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A Shopping Bonanza!
allen griggs
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If you use the Ingles Advantage card, you get a 14 1/2 pound turkey for four bucks!
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I think at Safeway one had to spend $150 to get the "sale" price on turkey. Lucky was $50? Either case I'm going birdless this year (maybe couple of Hungry Man turkey? like old days). I found out my friends' dog was put down. She was my white meat girl. I would cook the whole bird and take the white meat for her but not this year. I'll miss that Cane Corso. She didn't look all Mastiffy like some and she was small-ish like a pitt.
I'm dreading tomorrow. I always pick up Honeybaked the day before Thanksgiving. I take my large cooler that has wheels so I can drag it to my car. There is always a line…..nobody else ever has coolers in the line, which confuses me every year. Having a big group like we do I have to get two hams and around 6 turkey breasts….three smoked and three with the icky sugar coating on them. It costs a dang fortune. I don't cook, so I started this nonsense many years ago. Since everyone cooks I felt bad not bringing something yummy to out holiday get together. I figured a Honeybaked Ham would be ideal. Then more kids came along, they grew up, got married and had more kids…..dang if my little contribution hasn't turned into an expense that equals a nice car payment! (I'm still not going to cook, so I need to just hush up.)
I was waiting to see if they had any deals this year and it was not so much happening… I got a bird Friday from Kroger $0.79 a lb. We mostly only like the breast, but the darn breasts only were almost 3 dollars a pound so I got the smallest full bird I could find and it was still 23 bucks and change.
Local stores,IGA,Peggy Wiggly and Foodlion are running specials. House brand frozen birds for 30 cents a lb with a $35 food purchase or Butterball for $1.00 a lb with 35 purchase
Expensive.....Id say! Cant hide money. 🤔😁
More like a sucker is born every day.
We got a 12 pound turkey for 52 cents/pound at the local Albertson's. We had to spend at least $50 to get that deal, but we were gonna spend that anyway.
😁 I ate some honey baked ham one year, it was from a friend that got it free. Unfortunately I decided to buy one myself. After seeing the prices, I almost threw up the ham i did eat. It IS good, but wow what some prices!
We're trying an easy route this year. Mom is in assisted living and we can join her for a holiday meal. Only $7 each. No prep & no clean up.
Cooking a turkey is not a big deal but thawing out a frozen one is!!
I've followed the place in the refrigerator for 3 days directions and when I pull it out to cook, it is still hard as a rock!
I now put it in a big huge pot of cold salty water and let it soak for 4 days in my garage fridge. I still will find a big chunk of ice with the giblets stuck to it inside the bird but can usually wash it away.
have turkey for months now
first the social service people at the hospital put me on the list and got a complete dinner from OMAHA STEAK !
has a pumpkin pie, green beans, sweet taters and a huge 5 lb bird all ready to thaw and heat
then because our monthly spend at BJ's is always at least $150 or more wife got another 14 pounder FREE
will probably be sick of turkey before theyre gone
When Turkey was on the menu 2 or 3 times a year I liked it a whole bunch better. Now it's just okay.
Saturday I got a 14 1/2 pound Butterball at $1.08 per pound without having to buy anything else. I think a Butterball at $1.08 is very reasonable.
Locust Fork - You should buy a stack of Hungry Man Turkey for everyone and a can of cranberry jelly then call it done. You can throw them a box as they enter with "you get a Hungry Man, you get a Hungry Man and you get a Hungry Man" then go back to your box wine with a aquarium air line as a straw.
We bought a 20 some pound turkey for thirty cents a pound . Frozen
.well my oldest son picked it for us at Meyers about 25 miles from us He found them on sale but only one per customer .
Wife baked it up i ate a little of the brest meat wife none she is not much on turkey
but we bought it and cooked it for the cats and dogs any way it was a cheap few meals for all of the pets .
Ditch-Runner - Soup is the way to go. Turkey carcass soup with egg noodles. The best part of a turkey and sharing it with a dog.
Time to fill the freezer.
Cooking a Butterball 12 pound turkey, it’s just the wife and I this year. The gathering for us this year is Saturday with her side of the family, down by KeoKuk Iowa, I consider that south of the Mason Dixon line. They don’t eat turkey just ham on Thanksgiving. Took the turkey out of the freezer last Saturday so should be thawed out pretty well. One thing about just the wife and I, no fighting over who gets the gizzard.
The funniest box wine story I have was when I was in the Navy. We were on the island of Molokai, scheduled to do the donkey ride down to the leper colony the next day. There were five of us in the hotel hot tub when a newlywed couple showed up and asked if any of us were famous. Someone piped up and pointed at me….."She's Linda Ronstadt" …I froze under pressure and couldn't think of a single song. We didn't have glasses, we were just holding the box over each person's head and holding the nozzle. I'm not big on wine these days….but back in the mid 80's that box was a bargain we couldn't turn down.
We are spoiled in that we like a fresh Turkey. Also we have 3-4 Turkey growers within 25 miles so many choices.
Missed the one we had within a few miles. They would even cook the Turkey and you pick it up hot Thanksgiving morning.
J. lattice weaves ours with bacon before baking in a turkey bag. It makes great bacon/mushroom gravy.