€7.50 for three chicken fillets

johnnyskeleton · 30-09-2013 10:44PM

TheBegotten wrote: »

Some fecking fancy chickens...

Even in the fancy shops like fresh, fallon & Byrne etc you can get 4 large guaranteed free range irish chicken breasts for €6-7.

Another poorly researched article where the most outrageous claims are printed without question. Thanks Irish Times.

flutered · 30-09-2013 10:45PM

Deleted User wrote: »

What's even more amazing is just how cheep it is to produce chicken.

then ship it here from the far east.

30-09-2013 10:46PM

Deleted User wrote: »

What's even more amazing is just how cheep it is to produce chicken.

I see what you did there :cool:

masterK · 30-09-2013 10:46PM

People like that women should have money withheld from their social welfare and their shopping done for them. €7.50 for 3 fillets, crazy. €5 for 2 strawberries is true but what about all the other fruits she could buy. Aldi, Lidl, Tesco and Dunnes have massive competition at the moment on a lot of their fruit and veg with their Super 6/7's. It's actually never been cheaper to buy fruit and veg if you're smart. All 4 of these stores are within a short distance of Corduff.

hfallada · 30-09-2013 10:47PM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

They also provide employment for lots of immigrants, nothing wrong with that. One of their stores I know about has 31 East Europeans and 14 Irish staff.

Thats because most Irish people seen Lidl as a ****ty place to work. But unlike most Irish companies they pay their staff €11,85 an hour, give them health insurance, pension and paid holidays. My local lidl is gradually being more Irish.

I think when you have worked in Ireland for the last 10 years, you are more Irish than Eastern European.

tritium · 30-09-2013 10:47PM

Seaneh wrote: »

As a former chef and someone who works in the social services area it genuinely astounds me how clueless a large percentage of the population about such basic things as the cost and nutritional content of everyday foods.

You can feed 5 people a damned good meal on about €2.25 a portion, easily,using fresh veggies and meats (even cheaper for a veggie meal).
You can get 8 bananas for 1.50 in Tesco, and so on.

There is no way its cheaper to feed a family on ****ty processed foods if you actually plan meals, people are either ignorant of reality or lazy.

I honestly think that for at least one year in secondary school, all teenagers should have a compulsory class that covers basic cooking skills, nutrition and budgeting.

Being able to cook a good, simple, nutritionally complete meal is a basic life skill everyone needs.

Agreed, but unfortunately you can't teach people not to be thick and lazy

Stheno · 30-09-2013 10:49PM

lafiamma09 wrote: »

I get mine from a farm shop in kildare.. 30 fillets fresh from the farm for €27... there are quite a few places that do it. Go down with a €100 and you have meat for a month

Now it's just me and my OH here, but for €100, I'd have 40 chicken breasts, (€40) 15lb of mince, (€37.50) and about 4 chickens @ 1800g (€22.00)

For five people, that's 29 dinners by my reckoning, so working out at less than €4 per dinner for meat.

Veg/potatoes /rice/pasta would add maybe €3

So that's €7 for a dinner for five people

For myself and my OH, that's €100 on meat for 72 dinners, so three months worth

Miss Behaviour · 30-09-2013 10:49PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

That German company were do there profits goto again ? if you try to buy Irish in an Irish store the prices are way higher.

I'd say Tesco profits go to Britain. Aldi say in their brochures that they buy more goods from Irish food producers than any other supermarket. And have won more food awards than any other supermarket.
And the Rose wine is lovely!

efb · 30-09-2013 10:50PM

maybe she means chicken fillet burgers in KFC?

Seaneh · 30-09-2013 10:51PM

tritium wrote: »

Agreed, but unfortunately you can't teach people not to be thick and lazy

If you ingrain it early enough, peoples habits will change.

Teach nutritional information from a young age, teach cooking skills and budgeting from adolescence, and over time peoples attitude to food will change.

AnonoBoy · 30-09-2013 10:51PM

If people are too stupid to know that there are other places to buy food than the shop across the road from them then there's nothing you can do for them.

darragh16 · 30-09-2013 10:52PM

Three chicken fillets for €7.50?? Go down to Spar or Centra and you can get 3 chicken fillet rolls with 2 salad and a can of coke for €6 with 1.50 extra for a couple of bags of Crisps

Electric Sheep · 30-09-2013 10:53PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

I think there trying to point out high calorie high fat sugary foods are way cheaper to buy than reasonable fat free healthy alternative. Hence childhood obesity problem. don't think it’s cooking skills but this should be taught better in secondary school.

I suspect it has a lot more to do with laziness than cooking skills. That and spending one euro on chocolate gives her more left over for fags.

BattleCorp · 30-09-2013 10:53PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

If people are too stupid to know that there are other places to buy food than the shop across the road from them then there's nothing you can do for them.

She sounds very very lazy to be honest.

darkpagandeath · 30-09-2013 10:54PM

Miss Behaviour wrote: »

I'd say Tesco profits go to Britain. Aldi say in their brochures that they buy more goods from Irish food producers than any other supermarket. And have won more food awards than any other supermarket.
And the Rose wine is lovely!

Ah ok as long as they say they do that's ok wonder if it's bought in Ireland and not packaged here or bought up North many ways to call something Irish when it's not. You could Make pork mince for example and use 60% imported pork from the Netherlands and slap a made in Ireland label on it. Is it really Irish then ?

Gummy Panda · 30-09-2013 10:54PM

I'm hungry for chicken now

johnnyskeleton · 30-09-2013 10:54PM

flutered wrote: »

then ship it here from the far east.

Eggactly

dxhound2005 · 30-09-2013 10:56PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

She sounds very very lazy and thick to be honest.

I dread to think what her children would make of the taste of fresh mackeral. I posted this in another thread about 18 months ago, but prices would be around the same still. No excuse for not eating healthy.

Today in my local greengrocer

10 Kg potatoes €5
3 cabbages €2
3 turnips €2
I Kg onions €0.79
1 Kg carrots €0.89
5 large oranges €2
5 pink lady apples €2
10 bananas €2

Less than €17 and in my local fishmonger 10 good sized mackeral fillets for €10. I think it is good value.

Eight Ball · 30-09-2013 10:56PM

Oh look another thread on boards bashing people with no work. Who would have thunk it huh.

johnnyskeleton · 30-09-2013 10:57PM

efb wrote: »

maybe she means chicken fillet burgers in KFC?

Or the breaded ones in the hot counter at spar that are cheaper if you get it in a sandwich.

strandroad · 30-09-2013 10:58PM

Eight Ball wrote: »

Oh look another thread on boards bashing people with no work. Who would have thunk it huh.

Nothing to do with work or the lack of it. She could be working and still ignorant about cooking and budgeting.

Shout Dust · 30-09-2013 10:58PM

She's clearly just lazy, price isn't an excuse. As people have said, Aldi/Lidl have good quality meat thats very reasonable, can even get fillet steak for a fiver, and the big vegetable stir fry packs cost very little and last at least 2 meals, not to mention their other fruit and vegetables. Whats the price of a big tray of eggs?

johnnyskeleton · 30-09-2013 10:58PM

Eight Ball wrote: »

Oh look another thread on boards bashing people with no work. Who would have thunk it huh.

Not bashing people with no work, bashing people who complain about high prices but refuse to shop around.

Shout Dust · 30-09-2013 10:59PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Ah ok as long as they say they do that's ok wonder if it's bought in Ireland and not packaged here or bought up North many ways to call something Irish when it's not. You could Make pork mince for example and use 60% imported pork from the Netherlands and slap a made in Ireland label on it. Is it really Irish then ?

I think they've stopped that practice in light of the horse meat scandal?

strandroad · 30-09-2013 10:59PM

Shout Dust wrote: »

She's clearly just lazy, price isn't an excuse. As people have said, Aldi/Lidl have good quality meat thats very reasonable, can even get fillet steak for a fiver, and the big vegetable stir fry packs cost very little and last at least 2 meals, not to mention their other fruit and vegetables. Whats the price of a big tray of eggs?

€2.85 for 18 eggs.
https://www.aldi.ie/en/product-range/eggs/products/egg-products-detail-page/ps/p/medium-irish-fresh-eggs-1/

BattleCorp · 30-09-2013 10:59PM

hfallada wrote: »

Thats because most Irish people seen Lidl as a ****ty place to work. But unlike most Irish companies they pay their staff €11,85 an hour, give them health insurance, pension and paid holidays. My local lidl is gradually being more Irish.
.

Lidl is a difficult place to work but they pay you very well. I like their philosophy, work hard and get rewarded well. I used to work for them as a supervisor and I was paid over 50k per year. And so were the other supervisors too. And they were all Irish.

Yes, they hire a lot of non nationals, but you have to remember, back in the good old days, working in Lidl would have been beneath a lot of Irish people. Not all.......... but definitely some.

Sam Kade · 30-09-2013 11:00PM

Maybe she smokes 20 fags a day and is using this lame excuse to cover it up. I know a person that would spend money on fags rather than food for their family :mad:

IvySlayer · 30-09-2013 11:01PM

Eight Ball wrote: »

Oh look another thread on boards bashing people with no work. Who would have thunk it huh.

She has 4 kids, where the fcuk is the dad(s)

Having 4 kids without the financial support is entirely her fault. I can't have sympathy for someone who can't bother to shop around and then blames the Government.

She gets €250 weekly for having 4 children...and she's pays rent of....€47...Jesus Christ

psychiatrist who diagnosed her with ADHD. “There were years of her jumping off the bannisters and giving herself concussion and jumping off tables before she got help,”

THAT'S WHAT KIDS DO

Electric Sheep · 30-09-2013 11:02PM

Anyone remember how our mothers' fed us in the 80s recession? No junk, but good nutritious food cooked from scratch. Might be the cheapest cuts of meat, and the more basic of root veg, but we were well fed and healthy. My mother could get three meals out of a single chicken. It DOES take time and effort, however the lady in the OP is not working so should have the time on her hands to shop around and cook. She just doesn't want to.

cuckoo · 30-09-2013 11:02PM

Cavehill Red wrote: »

http://agirlcalledjack.com/category/recipes-food-etc/

+1

There's some very good recipes on there, I've incorporated some of her ideas into my cooking.

Jamie Oliver came up against the same lack of awareness about food and nutrition when he did that Ministry of Food program.

There's also a problem with a lack of education about budgeting - from the Irish Times piece

Then there is the money she gets at Christmas from loan sharks, which she spends most of the year paying back.

I know poverty can literally be a trap - but buying chocolate bars instead of vegetables and paying extortionate rates to a loan shark for 'Christmas' doesn't seem to me to be the signs of someone who has a clue about how to run their life.

There's organisations like Kiva.org working in poorer countries to help people set up businesses with micro finance and community support - maybe we need something like that here in Dublin?

€7.50 for three chicken fillets

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