Thieves have stolen more than £20,000 worth of meat including turkeys, ribs of beef and lamb from a Huntingdonshire farm shop on Christmas Eve.
Hundreds of families are set to go without their turkey dinner on Christmas day after the "mindless act", Cambridgeshire Police said.
Officers were called to reports of the theft at around 7.45am on Monday at Johnson’s of Old Hurst in Church Street, Old Hurst.
PC Poppy McCullagh said: “This mindless act will have a devastating effect on the business and leave hundreds of families without their turkey dinner this Christmas.
“I am appealing to anyone with information, or who may be offered meat for sale, to contact us.”
Anyone with information should call police on 101 and quote incident 72 of 24 December.
