Simple roast chicken: what it costs at each supermarket
£7.99 at Sainsbury's for 4 servings
£2.00 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
- Sainsbury's Cheapest £7.99 £2.00 a serving
- Asda £8.72 £2.18 a serving
- Tesco £8.77 £2.19 a serving
- Ocado £9.22 £2.31 a serving
- Waitrose £11.00 £2.75 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 Sainsbury's
- Butter Stork Vegan Baking Block 250g £1.40
- Garlic Sainsbury's Garlic £0.22
- Lemon Sainsbury's Lemons £0.37
- Whole chicken Sainsbury's Large Whole Chicken 2.0-2.5kg £6.00
Ingredients
- Whole chicken 1900 g
- Garlic 10 g
- Bay leaf 2
- Butter 50 g
- Lemon 1
Recipe and method by BBC Good Food. zesd only prices it: follow the method on the original page.
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