(Des Moines) — The cost of this year’s Thanksgiving meal should see only a slight increase over last year. That’s according to a recent study conducted by the American Farm Bureau Federation. Each year, for the past 30 years, the Farm Bureau conducts a nationwide survey to determine the cost of the traditional holiday meal for ten people. Dave Miller serves as the research director for the Iowa Farm Bureau. He says although the price of turkey has risen, due primarily to the avian bird flu, milk prices have fallen which has kept the overall cost fairly consistent to last year.
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Miller says the turkey and the milk were the major price changes from a year ago. He says the other food items associated with a Thanksgiving meal saw only minor changes.
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This year’s holiday feast is on average about 70 cents higher than last year. Miller says despite the small increase, it is still quite affordable to feed ten people the traditional Thanksgiving meal.
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The survey shopping list includes the turkey, bread stuffing, sweet potatoes, rolls with butter, peas, cranberries, a relish tray of celery and carrots, pumpkin pie with whipped cream, and beverages of coffee and milk in quantities sufficient to feed ten people.
