Okay, I have seen a few posts over the past few days about how people can not afford Thanksgiving dinner.
So lets be HONEST here, how much was your Thanksgiving dinner out of your pocket/FS! As what you are cooking not what your taking to someone else house.....
My Turkey was 14.00
My two boxes of Mashed Potatoes 1.56
two cans of green beans 1.00 ( .50 each)
Eggs 1.47
Milk 3.47
Rolls 1.75
salad 2.75
Store bought Pies. 4.00 each, bought 3
12.00
That is what I bought to make our small thanksgiving dinner for 4. That is two adults and two small children that don't eat much to start with.
Everything else I already had so there was no need to buy anything else.
total 38.00
Not to bash or anything,but I think it's not anyone's business how much I spent on my Thanksgiving meal.
Turkey: 6.00, my husband found it on sale marked down from 18.00!
Pie: 6.00
We had everything else already. A whole bag of potatoes, gravy, noodles and cheese for homemade mac n cheese, and we had 3 boxes of stuffing. I might get some fresh veggies tomorrow, so that might add 5.00:) So we will spend like 20 bucks:) This is for 5 people actually 4, I guess I can't count my 7 month old lol, but my brother might count for 5 ha ha:)
Our Thanksgiving dinner is costing us $0. I dont do any cooking on holidays. We always go to families houses. I always offer to bring something and am always told not to.
Free! We're going to my in-laws! We're taking her a centerpiece, candle, and taking my niece (in-laws have custody) to a movie to say thank you though....we eat out every night, so it's nice to have a homecooked meal a few times a year...especially a turkey dinner!
WOW im glad you can afford $38 for it but some ppl cant like us who are BARELY making ends meet with the bills! I was lucky the University of Oregon Althetics donated meals to ppl like us , they brought us the full meal including pie! Thanks so much U of O!!!!!!
Read my journal on how im losing it! http://www.cafemom.com/journals/read/1003740/About_my_weightloss_I_have_had_SOOO_MANY_ppl_messeging_me_about_it
This is to feed 7 people including 4 adults and 3 children
Turkey:17.62
a 10lbs bag of potators: 3.99
2 butternut sqashes : 3.55
rolls: 5.00 (two packages)
a can of green beans and a can of corn: 1.00 (.50 each)
cranberry sauce (whole and jelly) 2.45
stuffing: 3.98 (the stuff for home made stuffing)
all the ingrediance for three pies: 10.00
odds and ends 10.00
Total 57.59 (this is just aprox what we spent maybe more maybe less)
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on Nov. 25, 2009 at 10:00 PM