to be amazed at the cost of my turkey?!?

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Last year I got a simmilar size (feeds 6-10, 4.5kg) turkey from the same shop (marks and sparks). Last year I paid £28ish this year it was £43.56!!!

I got a stuffed chicken, fuck buying a turkey for the prices they want for them, and they are so dry.

Er no! Dh came home with our turkey today (along with a 'ham' that the butcher talked him into) and had paid £65!!!

Fabby, it may be the christmas spirit talking, but for once... I agree!

We have a small turkey breast joint-it was £12. DH said they are far more expensive than last year.

I am a bit bah humbug because I only like the light meat and can't bear the turkey carcass hanging about,

Oh June, our ham was £25 too!!!

oh dear,
we are quite lucky that we get ours from DPs godfather as a gift, it's horrid really how expensive everything is, criminal.

Was shocked also. I ordered a 4.5kg turkey from a local butcher with great reputation and it was £42 when I went to pick it up today. Wouldn't mind but I am veggie so won't actually be eating the bugger!

My brother got one free from his boss at work today.
No idea why.
But it is sorted now xD.

HaHa Quorn vegetarian roast - less than £3.

tastes like the cardboard box it comes in needs a good ,well flavoured gravy though.

And no bones to worry about

The cost of feed grain and fuel has gone up a lot this year so cost of rearing turkeys has gone up a lot.

wow!

i got a free range turkey, feeds 4 - 7 from Waitrose, cost £23.80. and my ham was £13 i think.

if you leave it until the last minute, you pay through the nose.

I bought a stuffed crown, a ham, a pork and a beef (and to give you some idea, the beef was the smallest of the four,I cut it into 3 joints which did 5 people each time) for 40 quid in November and froze them.

might i add ours is 13.5kg this year ... we asked for he's smallest one

wouldn't it be nice if the supermarkets thought 'actually we are going to make a bunch off of all the other crap they will buy so we'll cut them some slack'

twats.

I couldn't believe the prices of fresh ones in Waitrose today. We got our fresh one from an auction last week. 15lb for £18. In waitrose equivalent size well over £40. Just hope it is ok as been hanging in FIL shed for half the week until I deemed it too warm so now in fridge.
We may yet be eating chicken

I got a 6-10 person one from M&S for less than £30. Their norfolk bronze ones were massive prices though

We've bought chicken for that very reason. Unfortunately not a great choice in our supermarket due to a million turkeys taking up all the chiller space but loads cheaper. In fact our whole Morrisons bill for Christmas day + some little extras was £36.

Our butcher does cooked sliced turkey breast for £30. It feeds around 12 and is worth the expense

Why does anyone buy ANYTHING from M&S FFS??? It's better than average quality, sure, but so is Waitrose, and Waitrose is MUCH cheaper.

I hate M&S with a passion. I hate the fact that they are our closest convenience store is an M&S because it's SO FUCKING EXPENSIVE for stuff that would be half the price if it were Waitrose. Let's not even mention if it were a Lidl

13.5kg turkey.... please say you are feeding the street?

I bought a poncetastic free range Norfolk black thingy turkey crown from Sainsbury's, feeds 6-7. £32!!! £32 and it doesn't even have legs .

Meat hamper: 9lb turkey, big chicken, pork, gammon and beef joints (about 2lb each), sausage meat and bacon and a large pork pie cost me £50 from my local butcher. One of the few things I like about Christmas, as he joints the turkey for me, and the other joints get halved and frozen. Lasts us ages!

M&S is close to home, waitrose is the other side of town and would mean sitting in horrid christmas traffic with kids and baby :(

Are the turey auctions any good TheLainey? They have one in the next town, may try that next year.

Ha Baubley, lack of legs made ma giggle!