How Much Will You Be Paying For Your Christmas Turkey?

[Sterlo]

Depends on what I can run over between now and Christmas.

 

[T4tomo]

I don't know precisely yet....its ordered from the local butcher, approx 6kg, but it depends on what sizes he gets and how he allocates them to orders /reservations. They were about £11/kg last year, expect they will be somewhere between that and £12 this year.

 

[Beebo]

Depends on what I can run over between now and Christmas.

Get down the park and grab a swan out of the lake.

 

[Kingfisher101]

Of course.

I don't imagine people who are using food banks have ever been able to afford fresh whole turkeys.

Not even the £28 supermarket ones for the same 4Kg size. Just checked Tesco, and their cheapest are £5.00/kilo, their most expensive (organic Free range Bronze) £14/Kg. So £20 for a 4Kg from their cheapest range, £56 for the nearest equivalent to the one at the start of the thread.

A 2.5Kg basic turkey (enough to feed 6 supposedly) would be £12.50 - so jut under £2.10 per person. Not that excessive for something supposed to be a treat.

Loads of people now use food banks, a lot of people in work as well due to the cost of living crisis. Even professional people, so I think at some point they may well have been able to afford a fresh whole Turkey if they wanted one.

 

[fossyant]

Nothing - SIL is cooking this year as we did it last year. Might get a small roast 'something' for Boxing Day. I'll be doing home made soup for Xmas Day.

 

[oldwheels]

Nothing as Christmas is not something I pay much attention to.

 

[Alex321]

Loads of people now use food banks, a lot of people in work as well due to the cost of living crisis. Even professional people, so I think at some point they may well have been able to afford a fresh whole Turkey if they wanted one.

I obviously wan't clear enough there, since you seem to have misinterpreted it the same way Joffey did

I was not suggesting that no person who is now using a foodbank has ever been able to afford turkey.

I was saying there has never been a time when somebody in need of a foodbank can at the same time, afford to buy turkey.

To suggest that nobody using foodbanks has ever previiously been affluent enough to do so would be such a ridiculous suggestion, I am really surprised anybody could have thought that is what I meant.

 

[Dave7]

My fully boned crown was £45 from the butcher. Will serve 8.
I pick it up on 24th.

WoW......when I were a lad from a poor family just a single sausage fed 8 of us. TBF we did get some bread and dripping with it.

 

[vickster]

Nothing, I guess my Christmas salmon en croute will be about a fiver though

 

[fossyant]

I think we had a frozen turkey last Christmas when we cooked for 15. No-one could tell, even the 'chef' that came. It's a bloody turkey, it's hardly the most exciting 'meat' - I'd rather have a good beef joint.

 

[Dave7]

Nothing, I guess my Christmas salmon en croute will be about a fiver though

A good salmon en croute takes some beating.

 

[welsh dragon]

We probably won't have turkey. We will go for steak maybe

 

[welsh dragon]

I remember my mum always getting a huge fresh turkey. They tasted different then. We had turkey dinner. Turkey sandwiches. Turkey stew. Turkey soup. Nothing went to waste back them

 

[cyberknight]

I don't really like turkey

 

[Kingfisher101]

I obviously wan't clear enough there, since you seem to have misinterpreted it the same way Joffey did

I was not suggesting that no person who is now using a foodbank has ever been able to afford turkey.

I was saying there has never been a time when somebody in need of a foodbank can at the same time, afford to buy turkey.

To suggest that nobody using foodbanks has ever previiously been affluent enough to do so would be such a ridiculous suggestion, I am really surprised anybody could have thought that is what I meant.

It was very badly written , read it through again perhaps...?