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Last year it was just the four of us and I cooked a turkey breast because we didn't need/want a ton of leftovers. It worked out great!

On the Butterball calculator I put in 4 adults (treating your youngest as an adult LOL), 1 kid, that you are "light eaters" and that you want leftovers and it suggested a 7 pound turkey so I would go with that!

I just do turkey breast for a small group. The smallest size (I order in advance from Whole Foods) is 3-4 lbs. so you can definitely still have leftovers. Might depend on whether someone really likes dark meat, though. I have a good recipe for an herb rubbed turkey breast if you're interested!

I think I'm going to do a small turkey for 6 people. DH prefers dark meat and would miss it If I just got a breast. We're going out of town the next day so I'm going to freeze the leftovers.

Generally (at least around here) you can get a full turkey for about the same price as a turkey breast (or sometimes even cheaper - go figure). We primarily eat the white meat, but I like to give DD the dark meat for the iron content and we also use leftover dark meat for soups, etc. So I guess I vote for the full turkey

It's hard to find turkey here, so I roasted two chickens last year.

I think whole turkeys taste better!

I have a small family (just immediate family here), but we hate white meat so we just find the smallest turkey possible!

Small turkey! I can't roast a chicken to save my life (I've tried three times and failed), but I've successfully roasted a turkey three times now and nobody got sick.

@Foodnerd81: One idea for how to cook it - when I did my first thanksgiving turkey I used one of those plastic Cooking Bags - the instructions for cook time were fool proof and it came out really good!

My MIL has done breasts every year I've known her/gone to their house for Thanksgiving. They have a smoker, so she actually does 2 small ones, one smoked and one in the oven. I only eat white meat (as does most of the family) and there's only 5 adults and 1 picky toddler, so it makes the most sense. And it is way easier on her, so I completely understand and would recommend going that way if you don't need a lot of meat and want to keep things less stressful!

If you can't find a small enough turkey, our local butcher does 'half' turkeys. They cut a 14 or 15 lb turkey in half for me so it was the perfect size and half breast and leg/thigh.

I need dark meat - breast alone wouldn't do!

I went to TJs today to check out their turkeys and it's pretty big. Guess we'll be doing breasts also.