“This price increase is much larger than typical as a result of the avian influenza outbreak that affected turkey flocks earlier this year”, Alexander said.
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The good news is turkeys seem to be the one dish on a Thanksgiving table that is impacted by higher prices. “It was a great thing”.
Break the bird down into parts to be cooked individually, or buy your turkey legs and a breast separately from the get-go, and you solve the problem.
“There’s no guarantee that when everything is said and done, and you pile all 240 stores together, and place an order”, said Dan Joyner, Collins Road Hy-Vee store director, “That we’re going to be able to get everything that we’re ordering”.
I didn’t realize that one could hunt and kill a wild turkey in California and that said turkey would actually be worth eating, but according to the Chronicle, this is totally a thing!
Choose from assorted hors d’oeuvres priced by the dozen or by the pound from $9 to $27. “We’re hearing numbers anywhere from $.40 to $.60 per pound higher cost, just to us”.
7 Place the turkey, breast-side up, on a rimmed baking sheet and refrigerate, on the lowest shelf, uncovered, for at least 8 hours, but not more than 10 hours.
“So far our birds are happy and healthy”, says Hermonot.
Or maybe you simply want to spend more time socializing and less time hunched over a hot oven taking the bird’s temperature.
The highlight of any Thanksgiving Day celebration is a feast with roasted whole turkey, pumpkin pie and other festive delicacies.
Other options, at the risk of sounding un-American, include skipping the turkey altogether for something less traditional at Thanksgiving. “We’ve been planning for weeks as most grocers do”, he said. The first was this past Saturay and the price was 69 cents per pound.
“Basting flavors the skin but it doesn’t penetrate the meat”, said Consumer Reports’ Patricia Calvom. “We’ll put a smile on our customers’ faces and less money in our pocket”.
Bill Gozzi, owner of Gozzi’s turkey farm in Guilford, said, “It’s not a ideal year” for them either, because although they raise their own fresh turkeys, the flu made it hard to get baby turkeys.
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“We went from a bunch to none by 1900”. The cost of a dozen eggs at one point rose 58 percent, according to the Associated Press. The USDA is working on a vaccine to counter a deadly strain of bird flu, as losses to poultry producers mount.
