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Old 11-21-2021, 08:58 AM
 
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Hello, everyone. I am hearing people on tv saying that turkey is too expensive so they are not cooking one this year. I am Pinellas County, FL and Winn Dixie has them for .49 per pound and our home in IL had them less than that. What prices are you seeing and where?
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Old 11-21-2021, 09:00 AM
 
Location: northern New England
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$.39 a pound at one local supermarket chain, Northern New England.
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Old 11-24-2021, 09:32 AM
 
Location: Texas Hill Country
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Those prices are what I am seeing for uncooked turkey.....but I am lazy and went with my traditional cooked turkey and those prices are $3.99/lb.....the birds must be teaming with brisket!


Maybe I will learn how to cook the turkey for Christmas and cash in on those savings.
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Old 11-24-2021, 11:01 AM
 
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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I just looked at ours, a 20 pounder in the fridge defrosting, and it was $0.87/lb., I don't ever remember paying less than that except for one year when it was $0.49 if you spent $50 on other things.
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Old 11-24-2021, 04:18 PM
 
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One year, I decided to weigh out the meat from a frozen turkey I had cooked. It was less than half the weight of the package label. Then I figured the time spent I spent in prep, defrosting properly, monitoring the cooking temp, carving, getting decent meat from the legs that wasn't laced with tendons, then dealing with the bones and scraps for turkey soup. Even spatchcocked, getting proper doneness without some meat being overcooked was a challenge.

I'll regularly cook a whole chicken easily, but have stopped trying to deal with turkey. Getting deli turkey ended up being a better deal for me, no matter how low the advertised cost per pound was of the frozen lumpy bowling balls.
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Old 11-24-2021, 05:46 PM
 
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Same as last year at 49 cents a lb at Publix. No big hairy deal cooking a turkey. I just plop it on the counter to thaw out and put cooking oil on it and butter and slap it in the oven for 2.3 hours and it's ready. Not sure why peeps go to all the trouble to do all that other stuff.
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Old 11-24-2021, 06:48 PM
 
Location: Alexandria, VA
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You are defrosting on the counter? Yikes.
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Old 11-24-2021, 09:53 PM
 
Location: Dessert
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I've always paid around 89¢ a pound, or gotten it free, never seen it for 49¢.

We roasted a turkey last week in our gas oven. Checking my tank, it appears to have taken several gallons of propane to cook that bird. Can that be right? Makes for an expensive meal!
The next one, I'll roast the yummy dark meat in the countertop electric oven, and toss the yucky white meat in the crock pot.
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Old 11-25-2021, 12:41 AM
 
Location: Out there somewhere...a traveling man.
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The Rolls Royce of turkeys' on your Thanksgiving table will cost you more than $300.00 each...
https://thehill.com/changing-america...r-thanksgiving
Enjoy...
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Old 11-25-2021, 01:31 AM
 
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Thank you everyone. Maybe 5 years or so ago, we even got turkey for .20/lb if you spend $50 which was a great deal for us. Yeah, I wonder how weight is in the carcass that is discarded. My guess would be half the weight which is still a good deal for protein.
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