"Chefs Larder" Chicken

[Dizeee]

I regularly but a pack of skinless chicken breasts from Booker Cash and Carry for £9.99. They come in small, medium and large, with small you get around 13 breasts and with large around 9.

The brand is "Chefs Larder" and the packaging clearly states that it is all 100% chicken meat with no added water or preservatives. It tastes and cooks OK, but gut instinct is causing me to question the meats integrity.

How do you think it would compare with butchers breasts, and am I being paranoid?

[sleep envy]

does it mention how the chickens were bred or kept before slaughter?

[Dizeee]

Not sure, will have a look but don't think so. It is halal suitabe though. The large ones are enourmous, far bigger than I think I have ever seen,

[Mx_Stu]

I buy our chicken breasts from our local butcher 4 for £5. They are huge. We used to buy all meat from the supermarket before discovering him. The amount of chicken you get on two breasts is easily as much as you get on four in the supermarket.

[hadenough!]

Looking at their website I'd say they are factory farmed as they sell a free range alterative for £13.99 per Kg, whereas your paying over a tenner less per kilo (£3.40).

I'm sure its edible and won't do you anyt harm, however personally I'd rather not eat chicken than eat that st.

[Wadeski]

(in some cases, literally, they eat reprocessed sh*t)

[hadenough!]

Wadeski said:

(in some cases, literally, they eat reprocessed sh*t)

Yep, and certainly spend their time living in their own.

[Dizeee]

So 100% chicken then, just chicken thats famred indoors, on their own and lives off it's own faeces?

[hungry_hog]

Dizeee said:

Not sure, will have a look but don't think so. It is halal suitabe though. The large ones are enourmous, far bigger than I think I have ever seen,

So injected with growth hormone then?

[Dizeee]

This is what I am not sure of...

[sleep envy]

it's hardly going to be be organic free range at that price...

[Dizeee]

I know, but how bad can it be?

[sleep envy]

well it will be full of steroids so I wouldn't eat it

saying that I smoke, drink and do worse so I'm hardly one to criticise what others put into their bodies but I try and balance the st that I do ingest with decent, organic food

[grumbledoak]

I'd check the country of origin, it should be on the packet and it'll give you a better idea of what may or may not have been pumped into it; UK laws are stricter than most.

But, at that price, they aren't going to have had a happy little life in the fields...

[Dizeee]

Will check when i buy some next

[Shaw Tarse]

grumbledoak said:

I'd check the country of origin, it should be on the packet and it'll give you a better idea of what may or may not have been pumped into it; UK laws are stricter than most.

But, at that price, they aren't going to have had a happy little life in the fields...

It's strange how concern for animal welfare, organic food has wained during the recession?
If all you're doing is making a curry then I'm sure the basics chicken will tste fine.

[grumbledoak]

Shaw Tarse said:

It's strange how concern for animal welfare, organic food has wained during the recession?

I'm not sure it has?

But, don't think of me as some kind of lentil-weaver. For quite a while, possibly even still, the US allowed cows to be given BST (a steroid). It gave them internal ulcers, which ruptured, and there was quite literally puss in their milk. Which was sold to the public. For years.

Call me self-centred, if you want...

[Shaw Tarse]

grumbledoak said:

Shaw Tarse said:

It's strange how concern for animal welfare, organic food has wained during the recession?

I'm not sure it has?

But, don't think of me as some kind of lentil-weaver. For quite a while, possibly even still, the US allowed cows to be given BST (a steroid). It gave them internal ulcers, which ruptured, and there was quite literally puss in their milk. Which was sold to the public. For years.

Call me self-centred, if you want...

I maybe wrong (again) but it appeared to me that a few years ago, organic food was all the rage, along with banning sweatshops.
Now, if they can pick up 3 chicks for £10
Or a shirt for a couple of ££ they're happy.

[sleep envy]

the organic shelves at my local supermarkets tend to empty far quicker than the other shelves in the refrig cabinets