To buy a supermarket christmas turkey?

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It’s my first time hosting christmas for a crowd. I have cooked plenty of xmas dinners but at other houses and I’ve never had to provide the turkey. Everyone else has always had turkeys sourced from good butchers or their local farm shop.

We don’t have a butcher or farm shop that we trust and use regularly? But AIBU to just add one to my Xmas delivery from Sainsbury's
Asking now as I believe I need to order it soon?

One year dh ordered a fancy turkey (Norfolk Bronze?) that I had to wait in all day to come in some fancy packaging on the 23rd. I honestly don't think it was nicer and it was much more expensive and I felt so stressed about ruining it that it definitely wasn't worth it.

I never think turkey's that great anyway, no matter how fancy.
If it was so amazing we'd be buying it all year, and tbf I do, but for a Tuesday night tea, not a special meal

You mean people buy turkeys?

I rear, kill and cook my own. Doesn’t everybody?

I've had all kinds of turkeys and to be honest they all taste the same, turkeyish, it's the accompaniments that make a difference, drape it in good bacon for example, everyone prefers the pigs in blankets!

I hate turkey but dh won’t countenance anything else. I brine it, it helps but it’s still turkey 🙄.

The worst one I ever had was at sil, Asda turkey. Tasteless white protein which I choked down feeling so sorry for the bird who died for that meal. Would’ve tasted fine if someone else had cooked it.

I don't think there's sufficient difference between a supermarket turkey and the fancy ones my BIL buys to justify the extra cost.

The Bronze turkeys are so, so much easier and quicker to cook. If your budget stretches go for it. If you buy a Kelly Bronze or Norfolk Bronze I don’t think you need to worry about knowing the butcher/farm too much.

Always have a frozen turkey crown from Lidl.. bought mine today as I had a panic that they wouldn't have any more in before Christmas haha

My friend always has the same one too, they've never let us down...

I always have pork and beef joints too to go with it as well as pigs in blankets Yorkshire puds etc.

Doing my first vegetarian option this year so looking for nice ideas other than the Quorn turkey and beef style joints

I always get Aldi ones. Much cheaper and really good. Comparable with the ones I have obtained previously from our local butcher. And about half the price.

M&S

I went to a local butcher once - never again... I asked what the difference was between bronze etc. He couldn’t tell me.

Talked me down from buying a crown making me feel stupid as they ‘charge for the legs so you might as well have a full turkey’ then told me I didn’t want a turkey as it was for 2 adults and 2 young kids to a lump of turkey meat.

Deffo M&S in future for us.

I don't buy meat of any description from any supermarket as a rule; The Christmas meat will all come from the butcher's but again it's all down to preference, you buy what you want where you want to buy it from.

I'm sure whatever you buy will be fine!

We will have turkey, but it’s not our favourite meat by any means, but we get it as family members like to have it on Christmas Day.

I find it extortionately priced and that people are ripped off, for what is just the meat part if the meal. Turkey that is costing £6-10 per head is a lot of money. The very nicest ones aren’t worth that in my mind and there isn’t sufficient difference from a £15 bird to a £75 bird to warrant £60 difference in my view.

Yes, it’s Hristmas and of course everyone wants a special dinner….but I don’t think that one meal for perhaps 6 or 8 needs to cost well over £100.

The idea that people are selling themselves short by not having a turkey from the farm shop on Christmas Day, and only the very poor would buy a frozen turkey seems a distortion of views to me. Perhaps it would be better to focus on eating higher welfare meat all year round instead.

This thread was from 2019… I think the OP will have bought and had the dinner long before now

Oops!