Will you be preparing Thanksgiving dinner this year? Who will be invited?
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
United States
October 18, 2008 5:44pm CST
I don't cook the traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
Not that I don't want to cook for Thanksgiving.
My big oven doesn't work and a turkey
would be too big for my small counter top
toaster oven.
But, sometimes, we get turkey dinners
from the local deli and enjoy traditional dinner anyway.
Not as good as the real thing, though.
Will you be celebrating Thanksgiving this year?
Have you already bought your turkey?
Do you know already who is going to be
attending Thanksgiving dinner at your house this year?
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23 responses
@IrishRose23 (542)
• United States
19 Oct 08
We usually would go to my grandma's house for Thanksgiving. However, since there has been major drama dealing with her, I will be cooking my first Thanksgiving meal!! Being that there are 5 people living in the house (which includes me), I will only be able to invite a few more- that way there'll be enough room for every one.
I already have a list made of what i'll need to get and what foods i'll be making. When it comes to big holiday dinners, I don't like to do things without a list. I know i'd forget something and whatnot. I don't have the turkey yet. It's too early, and frankly, i'd like to see the price go down just a bit. Also, there's no room in the freezer for one.
So, having Thanksgiving dinner at my house this year will be a great experience for me.
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@happythoughts (4109)
• United States
19 Oct 08
A few years ago my family and I decided that it was to much to trade each year with our family. It was to hard to rotate to everywhere we wanted to be. We began doing the Thanksgiving dinner our selves. It really has been fun. I make up a turkey, we do pies and breads and stuffing. We do it all as a family together.
@lillake (1630)
• United States
19 Oct 08
We usually go to the inlaws every year, they have a huge dinner with everyone. But this year my mother in law and I had a huge blow up fight over how I raise my kids, so I doubt we'll be going there. I'll probably just make a small turkey and a few sides. We don't seem to like the same things so it's hard to cook for us without it going to waste from having too much.
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@luvstochat (6907)
• United States
19 Oct 08
I have had Thanksgiving dinner at my house for the last 4 years now. I don't know if I will be having it this year or not though I don't know if I am in the mood to do it. Since it is still over a month away I have not bought a turkey yet. I will wait till they go on sale next month if I decide to have it.
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@fasttalker (2796)
• United States
19 Oct 08
Thanksgiving Dinner is always at my house. My family which consists of 15 and my husbands family which conists of 20 all eat at my house. I usually have a 2:00 dinner and a 6:00 pm dinner. It usually works out well and everyone that comes brings a covered dish. I fix the Turkey and a Ham and the dressing,mashed potatoes and pumpkin pies. The rest is brought by others.
Last year a total of 42 people ate dinner at my house (not all at the same time) and we had a great time. I only prepare the one though. Someone else takes a turn on Christmas and then another on New Years.
It takes me a year to rcover and plan for the next one! LOL
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@themyl (1423)
• United States
18 Oct 08
You might say it's a family tradition here at our place. We always cook a turkey, but not just any turkey. You see, we raise turkeys and during Thanksgiving we pick out the PLUMPEST, MOST SCRUMPTIOUS ONE for ourselves. We usually prepare everthing here.
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@danishcanadian (28955)
• Canada
18 Oct 08
I had Canadian Thanksgiving last week alone in Guelph since my husband is still in Arizona. Hubby will be here in November, so he's going to cook us a very small Thanksgiving dinner for two on American Thanksgiving, and then from now on, we will be able to spend both Canadian and American Thanksgiving together. We plan on celebrating both.
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@CinderInMySoul (4717)
• United States
19 Oct 08
ack i havent even begun to think about thanksgiving yet. if i recall last years gathering correctly, i BELIEVE my aunt will be doing to mainstay of the cooking and we will all go to her house.
i will probably bake a pumpkin pie to take over there. but when i do cook the thankgsiving dinner and everyone comes to my house its for a gathering of 9 or 10 ppl lol!
a couple of years ago my father gave me this really great countertop roaster thing! its frigging huge and i can fit a really big turkey in it! and it cooks faster than the oven and comes out really juicy! i just love that thing! course im supposed to be able to cook stews and other great stuff in it, but for just a family of 4, if i tried makeing a stew that size..we'd be eating it for weeks lol!
@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
19 Oct 08
I am guessing that I will be making Thanksgiving dinner this year since I have done it for the past 5 years if not more.
My family will be here, my husband, my 4 kids and one girlfriend. Then I will also have my sister and her husband and my mom. My nephew and his wife and stepdaughter. My other sister will be invited, but she never comes because I like to have dinner later in the afternoon~ like around 4pm and she goes to her inlaws around then.
Usually we deep fry a turkey and make an additional one in our nesco slow cooker. I make mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, and get yummy rolls from the deli in our town. My mom brings sweet potatoes and makes the stuffing. My sister will be in charge of desserts.
My husband and I have a big neighborhood/ family party the night before Thanksgiving. We call it our Turkey Stuffing Party. We never actually stuff any turkey, but just get together for snacks and cocktails. This is why we have Thanksgiving dinner later in the afternoon.
I haven't even thought about buying the turkey yet. They haven't gone on sale in our town yet.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
19 Oct 08
Thanksgiving isn't for another month, so no we haven't bought our turkey yet. No freezer space, among other things. We are having it at my house and my dad, step-mom, step-brother and his son are coming. My sister's family may come too, we don't know yet. We'll be cooking turkey, potatoes and gravy, cranberries, yams, peanut salad and a few other things.
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@fwidman (11514)
• United States
18 Oct 08
I shall be cooking Thanksgiving dinner again this year, and there will only be the three of us, me,wife,child It will most likely be ham and sweet potatoes and whatever else my little pea brain thinks of. But, I won't get the fixings for dinner until a few days before Thanksgiving.
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@Vladilyich1 (1454)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
I've been doing Thanksgiving for about 10 years now. My wife is Canadian and has already had hers last weekend, but I'll be up there for the American Thanksgiving and we've already started making plans.
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@bostonterrio (70)
• United States
19 Oct 08
Thanksgiving has become a dilemma for me. For a long time we tried to split the holiday spending part of the day with my family and afternoon into evening with my husbands. I am sure the number of holidays with either set of parents is becoming limited and I do not want to miss out on sharing the holiday with either side. The thing I find annoying is my in laws live an hours drive so choosing their home to visit last makes the most sense. Also we get to spend more time with them. They could hold on dinner until later but still insist on serving it around 2:00 Pm. My family eats around 12:00 so we end up rushing around and getting indigestion. I wish there was an easier way.
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@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
27 Oct 08
I will probably be having it at my house, although my mother insists on doing the turkey. It will be just my immediate family and my parents.
@jeni_fini (98)
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19 Oct 08
I do plan on cooking Thanksgiving dinner. I have for several years, either at home or for a family Thanksgiving, where we all cook something and take it to the home we are going to. I love to cook, So I plan on inviting my Mom, of course, my stepdaughter and her boyfriend, and my mother in law and brother in law... The last two usually makes rounds to all the houses to see who has what...
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
19 Oct 08
I wish that I could prepare Thanksgiving dinner this year. Unfortunately, due to my living situation, that won't be happening. Instead, I will probably spend the day trying to work and earn some more money so that I can get away from this place and these people.
In the past, I've done some nice traditional Thanksgiving dinners for myself and a few friends.
@Chevee (5905)
• United States
19 Oct 08
I don't prepare dinner at my home for the big Thanksgiving dinner we always have it at my sister home which will accommodate the entire family of friends and relatives, and some unexpected guest. I do prepare a dinner just for me and my little family.
@lilcee (2703)
• United States
19 Oct 08
Hi beautyqueen. Yes, I'll be cooking Thanksgiving dinner this year. I cook it every year and all my kids come. I have 2 sons and a daughter, a daughter-in-law and a son-in-law and my one son has a girlfriend and baby so they all will be coming. Except this year, one of my sons had to go to Texas with the Army reserves for a year. So I don't know if he will be home for Thanksgiving or not. I enjoy cooking a big dinner for that day and it wouldn't be the same if I didn't have to cook it. It's one of my favorite holidays.
Have a good lotting day.