I’m hosting my second Thanksgiving ever. I posted here begging for help the first time. It turned out well. Hence, I was confident I could do it again. We’ll see if I was right. I’m not feeling it right now, I must admit.
Part of it is the turkey. Like last time, I ordered it from a good fellow at the local farmers’ market. Unlike last time, we had a lot of folks say they were coming, so we ordered a big turkey.
Many have since changed their mind. Many. We’re down to two guests. Four people total.
Our farmer’s turkeys grew a bit bigger than expected. So we got the smallest turkey he had left when we arrived to pick up this morning.
It’s 22.51 lbs.
That’s just over 5.5 lbs/person. I’ve been told the buying recommendation is 1.5 lbs/person. So a 15 - 20 lb turkey (what we ordered) was great for the 10 people we thought we’d have. For four? It’s, perhaps, a bit much. Still, I can’t help but laugh about the situation.
And worry that I’m not going to cook this enormous thing well. But, no matter what, it will be an adventure.
I’m in a similar situation – I ordered a “small” 10-15 lb turkey from a local farmer, and yesterday I picked up a 16 lb turkey. Three guests are joining my fiancee and I for thanksgiving dinner, so that’s 3.2 lbs/person. But they’re only here for the day, so we’ll probably have 10 lbs of leftover turkey to eat over the next month…
We’ll have 1.5-2 pounds per person - and then my mother will go home and cook another 10-15 pound turkey the next day to pass out to people so we’ll have more meat for sandwiches and snacking over the next week. I love Thanksgiving.
I have a 21 pound turkey for just the three of us. My husband and daughter love to have leftovers for sandwiches, and I like to put the remains of what they don’t eat into the freezer for future use in soups, etc. I must keep the carcass for making stock.
It looks like I’ll have a nice stockpile of turkey goodness in the freezer!
I’ve got a 15 lb turkey and. 14 lb turkey for 8-10 of us to eat worst case senario that works out to 3 lbs per person worst case senario. I want to make sure I have tons of leftovers.