Safeway has saved me again this year – much to my joy and shock. Most of the time they never seem to have what I need, but today they had their act together.
I refuse to believe that I have to do my holiday food shopping a month in advance, so I don’t. I needed a fresh turkey breast (it’s just me & my brother, a whole turkey would be insane) and it’s pointless to get one if it’s so far ahead of time that you have to freeze it anyway, and I don’t want to deal with the defrosting nightmare of a frozen one.
Giant hasn’t had fresh turkey breasts in stock any year I’ve tried to purchase one from them for the holiday. From talking with the butchers, they always order them, but they never seem to actually *get* them, or get near as many as they actually order. I know Wegman’s sells out in no time. But Safeway, every year, they have a good supply of them the weekend before the holiday, and I was able to pick up a nice 6 pounder with a sell-by of 11/24, so no need to do anything but keep it wrapped up in the fridge until brining time.
Yes, if I was smart, I’d pre-order one, but I never think of that far enough ahead of time.
The kicker of all this? I really don’t like turkey that much at all, and in my younger days, I’d threatened that if I was to make Thanksgiving dinner, it would be lasagna.