The American Farm Bureau price estimation for the Thanksgiving Day basic foodstuffs seems underestimated every year. However, this year with grocery store prices jumping dramatically the basic Thanksgiving Dinner as calculated is up 20% [Data Here]
(AFB) – Spending time with family and friends at Thanksgiving remains important for many Americans and this year the cost of the meal is also top of mind. Farm Bureau’s 37th annual survey provides a snapshot of the average cost of this year’s classic Thanksgiving feast for 10, which is $64.05 or less than $6.50 per person. This is a $10.74 or 20% increase from last year’s average of $53.31.
The centerpiece on most Thanksgiving tables – the turkey – costs more than last year, at $28.96 for a 16-pound bird. That’s $1.81 per pound, up 21% from last year, due to several factors beyond general inflation. (read more)
On the positive side of things, we note two points: #1) the third wave of food inflation should crest the beginning of December; and #2) a lot of readers here were proactive and purchased holiday ingredients long before the massive price increases showed up. Great job.
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Although, as WeeWeed has noticed, this year is making everyone a little spicy…
64.05 for 10?
Even the Farm Bureau is in on it. What world are they living in?
Maybe if you only serve the Turkey and some mashers….really? It’s Thanksgiving!!!
Our family would spend that (and more) on the wine.
Great time to celebrate with Trump Sparkling Wines.1
drliberty: Perhaps, they are referring to a family of 10 turkeys.
😂
Serve really small portions and you could easily feed 20.
I’m sorry, that’s Thanksgiving blasphemy to propose small portions.
Its like the Govt figures, on the cost of living,…they make sh*t up.
Maybe it’s a decimal error … $640.50 is closer to what we spend for 10.
I’d recegnize that bony middle finger anywhere . mom is that you c’mon put the beer down and get back in the kitchen
It is wonderful to see the Treehouse in such high spirits!
I don’t know where American Farm Bureau shops, but I just spent $145 at my Harris Teeter.
Every range of groceries is feeling this inflation.
CTH. The heads up has been invaluable. Our family has tried to become more self sufficient and we made an effort to have basics stored away for a day when shelves were empty. I now have four cows, but the cost of maintaining even this small herd is remarkable.
I think the most proactive step that I have taken however is to quit a lower paying job for a much more secure and higher paying one.
CTH was instrumental in helping me realize that we were not in for just a temporary rough time, but more than likely permanent shift in economics.
It weighs on my heart. My best efforts never seem to be enough to blunt the advancing doom on the horizon. The left is calculated and unwavering in the advancement of their agenda. Soul sucking to say the least.
Keep up the great work CTH. We need to be lights in this dark world.
DD
Hat’s off to your family on the cows and embracing changes needed! Sundance’s forewarning prompted us to ditch our Las Vegas home with a mortgage last year while the prices were high. We had a goal of getting debt-free to better survive the coming storm.
It took time but found a roof with 4 walls on 5 acres in the rainforest of nw WA with 90+ inches of rain a year. Not fancy home but no mortgage and no debt! The ocean for fish and clams, the wood for heat and meat, and our own well and septic.
Working our butts off. Over 65 but not dead yet 🙂 Sundance is our time’s Paul Revere to warn what was coming.
Zounds, that’s one heckuva climate change. Enjoy.
I couldn’t take all that overcast and rain!
Brilliant description of sundance….. I would add more names to add to Sundance’s name.
We are actually reliving the days of our Founding.
We are all blessed to be living today! Godspeed, PATRIOTS!
We should have sold our properties last year..my retirement hobby of being a landlord/airbnb host is quickly turning into a nightmare tthanks to Joe Biden…I’m 66..my one last pleasure is near ruined..thank goodness we have a lot of equity in the houses!!
Well, our income sure went up this year….. but our costs shot up too.
The only thing that worked for us was our low mortgage which we refi’d at under 3% a couple of years ago.
I hear you on feed costs. We have pigs, goats, lambs, chickens and rabbits and prices have nearly doubled. Going to do a lot of butchering now that it’s cold enough to stock our freezers and shelves and reduce the herds for winter.
We feed out a steer or so this time of year. Last year the super sack of feed was about $275/ 1500#. This year its $325; I was worried it would be much higher. We’ll be filling the hay barn tomorrow and Wednesday, not sure about the cost of the hay, just glad that my friend has enough for me… a bit of a summer drought brought on a shortage this year.
Propane delivery came today; today’s price was below prebuy pricing! There is some good news out there.
That’s great news about your propane!
My best efforts never seem to be enough to blunt the advancing doom on the horizon
This perfectly expresses the core of my angst this year. I feel like I have done just about everything right and yet I am losing ground. I could write more but it would be depressing. I have had to re-evaluate my expectations and prepare for austerity. My only consolation is that some prior generations experienced worse. But after 2 more years of Biden we are going to be in desperate need of Trump and Republicans taking full control.
We pay at least 500-1000 percent surcharge for the illusion, repeat that THE ILLUSIONS of “convenience”, “efficiency” and “security”.
Re-evaluating, to adjust to realistic expectations based on living WITHIN your means, rather than unrealistic expectations based on not even calculating what your means actually ARE, is not and should not be depressing, as its just grasping reality, and letting go of a fantasy that could never really be.
Not aimed at anyone specific, its just that so many have never actually tried to develop a budget, much less live within it.
Inflation is: – too many dollars chasing too few products because leaches on the government dole don’t add anything.
I keep saying this. There has been a mass exodus to the countryside within states. People are realizing that if they can just make the property tax each year, they don’t need anyone. Its why I said preppers are top of the FBI list. They are desperate for another Ruby Ridge.
Everyone can live like this, but what are you prepared to give up? If you can’t tend animals, grow beans for protein. Anything is better than the hamster wheel they created, and keeping up with the Jones’s is for morons with a pain index of 105
Thank you for the quote, Colkitto.
This day has arrived!
No, Economist. Your definition is demand-side inflation. What we have now is supply costs that have risen that have to be added to the cost of producing products.
What is happening right now is NOT demand based inflation. Not true, what you have said. THIS IS A DESTRUCTION IN THE SUPPLY SIDE OF THE EQUATION. They destroyed the supply side of the equation and they want to LIE and say that it is demand that is causing the problems. We just wanted to continue demanding the good and services that we’ve already enjoyed. This is not INCREASED demand.
These demons have decided that to crush us they need to diminish our ability to purchase good/services like the first world people that we thought we were. They are killing the supply side. Now they have to kill our demand for a middle class life style that seemed so normal to us. WE WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY. They weren’t kidding.
In order to balance out the supply/demand equation THAT THEY DESTROYED, they now have to crush the DEMAND SIDE so that it equals the supply side. Then they will reach Econ 101 nirvana.
“It is called the forgotten holocaust – a time when Stalin was dumping millions of tons of wheat on Western markets, while in Ukraine, men, women, and children were dying of starvation at the rate of 25,000 a day, 17 human beings a minute. Seven to ten million people perished in a famine caused not by war or natural disasters, but by ruthless decree. ”
Harvest Of Despair
http://ucrdc.org/Film-Harvest_of_Despair.html
The New York Times knew exactly how many were starving and why they were starving. There is NO middle class or owning anything under Communism, Socialism or the Italian version. That ‘paper of record’ was Communist then and still is today.
Yes, reading Soviet history is a worthwhile use of time to better understand what is coming our way; the ‘new and improved’ version.
We rarely hear about Stalin’s 1932-33 murder of the Kulaks, prosperous, productive farmers in the then Russian province of Ukraine. They were forced to ship all their grain to the cities, and when they went into the fields to glean the few kernels of wheat left after harvest, Stalins’s soldiers shot them.
Hmmm…I paid .99/lb for a 15lb Butterball turkey at Costco. $3.00 for 10lb bag of russet and $2.00/bag cranberries at Lidl, $1.00/box Stouffers stuffing, and 2-for $2.00 chicken stock at Lidl. Maybe all loss leaders? Not seeing huge price spike here in NoVa.
Prices are regional, and maybe the Farm Bureau used the highest prices they could find
Northern Virginia is just south of DC – a huge bedroom county area with more than usual number of very well-paid government-employees and government contractors. Those prices are surprising b/c everything down there is normally higher than average compared to my county ~40 miles north of DC.
$3 for 10lb bag russets is way cheaper than central fl. I think I got a sale with that price for 5lbs.
Actually $3.99 for 5lbs
Meijer has 5lb Russets 99cents this week and Kroger had beautiful Yukon Golds for $4 per 5 lb bag. Yukons cost more but they make the best mashed potatoes and that buttery color and flavor is worth the extra $ to me.
Set one or two aside, and use them to grow potatos in a bucket.
Its one of the 10-11 veggies you can grow from the produce you buy at the grocery store.
Yukon Gold are the very best. I can’t make mashed potatoes without them.
Come on down to my Costco, Tustin II.
Home of the Organic Ketchup.
All that lobbying money is a nice cushion for ya’ll up in No(n)VA.
Yep…does not keep to the narrative of wealth in the capital metropolitan area — plenty of money for all comrades.
Tiny grocery stores out here in flyover country have turkeys between $40-$50. Because they have so few, I suspect. I should have taken pics.
Really hurts the old folks who can’t drive for an hour to shop for groceries.
You’re close to DC so the government has to keep up appearances?
Easily double that in CA and OR. Then there’s 39 cents kwh to run the oven and over four bucks a gallon of propane to heat the house and run the cooktop. It all adds up.
I noticed your experience matching up with the wanderings of a local in D.C. at their markets. Prices were low and selection plentiful. Is NoVa a bedroom area for D.C? I wouldn’t put is past the Commies to keep things affordable for their soldier areas.
NoVa is close to DC..My Fayette county PA friends are paying 5.99 a gallon for propane..they are really hurting.
Thanks for the report. That’s about the same as LP in CenCal if one isn’t doing a 500 or 1000 gallon fill. Small amounts are over six bucks locally. It is interesting the disparity in fuel and food prices though.
On the ground report from England.
An acquaintance claims they are rationing canned food in England and that things “are bad”. This family has relatives in the UK and communicate weekly.
We have relatives in Wales with whom we speak weekly as well. We will have to ask her on Saturday if this rationing has made it into her area. Fortunately she has kept chickens on her small property so at least they won’t be short of eggs, which because of “avian flu” Britain is short of.
We’ve just read that Tesco’s has started rationing fresh vegetables. The other big supermarkets…Sainsbury’sand Asda…will no doubt follow. Things are falling apart quite quickly in Blighty.
I know people who are waiting for prices to come back down. I’m buying now to avoid future shortages.
That’s the way I am viewing my shopping…what, if I didn’t have it or couldn’t get it would he a real problem. And I include in this assessment routine items from the pharmacy, like cold meds, allergy meds, soap, toothpaste etc.
I bought a backup cat litter scoop because I don’t even want to think about not having that available!
I saved all my old meds, my dad’s meds and my brother’s meds..just in case!!! I grab toiletries from the dollar aisle at Dollar General, started stocking up on canned goods in 2020..I always joked about us losing everything and having to move into the lower floor of our one rental unit..that might just happen…
I used Sundance’s suggestion back in Jan/Feb about the coming shortage. By myself, I can make it OK to next Spring if I am forced. Will help out friends if needed, but I do see some shortages. Maybe that was just the holiday, too.
I’ve always kept a pantry using the but it on sale principle. I still do that but some things no longer go on sale so I just buy them as I can financially do so.
Oh bless you, my dearest friend…A wistful smile from me remembering what was, and what I’m afraid is gone forever.
I always tie in my beloved Wales with you!
Do you see another wave of inflation in the first quarter of 2023?
No. Thankfully, nothing like last year. Not yet.
At least we can get a reprieve on that. Fingers crossed.
Whats the Jedi Master prediction when the Russian Oil Embargo takes effect Dec.1? Or is that still a thing?
I agree with you Sundance.
Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
The best is yet to come!!!
Republicans will hopefully block a lot of Biden’s spending.
I realize it’s technically a Christmas “item” but we typically order/buy our tree day after Thanksgiving.
Just notified via email this years price list ~ +45% YoY.
Yikes…..and actually something you could say I would always just absorb because I get such enjoyment out of a nice tree……giving me pause this year I hate to admit.
I live alone and am old enough to be retired. Last year, Lowe’s had 2.5-3 foot tall tabletop trees in their own stands for $25. It was perfect- 200 lights, 80 ornaments fit, no hassle s. I hope they have it again because I really want to get it.
I hope you get your tree!
I broke down and bought an artificial tree, never thought I would own one, Sears going out of business sale had a $700 Christmas tree for $49.00. I couldn’t resist. I love that tree.
I’m still using an artificial tree and decorations our family used when they were alive. Works great. I believe it was a Sears also. Amazingly durable.
I’ve got a forest outside the window so no real impetus to buy a real one…
Moravian Blessing
Come, Lord Jesus, our guest to be
And bless these gifts
Bestowed by Thee.
And bless our loved ones everywhere,
And keep them in Your loving care.
Amen!
I think that cat is cursing, not blessing, you.
prrr.
The cat is eyeing the tree that has defeated her climbing skills. It’s over 100′ tall and a little over six feet in diameter at the base. I’d go to God quick if it decided to fall on the house.
Walmart has some great artificial trees if you can stand using artificial. They are relatively inexpensive, just get one with a high branch count. I just put up a “Branford” tree in my dining room, it’s a fake cashmere pine that looks very real. This is the 5th year I’ve used this tree so the cost per year is phenomenally low. I also have a much larger “Donner” that I hope to put in the living room next week, that thing is huge and more of a traditional deep green tree. Looks totally real.
Find a great pine-scented candle, and you’re all set!
I notice the Farm Bureau doesn’t recognize that many of us from Maryland love oyster stuffing.
Have you seen the price of Chesapeake Bay oysters ?!?!
$26.32 for one pint ! I use 2 pints in my stuffing 😬
Do you do sauerkraut with the turkey? I lived outside Baltimore for many years and loved that combination but now we usually get ham because no one likes turkey.
Memories. My great aunt who knew HL Mencken used to make that Sauerkraut/Turkey combo. Nancy Pelosi’s father dedicated some Democrat Confederate statues in Baltimore that they would like everyone to forget since the full on cultural marxist attack on American history
Her Uncle was a mayor of Baltimore too.
No, we are Scots-Irish and we do mashed potatoes, Cole slaw, stuffing both regular and oyster, Turkey, Lima beans, green beans, stewed tomatoes and creamed onions. No sauerkraut:)
that’s how my mom likes to do turkey. An Eastern European thing, I reckon.
Absolutely! No self-respecting descendant of German immigrants would omit the sauerkraut! Roast turkey, sausage stuffing, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, boiled sauerkraut with rye seeds, green bean casserole, stewed tomatoes, crushed cranberries & orange bits (or jellied cranberry), and good, cold Riesling wine!
If you make enough mashed potatoes, you take the leftovers and have potato pancakes on Friday morning!
OMG GB Bari, the beautiful memories…………………..
I never forget those bountiful family Thanksgiving dinners! Those memories are our witness to the Grace blessings of our Father in Heaven.
These fools are gaslighting us again.
If your posit is correct the breadth of coordination is astounding. Follow the money. Why in the midst of record inflation would food for one day be so ‘affordable’? Occam’s Razor.
I do most of the shopping for my house, and sometimes I’m floored by the price increases. I lived through Jimmy Carter.
And did you ever think we would see a president worse than Carter? I didn’t. I guess that is what I get for thinking.
No never thought I would . The night Obama was elected I had a strange feeling about him.
Never did I think any President could be worse than Carter. I still remember the Democrats saying that they will never let this happen again. Yet, here we are.
The Carter era IMO was the fallout from a stupid war and idiotic energy and trade practices that a peanut farmer was clueless to reign in. My suspicions and cynicism regarding bureaucracy were born during the Nixon/Ford/Carter era.
Those of us who worked through it and, yeah, shopped for food, we remember. Today is nothing like that IMO. Today is purposeful, not incompetence or ‘stuff happens’. As another member opined, there’s gaslighting going on.
Biggest beef with Carter was his Rhodesian betrayal. war criminal Kissinger used that as leverage against them
Sure there is gaslighting…that’s because they want dead.
Biden said the economy is strong as hell. What a load of crap!
I did too, and think the food prices are unbelievably high. Shrinkflation is another joke. A bad of potato chips is mostly air.
I was young and stupid then but I do remember paying a 300$gas bill the winter of 1977, my senior year at OSU.
My marked memory regarding inflation was, at the time, one hour pre-tax of my labor bought 20 gallons of diesel. Not a rocket scientist, far from it, rather a young apprentice carpenter banging nails in a cottonseed plant. One hour (ten bucks an hour) and diesel (about 50 cents a gallon). Back then diesel was cheaper than gas.
I’d forgotten that ad. Outstanding.
I went to Aldi today. Lowest cost spiral ham was $2.49 per pound. I think last year it was $1.79? Butter was supposed to be $2.49 but this is a newer store and near a Lidl so it was lowered to $1.99. (I have bought way too much sale butter the last two weeks. I need to reorg the freezer again to store it.) Fresh pineapples were $1.19 so I got two. Potatoes and some other items were also on sale but the sale prices are generally still higher than prices last year.
In addition to ham and potatoes, we’ll be having home made applesauce and home canned peaches as well as peach pie using local peaches I froze this summer. I like the idea of celebrating using our bounty. There will also be lots of fruit, veggies, cheeses, sugared nuts and crackers on a charcuterie board as well as more desserts. Buying stuff on sale and being flexible with what I’m serving has kept the price down but it’s still up overall from last year.
Sorry Mari in SC…. didn’t realize your post was here until I posted mine. YES, Aldi’s is holding 2019 pricing for Thanksgiving. They are amazing.
Never ever too much butter! It freezes forever well wrapped.
Butter here in NoVa is $4 a pound . I haven’t checked our Lidl and Aldi. A few months ago I went nuts for butter and when there’s no more room for them in the freezer, I clarified about 8 pounds. They last long in sealed pint Mason jars in the pantry, at least 1 year if unopened.
From the 2020 price to the 2022 price, it has gone up 37%. They only want you to know how much it has gone up since last year not how much it has gone up since FJB has taken over the economy.
I noticed today the pardoning of the turkey at white house was reversed. The turkey pardoned the resident.
I’m surprised that the turkeys weren’t named Hunter and Biden!
Since 2020, prices for Thanksgiving food staples are +36%.
The energy to cook them is +17%
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/09/21/energy-costs-expected-to-rise-17-this-winter-low-income-households-will-be-hit-hardest-report-finds/
Impossible Foods + Impossible Energy = Impossible Life.
I don’t know where you get your energy but my electric rates (central FL is natural gas) is up 38% and propane is up 67% since 2020
My Ocala electric and water were 711, 650, 550 then down to 450..taxes jumped from 2900 to 3900..
Glad to see folks figuring in the breathtaking costs of energy into the calc. We never used to do that, or worry about food prices either. See what they make you give?
I hope people remember. They probably won’t and soon Covid, death, inflation, bankruptcy, broken families and communities will be forgotten.
I pity those who still have to deal with family dis-inviting them because they aren’t vaccinated. I’ve been reading forum member accounts of this happening right now.
yup.
Insert him back into the Matrix where that steak tastes real and he’s a battery.
I farmed for 55 yrs in Texas [more if you count all of the time I was old enough to carry a hoe}. I retired in 2019; went through; too much rain, not enough rain, hail, tornadoes, price swings that weren’t expected, without insurance like the rest of my family and neighbors. Farmed out of my own pocket until the drought of 1996 when I lost $106,000. When I had to go to the bank they told me you will have to buy insurance if you want us to loan you any money. Best advice I ever got and also the best thing I ever did. I used the banks money to operate and the money I made out of another enterprise I invested in the market during a really good time for investors. I have prefaced this to let you know that the Fit has not hit the Shan yet as far as prices for food and clothing products go. The price of fertilizer, fuel, seeds and technology has quadrupled and that has not gotten into the system yet, wait till you buy Christmas dinner and pay your heating bills…1cas
No farms, no food. My beloved grandmother used to say. Ty for your service in providing food for all of us.
Gordon Kahl RIP
Wait until a year from now, TWO years from now, FIVE years from now.
First off, willful ignorance, intentional malfeasance, whatever they are not just doing nothing to stop the inflation, they are continueing the spending spree.
And, even if or when someone intentionally tries to stop it, its going to take time to wring all the excess spending out of the system.
Not wanting to be a downer, but we mey look back on this holiday season, with nostalgia.
I paid 69 cents a pound for a 20lb turkey at Kroger Saturday. That is less than last year.
Must’ve been one of them Mexican turkeys.
Everything from Mexico is cheaper.
Yeah but their beef is better.
“I paid 69 cents a pound for a 20lb turkey at Kroger Saturday.”
How much did Kroger pay for that turkey?
My brother was a butcher for a big chain grocery. Told me they lost money on turkeys. They advertised low prices to get you in to buy higher priced items. That covered thier loss on turkey…
See my later post @ 9:22…
That makes sense. They’re banking on you buying a lot more than just the turkey when you go into that store.
Since the family died I haven’t bought any turkeys but for decades T-day turkey was ‘free’ if one bought some dollar amount of groceries. I think when I quit it was 50 bucks, not an unusual amount to spend for typical T-day festivities.
I think a lot of corporations are working diligently to gaslight us. Remember who was allowed to stay open when the lockdowns happened.
What I see, perhaps through the cataracts, is the PTB’s imbuing a false sense of calm and security before the next phase of their operation, the Great Reset. Think of this as a strategic pause. Some bread and circuses to quell unrest in the prols.
God bless you Dunes.
He did actually, coming to my rural CA place and finding a broken front door, stuff strewn around, someone leaving a dump in the toilet and the oddest things stolen.
Blessing? The criminals, this on election day, didn’t destroy the house or steal any of the tens of thousands of equipment and tools on the property. Biggest surprise? Farm tractor was still there. Shocking.
Sheriff stopped by and left a note with the crime report number on the fridge. Some cats broke in and ate the cat food. I’m still cleaning up today. Probably won’t be able to fix the door, or afford the insurance deductable, until January.
God provides challenges. Still alive. They haven’t killed me yet. God knows they’ve tried. Take care!
its called a loss leader; people come in for the advertised cheap item,
then purchase all their other groceries from the same store at regular
prices.
I was in a Kroger last night and saw a woman get down on her knees in front of the eggs and scream, “I found one, I found the last one!” She found the LAST carton of a dozen eggs by shoving the shelving around way in the back. I looked and she was spot on. The entire case was empty except for about 24 completely broken eggs in two cartons.
I was just saying this morning to someone in the neighborhood that I bought less than 30 items at the local market and they were each at least a dollar more than last year. My bill increased about 26% in NY.
Transitive inflation <10% Janet Yellen.
Isn’t Hunters Thanksgiving defined by the cost of cocaine ?
And hookers.
For those of you who haven’t heard, and for whom it will matter, Aldi grocery chain is offering Thanksgiving fixings for the same price as they were in 2019. Aldi’s stores may not be super exceptional visually in comparison to great, gargantuan chains… but they have fed my family on a meager budget for a very long time. Their quality is exceptional. I love to gourmet cook and with Aldi, they make it possible. Get over the looks of the store and dig into their treasures. A cousin company to Trader Joe’s. They are terrific and their meats are exceptional and many freezer-ready. Lamb, bison, flank steaks, hams, duck, turkey. They do have it all.
Aldis sent out a special letter announcing the price hold. I’ll be sending them a Christmas card out of gratitude.
Hope this helps you. Blessings and love to you, Treepers.
Appreciate the info. I love TJ’s but had gone in a Aldi’s (I have 2 near me) and was disappointed. I will retry sometime on your recommendation. Happy Thanksgiving and best to you your family and all the Treepers and good people out there.
Slainte
Bless you and your family too, Colkitto.
If there was a few things at Aldi I would highly recommend…
Their canned stewed tomatoes and tomato paste are the best!
If you like chocolate… their bar chocolate rates right up there with Godiva. If you like hazelnuts… they have an excellent bar with fresh full hazelnuts.
Their Raisin Bran is delicious. Large flakes tons of raisins. Better than major brands and half the price.
Meats are exceptional.
They also have a non-GMO promise.
I truly can’t find a bad thing there.
In the 26 states Aldi exists, that sounds wonderful. Unfortunately, Oregon is not among them. The closest grocery to me, there’s only one, is a local family run place. In the nearby town, there are two, one the family run place and the other a Safeway. I don’t shop at Safeway.
One advantage to living in urban areas is choice.
I go to Aldi on and off even during “good times”. Aldi’s primary competitor in Deutschland, Lidl, is opening stores left and right in the U.S. My area has one of each store directly across the street from the other, it reminds me of the “gas wars” in my childhood.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Uqw7MH4SywRMwpJr9
64$ a pop?
My MIL is gonna be rich!
I’ve always thought that that Farm Bureau menu was idiotic.
I can see the plate now: One slice of turkey, no gravy, a tablespoon of dressing, 14 peas, 1 roll, a baked sweet potato (no toppings allowed), 1 ounce of cranberries with no sugar, and 5 raw carrots.
Honestly, the menu doesn’t matter much so long as it is consistent year to year. The meal is pretty minimal for 10, but the point is the percentage increase in the cost of these representative food items. If you personally spent $25o on your menu last year, expect to spend $300 for the same menu this year.
I realize it is comparing the same menu year to year. I wasn’t commenting on the percentage increase, just the minimalist menu.
Belle ,
I Love That ..
14 Peas 😄😊💐
We saw whole turkeys today for $0.47 here in south central Kentucky.
I purchased a nice turkey today for .49/lb. Fresh Butterballs were.99/lb.
I got a 13.5 lbs turkey for under 2 bucks. When you bought ham you got free 12 lbs of turkey.
Hey, If you don’t want to pay 20% more for Thanksgiving it’s no problem…
I have some tasty crickets to sell you. Very versatile. Cricket meat, cricket gravy, cricket pie….
Just give me a call at:
BR5-FJB and ask for
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Will not eat z bugzzz!!!
Keep some alive to use for fish bait. The fish taste better. I can smell the fresh trout sizzling in the pan right now, though in reality it was decades ago. Never thought there’d come a day we’d be eating fish bait.
I do the shopping and most of the cooking. Those FB prices are a little higher than I’m paying in s Indiana. Kroger has .49 lb turkeys, Meijer is .55. Both are store brand with frozen Butterball or Honeysuckle turkeys .99lb. Does help to have Kroger, Meijer and Aldi within 1/2 mile of each other and all are less than 3 miles from my home.
Milk is under $2 gallon, eggs under $2 doz, butter $3lb. Kroger has sweet potatoes .19lb, Aldi had .99 celery, $1.99 3lb onions, navel oranges and lil’cuties are both $2.99 per 3lb bag. You must pay attention to the ads and play the digital coupon game. I certainly could spend more but by shopping carefully it’s easy to beat the listed FB prices. FJB
Brooklyn, New York City, this week:
eggs $7.00 – $8.00 dozen
butter $5.00 -$7.00 one pound
half gallon 1% milk $3.20
parsley $1.50 bunch
NYS apples 99cents/pound
Lucky you. PA’s milk prices are supported by the state Ag Dept, even so a gallon of whole milk is $4.75. I am headed to the farmer’s market in the city that I grew up in today or tomorrow for a good pie for Thursday’s dessert, I should check out egg prices there. The supermarket chains are selling non – organic jumbo eggs for well over $4 a dozen.
SW PA..eggs are 4 a dozen, milk is 5 a gallon, butter is 5 a pound..NE FL…eggs were 6 a dozen a publix..we are heading down after Thanksgiving, cutting our stay short by 3 weeks.
My local Costco, Tustin II, has a buyer who’s into organic stuff…. Organic whole chicken, $3.90 a lb; organic whole turkey, $3.90 a lb; organic ketchup (*), 11 bucks for a two pack.
No plain turkey, no plain whole chickens, no plain ketchup.
So this year, a reasonable sized tom was gonna run me 60 bucks. Really? Heck, I ended up getting a nice Ribeye roast, prime grade, 4.5 lbs, for 90 bucks. I mean, if I’m gonna spend 60 bucks for some dried meat with bones, I might as well spend just a little bit more and we’ll get 8 oz of fine meat. I’ll add a platter of sausages into the mixture, potatoes, etc… and lots of wine.
Crazy prices.
I fully expect to see Organic Soylent Green in a can next year.
(*) I have mentioned this to the Costco crew: “If I’m eating ketchup, do I really give a rat’s a$$ about my health?“
Lol yes organic ketchup is better. It cuts out the high fructose corn syrup that is destroying everyone’s health 🙂
speaking of health, my daughter purchased a can of frosting and in
the ingredients section noted “contains bioengineered food ingredients”
Nice move on the ribeye roast, enjoy the feast! 🙂
Remember last years chart… which 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.
Anyone want to try going to the grocery store with $55 for Thanksgiving dinner for ten people?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/11/18/widely-reported-thanksgiving-dinner-inflation-survey-claims-you-can-feed-ten-people-for-53-31/
I used to, back during the Reagan era, and the turkey was ‘free’. 😀
The regime love their big dinners but they hate what Thanksgiving stands for and they don’t care about the poor and middle class. And the recent Calvinball elections aren’t going to do anything to change their thinking.
I had extra of everything canned or packaged from last year.
I bought a fresh, Amish turkey just a wee bit under 14 lbs. Cost: $59. We’re going to have the same Thanksgiving we had last year but it’ll obviously cost more than $64, even with what I had stored.
I’ve decided not to care what it costs. It only comes 1x / year & I can squeeze the cost from my food budget for the rest of the year.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families, friends & communities fellow treepers.
Actual headline and story…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/usda-blames-russia-rising-price-thanksgiving-dinner
Yep, it’s Russia’s fault.
I saw that and it made me laugh. When have we ever bought turkey and bread from Russia? We are sending our LNG to Europe so even cooking costs are higher, but that has to do with EU and US sanctions and not due to Russia.
The link is probably that Ukrainian wheat is not making it to market for poultry feed.
Fox Neo-Conservative BS
Price of turkey? Google “loss leader”.
Less than $6.50 per person?
That is almost free.
Those going to the latest Climate Summit spend more than 100 times that much just on a one late morning glass of wine.
It’s somebody elses money of course, but never mind that.
Reading all these tasty menu items purchased I think I’ll splurge. Normally I eat on five bucks a day but T-day I’ll double it to 10. Add in a bottle of cheap vodka and I can imagine the good life I once lived.
On another forum some members were fretting over what caviar to order for a special treat and I named a supplier that farmed it pretty good domestically compared to what I used to have in the FSU. Didn’t envy them a bit. Good on ’em.
America is about prosperity. Some of use will have it, some not. I’ve seen both sides. It all ends the same. We all go to God.
I bought one 15 pound bag of dog food and one 5 lb bag of cat food this week and that cost me $48.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Good dog.
I’ve taught the cat to eat some human food. SNAP pays for that. Cat food gets rationed.
Pet food prices sure have skyrocketed and IMO the quality has slipped too. I stopped buying the larger bags because the bottom invariably had kibble ground to powder that the cat wouldn’t touch. I’d end up putting it out for the feral cats that keep the rodents down. Can’t afford that.
Pets are worth it though. Hard to find a faithful companion these days.
I agree with you friend, except for the Birds.
There is a very good independent movie called “Footprints” that is about a man and his dogs that is so much more than that. Also the movie “The Wee Man” about a Scottish kid who is undersized, but with his intelligence and determination, gets many things accomplished, even revenge on the bullies who tormented him and killed his beloved dog. He also was quite adept at intimidating Police bullies as well. All the while keeping a sense of honor
Back in the day we wouldn’t consider power/heat as a ‘cost’. Today? Putting on a turkey day event can be quite expensive just for power to fix the feast and heat to keep the crowd warm.
I think that estimate is substantially low.
I keep reading this doom and gloom but frankly am not seeing it for real
Just bought a 20 lbs turkey for 0.94 per pound.
Any news on that collapse in diesel inventories?
How about all the store shelves bare in 6 months from a year ago?
Wyoming Treeper: You had to go and ruin a perfectly awful day.
There is so much Mercy and Favor on His Children that they are having a hard time manufacturing their shortages, Praise God!
The doom and gloom is regional.
So 3 years ago I got a free Turkey with a purchase of $200 after Nov 1. That doesn’t exist any more.
No way can you feed 10 people for $64.00. At least not here in Utah, and we are used to dealing with big families on a budget….
Damn gramma’!
Stopped by the main Piggly Wiggly yesterday. Got a bone-in rib roast for $7 a pound! I’ve not seen it that low in years.
Hate to rain on this inflation news, but it looks like the railroads are going to get hit with a strike by the engineers and conductors. If that happens, all bets are off. Enjoy that turkey! It may be a while till you see another one!
Thanks for the head’s up. The election was a distraction from keeping up with the negotiations.
I’ve seen people railing about the railroad unions and 24% but they don’t appear to be educated about what’s been happening the past few decades in that industry or how the 24% is structured, never mind the importance of rail to our everyday life.
If the railroads stopped tomorrow, life as most of us know it would change in big way.
Here’s the disclaimer in the article:
Farm Bureau “volunteer shoppers” checked prices Oct. 18-31, before most grocery store chains began featuring whole frozen turkeys at sharply lower prices. According to USDA Agricultural Marketing Service data, the average per-pound feature price for whole frozen turkeys was $1.11 the week of Nov. 3-9 and 95 cents the week of Nov. 10-16, a decline of 14% in just one week; and the share of stores offering feature prices rose from 29% to 60%. This means consumers who have not yet purchased a turkey should be able to find one at a lower cost than the Farm Bureau average.
So if you waited you are likely seeing lower prices for turkeys. Not sure about the other stuff though.
“Not to worry, comrades — the coming Depression and Starveflation will be transitory! Remember, ‘We’re All in This Together …'”
Put everything down!
You gotta see this!
https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/109385233575143635
off topic, Abigail?
It won’t open for me so I can’t see what you want to share here.
If it is off topic, you may wish to review this section which our gracious host Sundance has lovingly prepared for all of us👇
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/guidelines-for-comments/
A 20 lb Diestel Turkey in CA was over $100 this week. Organic birds $3.49 per pound at Costco.
Wow! Whilst I have every sympathy for our great American cousins having to dig deep for Thanksgiving, they should make sure not to celebrate in Britain.
$6-5o a head? That would not pay for the soup starter here.
It costs £100 per week to feed these 2 old age pensioners – quite adequetly I might add due to a wonderful ecomomic Kookie wife.
And don’t even thing about driving as it costs over £100 to fill the old diesel jalopey.
Enjoy your ‘cheap’ Thanksgiving.
The cost of last Thanksgiving was greater. Irreparable harm was bestowed upon families everywhere, due to the vaxxed/unvaxxed war.
We’re invited back this year, after the 2021 hiatus. Wondering if we’ll get an apology, or if they act like nothing ever happened.