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Carbonara with chicken

Carbonara with chicken: what it costs at each supermarket

4 servings 25 mins 758 cal

£9.47 at Tesco for 4 servings

£2.37 a serving, the cheapest of 5 supermarkets

Prices checked 6 November 2026 on each supermarket's website. Updated every night.

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Price at each supermarket

  • Tesco Cheapest £9.47 £2.37 a serving
  • Asda £11.50 £2.88 a serving
  • Sainsbury's £11.74 £2.94 a serving
  • Ocado £13.31 £3.33 a serving
  • Waitrose £15.65 £3.91 a serving

What you pay at the till for every pack the recipe needs for 4 servings, staples like oil, salt, dried herbs and stock left out. You'll have some of it left for another day.

What you'd buy at Tesco

  • Butter Anchor Salted Butter 200G £1.60
  • Chicken breast Tesco Chicken Breast Fillets 320g £2.44
  • Egg Tesco 6 Mixed Weight Barn Eggs 268g £1.00
  • Garlic Tesco Large Garlic £0.50
  • Grana padano Creamfields Grated Grana Padano 100G £1.65
  • Pancetta Tesco Italian Unsmoked Pancetta 2 X65g £2.00
  • Spaghetti Hearty Food Co. Spaghetti Pasta 500G £0.28

Ingredients

  • Spaghetti 1
  • Olive oil 15 ml
  • Garlic 5 g
  • Pancetta 77 g
  • Chicken breast 1
  • Egg 2
  • Grana padano 100 g
  • Butter 15 ml

Recipe and method by BBC Good Food. zesd only prices it: follow the method on the original page.

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