good grief, M&S turkeys are £32 each....

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That cant be right can it?
£32 for a turkey?

Im not paying that!
Where are you getting yours from and how much are you spending on it?

If you go out for Christmas lunch it costs a fortune - one place locally is charging £112 per head - and a turkey feeds a lot of people and then sometimes does a few meals as leftovers. So it is probably reasonable value. I regularly pay £15 - 20 for a joint for a run of the mill Sunday lunch.

We are on a bit of an economy drive this year and are paying about that for an organic rib of beef. Normally we pay about £60 to £70 for a goose from our organic butchers.
Like others on here I have very strong feelings about the way animals and birds are still intensively farmed in this country.
I would honestly rather spend a bit less on presents and other stuff and feel OK about the meat, eggs etc I am eating
Hats off to Hugh F-W and Jamie Oliver and co for starting a big new campaign about the barbarity of battery farming
I'd love to see it become history in 2008

I have ordered a goose that will cost about £70

We will miss our goose enid, but not the somewhat smoky ambiance (galley kitchen and enthusiastic smoke alarm)

we are doing it at MILS

have done it in our ancient kitchen and it was horrendous

Marina - I am sure you have already ordered your meat, but for the future there is a fabulous butcher on Charterhouse Street which is very reasonable for good quality meat. I am paying half the price for rib of beef compared with our old Clapham butcher.

We always used to have goose but there is not that much meat on a goose, even a large one - I like there to be leftovers for the following couple of days.

Ours will be about £40. Free Range etc.,

Barry, thanks for that, I'll bear it in mind. Before I used to have to run for trains like a woman possessed we used to get rib of beef from Porterfords on Bow Lane and my goodness it was good

Ours is £40 and it's an 18 pounder but we ordered it from ds's school, his school is on a farm and the dcs get to pluck them, (and feed them) they are free range.

We have had to order 2 - one with stuffing and one without from M&S and so far the bill is about £120!

We are having 14 people to dinner though and as one is gluten intolerant (or so the computer she lets run her life says she is!) and another is muslim so have to have one cooked seperately from all the pork stuff.

I am dreading it all to be honest and can't wait until it is over and they have all left me in peace!