You might have heard media talking about the cost of the “average family Thanksgiving dinner” being 14% more this year than last year [Video Example]. The media is quoting a survey conducted by the Farm Bureau [DATA LINK]. The survey is an exercise in abject nonsense. Before getting into the details, let’s give an example of how the media is reporting about it [20 seconds] WATCH:
According to the Farm Bureau data being promoted by the media in 2021, a full Thanksgiving dinner for ten people costs $53.31 – which is 14 percent higher than last year.
FEED TEN PEOPLE for $53.31 ?
I had to look and see what fairy dust these people were smoking to come up with that number.
I found the Farm Bureau website, found the internal data and checked the shopping list pdf. Here’s what they claim:
Keep in mind, this is presumably for TEN PEOPLE:
Anyone else see a whole lot of silly in this list?
(pdf link)
Good luck making that veggie tray with $0.89 cents worth of carrots and celery. LOL
Anyone want to try going to the grocery store with $55 for Thanksgiving dinner for ten people?
Silly.
All of it.
Maybe they confused the cost of Thanksgiving dinner with the cost of gas for a roundtrip visit to the grocery store.
Yeah, with gas at $4.39/gallon, dosen’t leave much left for “inconsequential” things like Thanksgiving dinner. My Turkey was about 3/4 the price of this “Turkey dinner for 10”!
Only one dozen rolls for ten people.
Only two pies for ten people.
One turkey with no roast beef, not nice bone in ham either.
I do not believe these pampered spoiled elite princes and princesses who work for the Feds ever sat down to a skimpy Thanksgiving dinner like this one.
No mashed potatoes and gravy?
Someone should buy exactly what these dollar amounts will buy in each food item, prepare a meal, and share a photograph of a 1/10 plate.
Using organic foodstuffs – we have to take extra steps to ensure our health in these times of engineered virus plandemic, suppressed treatments for its infections, and harmful ineffective treatments forced upon us by the authorities.
Maybe a Project Veritas investigator can get into the dinner party of one of the pampered “elites” and do a comparison.
My suspicion is that one of their tables for 10 would be at least $1000 and up from there.
Where are these people shopping and can I only have one carrot? My sweet potatoes for two people cost twice as much as their sweet potatoes for ten people?!?!?!??!!
That was my first thought – where are they shopping.
They’ve set themselves up for serious blowback. Take this list to the grocery store and add a column for the actual cost. Then send them a new list.
I just priced out a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Feast for ten people…
* Snyders Pretzel Sticks, 16oz … $3.49
* Jelly Belly Jelly Beans, 2lb … $9.98
* Orville Redenbacher Pop Corn, 45oz … $5.74
* Pepperidge Farm Wheat bread, 2 loaves … $5.96
* Land-o-Lakes butter, 2lb … $6.84
For a grand total of $32.01 (not including beverages) … bon apetit!
Oh my gosh! Albertson’s have turkey priced at $1.99 per pound. The independent grocery stores are at $2.99 to $3.49. Cranberries are $3.99. There are loaves of bread over $6 in the market. There is a shortage of frozen peas and no heavy cream. Your cat food is not available, either.
this is such bull.
Beginning to wonder how much of the cat food problem is due to the supply chain and how much is due to human beings resorting to it. ?
At least my grocery store has a sale this week of 3 lbs. of butter for 5.oo. Yeah, it isn’t Land-o-Lakes but I have no problem with store brand butter at 3/5$. But that carrot/celery part of the grocery list is ridiculous. The last time I bought celery it was close to $2.00.
Jelly Beans, pretzel, popcorn sandwiches?
Ever had to eat a Ramen Noodle Sandwich? I did in College. Not bad.
I like to soak paper towels in turkey broth. Gives great flavor and really stretches the budget. Also provides necessary fiber.
Oh, crap…I can’t find paper towels…
Charmin will work in a pinch, LOL
Charmin is like gold. 😉 I’d best go out and rake some leaves for sustenance.
PJ,
It’s the NEW, IMPROVED North Korean Diet!
Chairman Zhao Bai Den is hoping to fly Kim Jong-un in to lecture Americans on the benefits of fasting, and the eating of grass! He seems reluctant, but Kameloe is rushing over to get down on her knees and beg his agreement, or some such!
Just be careful about the resident poison ivy in your leaves!
$53.31? We will only have five at our dinner, unfortunately. However, I can guarantee that I’ve spent more than that on beer and liquor alone.
(Note to self: stop shopping for groceries, and start collecting supplies for moonshine still.)
Copper is outrageous!
That must be based on using their Turkey buzzard roadkill recipe for dinner.
We got our turkeys this year for 33 cents a pound. Bought 4 and three still in freezer. $5 for the Turkey.
Milk still about $2 here but it was $1 a gallon for the past couple of years.
Eggs have been about $1 a dozen more/less for a while. Last ones I bought were $.85.
I agree that the veggie tray should be about $3 for the stuff that I have to cut up.
Other stuff is about right.
In smaller cities and towns, groceries have only pushed up slightly. So far. If farm bureau is checking city grocers, they are always higher.
Where in the world do you live & shop?! Your prices are almost as funny as theirs! BTW: would be nice to be able to have freezer space for all those birds!
Here in Hilliard Florida (North of Jacksonville) the Winn Dixie supermarket has a special on frozen turkey for 49 cents a pound. Grade A Butterball turkeys are 99 cents a pound. Smithfield half spiral ham is $2.29 per pound. Sweet potatoes are 37 cents per pound. Celery is two bunches for $3.00. I just read this on the weekly flier that comes with our local newspaper. Being a rural area and it being hunting season a lot of people around here will be eating venison rather than turkey.
Venison is really good, but be sure your friends and neighbors get their kill tested for Chronic Wasting Disease before they eat it. That stuff is all over the place, and it’s like Mad Cow Disease. The symptoms can appear as long as 20 to 30 years later, and they are nasty.
I don’t want people to be scared of venison. CWD is a real problem that affects herds across the country, and has for about 30 years. It is right to have your deer tested so that state wildlife agencies can track it. However, CWD does not pass from deer to humans if you were to eat any contaminated meat unknowingly.
Bet the power to run the freezer(s) is only 4 cents per KW.
I was thinking the same thing about those prices of VibeMan…Here is Arizona in the Valley I don’t see ANY thing like those prices.
We also got our Turkey at 33 cents a pound at Meijers when they were on sale. We had their brand Turkey last year and it was every bit as good as a Butterball.
I wanna know where you live, Vibeman.
Give us the State, at least…please?
I bought our 33 cent per pound Turkey at Meijers in Anderson, IN. Exit 226 off I-69. Can’t miss it.
A dollar a dozen for eggs?
Haha is this the Babylon bee?
Not if they are large eggs and they’re on sale. I’ve seen eggs for .99 cents at Kwik Trip when they have their sales. There are Kwik Trips all over Wisconsin. Even the local grocery stores have large eggs on sale that can be as low as .49 cents when you use a coupon. Walmart had frozen turkeys on sale for .99 cents a pound just last Saturday.
The point is that you have to keep an eye out for any sales and the price of food is only going to get MUCH WORSE and I believe everyone on this site knows that.
Got a dozen large eggs yesterday for 89 cents.
The price of eggs is different everywhere. Here in Indiana, they are still relatively cheap. This may be due to egg processing plants in our area, so money is saved on shipping. I am beginning to use the barter system and am trading jam for eggs (a friend has chickens) and my homemade bbq sauce for venison!
Sounds like you’re in the NW Arkansas area?
Though the cheapest turkey I’ve seen is 87¢ at Aldi’s I believe.
Eggs went up about 18¢ to $1.36 doz. Our milk is still at $1.88 gallon.
Grocery prices here in flyover country are still really decent.
I feel bad for city dwellers especially on the coasts.
Oh yeah, we’re still mask free just we’ve been since last year.
And we are fortunate to be pretty much crazy lib free except for Fayetteville, which is college town to the South
I bought 2 bone in hams last Easter for $.89 a pound and 2 turkeys for $1.19 a pound and put them in the freezer.
Not much can be done about the needed fresh stuff so must pay the now going price but try to watch for sales on things that can be frozen.
Yeah, I got turkeys for 29 cents a pound, but, that is after doing some rocket science shopping to get exactly $50.00 in the cart each time to nab a special — not butterball. This was from a large national grocer.
But, the small independent chain where I usually buy meat now carries chicken (from China) at a 60% mark up since we allowed the coup.
Rib-Eye is now up around 40% as well. And, it’s Mexican not American beef.
Small town NC.
But, there are shortages. And according to the butcher prices are headed up up and away.
Bought two ribeyes from under the glass at $12.89 per pound last Saturday.
How can one identify chicken from China? I’ve never seen a country of origin on a package.
I think VibeMan lives in Mayberry. When I watch The Andy Griffith Show, those are the kind of prices you see on the grocer’s window in the background from 1962 — my mom and I love to read out the crazy low prices!
That is not a meal for 10. It’s not even a complete meal for five. It’s a Sad Sack Meal, good perhaps for a family’s normal Sunday dinner, assuming you have five people and add the salads and more veggies.
I haven’t seen cow’s milk for $1.00 a gallon in 20 years…Are you sure it’s not a powder you mix with water. Where in the world do you live?!
forgot the tips Nora:
food delivery driver.
floral delivery driver.
laundry delivery driver.
landscaper.
pool tech.
trainer.
nanny.
chauffer
waiters.
cooks.
times and post paperboy.
rachael ray, just because.
Where’s the potatoes? Gotta have mashed potatoes.
I’ll supply the dinner.
Bring your own toilet paper
This ranks right up there with “fun size” candy bars.
Just like that affordable Obama Care – the devil is in the details…..
Communists just lie like a turkey on a roasting plate.
That price sounds like Rice and Beans for 10 people and maybe a homemade pumpkin pie or two.
You’re going to serve 10 people with 12 rolls, 12 ounces of cranberries, and 16 ounces of peas…..LOL! Are you going to count out how many peas each person can have? They don’t know much about cooking or southern Thanksgiving tables. Cornbread dressing requires you first make the cornbread; you don’t just go to the store and buy a plastic bag of dry, over-herbed, over-salted cubes. Plus there are the butter beans, creamed corn, field peas, cooked apples, sweet potato casserole with pecan topping, green bean casserole, eggplant casserole, congealed salad, turnip or collard greens, turkey, ham, rolls plus biscuits to put under the turkey gravy, a little potato salad, some pickled beets, deviled eggs, pecan pie, pumpkin pie (made from a pumpkin not a mix) in homemade crusts, coconut cake, and iced tea. There are no vegetable trays…….LOL! Only the younger children drink milk so a gallon would be ridiculous.
WOW can I come to your house for the holidays Belle!
What time is dinner at your place?? Oh, and you have to have the Cowboys game on…lol
Well, not Thanksgiving but back in the old days
“The Carolina Housewife’s Wedding Cake from the 1850’s.
20 pounds flour
20 pounds sugar
20 pounds butter
20 pounds raisins
40 pounds currants
12 pounds citron
20 nutmegs
1 oz mace
4 ozs cinnamon
20 glasses wine
20 glasses brandy
10 eggs to the pound
add cloves to your taste
That makes 132 pounds of mixture, and at 10 eggs to the pound, 1320 eggs!!!! Wow I don’t know how many were expected to the wedding. “
That sound delicious. I live alone, can I come over?
I was raised by generations of southern cooks and Ohhhhh how I miss those Thanksgiving dinners! 3 generations of women in the kitchen working for days to pull that kind of a spread off.
You had me at deviled eggs. I adore those.
The shopping list, much like this administration, is fake, make believe, illegitimate.
Do they really think we eat like what they have on this dumb list?
Is this how they were raised in their dysfunctional families?
This so called Thanksgiving dinner sounds like something inmates would be served in prison.
I’m starting to think how everyone in DC is a typical SINGLE leftist Karen and so this list was likely put together by one of these type and thinking there is enough to feed 10 people there…
I live alone and I spend almost that much just for the few dishes I contribute to family dinners where I am a visitor.
I suspect that’s the point…
I could make a big pot of chili beans and some cornbread to feed 10 for $55
Quoted in 2021 – but in which year was the survey of costs done?
I don’t know what planet the Farm Bureau is living on. There was not ONE organic sweet potato in the grocery store the other day. Everything organic I guess ravaged on sight. How do you price in availability of the things you prefer to eat?
Um. Cranberry sauce isn’t even on here. And who has a “carrots and celery” tray for their Thanksgiving vegetables??
With fresh cranberries they expect you to make the sauce.
And yes, even if you provided snack trays, you wouldn’t serve them at the table. And those are lame choices.
At every Thanksgiving for at least three decades we have always been required to have both fresh-cranberry sauce AND the canned, because some people love either one, often depending on their childhood memories.
Same thing goes for stuffing – multiple types – bread versus sausage usually, sometimes others.
Only the fresh cranberry for me.Hopefully sugar and/or honey was added onto the misc costs.
If not just add raw rhubarb on the veggie saucer.
The Farm Bureau website claims the items are “all in quantities sufficient to serve a family of 10 with plenty for leftovers.”
The only item on the list that there might be leftovers of is the turkey and that depends on the number of small children in the family.
There were four children in my family and by the time I hit my teen years the only leftovers from that dinner would be bones.
As far as the list goes, my guess is that back in 1989 someone was told to keep it under $30.00 so as to make Mr. “Read my lips, no new taxes” look good on the economy.
3 girls, 3 boys, here. I recall my grocery bill was $1500 a month back when the boys were teenagers. I couldn’t keep their tummies full.
This menu is what they serve at the local homeless shelters. I recently received a donation request in the mail from the Market Street Mission saying I can feed someone on Thanksgiving for only $2.81. I see where they’re going with this, the Brandon Administration expects us all to be in shelters soon.
Not so much to be in a shelter, but to establish that standard of living as the new normal.
You will live in a tiny apartment, own nothing, spend all your waking hours in Suckerberg’s “metaverse,” and Be Happy – or else!!!
P.S. Ignore the rats chewing on your feet. Just keep that headset on.
Kroger was running a deal – spend $150 or more, get a free Kroger brand turkey. So my turkey was “free”. But yeah, they’re out of their mind with this, a traditional Thanksgiving dinner I couldn’t feed 2 kids and 2 adults for less than $70.
There is NO WAY I could feed 10 people for $55 – West Coast. My turkey alone will be almost $50.
ya, California here. I went with a bougie free-range organic 16 pounder because I didn’t want a bird pre- injected with industrial “chicken broth”. It put me back almost $70
That’s the one thing I don’t buy organic because of the cost. But, my intention is to raise my own organic turkeys next year. We’ll see how I do! LOL. Turkey chics run about $10+ each.
Wasn’t the first Thanksgiving to celebrate the abundance that resulted when the pilgrims finally ended their original experiment in socialism?
Perhaps if your TG is a meal of hot dogs, processed cheese, plain lettuce salad, & cookies for dessert, washed down with a glass of water you can feed a family of 10 as the ‘New Normal’:
https://www.aier.org/article/the-horrors-of-a-noninflationary-thanksgiving/
We just bought a 17 lb Butterball Turkey at Aldi for $8.33 (0.49 cents per lb)
We often get Frozen Pumpkin Pies (I cannot make better from scratch) for $2.99 each (1/2 price), but we have not bought them yet.
I’m so sick of this PRAVDA Media that is pushed on us 24/7. Thankful for this and every year for CTH and Sundance and a few sites like this…it gives me faith that there are MORE of us Patriots than the idiots the media pushes on us.
Cubed Stuffing 14 oz. for 10 people??? What does that equate to a box of stove top? Butter and gravy are not listed so they must be part of misc ingredients. for $3.45.
I just figured it out, they figured deplorables put ketchup on everything so we don’t need butter or gravy.
Absolutely ridiculous. This is not a meal to give thanks for anything, it’s a sad meal.
WHERE ARE THE SALADS?
A 16 lb turkey for 10 people!!! That’s the recipe for five or six people at most! Not even!
These prices are put together by people who don’t shop or cook.
I buy at Costco… a simple dinner with sufficient food for ten people with only those choices will run at least 100 bucks.
Then you got to add the ham, more than two pies, more kinds of pies, more potatoes, veggies, peas, at least 24 buns, by the time you add a meal worthwhile to give thanks for you are looking at 200 bucks.
And, don’t forget that you want to buy GOOD food, not something you might find in a Government Freezer.
Plus wine, sodas, mineral water…
There are fools and then there are liars.
I don’t see what the big deal is if you live in California you can just go to the store and shoplift your TG dinner it’s ribeye steak and crab legs for us this year yippee
I can’t wait to check these make believe prices at my local grocery store. I’m guessing it’ll be somewhere between $90 and $120…we’ll see.
I could get an 1/8 ounce of Sativa at the pot shop down in Torrance for that and share with 10 people.
Sounds expensive for Cali, Bud.
Honestly I could make it work on $55.
This is asinine! Who the *beep * are they feeding with that menu? These people make me sick.
That might work if you have a pot luck Thanksgiving..all your guests bring
something and you make the turkey..
I think all my Thanksgivings in adulthood in New England (urban) have been at least somewhat potluck if not entirely – everyone always brings dishes, the hostess does the turkey and coordinates. Thanks to microwaves.
We always ended up with far more desserts than main dishes but no one complained.
“Let them eat cake!” plain and simple conclusion.
The Powers That Be really ought to remember where that ended up. ?
Oh, but they learned their history in gummint schools.
I can’t walk into Publix without spending a hundred bucks!
FWIW, here in Northern Indiana we haven’t seen much grocery price increases. These prices include wkly sale items & buy 10 items, get 50 cents of each
Kroger turkey 49 cents/lb Butterball 99 cents….same as last yr
10# bag russet potatoes $1.97
Swanson broth $.50
Land o Lakes $2.49
Campbell’s gravy $.50
Milk here is still $2.59
Take the $55 in cash from Sundance for beer & wine, then use your EBT card to buy a pre-made turkey dinner at Publix for $49.99. If you’re on the dole, no problem hitting the number. YOU spent YOUR $50 for food, Sundance’s $55 for the party.
Plus you didn’t have to cook.
1 lb of peas, 12 oz of cranberries and 14 oz of stuffing is not going to feed 10 people. The prices aren’t much out of line with my local prices are but it certainly does not take into consideration the cost of the butter to add into the dressing or to put on you rolls or the chicken broth you likely use to baste your turkey. This is hilarious.
These 10 people are light eaters.
I paid more than that for a ham.
A… ham.
But, their will be thanks given at our house!
3LB. OF SWEET POTATOES; WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WHITE POTATOES AND GREEN BEANS. LOL NEED AT LEAST 5 OR MORE LBS. OF POTATOES AND A 21 LB. TURKEY. I BELIEVE TOU NEED 2 DOZEN ROLLS AND BUTTER WHICH WOULD NOT COME UNDER MISC. INGREDIENTS.
They should have priced bread and fish instead because this is fantasy.
A pound of peas?
How did the last item decline so precipitously when the costs to manufacture and deliver it have risen?
Hilarious! Imagine working for the Farm Bureau under this regime and being told to reach a specific conclusion. How do these people live with themselves?
So you will feed ten people on ONE can of cranberries, THREE sweet potatoes, ONE bag of peas, and ONE box of stuffing. And a pound of butter in Chicago is $4.99, so that kind of blows your miscellaneous budget right there.
Here was the story just last year:
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/526686-thanksgiving-dinner-cost-lowest-in-10-years-farm-bureau
Farm Bureau spokesperson Marie Antoinette cites this statistic as being true and accurate. Let them eat cake
My two teenage boys will eat $50 worth of Thanksgiving lunch.
A visit to your local hamburger joint or grocery store is all one needs to do to see her story is total bs…
I’m sorry, but I don’t consider Mac & Cheese (which is about what that would cover) Thanksgiving dinner.
Wouldn’t this just be a special time to be an escapee from communist China or Vietnam living here just a few decades and seeing all this happen in the USSA? Can you imagine?
Shopping tips from a pro (my husband and I raised 14 kids on 1 salary and we used to go through over a gallon of milk per day). 1. Get over brand names. We shop at Aldi and Ruler, and rarely use coupons.
2. Watch for “Loss Leaders” by scanning every store’s front page of their weekly ad. They will have a great sale on something to get you in the door. Meijer in Indiana had turkeys for less than 50 cents a pound. We bought several and froze them. If there are limits, take two people and check out separately, or visit more than once.
3. Learn to stretch what you have and don’t waste food. For example, keep a container in your freezer to put small bits of leftovers, like that half serving of corn. When it is full enough, throw it all in a pot and make soup.
There is no way that list will feed 10, and some of the prices are ridiculous. I think they want us to get used to going hungry. However, there is no need to be snarky to people whose areas still have some low prices, or who know how to shop. If things are going to get as bad as Sundance says, everyone is going to need to find ways to ride the storm out.
Very good points.
One thing, as a person living alone, that I am very good with is using leftovers. I work hard to make sure I use up everything I buy before anything has to be thrown out. There is practically nothing (well, nothing that’s not a dessert!) that I won’t throw into a big egg scramble for any meal of a day. I am fortunate to be retired so I can cook every meal from scratch every weekday.
Also, my guy and I eat out more and more rarely. We both cook well, so we try to do that every weekend, usually the same good meal for two nights (I make a mean bolognese, and he is king of the grill).
I also don’t pay that much attention to sell-by dates for a lot of foods (using common sense for some things). Has anyone noticed that the manufacturers have made them earlier and earlier? Practically every time I try to clear out some items for the food drop bins in my grocery stores, I find things expired for absolutely no reason.
Absurd and nonsense.
I like how they are planning our Thanksgiving dinner menu and what we will eat and how much.
You will eat your peas and like it.
LGB!
I want more than 1.2 rolls!
Any type of dinner I’ve seen most people consume 2 or more rolls.
I am sure the aforementioned rolls were NOT Kings Hawaiian..
They forgot the butter +$5. I think most families will spend over $100.
No spice for that pumpkin pie? No vanilla? No eggs? No evaporated milk? Just pour the canned pumpkin into the frozen pie shell?
My local Safeway has small spice bottles on SALE for $6.49 ea. And they were sold out of ground ginger
Good grief … Farm Bureau Bureaucrats have never cooked a real meal in their lives? What a JOKE. Our phones keep getting smarter … but our people keep getting dumber and dumber
And a tenth of pumpkin pie? Come on Man!
Two-scoop Biden is licking YOUR portion of the pumpkin-spice ice cream
One of my 3-kids used to hog the Swedish rolls every year … he was my thinnest kid … and a HS soccer star.
1.2 rolls before we ever sat down for dinner
Portion size?
What the Chinese feed the Uyghurs
The portion size is Unlimited Government.
You win.
To be fair, Farm Bureau may have everyone on a diet.
New Climate Change regulations DEMAND no more than 1,200 calories per day … including Thanksgiving. Climate Change says you’re all too damn fat!
Establishing soup kitchen portions as the new normal.
16 ounces of peas for 10 people? Obviously at least half of these people do not like peas!
1 0z of stuffing? This list is what I’d call gas-lighting. They know it’s BS, but they put it out there anyway just to see if people get exercised. It’s meddlesome, so ya! People get exercised! Farm Bureau… As Steve would put it, “These are not serious people. Not serious.” We should probably just ignore them.
The milk they priced is the white water which no healthy person would drink. That’s price for a half gallon of healthy whole milk.