Thanks, I'll pick up some for my wife later.

She hates touching chicken, so I'm expecting her to ask me to rub oil all over her breasts!

I've got a Polish mate who is a sound engineer, I've also got a Czech one too.

If you really want to buy only British-made products, best not to go to a shop named "Iceland", huh?

Product of Poland... Chicken also isnt great quality.... trust me i have a family member that works there!!

Thanks, I'll pick up some for my wife later.

She hates touching chicken, so I'm expecting her to ask me to rub oil all over her breasts!

Just on my way there now and wanted to see what the new deal was. Thanks for posting, going to be making some chicken and avocado wraps later!

£4 a kilo is very cheap for chicken breasts, what's the quality like and where has it originated from?

Packed in Poland for Iceland Foods Ltd...

1st thank you Op, always load up the freezer when this deal is on. But found last time a lot of water come out of the chicken while cooking but think it is meant to be 98% not had this before. Only will be buying one & testing it before stocking up. As for being Polish that doesn't bother me all rather buy British Free range chickens but I can't justify the price.. HEAT ADDED

​All meat now HAS to state it's Origin. It's found in a small black circle (with letters) which identifies the meat plant it was slaughtered and packed in. The symbol can be 'decrypted' using the Food Standards Agency website.

nice price

And you know it's all true.... when they say.... these are the best standards in food production terms
You know they would never lie or conceal anything.... that would undermine your trust and faith in food production

yer right :wink:

Product of Poland... Chicken also isnt great quality.... trust me i have a family member that works there!!

How long have you been waiting to use that?

When you say fresh do you mean fresh?

As far as poultry is concerned, fresh is usually what's served by butchers..

This is a prepacked product and cannot be fresh, by definition.

Kindest regards

Besides, my Aldi deal is much better value for money..

Due to the aforementioned reasons, i have no option but to vote this cold. Sorry.

I'll get my coat..

brilliant if you love the taste of torture.

Have to vote cold. The quality of Iceland meat is awful. The meat has also travelled a lot and cannot be described as fresh by me. Id rather eat a good vegetarian meal than this type of battery farmed, over medicated pseudo meat.

This is a great price for poor folk. :laughing:

Do you have any evidence of this? Fresh means freshly slaughtered.. just like how fresh orange juice is something made there and then, not with concentrate. I rest my case.

Many warm wishes..

The use of the labelling term "fresh" is not defined under regulations as a term used to denote when the product was produced etc. it simply refers to not tinned, frozen, or otherwise preserved.
This is why, for example, frozen chicken is not labelled fresh even though it may have been slaughtered and frozen one day ago before purchase. The product loses the right to use the term fresh because it has been preserved by freezing (and most likely added water & chemicals).

I think some butchers do slaughter their own.. and that would correctly be classified as being fresh.. As you correctly said, the minute things are added, one cannot use this term.

Another example is sashimi - this is always fresh.. i.e. made within hours.. no additives, packaging etc.

Kind regards

Of course.

"Meat:
36. Virtually all carcase meat is chilled following slaughter, principally as a hygiene measure. The term “fresh” is traditionally used to differentiate raw meat from that which has been (chemically) preserved. It would serve no purpose to disqualify chilled meat from use of the term “fresh”. Use of the term “fresh” in these circumstances is acceptable.
37. Meat that has been previously frozen but which is sold thawed would not be considered by the average consumer to be “fresh”. The term “fresh” should not be used in these circumstances.
Fish
38. Use of the term "fresh" to describe fish that has been kept chilled on ice, but not stored deep frozen, is acceptable."

Sour !

That chicken in your pic looks as juicy as hell.. where's it from? Waitrose ?

No aldi boil in the bag :stuck_out_tongue:

Wow.. and i wonder why my chicken posting was as cold as the arctic..

Anyways, I'm off to KFC.. best wishes..

You do like your chicken dont you :smirk:

Indeed.. but only good quality chicken as you may have guessed. And I don't mind paying through my nose for fine food..

Kindest regards..

Frozen chicken breast can be had for around £4 per kilo if you shop around & a bit less for the 'value' own brands

Never felt the need to buy 'fresh' as I suspect it will have spend a while travelling from various different countries so wont be *that* fresh

if it was actually really fresh & sourced from within the UK then it would be a good deal

not bad for 7 days. who's the airliner?

Most of the chicken breast this price (or less) tends to originate in Eastern Europe . Local butcher sells plastic container 5kg £20 , mainly from Poland .
If you have a JJ foods nearby it's even cheaper for the same stuff , except you have to buy 10kg @ about £30 ( been as low as £28 and up to £32)

The image is incorrect, Ive just bought some from Iceland, and they are 500g but only 4 breasts. The picture is misleading.

They don't seem to be doing too well. Serves him right for stealing your deal. :laughing:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/chicken-breast-fillets-from-farmfoods-2kg-for-5-2649448

fresh ... Iceland ... lol

KFC airlines.. The captain is Col Saunders

The ones in the picture may only be A cups not DD's! :stuck_out_tongue:

Can't find a link to how to decrypt, could you link to the page!

Heat.

Get back in your box

I have nothing against Poland, but I will always be skeptical of discount food shops like farmfoods and Iceland.

Seconded. 'Fresh' is one of those terms that basically means nothing as far as food is concerned. It's why manky old battery eggs can be sold as 'farm fresh!'.

Here's a quote from the FSA :

Iceland mate!

COLD, from Iceland

First world problems :confused:

sarcasm is the lowest form of fit. i was trying to be helpful incase someone quickly looked at the post and didnt take in the fact that the image is INCORRECT. someone told me never to post on here because others can be demeaning, sarcastic and just downright rude. so now I know!

Iceland is overpriced generally, and they never have stock of things like this anyway, so I fail to see what the debate is all about!

Just because Iceland had shown a pack with smaller fillets than the one you had doesn't necessarily make make the picture incorrect. Product is sold by weight not by number of fillets, therefore understandaly there may be 3 or 4 larger fillets or 5 -6 smaller fillets in a pack , the net result is still 500g of chicken breast.

Love a monthly shop in Iceland but personally I'd only get these if you plan to eat them the same day or next as they seem to turn very quickly.
We've had it a couple times where we've gone to eat on day before use by or on the day and they've gone abit gungy and smelly so had to chuck them.
Morrison's ones don't seem to have the same fate.

Er, ok snowflake :confused:

500g is 500g lol

Very good price, not sure about the origin. I'll stick with waitrose as I am always very careful about what meat I stick in my mouth

picture "very" misleading". this looks like their £5 box in picture.

love your comment ,lol

Your not buying the picture just 500g of Chicken

I honestly don't find them good quality.

Each to their own, everyone's free to buy or not buy them

Cold for me too. I dread to think of the existence that the poor chicken has endured up to and including slaughter when the meat is selling for such a pittance. I'd rather do without and it's not hard to do. When I do have chicken - or turkey - it is always free range from a reliable source (my turkey last Christmas lived and was slaughtered within a 20 mile radius of where I live)

​yes but you would normally put a picture of what you are actually selling, not a picture of a bigger packet!

They did look a bit ropey in our local iceland....

I like sarcasm but each to their own however I don't like this stewing chicken. Too tough for my style of cooking, what you gain in the low price as by far outweighed by the longer cooking time to make it edible.

Bought today, state on pack "packed in the Netherlands " rather than Poland.

They're sold by weight not number of fillets, which varied between 3 and 5 in the store I visited but all were 500g.

For those living in Scotland Farmfoods have a better deal. You can buy 2kg of chicken breast fillets for £5 or if you spend £25 you can use a voucher sent through post for £2.50 off. I bought 10Kg for £22.50. My freezer is jam packed.

Waitrose sold horse meat... I will stick to my butcher.

quite often chicken is left on the trolley after delivery then when someone can be a*sed then they will go into the chiller or fridges. Often you find the chicken smelling bad.

***You should ALWAYS wash your chicken with salt and vinegar + water***

Polish !! They will be full of harmful chemicals.

No you actually never wash chicken !!

​Does that mean it is just packed there? So a lorry load of chicken from Uzbekistan could be trucked to the UK and get a "Packed in England" label? I dunno.

One thing that always surprises me is how people will buy cheap meat. I don't mean good value meat, I mean cheap. Big difference of course.

We've a local butcher whose prices make me wince, but when I learn the provenance of his stuff, from the farm to his shop, it doesn't seem so bad. People have to make a living after all. And when you taste it there is no doubting the difference.

In our supermarket most eggs sold are free range eggs. Yet how often do people buy free range chicken meat? Seems weird. It's like folks won't have eggs that aren't free range, but don't give a stuff on chicken conditions/cages etc when it comes to buying the meat. Odd huh!

why? if you dont splash the water, cleaning it would be a good idea... especially all the remaining blood and exess fat on there. Salt and Vinegar is a good cleaning aid.

never wash chicken! Just learn to cook it properly.

You havent explained why you would not wash it...

Are you illiterate that you cannot type?

I’m going to make sure I cold vote any of your deals..

Seriously, are you five years old?

Only a child would throw their toys around and cold vote deals. The link I posted clearly explains everything. Maybe you have the reading skills of a five year old too.

GROW UP!