Your Thanksgiving Dinner is Now Cheaper in Minnesota
It's some surprising good news that will have you gobbling with glee, as your Thanksgiving dinner will carve out a smaller slice of the family budget this year in Minnesota.
The Thanksgiving holiday is a uniquely American tradition, filled with tons of food and a gathering together with family and friends as we express our gratitude. According to the National Archives Museum, the First Thanksgiving was held back in 1621 near Plymouth, Massachusetts 'to mark a successful harvest' that year.
If it seems like Thanksgiving is late this year, you're right-- it is. The Farmers' Almanac notes that since 1941, Thanksgiving has been held on the fourth Thursday in November. And with the holiday falling on Thursday, Nov. 28th this year, that makes it the latest date possible for Thanksgiving.
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But despite its lateness this year, your Thanksgiving dinner here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes will at least cost you less this year. That's the word from the annual Thanksgiving Dinner Survey by the American Farm Bureau (AFB), which found that overall, costs are down about 5 percent this year, coming in at a total of $58.08 or about $5.80 per person for a 10-person dinner.
The shopping list for AFB's informal survey includes turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, rolls, peas, cranberries, a veggie tray, and pumpkin pie with whipped cream, all in quantities sufficient to serve a gathering of 10.
To figure out this year’s national average cost, the AFB said it looked at pricing information from Minnesota and all other 49 states plus Puerto Rico. AFB volunteer shoppers then checked prices in person and online using grocery store apps and websites, and looked for the best possible prices without taking advantage of special promotional coupons or combined purchase deals, AFB said.
Overall, the AFB found costs for those items are down 5 percent this year, which is also just over 4 percent lower than 2022. However, two years of declines don’t erase dramatic increases that led to a record high cost of $64.06 in 2022, the Farm Bureau noted. And despite lower prices the past two years, a Thanksgiving meal is still 19 percent higher than it was in 2019, the AFB said.
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Of course, after Thanksgiving, next up is Christmas, right? It's a holiday filled with nostalgia, especially as we look forward to getting our holiday celebrations back to normal. So keep scrolling to take a look at which toy was the big thing during Christmas the year you were born!
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