As soon as PSL season arrives and the fall décor comes out, we start to look forward to enjoying Thanksgiving dinner. However, not everyone relishes the idea of cooking a holiday feast for their friends and family. If you’re someone who would rather spend your time eating in the dining room than cooking in the kitchen, you understand this feeling.
Thankfully, you can have your Thanksgiving meal without slaving over a hot stove. It might sound too good to be true, but several restaurants and retailers offer take-home Thanksgiving meals. Check out our list of the top places to find fully cooked meals for Turkey Day. We promise we won’t tell anyone you didn’t cook your Thanksgiving meal yourself.
Bob Evans
Bob Evans offers several options for take-home Thanksgiving meals so that you can enjoy time with your guests instead of time with your oven.
There’s the Holiday Hot Family Meal, which serves six people for $85.99. It includes slow-roasted turkey, hickory-smoked ham, bread and celery dressing, cranberry relish, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans and ham, corn, dinner rolls and even a pumpkin pie. There’s also the Premium Farmhouse Feast, which comes with all these items for 10 people plus extras like apple pie for $144.99.
If your mouth is watering, you can put in your order using the Bob Evans website.
Buca di Beppo
Buca di Beppo brings to mind images of family-style Italian meals, but this restaurant also provides fully cooked Thanksgiving meals.
For Turkey Day, Buca di Beppo is offering its Traditional Thanksgiving Feast for dine-in and take-out. The meal comes with white meat turkey, gravy, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, spicy Italian sausage stuffing, seasonal veggies, cranberry sauce, bread and butter, and pumpkin pie. You can order the feast cold and warm it up at home, or you can get it hot and ready to serve.
The amount you pay varies depending on whether you get a small or a large meal. The small meal feeds three people for $105, while the large feeds six people for $192.
Cracker Barrel
Cracker Barrel always serves up comfort food. As such, it makes sense that it offers fully cooked Thanksgiving meals that come with the classics.
Both the Heat n’ Serve Feast and Family Dinner come with everything you need to enjoy a complete Thanksgiving dinner. Best of all, the entire meal is ready to serve in two hours. You can browse the meal options from Cracker Barrel or build your own Turkey Day dinner using the res a $10 Bonus Card for the Heat n’ Serve Feast or a $5 Bonus Card for the Heat n’ Serve Family Dinner.
FreshDirect is an online grocery store that’s all about delivering the best fresh food and prepared meals right to your home or office. This brand can also deliver Thanksgiving.
The Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner from FreshDirect keeps the meal delicious and simple. It comes with turkey breast, cornbread and sausage stuffing, green beans and mashed potatoes with gravy. This entire meal is available for $9.99 per person and is ready to eat after about three minutes in the microwave.
FreshDirect offers this meal all year, so you can order it whenever you like.
Goldbelly
Goldbelly offers everything from meal kits to food from restaurants all around the country, so it’s no surprise the brand offers fully cooked Thanksgiving meals.
The Thanksgiving offerings from Goldbelly are unique and range from traditional favorites like turkeys and pies to more unique options like turducken and cookies. You can even find vegan Thanksgiving meals and non-traditional options by searching the different categories on the Goldbelly website. It’s never been easier to make Thanksgiving your way without having to spend the day cooking.
The order deadlines for the different take-home Thanksgiving meals from Goldbelly vary, so it pays to check the website.
Harry & David
Harry & David is best known for selling gift baskets filled with fruits, sweets, gourmet foods and wine. However, this brand also offers take-home Thanksgiving meals.
You can shop for your main course, appetizers, sides and desserts. You can find everything from oven-roasted turkey to spiral-sliced ham as well as deep-dish pumpkin pie and American-style apple pie. If you’re attending Thanksgiving dinner as a guest, Harry & David is also a wonderful place to pick up a thoughtful (and delicious) hostess gift.
When it comes time to order, keep in mind that express two-day shipping is available for many items.
HelloFresh
HelloFresh is the amazing meal service that makes dinner easier throughout the year. This brand is also simplifying Turkey Day with fully cooked meals.
Customization is always the name of the game at HelloFresh. As a result, you can choose a turkey dinner with sides for $18.99 per person or a meal that features beef tenderloin as the star for $24.99 per person. You can count on finding delicious sides with your meal, including creamy mashed potatoes, ciabatta stuffing and broccoli cheddar gratin. The meals also come with apple ginger crisp for dessert.
To get your turkey (or tenderloin) dinner, you just need to select your delivery date using the HelloFresh website and order by Nov. 17.
The Honey Baked Ham Co.
The Honey Baked Ham Co. might not be the first place that comes to mind when someone mentions Thanksgiving. However, this brand offers more than just ham.
You can order holiday meals that range from a bone-in half ham, turkey breast and sides to whole turkeys and desserts. You’ll just visit The Honey Baked Ham Co. website or a store location to order or pick up the perfect meal for your holiday. Best of all, you can give the gift of Thanksgiving by sending a meal as a gift to someone else.
Williams Sonoma
Williams Sonoma sells more than just items for at-home chefs and bakers. This iconic brand also offers fully cooked meals for Thanksgiving.
With the Deluxe Thanksgiving Dinner from Williams Sonoma, you can bring home a feast that serves four to six people. While you will need to cook the fresh 12-14-pound turkey, all you have to do with the frozen sides is warm them up in the oven.
Speaking of the sides, this Thanksgiving dinner comes with truffle mashed potatoes, corn pudding, mushroom risotto, jalapeno cheese-bread stuffing, creamy asparagus with gruyere custard and Brussels sprouts pancetta gratin. You can bring all this delicious goodness home for $299.95.
To ensure customers receive their Thanksgiving meals in time for the big day, Williams Sonoma requires all orders to be in by 12 a.m. PST on Nov. 17.
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