For $25.15 you can get the basics for a Thanksgiving turkey dinner for 2-3 people. I think it’s all re-heating, no cooking. This could be very handy in some circumstances, like camping or even traveling during Thanksgiving and you still want the ritual food, or you simply don’t cook or don’t want to cook. I wouldn’t call it genius but give TJ’s credit. I might skip the mashed sweet potatoes and get some kind of frozen appetizer, plus green beans and cranberry sauce, and some kind of pie.
Time for us to figure out how many adult orphans we’re hosting this year, what kind of dietary restrictions (if any) to keep in mind in our choice, etc. etc.
I’d prefer a small group & hot pot, TBH, but we’ll see. I’ll send out a missive to our possible guests today
I just ordered this and was a bit sticker shocked by the price: $30/lb. Curious if you all feel that that’s reasonable? (I already paid for it so it’s a done deal either way.)
It seems on the high side, but good bbq is just plain expensive.
PS. I checked a couple of the better places in Austin, La Barbecue among them. You’ll pay $31 pound for turkey from a place with a Michelin star. The cheapest I found was $26.99 from a place I know does pretty solid smoked turkey, Green Mesquite.
That makes me feel a bit better. I’m guessing even your gas station BBQ is better than what I can get here in New England, but our prices are probably 20+% higher across the board in general.
Most bbq here is pretty good, I must admit. Rudy’s, a bbq and gas station change, was recently declared best brisket, but I do not know by whom. I guess I could look it up.
We just got a welcome surprise - two dear friends are unexpectedly going to be staying in NYC for Thanksgiving this year and have decided to join us in Westchester. Woot! I still hadn’t decided on our main dish and now I’m feeling even more stumped - thinking either duck or rack of lamb, but with duck I’d probably need to do two to ensure plenty of leftovers (I typically confit the legs and saute the breasts, carcass goes into the stockpot). Venison could be a nice change of pace, too, if I can find a good source. Decisions, decisions…
But this is not raw turkey from the supermarket, it is prepared smoked turkey from a relatively high-end place. I personally do not like turkey enough that I would pay that, but I am also completely unsurprised that is what it costs there. Restaurant prices are very high in New England.
A traditional Thanksgiving dinner doesn’t have to be expensive. It really does not. Whole Butterball turkeys are 88 cents per lb. and BB breasts are $1.99.per lb. Whole turkeys give off more drippings for dressing but there’s not a lot of breast meat. Haven’t decided which way I’ll go this year.
100% agree. It is a matter of how much you want to do yourself versus how much you want to outsource/have someone else do the work. No judgement either way, everyone does the right thing for their own situation.
