Ignore the prices you see on the supermarket shelves and listen to the Farm Bureau folks. The price of a Thanksgiving dinner for ten people is five percent lower this year. You can feed a family gathering of ten people for a mere $58.08, cool.
[Farm Bureau – SEE DETAILS HERE]
Farm Bureau: “Americans stocking up for this year’s Thanksgiving dinner will see a dip in their grocery bills for the second year in a row. The 39th annual American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) Thanksgiving dinner survey finds that the classic feast for 10 will run you $58.08, down 5% from last year. However, this is still 19% higher than five years ago.” (link)
I mean, seriously? A Thanksgiving dinner for ten people for around $58?
Does anyone else find this a little challenging to believe?
Suspicious Cat has gone from, well, suspicious to shocked!
That propaganda did not come from the government. It came from the American Farm Bureau.
If the American Farm Bureau will release such a lie as this $58 Thanksgiving dinner, we should know that this country needs to rethink the American Farm Bureau, the USDA, the “leaders”, and the ag programs.
As one rancher said last week, he would like to shed the regulations and the price setting and let the prices be set by supply and demand.
Tidbit: According to a farmer who raises cattle and grows crops for his family’s custom feeding operation, the money that dairy farmers pay into their advocacy group used to fund the “Got Milk?” ad campaign. Now it is used to lobby to ban raw milk.
As Phil Rizzuto used to say, “Holy Cow!” 🐮
Whoa!!! At that price, Treepers you are all welcome to come to my branch of the Treehouse!!! Bring your entire clan and lets partae!!!!!
Now we need to force these people to live by the data they provided.
Exactly, hand them $58.08 and say we’re sending 10 people which includes the camera crew.
Show your receipts, feed them and we will film it all.
Lying rottens snakes at the Farm Bureau.
Show us your actual menu and your actual grocery bill!
I don’t see mashed potatoes and gravy. Butter? Peas, are you serious?
Two pies for ten people? Not any people I know — especially the kids’ table!
You obviously never grew up in a family of ten. 😉
Right there with you Jay, I don’t do peas and there must be mashed potatoes and gravy, plus butter which is used throughout to make many of these items, a topic I bring up often.
I’d like to know where they shop.
“Does anyone else find this a little challenging to believe?”
Oh yeah. I’ll believe it alright. Right after I start believing the 2020 election was the fairest, safest election
ever…
Atta girl, more dot connectors!
Doesn’t matter what they say. We all go to the grocery store. I am tired of shopping at the grocery being an emotional experience. Prices seem to jump every weekly visit, 3-4 dollars at a pop. I can afford it, though it hurts. But what hurts more is seeing families with children struggling to shop and pay for food. I am sure there are some even hurting more who never can make it to the grocery at all. This is America – enough is enough. Thank heavens for President Trump and the “good generals, not the TV generals”. I’m willing for them to play really hard ball in order for Americans to afford to eat.
But but – who is going to fund the 300 billion dollars per annum to
“Fight that terrible global warming” if you greedy Yanks spend all your money in food?
And think about all those poor (politicians) in Ukraine – they need your money too.
End of sarc.
Please y’all have a happy Thanksgiving.
Ukraine is the laundromat for politician handouts!
Thank you, Patrick!
America, the land of plenty. And there would be plenty for everyone if we weren’t supporting half the 3rd world, while ignoring our own. If we could stop the graft and fraud committed by the government.
I’d like to see each and every criminal in a position of power de-boned.
It’s possible if you buy just the turkey giblets and frozen vegetables, and last years boxed potatos.
Just spent $60 on a fresh turkey at $2.99 a pound. That’s for six adults and a few toddlers who won’t eat much. Add everything else and it’s probably close to $200 for Thanksgiving Dinner but, like everyone here, we have an awful lot to be thankful for after the last few weeks!
need more real life examples like this on local media news and shows
we got our 22 lb butterball turkey about 2 weeks ago for .88 cents a pound, i bought 8 lbs of sweet potatoes today on sale for .39 cents a pound,we have roughly 4 lbs of iowa sweet corn we froze this summer so that we had 5 bucks in.10 lbs of potatoes was 4.99 pie filling 1.25 a can,pie crust 2 for 3 dollars.milk is 3.50 range.after my father in law passed nobody else eats cranberries so we don’t buy those.stuffing was .99 cents a box,we use 4.got a bunch of celery today for 1.38 and carrots are .99 lb.we don’t do peas.we do green bean cassarole and those were .50 cents a can and we got 4 cans.and we use the rhodes dinner rolls which are in the 5 dollar range so we come out pretty close to that 58 dollars and we are looking to have 12 adults and 7 kids under 12.and we will have plenty left over.BUT we also do a pit ham,that cost me 3.59 a lb and we will use half that 12 lb ham so if i added that i would be in the 80 dollar range.
I try to buy fresh and organic food because, my body is allergic to glyphosate, and am gluten intolerant. As are my sister’s. We grew up working in a bakery my parents co-owned. Imagine that!
I cannot imagine ever eating the food you are eating on Thanksgiving. I am investing WAY more than you are in your “food.” My fresh turkey from a local farm will probably cost me more that your whole meal.
You are what you eat.
I buy organic as much as possible because I feel the difference. It costs, but it’s worth it.
Living alone, I’ll have a turkey pot pie with my Ramen noodles and a can of peas and carrots added! That’ll be enough for two meals Thursday! Even throw in a box of instant taters! Seasoned with turmeric, ginger and black pepper! Wow, I might even gain a couple of pounds, LOL!
I was thinking the same thing.
100% agree. Once you start eating real food, you can’t go back.
Where are you shopping? Groceries are twice that here.
You know how to live. Frugally.
Agrarian America was built on the hardescrabble premise of making-do frugality. Simple living demands it.
I lament for the younger generations, my kids and grandkids, who never had to learn the art of frugal living, and seeing it pass from the mainstream of American life both saddens and worries me.
Waste not, want not, find joy in other than material things, quit striving, and discover that there’s time left over to pray, conserve, and live abundantly in the things that matter.
God bless you and yours this Thanksgiving.
Yes but that doesn’t include all the smaller items that really add up — spices (nutmeg, cinnamon at a minimum) for the pie and whipped cream, maybe syrup for the sweet potatoes and could be for the pie or else need sugar or other sweetener. Spices for the ham and turkey (sage and other herbs for the turkey, cloves and maybe pineapple for the ham), and butter to baste the turkey?
What about nuts? Maybe for the sweet potatoes and what about munchies as the guests arrive?
What about drinks — probably must offer tea and coffee — maybe caff and non-caff of each? Any wine or other alcohol? Eggnog?
Most people decorate to some extent — flowers/fall arrangements, seasonal candles — favors for the kids’ table?
You may say you already have all these things but you still need to include them in the cost. No matter how you try, Thanksgiving dinner for 10 costs beaucoup bucks.
The Iowa corn put a smile on my face.
My mom was an Iowa girl and no Thanksgiving was complete without corn pudding.
I’ll be lucky be under $100 and it’s just the two of us this year. I’ve been buying what I could store when things are on sale.
I have a lot to be thankful for and I’m not going to shirk on my holiday meal.
You aren’t including all of the other ingredients used in the dishes to make green bean casserole and sweet potatoes for example? You did do a good job of menu planning!
I live alone but really wanted a pumpkin pie and the spray whipped cream. Pie $12 and can of cream $5
3 yams @ 2.45 per pound almost $5. There wasn’t a turkey tv dinner be found and if there was one left $7.49. I’m just one little old lady. Not a family of 10.
They jest or actually LIE
Here’s one idea.
Go to deli counter and ask them to slice you 2-4 slices of store baked Turkey – or if you can afford it and it is available in your area – boars head Turkey. It should be “dinner slice” thick. It will be better and about the same or cheaper than a frozen dinner. Dried Turkey gravy pouch in NY is 1.49 for store brand when not in sale; McCormick is much more expensive. I hope this gives you an idea….. and that you have a good holiday.
Thanks. God bless
Good ideas!
Boars Head has lost it’s appeal after their recent recalls due to their factory conditions.
I’ve never been that enamored of Boars Head meat or cheese for the past 10 years. Premium price for what is now mediocre flavor and twice the salt content.
Sure wish all these food manufacturers/processors would figure out that salt is a flavor enhancer, but you don’t need that much if there is any quality and flavor in the product to start with.
My turkey ( fresh 19 lbs.) was $68.00
Shrimp cocktail $50.00
Manchego cheese $8.00
Grapes and berries $12.00
You get the idea. We haven’t even counted the potatoes, green beans, turnip, dessert. These people who continue to gaslight should post their Thanksgiving meal costs!!!
I’m not complaining, I’m humbled and grateful we have such abundance. 🙏🏻
Yep. I grateful that I somehow to pay for good and real food.
16 oz of peas and 3# of sweet potatoes for ten people. And no mashed potatoes or gravy at all. Rolls without butter. No seasonings. Stuffing from a box and pumpkin pie from a can too.
No one cooks like this. What a joke.
So true FPCHmom.
No one cooks like that on Thanksgiving.
A couple of times we have had to have some kind of substitute dinner ( frozen one) because I was ill and just could not do all the work even with family helping.
The feast of the American Thanksgiving is just that, good food and gratitude.
That menu from the Farm bureau sounds awful, canned this and boxed that.
Who eats this over processed crap for one of the biggest family and friends meals in America.
Happy Thanksgiving to all the Treepers here, we know better.
Everything is relative. I was fortunate to be born into a large family that not only liked to cook, but entertain. And all us kids learned to enjoy cooking. My mother loved entertaining large groups of friends and family, and I and all my siblings learned to love it as well. Now that my kids are grown and have kids of their own, they do as well. As a child, the spread included multiple of everything including the protein. Turkey + ham, mashed potatoes with gravy + candied yams with marshmallows, stuffing two ways (wet and dry), dinner rolls + cornbread, green bean casserole + mac and cheese, green salad and jello salad, canned cranberry sauce + fresh cranberry orange relish, and at least 3 different pies (there were 13 one year, no joke).
Today, the keto diet makes it much less complicated. One large turkey roasted, a bag of brussels halved and roasted with balsamic glaze, fresh mushrooms sliced and sautéed with butter, and for dessert – maple syrup glazed pecan halves. Not the feast of my childhood but definitely more my speed now.
I enjoy food shopping and always have. I know what most of you know, that despite prices for a specific item in a particular area of the county having gone down in price over the last year or two, it pales in comparison to the shocking rise prior to that. Prices are still almost double what they were 4 years ago on many items. The farm bureau can suck eggs.
Dozen eggs is 5.99 when not on sale in my area of NYS. NYC is much more expensive
If you buy free range, organic eggs here where I live it’s between $7 – $8 per dozen.
$7.50 here.
The Costco stores near me (northern NJ) sell two dozen organic, pasture raised eggs for $8.49.
Hahaha! I’m not even hosting this year, but my contribution of sweet potato casserole, two pies, rolls and an appetizer is costing me a lot more than 58 bucks. Whose world are they living in?
58 bucks? Don’t micturate down my leg and tell me it’s raining
LOL, I had to look up “micturate” even though I knew the meaning from your well-constructed sentence.
Thumbs up for finding a way to work micturate into the convo, but that’s just my opinion dude.
The rug really brought the room together
Can I add the price of the oil I have to buy to fry the turkeys I have been obligated to fry? Wife and I are hosting Thanksgiving again for the 22nd time in a row for a dozen family/friends, and we are up to $300 already and climbing.
Heck yes Mark, probably more when you’re finally finished
The $58 will barley buy you three gallons peanut oil !
Shucks, just good organic ‘barley’ <grins> will cost ya $2.20 a lb.
We bought an organic free range turkey, fresh, for $2.99/lb.. I saw frozen for as low as $0.69/lb. Ours is 24lb so $72. We could have spent $16.56 if there were a 24 lb frozen one that big. Is it worth it? I dunno. Butterball turkeys were $0.99. $24. Potatoes, squash, corn and green beans and pumpkin pie. $58 for ten skinny people is possible.
When the turkeys are advertised as fresh, they mean defrosted? I was always told all turkeys were frozen at one point. Is that what is meant by fresh turkey?
You can source FRESH local free range turkey from local farmers for sure. You have to order in advance and the birds are harvested and chilled the week before Thanksgiving. So, yes, they are fresh!
It might be closer than some are commenting. In Oregon turkey is 99 cents a lb. The bird would be the item costing the most. 12-15 lb bird would produce 5-6 lbs meat. Pie would be the next high cost item. Potatoes and dressing is reasonable. So it may be within reach if the family still has anyone that actually knows how to bake and cook. We are blessed in this house as mother/grandmother can do it all.
58 bucks for dinner for 10, with all the trimmings? Yeah right. Only if 8 only drink water and sniff the food….
Is that tap water or fancy bottled water?
I’m at 128$ for 6 people so far. I’m doing pretty good!
That doesn’t include dessert, which will be another 20.
Im looking at 150.
And I’m happy with that.
Splurged on a MAGA smoked 8.97 lb turkey this year($42.00 Costco) and a 4 lb breast roast 16.97. Brussels sprouts 8.99 fresh, 2 lbs. 2 bags cranberries( frozen leftover from 2023), 10 lb bag of bakers for mashed potatoes 2.99, Costco pumpkin pie snow saucer(they are HUGE)5.99, green beans, ff onions and cream of mushroom( already in pantry), red cabbage 11.30 and currant jelly 8.99, stuffing mix 7.00, butter(in freezer-expensive Kerry gold); whole milk2.49/gal, whole cream quart 8.99, eggs 5.69 for 18….
no flipping way LOLUNTZ and Farm Bureau.
You can’t beat Costco’s pumpkin pie. I don’t see the need to make one from scratch when Costco does it so well for $5.99, plus they are huge pies compared to supermarket pumpkin pies.
I remember when my employers always
handed out fresh turkeys as a gift. So many years and then it stopped.
And hams at Christmas.
We’re going to my brother’s house for Thanksgiving, and when I offered to bring dessert or something I was asked to bring a tray of cheeses and crudités, dip etc. So I’m fixing a charcuterie board and without knowing specifically I’m sure I have already spent more than $58.
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This is ridiculous. I’m no cook, but… a dozen of those little “dinner rolls” for ten people? And a gallon of milk? Not even coffee? Peas? Celery? No sugar for the cranberries? No butter?
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Disinformation specialist Frank Luntz Tweeted it out as gospel. Luntz’s intimate, romantic, 2 person dinners with Kevin McCarthy cost 10 times that amount.
It’s expensive having dinner in the Oval Office, especially when you have to supply the cocaine too.
“Down 5% from last year.” Not in any store I’ve ever seen.
$58 might be what you need to feed your dog and cat (with maybe some chew bones, kitty litter, or a couple of cheap toys or cold weather gear thrown in).
1 month supply (17.5#) of Rx dog food: $114.00;
all natural USA made dog chew: $12.95 each;
large breed dog coat: $59.95;
laughing the idiots at the “Farm Bureau” out of town …PRICELESS!
have a great Thanksgiving, Mswords!😁
Suspicious Cat needs to stop emoting and get crackin’!
He’s obviously got a family to feed here…
Well you can’t buy carrots and celery for 84 cents. What idiot came up with that? And if you think a 12 oz can of cranberry sauce is enough for ten people, then you’ve never fed ten people. What the heck is cube stuffing? You have to make cornbread dressing which takes meal, eggs, oil etc and you cannot purchase these things by the cup and tablespoon measure. If this list included here in the story was the basis for their cost figure, then the Bureau is just giving America the finger. I hope the new Ag sec sends them packing.
That was a typo. They meant 1924. 😜
I guess we’re not having drinks or dessert. Scratch the prime rib.
SD couldn’t keep that in his wallet any longer
There are other ways to save on your grocery bills.
How many of you know that 100 years ago, ground hog was the most popular game meat on America’s dinner tables?
(Possum was a close second). A single woodchuck could feed a family of four.
Back then, most people knew how to butcher small game…even city dwellers, because most of them had relatives living on farms. My grandparents, who were born during the Civil War, raised, grew or milked most of the items on the Farm Bureau’s Thanksgiving menu themselves.
Out of respect for my ancestors, this city boy taught myself a few of these skills. I live in the woods so I have trapped and learned to butcher groundhogs, squirrels and the occasional deer, as well as knowing how to breast out pest birds like starlings and grackles. I save those starling breasts in the freezer until I have enough for a meal.
All of those game meats can either be added to Colonial game stews or pan-fried/sauteed and, if properly prepared, all are delicious and free for the taking.
I also tap my black walnut trees every winter and boil the sap into syrup, (darker and nuttier taste than maple syrup but equally delicious), and dry and shuck the black walnuts to add to my turkey stuffing. My neighbor lets me pick their persimmons to stuff in the turkey.
Give some of these things a try and I guarantee you’ll understand why American Indians felt reverence for the animals they hunted…and you’ll save a few bucks in the process!
As a vegetarian your food doesn’t tempt me, but your skills are very impressive! My dad was given a shotgun when he was young (during the depression) and he used it to help supplement the family’s meals with small game.
That’s the way it used to be, your dad hunting small game to put food on the family table. Good story, cheering4america!
Our large family celebrated together over the past weekend, crowding around 25 grown-ups and kids into Grandpa & Grandma’s small farmhouse. The counters in the kitchen were covered with the most wonderful, traditional and creative dishes! Several of our kids farm, others are just great cooks. When families can go potluck like that it helps the pocketbook. We felt immensely blessed. Now that Thanksgiving has passed, we are gearing up for learning how to process our own meat (we started with 3 smallish pigs a few years ago, which expanded by litters to 20!) We’re scared to death to tackle this new project, but stories like yours are encouraging.
DO IT!! We are having prime rib for Christmas dinner, but only because I sent a cow I raised to the processor.
I LOVE that, BFAW!
That’s so great, forgotmylogin! Stories like that bring families together!
Dang, I always learn something new here at CTH! Never heard of tapping walnut trees for syrup before.
Thanks!
My pleasure!
FYI, Black walnut trees were prized by colonists, not only for their sap, from which they got sugar syrup, but the nuts taste better than English walnuts and when the yellow gook in the pods surrounding those nuts turns black, it was used to dye clothes and stain furniture.
BTW, maple syrup is more popular than black walnut syrup, not because it tastes better, (the opposite is true), but because sugar maple trees have a higher % of sugar in their sap so less boiling is required to make syrup.
That was a great history lesson, LionTigerBear. I can vouch for the squirrelsand deer as well as cottontails, woodcocks and pheasant but most of those are long gone from my area.
But there are plenty of ground hogs so they are now on the menu.
Look out Punxsutawney Phil!
Happy Thanksgiving Treepers! We have a lot to be thankful for this year so keep on praying.
Haha, Punxsutawney Phil is on notice! BTW, soak your groundhog in a cheap cola for a day or two. It sweetens the meat and the phosphates in the soda tenderize the meat, (which I think taste like rabbit)!
That would be a youtube video worth watching. When you make it I will send it to every human I know. Super cool!
When I make it, you’ll be the first to know!
The way the emboldened bureaucrats lie to us, and know we know they are lying to us, is infuriating. Many Americans are forced with the decision of whether to buy food or pay their utility bills this year. It’s downright evil for these hucksters to throw it our face how unaffordable food has become in this country thanks to Biden and the Democrat Communist Regime. Maybe they think their statement about a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 costing $58 is some kind of a joke. If so, they are sick people.
Just the gravy would cost that here in CA. Whoever made this statement deserves to lose their job as soon as Trump takes office. They need a good helping of humble pie. Let’s see how much they laugh at us when they are trying to scrounge to eat on a budget.
I also know many seniors can’t afford prescriptions as well, especially when they are hit with the coverage gap.
They still haven’t learned.
Maybe without the turkey, potatoes, and dessert? Butter is still $6 /lb here, and eggs are over $3/ dozen.
I am bringing 2 from-scratch pies to the church dinner. Even buying all the apples at Aldi’s, which offers by far the best price, the total runs about $13.
This is the kind of gaslighting that people are sick of.
10 oompah loompahs?
When a tiny vegan Tofurky turkey costs $19, I highly doubt it. Since it is only me and lots of my veggies that will be baked with it are canned from my garden, it will be “cheap”. However, the stuffing mix is over 4, got some sweet spuds for 99 cents a pound, the butternut squash pie is home made with the squash grown in my garden and home made crust. The veggie stock for the basting and stuffing is home made from veggie scraps. But, for those less fortunate than me who got grow some of their own food, their are always bugs to eat and shitlitz malt liquer to drink.
NW of DC area: most local grocery stores offer frozen turkeys (not Butterball) for 0.39lb (limit 2) if you spend $25-35 on other items. We usually get a fresh turkey and donate the frozen ones to our Church’s food bank. We have thrown one in the freezer for later use at those prices. No room in freezer this year. Great prices on the canned veggies, gravy etc to get you in the door. Good time for us to stock up on supplies. No such deals on butter or eggs this year.
They left off “per person”.
$58 per person.
There, fixed it.
At today’s prices Suspicious Cat is going to become Delicious Cat.
🙀
Take the list, put equal portions of all the items on 10 plates, then convince me it’s a Thanksgiving Dinner.
That’s not enough food for 10 people…that’s insultingly stupid.
Total Lies. Disgusting.. look at the quantities on the list… that wouldn’t feed 10 cats!
If they eat servings of 2 Tbsp.
This is the same pointless, futile exercise in demonstrating the “health” of the economy. It’s done every year, and it’s done by a bunch of “turkeys” “stuffing” themselves with stats. This is just another example of people pulling numbers from a spreadsheet that have no idea how life works. I do the shopping and I’m very conscious of costs, always have been, always will be. In round numbers, I spend $630 per month on food and personal items (soap, toilet paper, ect). Before the Biden administration, my total cost was right at $420 per month…that’s a 33% increase, most of it in the first two years! My wife and I are very thankful to God for our ability to afford this increase in our golden years, as well as our three kids who are independent and successful as well. But numbers don’t lie, people do. Insurance rates, gasoline prices, and energy costs are so hard for most young families. I pray for them all…and their futures! Happy Thanksgiving to all…and eat your peas!
CORRECTION: the prices indicated are the results from purchasing these items from a grocery store in Russia….source, Tucker’s trip to the Russian grocery store…
Nothing to see here…they think we’re stupid…
Gaslighting us till the end!
At Publix this week, chuck roast was $12.99 per pound!!!!! I almost fell over. You can’t even make an econo meal out of cheap cuts anymore. I would not be able to feed 10 people for $58 unless I bought everyone a turkey Banquet tv dinner.
Yep chuck roast was our “luxury” Sunday dinner when the kids were young. Now it’s competing with NYstrip.
The Turkey for our feast is larger than that puny bird they are toting, but that alone is $75.
Our 10lb turkey we purchase smoked from a local church is $40. They’ve priced them the same as last year. And worth every penny to us.