I have been watching Southern Frugal Mama on YouTube make frugal recipes for her family using this inexpensive ground turkey called Festive for a while now. It costs $1.98 a pound and comes in three flavors. Now that ground chuck is over $5 a pound at Sam's Club, I thought I would give it a try and share my findings.
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| This is the plain ground turkey. |
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| The Italian cooks up a lot different. It has lots of liquid and a slightly different color. It smells nice. |
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| Taco flavor was the third choice, but I decided to use my own spices and I am glad that I did. |
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| That's a lot of excess liquid in the Italian flavor. |
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| I drained the Italian and made taco meat from the plain. |
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| I put together a "Taco Party" that was inspired from a restaurant called Jose's. |
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| I used freshly made corn tortillas. |
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| I made a pot of spaghetti sauce with most of the Italian meat. I forgot to take pictures of the spaghetti. |
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| I made Italian sausage pizza from the rest. |
As I suspected, it was a better choice to use my own seasonings rather than using the pre-made stuff. I did not like how the Italian flavor cooked up with all the excess liquid. With that being said, I was not unhappy with the flavor. In fact, it had a nice flavor.
The plain turkey was definitely the winner in this product review. I will buy it again and since I have my own spices, I will create my own seasoned meat just like I do with ground chuck. If I did not already have my own spices, I would be happy to use the already seasoned varieties.
So, if you are looking to save a lot on meat this is definitely the way to go...
Shalom,
Mrs. Smith
