Price of turkeys at thanksgiving?

I'll be eagerly awaiting the sale papers tomorrow. I'd love to do home grown but I don't have the space to do them myself and like another poster said......I have to put something on the table every night. I put up as much deer as I possibly can each year and chickens too. So if I can fill the freezer with 5-6 bought turkeys each year at a cheap price it helps.

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I've never had a fresh ( non-commercially raised) turkey. Would be nice to try one, but the prices are just a bit too steep. So I look for the best price and try to buy a couple.

The lowest I've seen anywhere near here so far was .99 cents a pound. Maybe they'll come down just a bit more closer to Thanksgiving.

I heard today that retailers locked in purchase prices before the corn crops failed so prices should be similar to last year. They like using turkey prices to get you in the store.

.39/lb with $30 purchase.
I wouldn't seek one out, frankly I think commercial turkey is a chore to eat, but at that price... ehh, well. I can hide it in a pot pie.

I am somewhat afraid that if I buy a pastured turkey, my husband will become addicted. Can just see a new line in the budget marked "Turkey".

Honestly, if I could make a nice borth from it, I'd probably be right with him in securing a turkey every couple months, lol. I hate broth from store turkey... so nasty.

how long will turkeys keep in the freezer? i have two leftover from last year which will be cooked in couple of weeks, one roasted and one smoked, hope they still taste ok.

I may raise turkeys when we get moved to the farm, we will see!

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Last year it was .29 at HEB, if you bought $25. I always get at least 2. We have a Mid-Year Thanksgiving with (most of) all the trimmings. I love having the family over for a big dinner!

We always have fresh, home-grown. I raise a few (under 30) and they sell for $5.25 a pound.

I picked up 2 last night at .78 so I'm covered for turkey this year.

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Saw an ad yesterday for .69. My daughter is going to buy us a bird.

Nomad

Target has them for 79 cents a pound this week, or 99 cents a pound for Butterball. Publix has them for 69 cents a pound. That's about as low as I have ever seen them around here, odd to be so far before Thanksgiving, though. I got 2 the other day and plan to get 4 or 5 more, just gotta get creative with the freezer space!

I can get chicken leg quarters here at Wally World for 58 cents a pound year round, so when they offer whole frozen turkeys for 57 cents a pound I'm not that excited .

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last year, I smoked the legs and wings I removed from a few, cubed the breast and froze the chunks in marinade to be used for kabobs (we ate these all summer long), and made soup and pot pies using the bones and the meat I didnt cut off. Also, making turkey tacos is standard in our house...Im hoping to stock up on several birds. I have two so far, hope to get a bunch more

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NeuroChicken what part of Arkansas are you in? I amfrom river valley are but am visiting my mother in Prescott and the Super 1 stores have them 50 cents a pound, limit two with 20.00 purchase, we are hitting the store tomorrow and will score four, then my dd and i are going out to eat so will pop in and score four more and i will stop by friday on my home for two more....10 turkeys!! Good thing i budgeted money for shopping the sales down here !! I will be shopping in Hope, not sure of any other locations of Super 1 foods here in Arkansas.This is cheapest i have seen them, i think Krogers brand turkeys were either 78 or 88 cents a lb, cant remember which.

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LOL! I sure understand the hiding it in pot pie thing! Oh gosh, that's what I was doing until I found the local farm. The difference is night and day. Yes they're a bit of a budget shock after buying loss leaders for years, but the flavor is worth it to us. We usually buy two of these fresh pastured turkeys a year, one for Thanksgiving and another around Christmas. We consider it a holiday gift to ourselves, and cut back somewhere else.

The broth is absolutely fantastic. I canned some last year and made turkey barley soup with it in the worst of winter, and it was heaven. And the gravy from such a bird will knock your socks off! Deglaze the pan with some rainwater madeira, and people will talk about coming to your table just for the gravy. I kid you not.

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you get more meat with the turkey...legs and thighs have a high bone/meat ratio...with the turkey you get those two nice plump breasts..(and a carcass for soup!)

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Still Tasty says you can safely freeze a whole, commercially frozen turkey for a year. But if you keep it at 0 degrees, it will keep indefinitely.


http://www.stilltasty.com/fooditems/index/18586

I was used to stocking up during the turkey price wars every Thanksgiving. But last year, the deals were not there.

This year the cheapest advertised is 99 cents a pound, but you must buy other groceries to get that price. Still, the price is usually best the week right before Thanksgiving, so I expect it will go lower.

What they did last year was that they still offered the cheap turkey, but they greatly increased the number of dollars that had to be spent on other groceries. I can buy food for half the price that those stores are charging. So, if I have to buy $100 of groceries to get the free turkey, and I could buy the exact same groceries elsewhere for $50, that free turkey is no bargain.

This year, I raised a couple of turkeys, so we will be eating never frozen, home raised turkey. And let me tell you, that is no inexpensive bird. It had better, by golly, be a lot better tasting for all the money I have put into it.

*drool*

I was pricing them last night in my area... $120/bird. They sell out quick. In Texas, goodness, on the hoof the bird will cost you $30. I think the local grassfed where we were sold them processed for $60, but at the time, we couldn't swing that.

You know, actually, there *is* a livestock sale this weekend, the usual birds, bunnies, etc. I am half seriously contemplating leaving the kid and the husband home and buying a couple ducks or a turkey and processing him in the garage. If I did drakes or muscovies... I could keep them penned for a couple weeks to make sure they weren't medicated...

Stoppit, HT. You're going to make the neighbors think I'm a loon. LOL

I have a loyalty card at my local associated foods store. On Tuesday, I received a coupon for a free turkey (up to 16 lbs) because of my spending level. I want to go in soon to get the best selection, but my freezers are full. ( what a problem to have!) I haven't seen their advertised price yet.

We bought two of the turkeys at Super One. That makes three, and I'm going to can at least two of them. That's probably plenty for we two old fogeys.