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We're doing two Xmas days here this year - one with all three daughters last Friday as it's the first time we've had them all home at the same time in two years (only for 18 hours though ☹) and Xmas day with two daughters and the wife's sister and family.
Last Friday we had, for the first time, a 2.3kg Turkey crown (actually looked like a boneless rolled breast) which was absolutely lovely and certainly big enough to feed 10 people. It cost about £35 I think.
I've just been to pick up the turkey for Xmas day (probs about 6-7kg) from the same local farm shop - £123 ..... WTAF!!!
I think this is our last whole Turkey!
Seems a lot, but it's only about 15% more per kg than the crown, tbf...
Partly Christmas and also i wonder how much this is behind it, supply and demand.
Re: Anything these days.... How much! 😯
Fixed it for you.
Also Turkey shortage as already mentioned.
Thing is, I bet there's a ton of meals to be had out of a whole turkey. So maybe cost per meal isn't quite as painful.
Anyway didn't we have a thread about how much the in-laws get paid for hosting faaamly
Turkey farm in the village sells bronze turkeys, and they are lovely. But this year over £100 for a smallish bird. £70ish for a crown!
So this year we ordered a crown from the supermarket and that's a bit more realistic.
Also Turkey shortage as already mentioned.
Ahh didn't realise.
Seems a lot, but it's only about 15% more per kg than the crown, tbf...
Yep but you're paying for a lot of bone, etc in a whole bird. I was super impressed with the rolled breast thing though .... 100% usable and amazing for butties - the only downside being it's no good for soup!
It depends on all sorts. Lidl are advertising turkeys for £2.45/kg and is probably a loss leader and will need you to get there before they sell out. The allegedly free range one I've ordered for Sainsbury's pickup is about £8 per kg and fancier ones were significantly more and even Lidl show their fancier turkey crowns at £16 per kg.
https://www.lidl.co.uk/c/christmas-turkeys/a10058294
Good quality meat is expensive. I don't think you'll have paid more than the better end quality supermarket price it's just what it costs this year.
Hope it tastes good and enjoy having everyone together.
Edit: fancier turkey from Sainsbury's is £17/kg so your price sounds about the normal this year for a large turkey.
[ smug vegetarian mode ]
Who would have thought that taking large amounts of resources, using them to keep an animal alive, then killing it to reclaim a small fraction of those resources would turn out to be exponentially susceptible to the cost inflation of those resources
[ / smug vegetarian mode ]
Not just Turkey. Beef is like £17 per kg at the moment.
Anyway didn't we have a thread about how much the in-laws get paid for hosting faaamly
OP should set up a card reader and charge the inlaws for a protein upgrade if they want turkey meat.
Who would have thought that taking large amounts of resources, using them to keep an animal alive, then killing it to reclaim a small fraction of those resources would turn out to be exponentially susceptible to the cost inflation of those resources
I love Christmas time, it's the perfect opportunity to enjoy nice food, company and the drawing in of the year's end in hopefully beautiful wintry weather that inspires you for the year ahead.
But.
In the UK alone we get through over 250,000 miles of wrapping paper at Christmas. There's an awful lot of resources gone into that, and a large part will not be recycled, or can't be anyway.
Round here there are thousands of acres of Christmas trees grown. Throughout their life they need water and are treated with pesticides and fertiliser. Then they get cut down, used for a month and then discarded, hopefully to be chipped and composted.
It is crazy.
But we do it anyway.
God rest ye merry, gentlemen
Turkey farm in the village sells bronze turkeys, and they are lovely. But this year over £100 for a smallish bird. £70ish for a crown!
So this year we ordered a crown from the supermarket and that's a bit more realistic.
"more realistic" - wonder how the farmers would feel about that. People are completely detached from the cost of food production (externals included). You know how long it takes to raise a turkey? It's not a factory farmed chicken with a 5 week turnover. And yet everyone is up in arms about the harms of intensive farming. 70-100 quid is the price of a tank of fuel, or a meal out with drinks for a couple of people, or a pair of bike tyres!
Short supply seems to be more of an issue than price - just been to a couple of supermarkets to try to find a small crown to BBQ on Xmas day (veggie household so oven is off limits but they're OK with turkey for the 3 meat eaters). The shelves are pretty bare and I came away empty handed. I think I'll just get a duck which will probably BBQ better than turkey anyway.
I paid £50 a kilo for cheese last week.....it was seriously good though..
We bought a chicken wrapped in bacon with a glaze, £17.
We prefer getting a decent chicken instead but there's only 3 non veggies attending - not sure where that puts us on the smugometer.
70-100 quid is the price of a tank of fuel, or a meal out with drinks for a couple of people, or a pair of bike tyres!
I run an EV me, and last bought tyres in 21, but i think it's likely I'll have to replace the FastTrak on the back this year. (After only 5000 km)
I'm being realistic about my budget this year, not beefing about the cost, I'm sure the farm looks after the birds well, and this is their key time of year. I'm probably grizzling about the cost of living in general at the moment, and having to be careful, cos while prices are going up across the board, my income isn't keeping pace. So making some economies at this time of year is what i suspect a lot of people will be doing.
Fillet of beef is £50kg from the small local butcher. I went to the 'wholesale' butchers a mile away and got it for £25kg - £40 later.... £20 for a large beef rib, that was delicious.
I didn't pay attention to the price of the Tesco turkey crown.
I did get a 1.2kg highland joint from the local farm. That was £25. Looks very good.
Chap I ride with occasionally is working on short term contracts down in Norfolk (veterinary), identifying and overseeing avian flu. If one case is found, the whole enterprise's birds are slaughtered, and producers (I won't call them farmers for now) are compensated for healthy birds. I'm sure he said the biggest enterprise he been to was 30,000 turkeys 😨
Others were saying how awful that all those basically healthy birds were being slaughtered. As a veggie, I pointed out that the outcome was no different to Christmas for them.
Could go a long way to explain supply:demand inflation.
