We are officially halfway through this journey through 100 Days to Christmas! Have our baby steps helped you feel better prepared? I know I am feeling ready for Christmas! Bring it on!!
Now that you have your Thanksgiving menu planned, you can begin to inventory your pantry to discover exactly what ingredients still need to be purchased.
Today’s Countdown to Christmas Challenge is to sit down with your menu planner* and begin to create a thorough grocery
list*, ingredient by ingredient, to figure out exactly what needs to be bought from the store. You don’t want to find yourself on Thanksgiving morning with no sage when your recipe clearly calls for sage! Collect this week’s ad circulars to scout out the best deals.
* ListPlanIt.com has all your needs for Meal Planning and Grocery Lists, including access to a Thanksgiving Menu Planner and Thanksgsiving Shopping List in Holidays & Occasions.
For today only, tell us about your Thanksgiving menu (whether you are cooking it or eating it) here in a comment on this post and I will send you* ListPlanIt’s Thanksgiving Shopping List!
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Luckily, my Mom still cooks the meal for all of our family. I’ve never attempted to cook a turkey, and frankly, I don’t want to!
But the last few years I’ve tried to bring something to add to the menu. Last year I made a version of cranberry sauce that had apples and walnuts and looked like little individual tarts.
Can’t wait to eat our traditional turkey dinner!
We stay home to cook and, about two years ago, started cooking TWO turkeys. We cook a full turkey the day before Thanksgiving, carve it and slice it and put it in the fridge. On Thanksgiving Day, we roast a turkey breast for some fresh, hot turkey to carve at the table. We also put the other turkey slices, including dark meat, in the oven, tented with a little chicken broth, to reheat slowly while the other food cooks. This gives us a low-stress turkey breast for the big day, plus plenty of leftovers. Also, the turkey breast takes up way less room in the oven than the full turkey.
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I will be at my mother in laws, as the hubby is working. On the menu, I am sure will be turkey, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, salad…BUT the first course will be pasta. (not a big fan, so I will be waiting for the turkey!)
What a great idea and list to plan ahead. Even better if you can pick up just a few of those items and cross them off you list week by week. It doesn’t hit the pocketbook as hard that way!
We live in the same town with my inlaws. My Mother in law gripes about doing big meals, but would rather do it herself than let go of doing it… so we eat there. I usually make a dish or two to contribute – sweet potato casserole and pumpkin pie. This year will be extra special because there will be added family in town.
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I think we’re actually skipping the traditional Thanksgiving this year, and donating food to help others out.
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This year we have my parents and my husbands parents with us. We will be going up to the mountains to stay in a huge gorgeous “cabin” that belongs to some friends of ours. All of us will be cooking something so I have a lot of planning to do. This list would be great!
This year my husband and I are living 6 hours from our home town so we are taking a week of vacation to fit in all the family shin-digs during the week of Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving day we’ll celebrate with the in-laws and my mother-in-law will prepare the meal except for the turkey. The last few years my husband has fried a turkey for this meal – YUM! We’ll, of course, have cornbread dressing, green bean bundles, creamed potatoes, etc. Friday and Saturday will be spent with my mom and dad’s families. Both meals are usually potluck so other than turkey/dressing, the other dishes will be a surprise!
I have been adding my Thanksgiving items to my shopping list for a month now. Almost have everything!!!
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I love to cook the Thanksgiving meal. This year e going to roast a turkey and deep fry one for the first time. We are very traditional and the family does not want anything new or different.
I do most of the cooking. This year, I will make turkey, dressing, gravy, sour cream mashed potatoes, sweet potato crunch, peas, jellied cranberry, homemade cranberry sauce, cranberry orange relish, deviled eggs, rolls, fruit salad, frozen fruit salad, harvest jello salad, pumpkin pie, and pecan pie.
This year I have to work at the Lions game on Thanksgiving, so I will be eating only! I’m a bit excited to tell you the truth, lol.
We do turkey, mashed potato, roast potato, green beans & a bunch of other stuff
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My mom & aunts still do most the cooking for thanksgiving! but this year Im going to help! We’re having all the usuals, Turkey, Stuffing, sour cream Mashed Potatoes (made by me!), cranberry sauce, rolls, Pumpkin Pie & Apple Pie (by me!)
We will be eating at a new house this year. We will be bringing a few extras. As this is my husbands absolute favorite meal, I usually make a full one at home and prepack lunches. So I will be making the full receipe for a Thanksgiving meal, then tripling the Cranberry Sauce. I make it with fresh cranberries and oranges so will be getting them buy one get one free this week.
My sister and I have been splitting the holiday meals for years and it works well for all the families. I make Thanksgiving and she makes Christmas from the menu that my mother used to make for almost 50 years. Mom’s gone now and it makes the holidays a little sad, but making the dishes she used to make for all those years brings back wonderful memories that we take the time to talk about and share with all the kids. We hope that telling our kids about the holidays in the past will keep them alive with family spirit and keep family traditions alive. This is was one of the things my parents most wanted, to keep “family” alive and well like it was in the old days….
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