“I had to shuffle through a whole case of green beans. The quality is really subpar,' said one mom who is also a professional chef.
Americans typically consume about 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving. Families who bought their birds this week likely faced even higher prices because consumers who feared shortages purchased their turkeys earlier than ever this year, primarily those on the smaller size. That means the ones left in the store are typically heavier and cost more.
“Several factors contributed to the increase in average cost of this year’s Thanksgiving dinner,” said Veronica Nigh, senior economist at AFBF. “These include dramatic disruptions to the U.S. economy and supply chains over the last 20 months; inflationary pressure throughout the economy; difficulty in predicting demand during the Covid-19 pandemic and high global demand for food, particularly meat.
They’ve already drastically slashed their household monthly food budget by cutting out restaurants, serving meat less frequently and in smaller portions, cooking more soups and making more meals from scratch. When they do have meat, her husband will often buy whole sides of beef and process them into steaks and burgers by hand, saving even more.
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