Is it really a crime to buy a frozen turkey for christmas day?

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I've bought one this year because they are so much cheaper than fresh. We've only just come out of a broke phase and I can't stand spending more than necessary, but am I daft?

No not a crime at all.

Sounds like a good plan to me. Definitely not a crime.

No you are very sensible. I always get a frozen one and have never had a duff one (usually get bernard matthews)
the fresh ones are mad money .

I need to freeze mine anyway - shops 2 ferry trips away and can't risk that too close to xmas! - so I just bought frozen.

Err, no, we have a frozen turkey crown this year. It is exactly the same in every way as the fresh ones that M&S sell. They even come from the same farm and the fresh ones have been previously frozen anyway so I figured it would therefore taste the same.

not even mumsnet could consider frozen turkey buying a crime

sorry to disappoint

(yes, the fresh ones are blardy dear - ours was £50 )

Well that's a shocker, I though you'd all say I was mad, phew.

Even I, food police superintendent am not judging.
Nowt wrong with it.

Well, it's not the frozen bit as such I would have a problem with, more the fact that the cheaper ones are raised in fairly awful conditions. However, being broke means you're not going to be paying fresh prices are you, so enjoy your dinner!

Have to say though, you can definitely taste the difference between a cheaper one and a 'better quality' one (for want of a better expression!), so it's one extravagance we do save and budget for.

I wouldn't buy a 'fresh' turkey that was previously frozen - the ones I get are still running about not that long before Christmas!

I agree Exbatt,but I think staying within your budget (so as not to have a miserable start to 2008) is on this occasion more important than fowl welfare.

have a chicken instead
far nicer
who cares about tradition???

we are having roast beef

The truth is we can afford a fresh one and have always had fresh in the past, but having just spent the last year counting pennies I now can't bring myself to pay more for something I can buy cheaper iyswim. I did buy it from Waitrose, which made me think it'd be better quality, but I'm probably kidding myself.

Thinking of going frozen next year then just defrosting overnight - would save room in my tiny fridge. Goodness knows where I am going to put the Ocado delivery fridge food on saturday.

we're having a frozen goose from lidl!

The fresh ones have been previously frozen?

Yup, at least the turkey crowns I looked at in M&S 2 weeks ago had. We thought it would be better to buy one that had been frozen by the manufacturer rather than buy fresh and then do it ourselves - I don't like the idea of twice frozen meat even if they say it is safe .

110 Hail Marys and 65 Our Fathers young lady!! Ach you'll be going straight to gourmet hell......