Reminder to buy extra Turkeys now that they are cheap

[The empressof all]

I buy a few a week at 5 or 6 bucks a pop right now and take them right over to the food bank. Our local grocery has a limit on 2 for 29 cents a pound this Sat only. SO and I will be getting two each for the food bank. It just takes a few minutes and it's not much cash to make someone elses week better.

[Warpy]

1. While I'm sure that's greatly appreciated

remember that food banks buy in bulk and are great at getting deals we can't. They'll always do better with a cash donation, although clean out the cabinet food drives are also welcome.

The amount of food they claim per dollar varies from six dollars to nine dollars. One bank says every dollar buys eight pounds of mixed groceries.

I know, it's not nearly as satisfying to write a check. However, they do amazing things with that money so it's something to consider if you can afford it after buying all those turkeys.

Thank you of thinking of hungry folks. Going hungry sucks, BTDT.

[The empressof all]

2. You are absolutely correct on this

However, out in the boonies my local foodbank still struggles. I talked with the gal who runs it and she can't get enough turkeys for the folks who need them. At 29 cents a pound all their regular donors are buying birds for them this year for their Thanksgiving meal boxes

[hippywife]

3. Wonderful sentiment, empress.

My employer gives us a certificate for a Butterball turkey which usually we donate along with a couple of meals worth of turkey and groceries every year to an AIDS organization who feeds and cares for their clients. They are no longer around unfortunately, but I'm sure there will be others who will be in need.

I just got back from the grocery and they are currently .88/lb here.

Thank you for the reminder that blessings and good fortune are meant to be shared. :hug:

[AwakeAtLast]

4. I bought two turkey breasts yesterday

I got them for more than half price, but don't remember the price per pound. Off the subject, but they also had frozen crab legs for less than $5 a pound! We love crab legs every now and then. Looks like it's going to be now! :9

[AlecBGreen]

5. Good Lord!

how the heck can anyone make a profit off turkey @ twenty nice cents per pound!? :crazy: On a small farm raising up to a couple thousand turkeys, I cant imagine that would come close to covering the cost of production.

[The empressof all]

6. It was the lowest I've seen so far

They are loss leaders and in this particular store a one day only sale. I got there at 8 am and the gal at the meat counter was on her second fill of the freezer end cap. They were flying out of there. I got two 20 plus pounders for under 12 bucks.

[hippywife]

7. As God is my witness...

I swear I thought turkeys could fly!

You just proved that they do. :rofl:

[hippywife]

8. Probably because they aren't really raised

the way you're envisioning it. Farmers who sell to food distributors for groceries aren't raising them the way you think, and they never make much off anything they sell that way.

[AlecBGreen]

9. oh i know

I live in an area with many factory turkey farms. Its just this insane pricing that makes small scale farming so hard. When you tell someone that your chicken is $3 a pound they look at you like your crazy, yet this is a very fair price considering 1) its organic 2) local 3) humanely raised 4) antiobiotic & hormone free and 5) didnt cause damage to the environment via shit lagoons. we have been brainwashed into thinking that a chicken is a chicken is a chicken so if the supermarket costs 80c/pound then why in the hell am I trying to charge three times that?

[hippywife]

10. The farmer I'm ordering from

charges $4/lb. and I'm happy to pay it to him. Farming like that is very hard work, year round no matter the weather, or how tired or sore you are. No matter what's going on and you can't leave it for nice vacations. I relaly appreciate the hard work he and his family do, they've earned it. Just maintaining a garden and small flock of chickens wears me out sometimes and it isn't all that difficult.

People forget and many don't know that they have paid that much anyway via their taxes supporting subsidies to the large factory farms so that chicken, or whatever, isn't as cheap as it looks.