Prices for a typical Thanksgiving meal ingredients down this year

Americans can expect a typical Thanksgiving meal to cost less this year than it did last year.

Lower frozen turkey prices leads to an overall 5% decline in the cost of a typical Thanksgiving meal this year.

This Thanksgiving, Americans can give thanks to lower costs when preparing the annual holiday meal.

For the third year in a row, costs are down for many of the typical ingredients that go into putting together a traditional Thanksgiving meal, according to an annual survey released Wednesday morning.

Providing a snapshot of this year’s average meal cost, as they have for decades, is the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 40 th annual Thanksgiving dinner survey.

Each year since 1986, the American Farm Bureau Federation has been analyzing the cost of a market basket of foods needed t