can i just ask how much your turkey is costing you this year please?

[mrsmplus3]

im feeding 11 people (9 adults, 2 kids) and have ordered a 6-7kilo turkey which is costing me between £60-£70. i told my mum this yesterday and she couldnt believe the price and told me to cancel the order.
what are others doing? should i cancel and go for something cheaper but still nice? if so what? or is this the norm these days?
thanks in advance.

6 adults, 2 kids, £13.50. One big and one little stuffed turkey roast from Aldi. 2 big ones would easily do your lot.

I would never pay £70 even if I could afford to, and cooking it would worry me.

sorry, feeding time at the zoo there.

yeah 2 very diff responses and i get both. my mum swears by aldis. i also agree that £7 a head when you look at it that way makes perfect sense.

hmmm still dont know. will sit with this a while and decide during the week what to do. thanks.

Yes it'll be worth it and very tasty. Does not equate to much 'per head' when you divide it down.

Cheap turkeys are factory farm horror.

Expensive turkeys are generally free range, ethically reared and humanely slaughtered.

If I can't afford a decent(ly raised) turkey, I serve something else.

around 43 for a 5 kilo frozen free range bird. surely the adli ones must be very small or low quality meat for that amount?

so the cost you mention doesn't sound unreasonable. you get what you pay for and i think its one of the key meals of the year and we like leftovers - so 5 kilos will feed 7 people for 2 days at least i hope

I'm got 8 adults and 2yo DS for Christmas lunch this year and have been quoted similar prices. The butchers that I would love to use quoted me over £100 for a bronze I think I'm probably going to go with a top of the range supermarket one that I can actually afford unfortunately and just get the other bits and pieces from the butcher. If I'd known how much a turkey was going to cost I would have planned something else but as it is everyone's looking forward to it already!

exactly "dreaming of.."

if i go ahead with the £70 bird i know we can use leftovers for boxing day dinner for just us 5 (2 little ones) and even use the carcuss for soup on the 27th.
i would get my moneys worth.

AKMD glad you mentioned the butchers. i was beginning to wonder if i shouldve gone there but it seems theyre dearer.

your mum is thinking of cheap/frozen/battery supermarket birds. just depends how much you can afford and what your views on animal welfare are.

To be fair, the butchers quoted for a Kelly Bronze, which as has been said by another poster, is the top top top range turkey. They also do a more standard turkey that would cost about £60 but I need to ask them some questions about it being free range/organic etc. before I make up my mind. I know I can get a fresh, organic 5-6kg turkey for about £50 from a supermarket but I would prefer to use the butcher if I can.

There's a lack of butchers here, the supermarkets wiped them out M&S have some great offers on turkeys but you have to go on Christmas eve (which is a PITA).

Ooo belle, I wouldn't leave it that late either! We'd probably end up having beans on toast knowing my luck.

M&S usually have a lot left on Christmas Eve. It's the mad queues that are a pain. I've ordered my goose online to be delivered on the 23rd. This way I still have the chance to get something if things go wrong and I don't have to go out on Christmas Eve. We're not going to the panto this year (will go after) so we can spend the day baking jam tarts and watching movies.

£50 for half a bronze.

It will be delicious.

We have less to feed than you - 4 adults and 2 children - but I get a turkey crown. Somewhere between 30 and 35 pounds from M and S and it comes stuffed too. They are very easy to cook and carve, and you do not end up eating leftovers till new year.

It wouldnt really save you money but you could try two of them? Very hard to go wrong with cooking them.

A tenner. 6 adults one 3 year old. I figured that if there isn't loads I'll only have a taste there's going to be plenty of other stuff on the plate. Also, I'm not doing boxing day so no need to have loads of leftovers.

I'll be making soup tho mmm!

The turkey website says it doesn't matter how much we pay, it's the way it's cooked that matters.

dreamingof - i dont think my mum is thinking of that disgusting thing you mentioned earlier. she is not a cheap skate or one with poor taste/standards in food. i think its more a case of she hasnt hosted such a large group before,well not in 15 years anyway and perhaps didint go for the top top of the range birds in the past. also, things are more expensive now, i think shes just shocked and out of touch. at the risk of sounding very touchy and defensive over my mum, we ate very well growing up. but thank you very much for your input. i think i will go ahead with my order. we can afford it but i just wanted to check it was a normal price for a good bird nowadays.

I've paid £60 to my butcher and out of that will get my turkey crown and Pembroke Ham.

We're paying £10 per kg for a free range bronze turkey, which is the cheapest I've found in our area. A 6-7 kg bird should do 11 nicely without too much leftover.

£75 to feed 7 of us.

I would rather be a cheapskate than a snob

I was the first year I ended up paying 80 quid for a turkey. But per person, per meal it was a reasonable amount, and it did taste great, and I could afford it, and it's only once a year.

It's the one time of the year we really splash out on a top-quality free range organic beastie. 60 euros for 4 kilos and totally worth it. Three adults and two children, but my mum and DD2 have the appetites of fleas so there's always plenty left over for turkey sandwiches, turkey curry, turkey soup, etc ad nauseam.