Turkey breast joint or turkey crown?

ecsb

been following this thread since it started and i am off to aldi..............one problem, no room in freezer.

computamad

I dont know if you have morecuts butchers in your area. saw today thay they are doing turkey crowns complete with bacon rashers on top for £7.99 we dont have one where we live but they are in some towns quite nearby.

computamad

quick update, netto are doing whole turkeys from £7.99 from tomorrow and from monday fresh turkey crowns at £6.99. hope this helps

SunnyGirl

I got an 8.5kg frozen turkey in Netto today for £7.99 and they had a similar weight of turkey crowns for £10. I'm going to get a crown for sandwich meat over the holidays. It'll work out cheaper than buying little packs of cooked meat. Got a gammon too from the local market for the same reason.

MrsE_2

Begize wrote: »

Try your local butchers for a deal, you might be surprised at the price. We always get ours through the same place each year and it's always cheaper than the equivalent in the supermarkets and *usually* from a local farm too.

I'd also recommend trying a breast joint too. It doesn't look quite as nice, but at the end of the day it's much better value as there is little or no waste and great for slicing up for buffets etc. The one we got last year was £13 and if I remember correctly, about 3KG which was plenty to feed 5 with left overs. I've already ordered ours for this year and been told they should be cheaper - last year for some reason the prices shot up.

Thats an amazing price, my local butchers is £9 a kilo. I've ordered a 3 kilo one.

kippers

nuttywoman wrote: »

We`ve got a turkey crown from Aldi - £8.99 , we`ve had one of those for the last 2 yrs now, very nice.

We have had a frozen turkey crown from Aldi for the last 3 years...beautiful moist turkey when cooked

omen666

crown all the way far better IMHO

leefoster41

netto are currently selling frozen turkeys at around £7.99 for a 4.0-4.4kg Norland farms turkey. also, from monday 21st dec, they will be seling fresh and frozen turkey crown starting at £10.99 for a 2.0-2.2kg frozen crown. if you have a netto near you and you are budgeting this festive season, this may be the best option, i am certainly going to give it a try.:j:j

red_devil

clareski wrote: »

I am looking at buying one or the other for Christmas lunch, to feed four people. Are any supermarkets doing any offers?

thanks

try your butchers funnily enough thats his job, he sells meat and he knows about it can help and advise too!

cooking-mama

red_devil wrote: »

try your butchers funnily enough thats his job, he sells meat and he knows about it can help and advise too!

Yeh and charge double the price for the pleasure(unfortunately our local butchers dont make it easy for families to support them with their prices:(),
Costco have fresh turkey crowns in,couple of weeks ago they were all huge £35-£40,but last night they had smaller(but still big)crowns around £23-£25,i think they were £6.65 per Kg.