There are many deals and savings to be had on holiday meats. An old trick is to purchase several turkeys at Thanksgiving time, when they are fifty cents a pound or less, and freeze them to use for Christmas and Easter or just for a nice Sunday dinner. The same thing goes for hams - buy them when they are on sale for the holidays and stock up on those great prices.

Some other meats that only show up around the holidays are those mini hotdogs or wieners that come in a plastic pouch. Purchase lots of them when they hit the holiday sales, freeze them, and use for dinners or hors d'heurves by wrapping them up in croissant dough and baking them in the oven. Other meats that go on sale at holiday seasons are pepperoni and fancy salami and sausages as people buy them for holiday celebrations and parties. Chickens, whole ones, often go on sale and you can get them for $4 each or so. This is a great deal as you can roast the chicken and make dinner, and then use the carcass and leftover meat, along with some chicken broth and noodles, to make a nice chicken soup to eat with homemade bread the next day. Also, a lot of people don't think of it, but you can buy deli meat that's on sale and use it in your cooking. Most supermarkets have at least one kind of ham and one kind of turkey on sale per week. Buy it to add to soups or to make grilled sandwiches such as ham and cheese with basil. You can also buy some roast beef and fry it up to make pepper steak sandwiches. There are many ways to make meals from the weekly deli specials.