.99 in dunnes.... Anyway, I can get about 1.7kg of good quality meat from a bird of that size.

I have done this too. I pull the skin off and attack it with a scissors, easy to cut off and in tiny bits ready to quick stir fry.. With a smaller chicken I estimate I get 60-70% of the weight back in meat, i.e. a 1kg chicken will get 600-700g of meat.

I have done the same with cuts like you get packs of thighs or drumsticks. I am just too lazy to be doing it all the time though.

What do people think of turkey mince? is it full of crap like beef mince can be? it is usually 2% fat so cant really be full of skin or fat like beef mince is.

rubadub

I am now getting them from the butchers on the lower floor of dun laoghaire shopping centre. 5 for €5 or 10 for €9. Have gotten 3 lots of 10, they have them in bags of 10 ready to go, so must do a lot of business (always a good sign!). Each bag of 10 has weighed over 1.3kg, so that is under €7 per kilo which is a good price compared to even the cheapest supermarket ones. Quality seems fine.

g'em

rubadub wrote:

I am now getting them from the butchers on the lower floor of dun laoghaire shopping centre. 5 for €5 or 10 for €9. Have gotten 3 lots of 10, they have them in bags of 10 ready to go, so must do a lot of business (always a good sign!). Each bag of 10 has weighed over 1.3kg, so that is under €7 per kilo which is a good price compared to even the cheapest supermarket ones. Quality seems fine.

Is that the one beside Tesco? Don't suppose you asked them where you sourced the meat from? Must make a mental note to call in there

rubadub

g'em wrote:

Is that the one beside Tesco? Don't suppose you asked them where you sourced the meat from? Must make a mental note to call in there

Yep thats the one, think it might be called Mick Doyles. I didnt ask where it was sourced. They have lots of other offers on other meats too.

Mickk

Branaghans have opened a trade counter at their factory in rosemount business park in blanchardstown. They supply loads of butchers and you can just walk in. They have 20 120-140g fillets for 17euro. Also have the kill date on the pack so you can see exactly how fresh they are.

HammerHeadGym

try f.x buckleys on talbot st. I went there for years and found them excellent. ten fillets for a tenner and some of the nicest sirloin steak I've ever had. Cheapest too.

comad

I go to FX Buckleys on Talbot St. 5 large fillets for 7.50 or 10 regualr ones for €10, steak is reasonable too and its lovely.

Supercell

The best quality chicken fillets at a reasonable price (five for five euro) are unquestionably at the factory outlet for Courtneys in KCR

They are open 11-3 on Saturdays and on Fridays too I think.

I drive up from Wicklow every weekend to stock up, there is no comparison to their quality and price.

Bullet7

you can get 10 fresh chicken fillets for €10 in festa foods in the egan business centre on the dargle road in bray. somtimes they do offers like 10 for €8. you can also order any amount any size and they will get them in for you. quality of the chicken is very good, have been using them for over a year and no problems to report.

rubadub

hardtrainer wrote:

You can normally get an extra large chicken (2.2kg) for €5.99 in dunnes..... . Anyway, I can get about 1.7kg of good quality meat from a bird of that size.

I got 2 of these, 4.4kg for €12. The cheapest fillets in dunnes were €12 per kilo. I cut the 4 breasts off, skinless & boneless and they were over 1.4kg! 350g fillets, huge things, so even if I tossed out the rest and just kept the fillets it still would have been cheaper than the ready carved ones.
I pulled the skin off most of the rest and roasted it all. I do not usually like eating chicken portions since there is such little meat on them, but even the wings on this bird had huge amounts of meat on them, the thighs were like small chicken breasts.
I do not like cutting meat off a fresh bird, too time consuming but the fillets are easy. Once cooked the other meat just falls off, I reckon I got over a kilo of cooked meat from the rest of it.

j@utis

has anybody seen chicken livers for sale somewhere?
I used to get them in Dun Laoghaire, but they vanished from that mad women shop recently.

Hanley

j@utis wrote:

has anybody seen chicken livers for sale somewhere?
I used to get them in Dun Laoghaire, but they vanished from that mad women shop recently.

Umm theywere sellin lambs hearts and livers in Tesco Clearwater last week, so they might have some chicken bits..?

Malteaser!

^^ i think they had everything but chicken livers!

i have seen them around somewhere, just can't rememebr where, i'll let ya know if i think of it!

Dr4gul4

There is a butchers in nutgrove that are doing 12 chicken breasts for 12 euro ,

And there's also a health store in nutgrove that does nuts, and 100% peanutbuter, among a load of other stuff of course.

empirix

Reyman wrote:

I'd be wary of very cheap chicken. Ask where it comes from?

Thailand perhaps - Asian flu region.

This bird flu, while it should be taken seriously it really is over dramatised, i lived in Bangkok and frequently ate chicked cooked off the street vendors and this was at the height of the bird flu in Asia, once its cooked you'll be fine

brianthebard

Most of the cheap chicken in this country is either from Ireland, Britain or the Netherlands afaik. My main problem with it would be buying meat that's been pumped with water or pig hormones, although I don't know if that still happens.

Kenpo

I bought 10 chicken fillets in FX buckleys on Talbot - threw all of them out after cooking 2 of them - they were horrible.

There other meat is fine - I'd never touch their chicken.