How Much Will You Be Paying For Your Christmas Turkey?
- Thread starter Alex H
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- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
It won't affect us, as we usually have chicken at Christmas, but our local butcher is selling locally farmed, organic, free range turkeys (approx weight 4kg) for £94.95!
Insane!
classic33
Leg End Member
Maybe, but £25 per Kg appears to be the standard price this year.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
My fully boned crown was £45 from the butcher. Will serve 8.
I pick it up on 24th.
I pick it up on 24th.
It’s all relative isn’t it? If you are trying to hide homes from inheritance tax you won’t mind that, but if you are on the breadline you might make do with a large chicken.
Supply & demand. Someone will buy that bird.
Not sure people at food banks will be having fresh turkey this year. Maybe tinned. What a time to be alive.
Supply & demand. Someone will buy that bird.
Not sure people at food banks will be having fresh turkey this year. Maybe tinned. What a time to be alive.
Kingfisher101
Über Member
A lot of community groups, community cafes etc do Turkey dinners for anyone that wants one, including on Christmas day.
Alex321
Veteran
- Location
- South Wales
Really?
Waitrose (not generally thought of as the cheapet supermarket)
https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/browse/entertaining/christmas_food_to_order/turkeys
Essentials - £7/kilo
Free range - £15/kilo
Duchy organic free range - £16/kilo
Alex321
Veteran
- Location
- South Wales
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.
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Maybe once over they could. But the death of a partner, the loss of a job, a sudden medical condition etc can all transform lives. It’s a bit presumptuous to think that people who could afford fresh turkeys can’t fall on hard times. It’s really easy to do so nowadays when your fixed rate mortgage ends and you end up in the clarts.
Anyway, why would one go to the time to disprove that a food bank user could never have previously afforded a fresh bird? Even with figures? It seems like someone shooting from above to the peasants below.
The bloody turkey is expensive. Sorry to derail the thread. Food inflation is a MF.
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classic33
Leg End Member
Alex321
Veteran
- Location
- South Wales
That is turkey crown, not whole turkey.
Always quite a bit more expensive. The same whole turkey is £16/Kg
Alex321
Veteran
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- South Wales
Not sure what your point is here.
Of course it is perfectly possible for previously reasonably affluent people to fall on hard times.
What does that have to do with the fact that those in that situation have never been able to afford treats such as turkey?
I wasn't attempting to do so.
You appear t have misread the meaning and intent of everything I wrote.
Reynard
Guru
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
£25 per kilo is much the same as what you'd pay for good salmon or a nicely aged ribeye steak. Just to put things into perspective. For a bird from a small-scale producer turning out a top quality product, that's reasonable enough. Economies of scale and all that.
Slow cooked pork shoulder here at Casa Reynard this year. Unless I turn up something interesting on YS between now and the hols.
Slow cooked pork shoulder here at Casa Reynard this year. Unless I turn up something interesting on YS between now and the hols.
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
We have a crown in the freezer from last year so that will do us .
