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As the holidays draw closer, the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner in 2025 has decreased significantly from last year.
President Donald Trump touted that, just one year into his presidency, the price of Thanksgiving dinners is 25 percent less than it was under former President Joe Biden, according to Walmart.
“My cost are lower than the Democrats on everything, especially oil and gas! So the Democrats “affordability” issue is DEAD! STOP LYING!!!” he wrote Thursday in a post to Truth Social.
Walmart this year announced a meal-basket deal intended to feed around 10 people for $39.33, which works out to just under $4 per person.
The basket includes over 20 national and private-brand items, including a 97-cent-per-pound Butterball turkey, its lowest price since 2019, along with vegetables, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls and stuffing.
In 2024, during the last year of the Biden presidency, Walmart’s Thanksgiving meal bundle was advertised as feeding eight people for roughly $7 per person, or a total of $56, according to Newsweek.
Moreover, Americans are collectively less worried about how inflation will affect their Thanksgiving plans compared to 2024.
Butterball said in its 2025 Thanksgiving Outlook that 89 percent of Americans plan to celebrate Thanksgiving this year with a group of nine people. Just 28 percent of consumers reported that they expected inflation to change their plans this year—significantly less than the 53 percent who said this in 2024, while more than half said they would not make any changes at all.
With these comparisons, it is clear that the price of holiday dinners is down from last year, and Americans today are collectively feeling more relief when purchasing food.