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Thanksgiving dinner menus by the numbers

Oct 14, 2019 | 10:00 AM

Turkey, potatoes, carrots, pumpkin in some form and whipped cream – all staples of the Canadian Thanksgiving dinner table.

But just how much canned cranberry sauce and flour is needed in this nation for the second Monday of October? Statistics Canada has the answer.

In Canada, there were 20.2 million turkeys sold in 2018, totalling $391.8 million in turkey farm cash receipts.

Households spent an average of $48 on potatoes in 2017 and farmers produced 354,749 metric tonnes of carrots and planted 1,559 acres of Brussel sprouts.