It’s always a challenge each year to find reasonable prices for a good sliced ham and a turkey breast for our Thanksgiving meal. It seems the prices go up significantly every year!
Most years, I usually find that Target ends up with the best deal on a Market Pantry Turkey Breast. I just eat white meat, and I cook it in a rotisserie with a 10-lb. weight limit, so just the breast works out great for me. I try to get as close to the limit as possible. In several past years, I’ve waited until the week of Thanksgiving and found the turkey breast for 99 cents/lb. at Target. So far this year, I haven’t seen any prices anywhere near that in any of the sale ads. Target still has the cheapest price I’ve seen for a turkey breast, but it’s $1.39./lb. this year. I’m thinking of holding off until Sunday to see if they come out with a better price in the new sale ad, but I also hesitate to wait until we’re so close to the big day! Have you seen any better price? If so, please share!
In the past, I’ve usually just bought my quarter sliced ham at Wal-mart, which seems to have the best price on ham in general. But this year, I stumbled upon an awesome price at my Kroger Marketplace! The sign said the Private Selection 
quarter sliced ham was on sale for $3.99/lb., but when I picked up the honey double-smoked variety, all of those were marked at $1.99/lb.! I must have stood there looking at it for quite some time in shock and disbelief, and then my son said “well, you should probably get it then!” So I plopped in a quarter sliced ham for $4.25, and low and behold, they had mailed me a coupon at home for another $2 off, making my final price $2.25! Now that had to be the deal of the century! I’m sure I’ll never get so lucky as that again! I was shopping there this morning and noticed there were none on the shelf, so I’m thinking everyone who noticed it swiped one, too, while the gettin’ was good!
I have to admit that other than that, I haven’t done any shopping for Thanksgiving as of yet. I’m so busy shopping every other day with a list of what I need for my 3 from-scratch meals every day on my Comfort Food Diet Plan that I haven’t really thought about it that much. I guess I’d better step up my shopping, huh? I suspect all the basics will start disappearing from the store shelves by this weekend.
I usually make rotisserie turkey breast, sliced ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, homemade dinner rolls, gravy, whole cranberry sauce, and a couple of different vegetables. Then I make fruit salad and usually pumpkin trifle for dessert. I might change up dessert this year, but I haven’t decided yet. We shall see. The fruit salad will never leave the menu, though. It’s my childhood favorite, and my mom always made it for us. It was the only time of year that we got to have it!
What do you have planned for your Thanksgiving menu this year?
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