Yahou ! Chicken !

I've remarked before on how expensive chicken is in France. Pork is much cheaper, and beef can be reasonable, too. I think a lot of it is down to farming methods - chickens here are usually either free-range or barn animals rather than battery hens. But that makes them more expensive. So we eat a lot of pork and some beef and not much chicken. We ought to eat much more fish than we do.

However, recently we have noticed a fall in the price of packs of chicken legs. It's not that nice chicken, quite fatty, but it's OK.

Then our supermarket had chickens at 5.35€ ( that's about £14 each now, I think ! ). We wanted to contribute a chicken to the Griffins after them feeding everyone for Christmas lunch (well we did supply puddings but...) so I bought two and we are about to eat one.

The next time I went in the chickens were two for 5.35€. Today it was three for 5.35€ !

And they're nice chickens, not enormous, corn-fed ( poulet jaune ) . Over-production, perhaps ? Anyway there are now three chickens in the freezer.

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Amrita said…
In India pork is the most expensive followed by lamb or goat meat (mutton) , chicken and beef is the cheapest.

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