How much per pound are you paying for your Thanksgiving turkey?
We bought two. One local supermarket charges 47 cents per pound if you buy $25 of other stuff. The other two local chains charge 59 cents per pound if you buy $25 of other stuff. You can only buy one per household at each store (you must use your affinity card to get the low prices).
I realize the stores are using the turkeys as “loss leaders” to get people in the store to buy other things, but the price still seems awfully low. How can a turkey be raised, fed, killed, cleaned, packaged, frozen, shipped and sold for well under a dollar a pound? We paid under $10 for a turkey that can feed 8 to 15 people.
Take this as just my opinion. Not enough difference for the money.
My extended family have had turkeys of all stripes–perhaps 18 sources in 25 years …I can’t tell the difference. Now, my age and how much I drink might influence my taste.
Free. My grocery store has a deal that you can get a 16 lb or smaller bird for free if you buy $100 worth of other food. I feed 6 people daily (2 of them teens) and I can spend over $100 easily, so I usually get several free turkeys. I donate the extras to the Salvation Army and keep the fattest one for us for Thanksgiving.
Same as Palo Verde. We live far enough from my favorite grocer though that I only get one free per season. Which makes me sad, because I really like canning a turkey and this time a year is a great time to get cheap turkeys. I like having three turkeys in my freezer because that will give me about a year’s worth of canned turkey and about four months worth of broth.
Seven dollars and some odd cents, at fifty nine cents a pound, no minimum purchase at Publix. I can’t fit a turkey much larger than 13 lbs in my roasting pan and put the lid on, and that pan—given to me by my MIL—is magic. Takes maybe two and a half hours at 325 degrees and it’s moist with crispy brown skin. We don’t try Butterball anymore, too fatty or something but it just doesn’t brown right.
I won’t say that the difference between it and the Butterball my wife got free from work (which was then donated) is transcendent but it’s enough to order and pick up a fresh bird.
Nope, first time, but they’re very highly rated. I actually don’t mind a Butterball, but the wife doesn’t like the injected material notion. I tried a fresh bird from Diestel Farms a couple of years ago and didn’t think much of it. If this one doesn’t work out, I’ll likely go back to frozen.