After the beef, chicken price is 50% more expensive

After repeated high in the price of beef, chicken also begins to weigh in the pocket of the consumer. Animal protein is 59% more expensive than last year, according to a survey of Nepes (Center for Economic and social studies and research). In October 2015, a pound of frozen chicken of Sadia brand, for example, was sold for R$ 4.58. This year the value reaches R$ 7.30 on supermarket shelves. While a pound of Chuck and sirloin beef cuts, had a minimum variation of 5%, if compared to the same period last year. After replacing the beef, now the consumer tries to find alternatives to the chicken. The physical educator of 29 years, Hugo d '' Ávila, don''t give up the chicken every day and to save money, bought the kind sassami fillet that is cheaper than other cuts.

"I do not buy beef regularly because it''s too expensive for any specials. Already the chicken I spent a week on average $17 reais, as practice many exercises, and she for being high in protein help me with training, "he says. Already the computer technician, Jorge Miranda of 26 years, reduced on 50% the reserved value for the purchase of food. "We live in three people and before we''d spend R$ 100 a month buying meat and chicken. With this value we spent the whole month. Today in addition to halve the reserved value monthly, we still need to switch the dishes on the menu. When we can''t afford to make any meat pie with vegetables, for example.

Other meat-still according to Nepes data, the price of beef has been stable. A pound of Chuck steak, for example, is costing R$ 14.64, almost 5% less compared to last year, when I got R$ 15.35. Already a kilo of steak had a variation of 4.86% compared to the same period last year, reaching cost R$ 32.26. This month the price charged on the shelves comes to 33.83, R$ per kilo.
A kilo of painted in posta was sold by R$ 26.69 in October, an increase of 36% compared to the same month of last year, when the cost R$ 19.64. Solange Barbosa, explains that felt both the increase in the price of chicken, but beef. "Before I was a pound of steak for $15 and against today in some supermarkets I see that is costing up to $22.

Already the round hard I didn''t feel much difference in price. She explains that at least twice a week cooking chicken and always find cuts in promotion, factor that helps in time to find an alternative to the purchase of meat. "My husband and I consume 6 kg of meat every month and realized that the variation in prices is usually in days of promotion. But don''t we include the meat on the menu, and how the chicken is always on sale I switch between thigh, breast, drumstick, "he explains.