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Expect to pay more this year to stage your Thanksgiving feast
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Posted on 11/19/2021 10:59:37 AM PST by mylife

Get ready to add another stressor to your Thanksgiving holiday this year. The Farm Bureau reports that the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people is up 14% over last year, averaging at $53.31.

The Farm Bureau's calculations include turkey, stuffing mix, sweet potatoes, rolls with butter, peas, cranberries, a veggie tray, pumpkin pie with whipped cream, coffee and milk, with enough for leftovers. The turkey itself costs 24% more than last year, the group says; it's $23.99 for a 16-pound turkey.

In order to find the average costs, the Farm Bureau used volunteer shoppers between Oct. 28 and Nov. 8. — but the group, which lobbies on behalf of the agricultural industry, acknowledged that prices have already fallen in the time since the survey was conducted. This year, many grocery stores lowered prices later in the year, so the price of a frozen turkey, for example, is actually a lot more affordable right now. At the time of the survey, the cost for a 16-pound bird was around $1.50 per pound. But over the last week, it had fallen to 88 cents per pound for a whole frozen turkey.

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Oh Noes! Boot soup for Tiny Tim again?
1 posted on 11/19/2021 10:59:37 AM PST by mylife
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To: mylife

It’s worth it.


2 posted on 11/19/2021 11:01:56 AM PST by circlecity
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To: mylife

Luckily Potted Meat is only $16 a pound. There might even be turkey byproducts included.


3 posted on 11/19/2021 11:05:40 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: mylife

But it’s expected...so it’s alright.


4 posted on 11/19/2021 11:07:31 AM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: mylife

Sure glad I live in N Texas. No empty grocery shelves to speak of and turkeys selling as low as 97 cents a pound.


5 posted on 11/19/2021 11:14:23 AM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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It’s the same panic laden report every year.


6 posted on 11/19/2021 11:16:12 AM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: mylife

7 posted on 11/19/2021 11:16:20 AM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Yummalicious!


8 posted on 11/19/2021 11:18:26 AM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: antidemoncrat

If you spend $100 at Kroger you get a FREE turkey so with the savings I bought a ham too.


9 posted on 11/19/2021 11:23:37 AM PST by heylady
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To: mylife

Stage?
They must mean serve...how odd.

Oh,I get it, everything is staged now so you can send picts via snapchat etc.

Happy turkey day, look at me!

You can’t come-over cuz yer not clot shotted.


10 posted on 11/19/2021 11:29:10 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: right way right

Der!
To ‘serve’ a meal hints of slavery.
It is NPR after all!


11 posted on 11/19/2021 11:32:50 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: mylife

Obesity kills more Americans than most other causes.
So the cost increase may benefit.


12 posted on 11/19/2021 11:39:40 AM PST by entropy12 (President Trump was the best president in my life time of 81 years and counting..)
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To: mylife

That’s OK, I saved 16 cents for my 4th of July party.


13 posted on 11/19/2021 11:42:20 AM PST by NotSoFreeStater (If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice)
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To: mylife

Americans struggle to keep a job, feed their kids, pay their bills, heat their homes, and find affordable food for their tables.

Meanwhile........the parasitic BIDEN CRIME FAMILY are all going to posh Nantucket for Thanksgiving.......sucking up tax dollars on AF ONE, LUXURY HOTELS AND ENDLESS FEASTING.

ON OUR DIME.


14 posted on 11/19/2021 12:21:04 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: antidemoncrat

I paid $0.87. Today at the same store they were $0.39. Yeah, frozen, but I can accept that.


15 posted on 11/19/2021 12:35:06 PM PST by Romulus
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To: mylife

I have one of my “prepper” MREs for Turkey Day I can eat, with an old bottle of vino, so I’ll be alright. Didn’t cost much back in the early 2000s when I got the case.


16 posted on 11/19/2021 12:40:08 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Must be that all those empty shelves they show on TV are in Democratic controlled cites where you can’t drive a delivery truck to it’s destination unless you’re vaxxed ... or in the union ... or both


17 posted on 11/19/2021 1:00:31 PM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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To: carriage_hill

I liked the pork chow mein MRE.


18 posted on 11/19/2021 1:08:44 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: mylife

That one’s also good, but for Turkey Day I’ll try the turkey/filling/mashed pots/cranberry unit.

It’s just “me, myself & I” this year. Everyone else is gone.


19 posted on 11/19/2021 1:11:27 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

I’ve been alone for 24 years but go to the VFW or something


20 posted on 11/19/2021 1:13:47 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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