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Subscribe to RSSGetting the family together for Thankgiving dinner? Priceless. The cost of the meal with all the fixin's? About 1.3 percent more expensive this year than in 2009.
For all the talk about low inflation, prices have started to creep up for many food items, including corn and milk, since Thanksgiving 2009.
The American Farm Bureau Federation, which calls itself "the voice of agriculture," says the average cost of this year's meal for 10 will be $43.47, 56 cents higher than last year's average of $42.91. It's a bit of a bargain, though, because it's still $1.14 cheaper than it was two years ago.
The main attraction of the feast, the bird, actually costs less this year, at $17.66 for a 16 pound turkey, according to the AFBF, which has been tracking the costs since 1986. But among the key items that cost more are: milk (up 38 cents to $3.24); a 30 ounce can of pumpkin pie filling (up 17 cents to $2.62); two nine-inch pie shells (up 12 cents to $2.46); and three pounds of sweet potatoes (up 7 cents to $3.19).
Of course, this all means nothing if you serve something like roast beef instead of turkey on Thankgiving. The average cost of prime rib is $5.29 a pound this year, up from $5.11 last year, a gain of 3.5 percent. Ouch!
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Whether family members will get along will be far more important than whether the meal cost a dollar more to prepare. I read this hilarious article about how to avoid family tensions over thanksgiving and it had great advice too! http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201011/5-ways-minimize-family-tensions-thanksgiving-part-i
Giving thanks, loving family, loving our heritage, priceless!
Why is it that prices always seem to rise right before a holiday? Hmmmm.......
Guess we'll be dining over Obama's favorite dish..Spam.
There's a lot of recipes out there for Spam, so don't knock it, if you haven't tried it! Many people would love to have a can of Spam to eat! Besides, who can afford beef? A lot of people would love to be able to afford a turkey. They are lucky to get a chicken from the food bank!
http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/spam-musubi/Detail.aspx
My daughter loved eating spam musubi on at least a weekly basis while we were in Hawaii.
Seeing as how Obama is from Hawaii, your attempt to insult him by saying his favorite dish is Spam is a horrible, shortsighted FAIL. Spam is pretty much Hawaii's state food. While I can't stand the stuff, plenty of people love it, and in Hawaii even more so.
So, why don't you go crawl back under whatever rock shifted and let you out.
Just a figment of your imagination as everyone knows that we are in a downward spiral of deflation. Don't believe what you read.
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"Guess we'll be dining over Obama's favorite dish..Spam."
I know your post was a slam against Obama; however, maybe you should be thankful you can have Spam. Many homeless and hungry would gladly take it. Maybe you should help serve Thanksgiving dinner at your local food bank or homeless shelter.
Oh, and I lived in Hawaii where spam is consumed regularly. People enjoy spam and eggs very much.
http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/spam-musubi/Detail.aspx
I understand that the "cat in the hat" also likes spam, as long as it's served with green eggs!
Who pays full price for a turkey? I paid $5.00 for a 14.61 pound turkey using local store's incentive of "buy $25.00 worth of groceries (excluding fluid milk) and pay $5.00 for up to a 16 pound turkey". I bought what I normally buy this week for food for my family and met the $25.00 minimum purchase including buying the items for Thanksgiving that were non-perishable. The turkey is in my freezer waiting to be thawed at the right time. I only have to buy fresh celery, onions and green beans on 11/23.
Hrm that's a better deal than my stores "spend 300 bucks in a month, get a free turkey" deal. Free turkey my ass.
My store's incentive was to spend $45 a week for 6 weeks and get a $15 credit towards a store brand turkey. They want to be sure you come in every week to shop instead of when you can afford or need to go. They are counting on you to spend way more than $45 each time you come in. And then make sure you save the reciepts, which fade over time, or you can not get your pathetic $15 certificate. This is a good deal all around for the grocery store and again the public suffers.
I bought a turkey breast a couple of cans of cranberry sauce and a couple of pies to simulate leftovers come thanksgiving it is off to Golden Corral for the big meal no fuss except a empty wallet oh well that is normal.
We all know food prices are going up, so what does that mean for all of us seniors, who have not had a raise in 2 years? I am still raising a 15 yr old son, who as you all know, can eat you out of house and home. Bless his heart! I have to shop very carefully, in order to get us through the month. I bet a lot of you are in the same boat.
Dinner to cost more? That's IMPOSSIBLE! The government keeps telling us there is NO inflation, and that's why there aren't any cost-of-living inflation increases for people on social security.
Could it possibly be that the government has once again LIED to us all?
The government only keeps trying to make us believe there is no inflation, only because they are only looking at the package prices. What they are conveniently ignoring is that the products and packages are shrinking, while the price stays the same. It's nothing but a shell game and we lose again...
If you research how the government figures inflation, food and energy are not considered. That is how they can keep lying to us about inflation and try to give people a false sense of recovery. Next to housing, food and energy are the biggest expenses for Americans and are what has risen astronomically causing this "depression". Prices are rapidly rising and packages are rapidly shrinking. You now pay 2x the price for 1/2 of the quantity that you would have bought 3 years ago. But hey, the people making these decisions never have to decide whether to feed their family or pay their electric bill. And never have to listen to their kids crying that they are hungry going to bed in a cold dark room. (if they are lucky enough to have not been foreclosed or evicted and still have a room) The things that have deflated are the salaries and jobs but necessities continue to rise.
I am doing good at getting by i can't complain to much at least i live in the Home of the free. Obviously you are not doing to bad you have the luxury of the web to entertain you.
I bet you even have a cell phone and maybe a i-pod you poor poor people.
There is a reason it is called Thanksgiving be thankfull we got rid of some of those stupid liberals last election if nothing else.
good post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your comment started out great, then turned into moronic babble. I am a liberal and I am damn glad that I live here and that I will be able to enjoy a thanksgiving dinner and feel blessed to be around my family and friends for the holidays. I have nothing to complain about, despite my financial situation being bad, because I am alive, and I am free. Quit lumping all liberals together into whatever ridiculous category you have inside of your head - we are not all the same, and all your comment does is make you look far less intelligent than the liberals you are attempting to bash.
I raise bobwhite quail....and that is what is for Thanksgiving Dinner at my humble abode this year...besides it tastes better than turkey!
I am just Thankfull my kids are healthy and I have my family.If it cost me an extra $1 to bring my family together and enjoy ( or fight) with each other, it is so worth it. Forget the $1 folks and remember what is real important. Alot of folks out there with family overseas in the military or God forbid, died in action, would love for it to just cost an extra $1 to be with their lovced ones. BE THANKFULL
I thought it was watermelon!!! I grew up eating Spam. I still buy it occasionally. Eat it fried, just out of the can, in a sandwich and with crackers (not the Georgia kind)and cheese.
No crap, everything is going to cost more!!!! The only ones who aren't affected by the depression are the government employees and the ones on welfare. They're still getting their COLA's
"I thought it was watermelon"
-100 cool points for the most racist statement I've seen in months.
I live overseas and am trying to prepare a traditional thanksgiving for the 2nd time in Italy...try 4 Euro for a small can of pumpkin and 85 euro for a fresh (cause frozen arent available) turkey!
But the spirit of Thanksgiving lives on... or Italian Thanksgiving as I call it because being an American holiday...I work on actual thanksgiving and have decided in a very FDR fashion to move it to saturday so I can cook. Happy Tacchino day in advance!