At Thanksgiving time, my wife and I decided to just get a turkey breast instead of a full sized turkey. The grocery store had a BOGO* sale on them, and I figured as long as I was dropping $25 on a turkey breast I might as well get two.
So we’ve had a spare turkey breast in the freezer for the last two months. And since space has been getting tight in the freezer lately, we decided it was time to cook it. I pulled it out of the freezer earlier in the week and put it in the fridge to thaw, and yesterday I threw it in the turkey roaster.
Along with the turkey I made mashed potatoes and gravy, cooked carrots, green bean casserole, and cornbread stuffing. And the best part, as I told my wife while we were eating, was that everything was still hot! (Which rarely happens with actual Thanksgiving dinner.)
- This was an actual buy-one-get-one sale, not the usual kind where one will ring up at half price.
25 bucks for a turkey breast seems like an awful lot. The 15 pound whole turkey we got was less than 8$.
We just buy a turkey any time we want to do Thanksgiving dinner [about 4 or 5 times a year, I adore the leftovers and make stock from the bones.] Navy Commissary has frozen turkey and turkey breast, leg quarters and wings all year long in the freezer section.
That sounds fun. I’m stealing the idea. I, too have a discounted turkey in the freezer.
We’ve done that! Thanksgiving dinner is delicious, and there’s no reason not to do it at random times during the cold part of the year, in addition to the usual time.
And OP, you need a chest freezer. The freezers that are part of a refrigerator are just never big enough! My wife and I have had chest freezers for 25 years now, and I have no idea how we ever got by without one.
I am assuming that the breast was boneless. Where I live, frozen whole boneless breasts go for around $4/pound - but remember, that’s $4 per pound of meat. How much meat was in that 15 pound turkey, and how much of that was breast meat?
Back when I had a good size deep freeze plugged in, I would go from store to store at Thanksgiving buying the loss-leader turkey breasts which were usually 69-99 cents per pound, but only one per store allowed.
I would end up with five or six, and roast one every couple months for sandwich meat often skipping the dinner part entirely.