How Big Is Your Turkey

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Hello... I have 10 adults and 2 kids for christas dinner... what size turkey do i need. We're having 2 pheasants aswell... i have no idea how much turkey i need!

a 20lber to be on the safe side, then you can have cold turkay sandwiches, curry, fricasse etc...you could get a 10lb but cold leftovers are morish!

Don't know, but if I lie about the size can we all come

well I just asked my butcher that and he said for 10 to 20 people to allow around a pound per person, and you'd have some left over for later. 2 pheasants as well... but there isn't THAT much on a pheasant... I'd go for 10lbs. I was going for a 18lb turkey and a whole ham for 22 of us (but we are now only 18 so I'm going to downgrade the turkey to about 15lbs, because people generally eat a lot of ham I find, esp the children)

my turkey is about 14lbs. I'm feeding 7 adults and 5 kids. Of course one sister is bringing a roast lamb and the other a roast ham. My bil is bringing a roast salmon. We also collect takeaway tubs and share out the leftovers so that we can all eat cold meats for days. Yummmmmm.....

oh dear, now I think I'm underestimating. maybe I'll stick to my 18lb turkey and a ham for 18 people - the leftovers will get eaten somehow over the next few days anyway won't they...

We have 10 adults, 9 kids coming on Saturday and have a 7kg turkey ordered, but with a largish ham also. It'll be too much, but the leftovers can always be frozen and everyone gets a bag to take home.

Do you have a butcher to ask? They usually know. I always just tell him what I'm going to do and let him order what he thinks we need.

there's always turkey soup. I freeze that and keep it for a cold January day

JJ you're too trusting, or you know our butcher and he's a nice chap. when i've relied on a butchers advice before have always had farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr to much stuff...... what does one do with a pheasant?

I trust my butcher, he's a great guy. HOWEVER, it turns out that I didn't order my turkey from 'my' butcher, but from the person listed directly before him in the phone book!

After nearly causing my poor butcher to have a heart attack when he couldn't find the turkey I thought I had ordered from him, we discovered I hadn't ordered it from him at all. (My butcher doesn't accept credit cards and I had paid the deposit with a credit card have to explain now that I've been gone for 2 years, so this is our butcher from 2 years ago and I just thought it was something new so we knew it wasn't him.) One of the assistants had the brilliant idea of checking my statement to find out who the mystery butcher was. And that worked! Luckily, it's a free range bronze turkey, too. Phew.

Sorry that's so rambly. Did get a gorgeous triple smoked ham from him (he has great hams), so the trip wasn't wasted. And he remembered me from before. Made me feel great.

Anyway, it's been one of those weeks. On Monday 18 eggs jumped out of the fridge at me and 12 were smashed.

We're going to my parents for Christmas so I don't need to worry about size of turkey

But looking at the weights of them makes me when I think that this time last year DS was 6lb and now he is about 21lb - still smaller than some turkeys!