Thanksgiving dinner for 10 costs $61.17

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.
I made my grocery run for Thanksgiving food yesterday. Spent $106.

We are co-hosting a group of 20. It will be at someone else's house. We will bring one 13 pound turkey, 4 pies, green bean casserole for 20, mashed potatoes for 20, stuffing for 20, jars of gravy, 2 gallons iced tea. The $106 covered expenses for all that.

Other people will provide everything else.

So no fresh ingredients, herbs, vegetables, etc. Gotcha.

That seems cheaper than I would expect. Where did you shop?

Walmart. A lot of stuff was on sale. The turkey was 97 cents a pound. The potatoes were $2.80 per 5 pound bag. The two apple pies are the frozen kind that you stick in the oven for an hour or so. They were $6 each. The stuff I bought for the 2 pumpkin pies is the roll out onto a pie plate type of crusts, then you mix up the canned pumpkin, evaporated milk, etc. for the filling. I bought the store brand canned green beans.
I though it was pretty cheap too.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m hosting for the first time and surprised by how inexpensive the food is, considering. If I were having a dinner party and serving salmon or something it would be so much more. I did spend money on new table linens, some serving pieces, and things like that (a gravy boat), but the actual potatoes, sweet potatoes and green beans are barely noticeable on the grocery bill.

Turkeys are also never fresh. They’ve been frozen for almost a year. So there is constantly a stable supply rally immune to supply chain shocks. It’s why turkey is much cheaper than even chicken.

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Anonymous wrote:My 14 lb turkey cost me $4.00 at Wegman’s ($0.29/lb). I think I get get the rest of the fixings for less than $50 (excluding wine)

Don’t think I’d buy a turkey that cheap.

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I don’t think I have ever spent so little on any meal, but we also don’t do traditional thanksgiving fare, so….

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My turkey breast cost me $23. Not so sure I can purchase EVERYTHING ELSE for $40.

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OG pilgrim Thanksgiving? Sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 14 lb turkey cost me $4.00 at Wegman’s ($0.29/lb). I think I get get the rest of the fixings for less than $50 (excluding wine)

Don’t think I’d buy a turkey that cheap.

I’ll write back after thanksgiving! I trust Wegman’s.

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Anonymous wrote:According to CBS news.
Here is the link to the story:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-much-does-thanksgiving-dinner-cost-2023/
The article also says most people will spend $100 to $200 on Thanksgiving this year.


I looked it up because I remember reading an article at least 10 years ago that said you could have Thanksgiving dinner to 8 or 10 for less than $100. A group of employees from our local newspaper decided to actually assemble a group of eight for a typical Thanksgiving dinner and do an exact tally of how much they spent. And they did spend about $100.
I was curious about what the current predicted expense is for all the Thanksgiving groceries this year and found this article.

How much do you all expect you will spend?

About $1000 here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 14 lb turkey cost me $4.00 at Wegman’s ($0.29/lb). I think I get get the rest of the fixings for less than $50 (excluding wine)

Don’t think I’d buy a turkey that cheap.

I’ll write back after thanksgiving! I trust Wegman’s.

And it’s Shady Brook Farms brand, which is well-known.

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We spend over $800 easily. But we don’t buy low quality ingredients. Our goal is not to create a meal as cheaply as possible. Turkey is organic, local and free range, all produce is organic, high quality spices, etc.

We don’t want a cheap meal, but a good meal.

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Anonymous wrote:We spend over $800 easily. But we don’t buy low quality ingredients. Our goal is not to create a meal as cheaply as possible. Turkey is organic, local and free range, all produce is organic, high quality spices, etc.

We don’t want a cheap meal, but a good meal.

We will probably spend around $500 for 20 people, with some other folks bringing pies.