WITH many households trying to find ways to cut down their food costs, more and more of us are coming up with tricks and tips to help out.

But when one home cook shared their chicken hack not everyone was impressed.

Savvy shopper Lorna shared the hack on the Facebook group Feed your family for about £20 a week.

She wrote: "I can't really get my head round the possibility that it is now cheaper to buy cooked chicken than it is to buy a chicken and cook it yourself, but it is there or thereabouts now!"

She confessed that she had been looking for ways to approach some of her go-to meals differently in a bid to cut costs.

"This frozen cooked chicken from Aldi is only £1.69 for 340g.

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"That works out at £4.97 per kg which is only £1 cheaper than frozen raw chicken breasts.

"And obviously they still have to be cooked,so we need to factor that cost in."

Lorna added: "We may all have to change our way of thinking and cooking in the next few months.

Not everyone was convinced by the food swap though and loads of keen money savers said they wouldn't even use the cheap chicken to feed their pet dogs.

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One wrote: "Would not put that anywhere near my mouth, wouldn't feed it to a dog never mind a human."

A second agreed: "I would not give this to a dog. For the bin."

Another quipped: "I bought this for my dog, it gave her the s**ts."

But others didn't see the issue with the bargain buy.

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"I buy it for my packed lunch salads and think it's fine, I've been having it for years nothing to do with cost," one said.

Someone else agreed: "I use it in curries and stir fry or burritos why get snobby when going through financial meltdown."

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