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.
Im not the brightest tailight but run the smallest of small businesses- a one man operation. Even so I need all my fingers and toes to figure this one out. So it works out to $5.33 per person. Can it be done? Sure, if your a prepper and grow your own turkey. Which I am. But I think this table was prepared for sane average working people. I say no they couldnt do it that cheap. Unless your on welfare and just serve Mad Dog to your guests.
Trust me my friend.. You’re a much much brighter taillight then the state run media hack in this story…Happy Thanksgiving!
My husband was at a gas station filling his truck with diesel and talking to the disgruntled man in the next stall. The man was angry at the fuel prices and said he bought a turkey and ham for Thanksgiving and paid $55 – and he went to Save-A-Lot. He then said he voted for Biden, because he didn’t like Trump’s attitude. Hubby said “Well, you got what you voted for.” Guess the man has voter’s remorse.
No I don’t think the guy has voters remorse. Most likely he hasn’t even connected the price inflation to JoeBama OBiden Adminstration’s horrendous economic policies.
That would be typical of morons who would vote against their own well being because they don’t like the attitude of (inarguably) the best president in the last 150 years.
You can’t reason with idiots.
There are none so blind as those who will not see. And there seem to be millions of them.
I’m sure Turkey and Ham Guy blames it all o President Trump.
I’m sure he does. Because Team Biden* told CNN to report that they inherited this mess from Trump.
Trump is still my President!
DITTO that!!!
But he will STILL vote (D) next election
OMG!? You have to MURDER your own Turkey!? Ohhhhhhhh Mommmmmmmmaaaaaa … the horror, the horror.
My Turkey comes neatly shrink-wrapped in plastic.
I insist you eat … “almost Turkey” or “Impossible Turkey”. Yes, it’s ground soy … but it’s better than “murder” … Right?
I think they mean $53.34 per person. They have to right——morons.
16lb turkey for $23.99? I haven’t seen a turkey of that weight for under $25 for at least 6-7 years.
Where do they get these numbers? And more so how stupid are people to see this shared via MSM, people who shop for groceries, and sit back and agree despite their own real life contradictions.
Used to be if one spend $50 or more in groceries one got their turkey free! Most did get their turkey free, cause they twice that much for their turkey dinner fixings.
I saw a turkey at the grocery store the other day. About 16 pounds. Price? $73! True. Of course, it was “organic,” but show me a turkey that’s not organic and I’ll show you a robot.
haha. what a joke. If I had time, I’d go shopping with this list, picture of receipt, cook it up, and divy it up between the 10 plates…and give everyone a picture of what this meal would look like. (Notice mashed potatoes aren’t on the list, or gravy). Everyone gets one roll, a small carrot, a couple table spoons cranberry sauce, and a tiny bit of mashed sweet potatoes, and a tablespoon of peas (because you’re dividing a pound of peas between 10 people)–no celery b/c it was used in the stuffing.
Comrade, you and your family are (probably) too fat anyway – The Ministry of Health must step in and limit your portion sizes for your own good, and for the good of society. Have you any idea what replacing heart valves and stitching in bypass arteries costs these days? Oh, wait, those are no longer approved treatments because we had to cut costs. Better get on that treadmill instead of watching football sitting on the couch. Ah – we discontinued treadmills, sorry. Here’s what you do, get a long extension cord, plug in your TV, then run around your house with it. Report back on how successful this was (we don’t want to know about failures). And, btw – FJB – left, right, and center!
Yea, I did. Check my comments. I did just that and came up with $31.29 for exactly the list of items on this list for the prices that are in the store right now.
Only one piece of pie per guest. You need eggs and evaporated milk for pie and sugar for the cranberries. One measly cup of unwhipped cream for 10 pieces of pie! What? No green bean casserole?
“Notice mashed potatoes aren’t on the list, or gravy”
Yes it was. $3.45 for miscellaneous includes potatoes, butter, sugar, stuffing ingredients, pie fillings, eggs, and whatever else is needed.
Gravy is made by the turkey drippings, flour, and water or milk.
I think some registered dietician “whiz” took the calories for 10 people (all adults, no children maybe) broken down by recommended proportions of grams of protein, saturated fats, carbohydrates, added sugars, sodium, etc.
Milk or water to drink. No green been casserole with cream of mushroom soup and French’s fried onions, probably too much sodium and calories. Also no coffee for afterwards.
1/2 pint of whipping cream for 10 people! LOL. I use about a quart (or two) at Thanksgiving, $4-5.
This year I cheated and bought frozen pies (I know, I know…). 3 pies was $18.
The frozen turkey was $14.
Ham portion, not a whole ham, $8
Stuffing was $10
Potatoes were $5
Green bean casserole, ~$5
Spinach casserole, ~$5
Rolls, $8
Fresh salad with fixins’, $8
Sweet tea, $5
Coffee, cream, and sugar $8
Cranberry sauce, $3
Total $101 for 6 people.
And I’m doing it “on the cheap”! Not including adult beverages!!
If I baked pies from scratch this year, the cost would double for pies – try buying pecans and making a cream cheese crust, and of course, always use real butter in everything. This does not include any costs for decorating the home and having a nice table set. For 10 people, the cost would be easily be $150 for just basic ingredients not including the hors d’oeuvres. 3x the costs cited in the example. Have these people not been shopping???
And some really splurge doing stuff like oyster stuffing. We’re doing stuffed mushrooms appetizers.
And yes, nothing in there for beverages besides milk. Depending on one’s taste and budget, the $53 would not even cover the wine, much less the other adult beverages.
The prices cited are from when these people asked their illegal housemaids how much things cost in their home countries.
??? I think you just won the thread.
Can I come to your house for dinner? 🙂
A 12 oz bottle of Miracle Whip–“which is MY favorite”– is $7.00 at Wal-Mart
A couple years back a whole Honey Baked ham in my town was around 70 dollars.. 135.00 as today…
Winn Dixie Honeysuckle Turkey are 49 cents a pound, and Butterball are 99 cents a pound. I get the 49 cents a pound and do pulled Turkey (same as pork) and freeze/can it. Good for 2 years freezer, and good for 5 years canned.
2 pie shells in Walmart is $4, and the 1lb veggie tray they describe would cost $3.78 and not 73 cents. I’m a real budget-er, and even getting a cheaper turkey if you can find one, the rest is absolute BS!
What? No butter for the roll?
No. Is that a problem?
As always, we welcome your feedback!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Not even any gravy to sop up with the dry roll.
You make gravy from roasted turkey drippings, flour, and milk or water. With this meager meal you can’t waste the turkey drippings.
Yes, that’s the standard way. I personally like it much richer, like this favorite recipe….. https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Rich-Gravy/ . This makes the average frozen store turkey taste like a five star restaurant….
Really, 1 lb. of green peas for 10 servings? How many peas per plate is that?
The portion size is reflective of where these people eat. 5 star and Michelin restaurants where 7 courses is equal to a dinner and all for $2000 per head.
I don’t trust the dummy reading the TelePrompTer. We’ve also got one in the White House. Thankful for President Trump for exposing the FAKE news for all to see.
a turkey in suburban detroit is 40$ by itself.
And they read that teleprompter with a straight face.
Anyone seeing that would know it absurd. That’s how people start waking up to the illusion. People know things cost more than that for a real meal. In my option this type of stuff helps chip away at their (Dem-Commies/MSM) credibility. Also, they know stuff was cheaper when PDJT was in office.
Yep. This sort of naked propaganda works for the right side – ours.
Bring it on! And I love reading the treeper rebuttals here!
I haven’t been responsible for the main meal for at least 10 years so can’t do it off the top of my head. I do know that the big from-scratch dessert I usually contribute (loaded with real butter and walnuts), along with the really good cheeses and crackers, could all on its own almost hit their total.
I hope to get time to put that dessert recipe on the recipe thread this year…
Three (3) ounces of pumpkin pie for dessert … yummy ! ?
Oh yeah, what are they gonna do with the pumpkin pie mix? Just flop it on the table au naturale?
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yes, is there a problem with that? you American’s, so fat, need to eat like starving Chinese…
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I’d laugh but it hurts too much
Obviously these people have never had a Thanksgiving with Italians… The turkey is the second course – AFTER – the Lasagna and Meatballs 🙂 Honest! that’s how we do it :):) $53.61 just about covers the bread :):)
Oops $53.31 LOLOLOL
So, is that price for a real turkey or a black-bean-fake-meat turkey?
Obviously they don’t have any teenage boys.
Or real men in the family. Their feminist “men” eat like birds to keep their boyish figure. Lol
Right?! Even our daughter could out eat our son when she was actively growing, this a menu for starvation and stunted growth….
As always, for these types of exercises, the assumptions make all the difference.
There are three assumptions that can be inferred right away from the shopping list.
a) The serving sizes are underestimated.
For example, 14 oz of peas divided by 10 people is 1.4 ounces per person. Ten servings out of a 14 ounce can is about a heaping tablespoon of peas for each person. Uhhhh, nope. I’m guessing the serving sizes for 10 assumes that there are 4 adults and 10 kids and the kids don’t eat much. (Two teenagers could blow the 10 servings out of the water just by what they eat themselves ?).
ii) You only are paying for what people eat.
For example, that veggie tray at 80-some cents does not take into account that you must buy a stalk of celery at $2.00+, a bunch of carrots at about $1.50, and a pint of cherry tomatoes at about $3.00. That’s roughly $6.50 right there at sale prices. So the dollar amount they give is closer to per person rather than per 10 people.
3) They have not taken the current rapid inflation into account.
Foe example, the 4-lb ham at $10.87 may have been good at the beginning of the year, but just this week, cheap pressed lunchmeat ham was going for $4.00 per pound at my local store. Eight to ten weeks ago, you could get it for $2.50 or $3.00 per pound.
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Do notice that if you click for the pdf link to the shopping list, at the bottom it adds in the ham, green beans, and potatoes which raises the total to $68.72.
That’s more like it, but from preceding comments, most people still are coming up with higher numbers for 6 to 8 people. A no frills and no leftovers dinner for 10 is a good bit more than $53.31.
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I’ve thought of a couple of additional assumptions built into that list, such as no leftovers, but my point is that the list is all about the underlying assumptions and they seem to be feeding 10 people at the Senior Center.
No butter, no sugar, no eggs, no chicken broth. Nothing says Thanksgiving like a bag of dry stuffing, a turkey with no gravy, and a can of pumpkin in a cheap frozen pie crust. Hmmmm good.
This is the world that they want you to get used to. And it starts next Thursday.
Truth! and I am done with the damn posts and comments on LieBook saying, “This is not the Christmas you get everything you want But appreciate everything you have”….
In the post-reset New World Order, you will eat that dry stuffing, a turkey with no gravy, and a can of pumpkin in a cheap frozen pie crust, and like it.
All in your government owned home, using government owned furniture and tableware, and cooking in government owned kitchen appliances. And you will like it and be happy.
Or else, to the gulag.
All the items on your list are under miscellanous $3.45. : ) But you make the gravy from the drippings after roasting the gravy.
If you don’t have your turkey yet, you may not get one.
Anyone care to posit a figure for Thanksgiving 2022?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1461517836120113159.html
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/policy/fsis-notice/40-21
There’s the FDA notice for vaccinations. The dates are different than the thread, but the thread is concerning. i’d like to see a Sundance article on just that topic.
Ha! It will cost $50 in gas just to go “over the river and through the woods!”
”All the propaganda we can stuff down your throat.”
This is rubbish and, like the 4th of July picnic propaganda, is not based in reality. Apparently these people have us living and cooking as my 1939 Good Housekeeping cookbook suggests for the successful and economical woman, except my cookbook is more realistic and useful for life today.
Aside from the ridiculous portion amounts and prices here, I have to point out the whole irony of the government even needing to say this. As in, “Hey, guys, Thanksgiving ONLY costs $53.31 more this year! Isn’t that wonderful?”
In less than a year, we’ve gone from “Make America Great Again” to “You Need to Lower Your Expectations.”
Come quickly, Lord Jesus!
Meh. MSM functions as our modern day “Court Jesters.”
They serve solely as the Democrat’s clown show.
News ‘readers’ only. Totally devoid of critical analysis skills.
Sad that 80% of society sources their news from MSM idiots . Really sad.
All of you are NUTS in this comment section. I have been doing all of my family’s shopping for 25 years and have never paid as high of a price as any item in that list. If you are paying that much, you are a horrendous shopper. The only way to pay that much is to go to the most expensive store in town and buy the most expensive item in the store, using no sales, no coupons, and no discounts. Anybody who shops like that has no right to complain about the prices. You are the problem, not the prices.
I just went shopping and am staring at the prices. Let’s go item-by-item…
16-poound turkey ($23.99, $1.49/lb). I have never paid more than $1.29/lb for a turkey. They are currently $0.99/lb in the store right now. 18-lb turkey is $17.82. A week after Thanksgiving, they usually drop to $0.49/lb then $0.25/lb, before going up again for Christmas.
Pumpkin pie mix, 30 oz + 2 pie shells ($6.55). Current store price is $5.16, and this is still the most expensive way to even make a pumpkin pie. Make your own pumpkie pies with 2 store-bought shells for < $3.00.
Milk, 1 gallon ($3.30)!!! Current store price, $1.29, although a gallon of milk is a huge amount for a Thanksgiving dinner. 1/2 gallon for $0.72 should be sufficient.
1-lb veggie tray (carrots/celery), $0.82. This is better, but we eat 5-7 lbs of carrots per week in my household, and I pay about $0.69/lb. Celery is right around $1.00/lb. So $0.82 is pretty close.
Rolls, 12 ($3.05). No way. Current price $1.66, or bake your own for about $0.20.
Green peas, 1 lb ($1.54). I’ve never even seen peas priced this high. They are normally $1.29/lb. Current store price, $0.99.
Fresh cranberries, 12 oz ($2.98). Current store price, $1.98.
Whipping cream, 1/2 pint ($1.78). Current store price, $0.80.
Sweet potatoes, 3 lbs ($3.56). Current store price, $1.62.
Cubed stuffing, 14 oz ($2.29). Current store price, $1.92.
Seriously, you people need to learn how to shop.
I am approving your comments with this note. You borderline here on being an insulting jerk. Feel free to disagree with others all you want here, and make your point using facts, which you appear to be doing. I’m not checking turkey prices to argue with you. But if you want to throw in insults, I will ban you, and it won’t be because we won’t let you disagree, it will be because you didn’t keep it clean.
I do wonder where you live. I haven’t seen a gallon of milk at that price in ages.
Agree; just a 1/2 gallon of whole milk around here, at the lowest priced grocery store in town, is $2.00; and these are from local dairies.
Well, when you shop at the local food bank, it is considerably less costly.
Are you living in 2004?
The cost is very dependant on were you live and what is available to you.
Dear BW,
You are missing the point. Those amounts listed such a one pound of greens peas (regardless of the price) is 1.6 ounces per person which is very meager. I have a package of frozen green peas and it says 1 serving is 2/3 cup or 97 grams which is about 3 ounces. One pound (454 grams) of peas would serve 4 1/2 people. You need at least 2 pounds for 10 people.
12 rolls for 10 people? 30 oz of pumpkin pie mix serving size is 1/3 cup. Of course, 10 very meager servings.
1/2 pound of carrots (half of veggie tray) yields about 1/2 cup and 1/2 pound of celery 4 stalks, so maybe about 8 servings.
A basic recipe of cranberry sauce yields 2 cups. The standard portion size in 1/4 cup, so 8 servings but can be stretched to 10 people or some may abstain.
A 16 pound turkey will feed 8-10 people.
So the point of this story is that the government recommended classic Thanksgiving menu, turkey, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, relish tray, rolls, cranberry sauce, peas, and pumpkin pie with whipped cream has very meager servings, no extras nor leftovers, and absolutely no abundance which is the American tradition of Thanksgiving dinner.
It’s not the cost of the listed items but just adequate amounts for 10 people and NO unexpected last minute guests.
Seriously, please post the name and location of the store in which you are seeing those prices. I haven’t seen (unexpired) milk for under $3.00 per gallon in at least 10 years in central Maryland.
You can’t buy just enough ingredients to bake 12 rolls from scratch. Regardless of how many rolls you can make out of the raw ingredients, you still have to spend $$ to buy the needed ingredients in the quantities that are sold. So for cooks who aren’t into baking, they use the store-bought rolls.
That’s going to be one dry turkey. They forgot the butter, wine, turkey bag, foil roasting pan, etc. Also, it’s our tradition, being in NM, to have additional turkey in red chili sauce. Yum, yum!
For the sweet potatoes, they forgot the butter, syrup, brown sugar, pecans, and marshmallows.
We always have mashed potatoes, gravy, corn casserole, fruit salad.
And of course, wine!
These people are clowns.
You should see what Bernie has in store for you.
Do you like ice cream? Yes? Well, you better start unliking it.
That’s because Pelousy ate it all.
She’s still not 300 pounds, so she probably hurls it afterwards.
You mean Nanzi Pelousy is taking all of it? ?
Everything you mentioned is under miscellaneous ingredients $3.45. : )
lol.. 12 rolls for 10 people..? Only if all ten are under the age of 5.. couldn’t get a stalk of celery for .89 cents.. what is pumpkin pie mix.? Where is the salad.? Somebody pass the butter
It was silly in 2020, my wife & I cant go out for dinner and drinks at a moderately upscale restaurant and have two drinks for less than $60.
I live near DC, where many media types parasitically leach off the system. They could NEVER eat a dinner for less than $38-$45 per plate, let alone families of 10 at $55. I imagine New York and Atlanta are the same relative to media centers and the cost of food.
So here’s a 2015 article for sources and cost of fresh Turkey around Washington DC and suburbs. Not even close to the prices in this article. Way higher 6 years ago… before hyperinflation.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/11/12/7-places-to-order-heritage-and-local-turkeys-around-dc/
Raggedy Psaki says: “Just serve your guests stuff that they don’t like, and tell ’em to be thankful. I don’t see what the problem is here, Peter.”
She is one person who really deserves to live in rags for a long time.
Can only be done with cheap ingredients. Not good healthy ones. And this is in an area with a low cost of living, and a decent bit of gardening to supplement. Source: I feed 10 people 3 times a day, every day. (8 kids, a wife, myself.)
Once again, Mr. Dickens comes through for us
You left out the best part, cigars and bourbon (tatuaje and buffalo trace this year) and trust me, they’ve gone way up!
It’s official the Farm Bureau is communist
So we just got our hyvee grocery store flyer. They have hyvee turkey for 1.99/pound. Got a 16 lb turkey it would be $31.84. A thing of celery is. 99 cents on its own. No carrots listed in their flyer but what about dip? I’m not eating celery plain. Barf. Bought milk last night, not whole milk and we’re probabaly the cheapest in the nation at $3.65/ gallon. Our cranberries are on sale at 2 12 Oz pkgs for $4 and our sweet potatoes are listed at. 58 cents per pound. Which is much cheaper but our budget has pretty much been blown by that turkey and the notion that the only veggies we are going to eat are celery and carrot. Here in the Midwest it’s cheaper all around though and I’d hate to see what it is elsewhere. I guess this is us learning to live on less while they party it up like they are the capitol in the hunger games.
The communist talking head lady said sweet potatoes are her favorite.
Isn’t that special.
No eggs, butter, flour, sugar, onion, garlic or spice….
I instead would buy 10 “Banquet Frozen Turkey dinners” that cost about 3.00 a piece and spend the rest on liquor.
Omg, this is so racist. Jeez. How dare the whyte people racists that wrote this assume everyone eats this for Thanksgiving. No consideration to ethnic food staples that minorities may consume during this holiday. Racists the whole lot of them. All they care about is whyte people foods.
RACISTS!!!!!!
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AND you’re guests will be leaving early with excuses, all headed to the nearest Chinese Restaurant.
Sure you can serve the dinner, then you will need to go out and get 5 delivery pizzas from the Hut. What a joke! A 16-pound turkey? Some of the people will be gnawing on the bones.
At least they are comparing weights and volumes from last year. The ten people statement is fantasy based on that same criteria.
The weights from last year mean nothing, if one shrinks the definition of a single serving. That definition change artificially holds the rate of increase in check.
I spotted that veggie tray too, right off the bat. As I read the list, it became clear to me, this wouldn’t classify as a feast, but as a teaser, and most people will go home hungry, or have to stop at a take out place on the way home.
From a racist math point of view:
Of course there are obvious omissions as pointed out by Sundance, i.e. cost of vegie tray, cost of miscl ingredients, missing ingredients for the pies as well as other dishes…
Then consider that the single portion size definitions on those packages has gone DOWN as well, that number has been shrinking right along side the actual contents of packages.
If one shrinks portion size definition, the number of “people served” per package goes up if weigh of goods served is held constant, thus the total meal cost increases at an artificially slower rate.
It’s also what they do with paper towels and toilet paper:
To avoid the initial price increase- they remove a few sheets. Then the second time around, they increase the price. Then they remove sheets and then increase the price. Over and over again.
You only notice if you are an astute observer of detail.
Portion sizes have been shrinking because of the government “health nazis” at the Dept of Agriculture have more stringent guidelines for proportions of fat, protein, added sugars, carbohydrates and sodium (salt). The USDA developed the flawed food pyramid now replaced “My Plate” in 2011
For a food manufacturer to advertise “low fat” or “low sodium” etc, they reduce the portion to meet the USDA guidelines. It’s make ice cream more healthful with 48 ounce packaging versus the traditional half gallon.
The movie Tom Thumb is on I am not sure if 9 of his little buddies could be fed on that list. I have a few in my family eat that by themself and ask what for dinner.
Get a much better idea about inflation’s negative effects by calculating a loss of 6% (and climbing) on any amount you have in savings.
Since 2008, Monetary Policy Has Cost American Savers about $4 Trillion
Nov 17, 2021
https://mises.org/wire/2008-monetary-policy-has-cost-american-savers-about-4-trillion
Looks like the results from High School student doing a shopping project. That is the most meager list of food I have ever seen. Laughable. Like a teenager was putting on Thanksgiving or something.
Someone is smoking mind warping drugs….53 bucks. Woke!
Pray tell, what supermarket boasts those prices?
where is the Ham? We are thankful for Ham every 66 years of my life so far.