Turkey day loss leaders!

[Frankies Girl]

I love this time of year soooooo much because stores tend to mark items down to get you into the store and shop til you drop.

I just bought two 13 lb turkeys for 45¢/lb and frozen green beans for 75¢/16 oz bag at two different stores. We LOVE turkey and tend to stock up on them during this time and eat them monthly, turning them into turkey sandwiches, tetrazzini, broth and all manner of other goodies.

Aldi has their butter at $2.49 for 4 sticks. This is lower than I've seen in months. They are also doing a price rollback to 2019 on many other staples.

I also hit the stores right after to stock up on the clearance turkey items and enjoy eating them year round. Oh!

Anyone seen anything specific that others should know about or want to brag about a great deal? :D

[Zamboni]

I don't have any stories for this year (yet), but I've noticed that it is the best time of year to buy frozen pies. I'm eating low carb now and kind of sad that I won't be buying some super cheap but delicious frozen apple and pumpkin pies.

I should look at the turkey prices this week . . .

Edited to add that now I have looked and my closest grocery stores has 10+ pound frozen turkeys for 29 cents a pound, which is crazy low, but only with a $35+ total grocery purchase.

[Zamboni]

Turns out the 29 cent a pound frozen turkey was yesterday only, darn it, but it was only 37 cents a pound today, which is still pretty good.

Butter was half price but that section was completely wiped out, which is a drag because I actually needed butter.

Chicken broth was 49 cents a can.
Sweet potatoes were 25 cents a pound.

And I did end up getting two frozen pies . . . for my guests, I guess. ;-) I can't understand how a whole gigantic pie can be sold for $3.50 - $5, but that is why they are loss leaders, I guess.

[okisok]

My Aldi has a 3-lb bag of sweet potatoes for $1.17. I may go back for more!

[BikeFanatic]

Last year I scored 5 $ turkeys early morning day after thanksgiving. I am going to try that again this year. Make turkey and turkey soup.

[MissNancyPryor]

The best deal was a 10 lb bag of russet potatoes for .99, that is very low.  I got frozen mixed veggies for .68 for the 12 oz bag which is definitely pre-covid pricing.  Yellow onions were .69 per lb which is much lower than I have seen recently.       

Turkeys are relatively high around here.  Stores require a minimum purchase of $75 to get the .79 per pound on a turkey so I drove 15 minutes further out in the county and got a $50 minimum purchase for .59 per pound at a small co-op type place.  Everyone has a limit of 1 turkey.  I usually go twice and buy 2 but this year I already had one on hand and now am using tape to hold the freezer doors closed so they don't pop open in the night and ruin everything.   

I shopped at 4 stores for holiday foods, refusing to pay the high prices on the other items I needed and willing to do some running around.  It was definitely a scramble this year with huge price increases.  The result is that I hoarded and over-bought everything which is a common phenomenon during inflationary times, but at least I now have canned things I will use through the holidays of 2023 and won't waste anything.

We could do a whole thread on the most expensive things we have seen too-  I saw Crisco was 13.99 for the standard can.  Absolutely ridiculous.  I paid 8.99 in August which was obscene enough, but I made a bet that they were going to jack up the prices for holiday baking and I was right.     

   

[Dicey]

Hi @Frankies Girl! You've been on my mind lately and I was about to message you, but here you are! [Dicey waves furiously. ]

I love thiis thread! I've been working on whittling down the pantries, so I'm a bit out of touch with Food Price Reallity. Our plans changed recently. Instead of going to my brother's, I'm cooking for just 5 at home. I scored a 16# turkey at Grocery Outlet for $9 with $50 purchase. I could have gotten a larger one for the same price, but DH wants to deep fry it and that's about as big as his fryer will hold.* I still have three packs of Costco mashed potatoes to use up and at least 20 pounds of butter in the freezer. I have canned pumpkin on hand from last year. I have a bag full of bread heels in the freezer and celery, mushrooms, and onions on hand, just waiting to be turned into stuffing. One guest is bringing a vege and the other is bringing pie. I have whipping cream and ice cream on hand. Hmmm, maybe I'll challenge myself to create a delicious Thanksgiving out of what I have on hand.

However, I'm never one to pass on a screaming deal, so I'm going to follow along with an eye for scoring things to be consumed after turkey day.  Alas, I have no Aldi and Winco is really far away, so I'll just check my local stores' online circulars and/or maybe hit up Grocery Outlet. At keast I have two of those iwithn easy-ish distance.

I can't wait to see what kind of deals y'all find! Thanks, FG!

*Of course, all these savings will be negated if DH decides we need fresh peanut oil for the fryer. It's $57 for the large (5 gal??) vat at Sam''s Club. Hopefully he will decide that our current supply is sufficient. Yikes! BTW, I'm vegetarian, so I'm happy to leave the turkey fixin' to him. His brined and deep fried turkey always gets raves and makes my job easier.

[Photograph 51]

November can be a nice time to get pumpkins for almost nothing.  Once Halloween is over, sellers just want to get rid of them.  Those of us who realize that pumpkins are food and not just decoration can get a good amount of the nutritious squash for a very low price.

[Zamboni]

Yeah I have a giant post-halloween pumpkin. I was going to make pumpkin pies, but now that I have two frozen pies from loss leader sales, I will focus on pumpkin soup and pumpkin bread I guess.

Sheesh, those crisco prices are insane.

The worst prices I have seen have been on eggs and beef lately. Pork and chicken still seem to have decent sales that rotate where I am, but beef almost never goes to a reasonable price at my local store anymore.

[SunnyDays]

These prices make me want to weep.  Oh, to be American!

Happy Thanksgiving to all.  Enjoy your cheap turkeys.

[Missy B]

These prices make me want to weep.  Oh, to be American!

Happy Thanksgiving to all.  Enjoy your cheap turkeys.

Yeah, no kidding. I don't think I've seen sale prices like that since the 80's.

I am confused though, by the expensive prices for food in Bellingham. Veggies and meat were the same price in $US as canadian everywhere we went. Dairy wasn't really much better - we did score some good sale prices on fancy ice cream.
It seems like there is a lot of regional variation in US pricing - I noticed that when I was looking into extreme couponing. Also, there's no deals to be had in electronics cross-border shopping anymore either, and hasn't for a while. Which is more convenient for us, but curious.

Anyway, carry on. You can just imagine us round-eyed and drooling slightly.