How big was your turkey? Did you have enough leftovers?

I had a 13 pound turkey for seven people, one whom didn't eat turkey at all. By the time I sent everyone home with leftovers all I had left was enough for one turkey sandwich. I'm thinking I need to make another turkey soon so I can make all the leftover turkey stuff I love. I did cook down he carcass and made some nice stock.

for Thanksgiving? we had a 20.5lb turkey - 5 adults, 1 teen and 1 child plus we sent a meal home for my SIL. We've been eating leftovers all weekend (Thanksgiving was Friday here) and I still have leftover turkey - I'm freezing the rest.

I made a 14lb turkey about 2 weeks ago - just for the 5 of us. We had dinner; lunches for 3 twice and I made curry (which served dinner and about 4 lunches as well)

15 lb smoked turkey for 10 of us. I am cooking a giant pot of turkey noodle soup from the leftovers.

Dh bought a 20 lb turkey for four of us. We had to throw away some of the leftovers. I didn't realize we had quite so much or I would have frozen some.

There were only 3 of us who eat meat and I bought a 19 lb turkey. I put 1/2 the bird in the freezer as soon as it cooled down and gave a lot to my dd when she left today. We have eaten turkey for 5 days now and are finally out. (except for the part in the freezer.) I always intentionally cook WAY too much for the leftovers.

I bought a 17lb turkey to cook. I confirmed 4 meat lovers and 6 vegetarians were coming for dinner. Needless to say, with 4 of the vegetarians wanting to 'try just a bite of the turkey," because it looked so amazing... I had less than half the turkey remaining after Thanksgiving Dinner. After sending SO home with enough leftovers for 2 meals, we didn't have much turkey left.

To be fair, I brine my turkey and it was super juicy looking so I can't blame the vegetarians eating some of it for "a taste."

The problem was really with how much of the gravy they consumed (yes I told them the gravy was NOT vegetarian). Imagine the looks on their faces when they discovered I use all those innards in the bag stuffed within the turkey to make my gravy!!!! Heh. People kept asking what made my gravy so amazing, I kept resisting, and they kept insisting I reveal.

So I guess it's okay to eat turkey once a year, but not the turkey gizzards. Heh. My turkey is amazing.

Whoopsies!

We had a 20-lb turkey for 6 of us. We ate about half at Thanksgiving dinner. The rest made us plenty of sandwiches, a dinner of turkey quesadillas, and enough in the freezer to make a pot pie.

I cooked a 10lb turkey breast for 5 people. We have eaten sandwiches everyday and I still have enough for several more sandwiches.

We've always gone to my husband's parents' house for Thanksgiving. My mother-in-law always makes a huge bird, but there are really never any leftovers, so about 10 years ago I started making a separate turkey at home, just for us.

The 12 pound bird I roasted yielded enough for openfaced turkey sandwiches, cold turkey sandwiches, turkey pot pie and turkey noodle soup, with some leftover to freeze.

We didn't host on Thanksgiving but MIL gave us a 20 lb turkey she got on sale. We made it over the weekend for 4 of us. We were curious as to how many pounds of meat were leftover after we ate and cleaned all the meat off the bird. The container was 6.5 pounds of just meat. We ate leftovers for a couple days, I make a turkey pot pie, and froze about 3 one-pound bags of diced turkey.

DH pitched the carcass without asking so I didn't get a chance to make stock. No big deal.