More cluck for your buck – chubby chickens from Stellenbosch.

Free range chickens.

As more scare stories emerge about our food we are more concerned than ever about where the food we eat originates from.

But being practical, we cannot go down to every field and examine where the lamb played and nibbled the daisies, or check every farm to see that the chickens we eat are really free range, and roam on grassland eating grains during the day.

I know I’d like to, as in the last few months I’ve eaten “organic” eggs that have tasted of fish and chicken that has not tasted of chicken. A friend helpfully suggested “seagull?…” And these were products bought from national retailers with much vaunted reputations.

I’ve tracked down my butcher though, and the meat he supplies me is the best grass fed beef I can buy in Cape Town. Cattle were never meant to be fed grain, they can’t digest it.

Chickens ranging free.

So imagine my relief when a friend told me about Chubby Chicks – fresh free range chickens which are delivered to your door.

Marcelle Curtis’ Dad has a farm in Stellenbosch and he raises free range chickens which his daughter will deliver.

They are free from hormones, stimulants, by products and are fed grains and allowed to roam freely.

Battery chickens in hellish confinement.

They are never frozen or defrosted and are handled very minimally.

And they taste great, just like chicken should, and are much more flavoursome and juicy than ones you’d buy in a major retailer.

Try one and see, you’ll find it hard to go back to the “usual”.

Whole chicken R47, depending on weight.

6 Pack thighs R36.

Drumsticks x6 R31.50

Braiipack x8 R45.

Chubby Chicks

Marcelle Curtis

mcurtis@telkomsa.net

021 683 5216

082 786 5123