Chicken

gymsoldier

Where's everyone getting there chicken breasts from?

I go through alot of chicken everyday, but im finding chicken from some places better quailty then others. I still havnt found my number one spot to shop. Also, I cant afford to be spending a fortune on mad organic chicken.

Whats your favorite place to "chicken shop", price, quanity for such price, and quality?

WalterMitty

Tesco have regular specials on likes of moy park where you get 600grams for 6euro. The quality is very good, better than some free range i've had like the cheap Dunnes' free range chicken.

Dathai

I usually buy the tesco chicken fillets for wraps. They're cheap and you're always guaranteed that they'll have them.

I go to the butchers every 2-3 days and buy a pack of chicken breasts on the bone. They usually cost 7 quid for 5 and they've got a good amount of meat on them. My butchers is just a local butchers (D7). Just shop around, if you go to your local butchers and ask if they've any deals on chicken fillets or chicken breasts, they'll usually knock a few quid off. "Any deals?" sorts me out every time

butchers have big good fillets for 99c each so they're great

Goin90

Carved roast chicken breast in Aldi (already cooked). €2 for 150g pack. 42g protein in 150g of these:). They have marinades like cajun and tikka aswell as plain.

dartstothesea

People talking about quality - is there something I wouldn't be getting / shouldn't be getting from just the Tesco market value packs of fillets?

gymsoldier

dartstothesea wrote: »

People talking about quality - is there something I wouldn't be getting / shouldn't be getting from just the Tesco market value packs of fillets?

What ive found is that the weight after cooking in Tesco fillets is quite low in comparison to other places. Says to me that maybe Tesco are pumping water or something into their chicken to get the raw weight higher.

The Guvnor

Quality in chicken varies considerably IMO!

I used to buy in Sainsbury and then went else where and the difference is immense.

I always look at the price per kilo as fillet sizes do vary wildly.

bigwormbundoran

Supervalu 5 for €6, quality far surpasses those of lidl anyway

gymsoldier

bigwormbundoran wrote: »

Supervalu 5 for €6, quality far surpasses those of lidl anyway

And when their cooked is there a huge difference in pre and post weight?

Seillejet

I cut out the middleman gymsoldier.

A lot of meat wholesalers now have factory shops in industrial estate where you pay approximately 2/3 of what you pay in a butchers.

My wife insists on feeding my dog chicken as well so I had to sort something. I feel like barking at times to get fed the way he does!!!

Limousine Fred

Ennis butchers Rialto 6 for e7.50 good quality great butchers!!

T-rev

Midland butchers in the sq have good fillets. 10 pk for €8.99. They do seem a bit small tho.

jam_mac_jam

lidl free range fillets. Quite good quality and cheap for free range. Failing that superquinn expensive but good quality.

gymsoldier

I just found a place in Killiney shopping centre D18 called Deerings, got 6fillets for €7.99. The fillets are huge, almost like the chickens were on Juice

EDIT: Price change.

rubadub

gymsoldier wrote: »

I just found a place in Killiney shopping centre D18 called Deerings, got 6fillets for €6.99.

In the butchers at sallynoggin church 10 are €10 and are 135-140g each, it says this on the 25 pack before they open them, and they are Irish. I have checked them a few times and the bag was 1.35kg or so. I find most as "watery" as the cheap tesco ones, in tesco I examine a few, some seem less watery than others and very often you get the odd one with 2 big fillets in it, weighing well over the stated grams on the packet. -that is very cheap for that deerings place, they must be getting feeling competition from eurospar who often have €1 fillets

Tesco have an ongoing offer of €5 for a precooked rotisserie chicken, it was €4 a while back but went up, at the end of the day they are sold off half price, but can be dried out by then. They have nice piri piri ones for €5 at the moment.

gymsoldier

rubadub wrote: »

In the butchers at sallynoggin church 10 are €10 and are 135-140g each, it says this on the 25 pack before they open them, and they are Irish. I have checked them a few times and the bag was 1.35kg or so. I find most as "watery" as the cheap tesco ones, in tesco I examine a few, some seem less watery than others and very often you get the odd one with 2 big fillets in it, weighing well over the stated grams on the packet. -that is very cheap for that deerings place, they must be getting feeling competition from eurospar who often have €1 fillets

Tesco have an ongoing offer of €5 for a precooked rotisserie chicken, it was €4 a while back but went up, at the end of the day they are sold off half price, but can be dried out by then. They have nice piri piri ones for €5 at the moment.

The weight of the Deering's chicken fillets (100% Irish) in the packet with one fillet gone is 700grams (5 fillets plus packaging). One fillet cook come's in at 110grams weight, with zero gristle, when cooked on the George Foreman.

Ive not a fan of precooked chicken, I like to do it all myself, and the GF is legend.

So I think Ive found my new place to shop for good quailty, affordable, chicken fillets.

robodonkey

Seillejet wrote: »

My wife insists on feeding my dog chicken as well so I had to sort something. I feel like barking at times to get fed the way he does!!!

:eek:

Reminds me of my Granny, used to cook a dinner specially for the dog (after Grandad died)...it ate better than her, the best fed dog in Ireland!

bosswinger

I started to buy packed precooked chickens in Dunnes and cut the meat from the carcasses. 2 small chickens @ €6 yielded 650g of meat. Delicious and much nicer then grilled breasts imho. Is there any obvious downfall to doing this compared to grilled fillets with respect to calories, fat, protein and carb content etc.? I obviously remove the skin and only use the meat! Cheers!