Cooking a Turkey Today

Today the house is filled with the fantastic aroma of a turkey cooking in the oven. Ohh, it smells great. Is it Thanksgiving or some other celebration? No. We cook a turkey about once each month (except for the super hot months of July and August, when we rarely use the oven). Tonight we'll serve a turkey dinner and then freeze the left-over meat to be used in other meals which will be prepared on our once-a-month cooking day.

Buying turkeys (and any other meat) when they are steeply discounted is one of the ways we're able to feed our family for so little. Our average price for turkeys last year was around 45 cents per pound — that's a great price compared to retail! Imagine being able to eat sale priced meat all year long — it really does save you tons of money.

This is one of hundreds of money saving strategies we've shared in our newsletter articles (here) and in our new book, Cut Your Grocery Bill In Half with Americas Cheapest Family. The book is scheduled for release in September 2010 and is published by Thomas Nelson.