Hmm....latest sainsburys delivery for Christmas I'm being offered is Friday 21st - is that too early for fresh turkey?

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Would I have to freeze it or would it be ok for 4 days in the fridge ??

Ocado deliveries all gone -latest I'm being offered now is the 19th

I think it's pushing it, although technically it should be fine. Can you order the turkey separately from the butcher? Or for a supermarket pickup?

Would prob be ok - but would you have room in the fridge for that long?

Should be fine, nearly all the organic turkey producers are offering 21st-22nd December as latest delivery. Ours comes in a large chill-box with ice-strips, and we will keep it in the garage, still in the box, until Christmas Eve. So will be absolutely fine in your fridge. To be honest, just keeping it in our cool garage even not in the box would still be OK.

Look at it another way - if Sainsburys did offer you a later delivery for your fresh turkey, all they would be doing is keeping that same turkey in a cool place for those extra days!

No you wouldn't need to freeze it, but it would be a PITA to have it filling up your fridge for days on end.

I always buy my turkey on Christmas Eve - then it doesn't have to go in the fridge if we really can't manage it (we have a large cooler that we can used to juggle space).

I'd say a bit early but I'm a bit neurotic about meat being very fresh. You can usually get turkeys on Christmas Eve from a butcher's.

When we had a local butcher, we used to order our turkey and pick it up on Christmas Eve. It seemed to be the done thing.

Now I just go to Sainsbury's on Christmas Eve, and they've always had what we wanted. Perhaps if we were feeding others I would have a contingency plan, but when it's just us and the children, I'm willing to take the risk.

I'm taking things very easy this year as it's just us and I've been working very hard and I want to spend my time with my family and not in the kitchen.

I figured an M&S run on Christmas Eve would see us through.