Cooking Thanksgiving dinner is not everyone's idea of a good time, and it can even lead to some serious disasters. Fortunately, many restaurants, grocery stores, and specialty retailers will do the work for you, offering complete heat-and-eat Thanksgiving feasts with all the fixings — in some cases, even shipping them right to your door. Here are 15 places where you can order Thanksgiving dinner without a side of stress.
This ubiquitous down-home chain offers several options for families who want to pick up Thanksgiving dinner. There are two main heat-and-serve options that feed up to 10 people, plus a turkey dinner that comes ready to eat for up to six people. Customers can also order turkey, sides, and pies a la carte to customize their meals.
On the menu: The Heat n’ Serve Feast ($150, serves eight to 10) includes two turkey breasts, dressing, turkey gravy, cranberry relish, sweet potato casserole, your choice of two sides, rolls, pumpkin pie, and pecan pie. It comes chilled and can be table-ready in two hours.
This homespun family restaurant offers a Thanksgiving Hot Meal that's ready to eat when you pick it up. There are also individual meals with all the fixings available in case you only need food for a couple people.
On the menu: The Thanksgiving Hot Meal ($100, serves six) comes with turkey, ham, bread and celery dressing, corn, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans with ham, cranberry relish, rolls, and pumpkin pie.
The nation’s largest grocery chain offers heat-and-eat Home Chef holiday meals with a boneless turkey breast roast that serves four to six people. Main dishes and sides can also be ordered a la carte. (Home Chef will also deliver Thanksgiving meal kits that require minimal prepping right to your door.)
On the menu: The boneless turkey meal ($65, serves four to six) comes with five sides of your choice, including green bean casserole, sweet potato souffle, mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, scalloped potatoes, and mac and cheese.
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Believe it or not, you can order an entire Thanksgiving meal at Costco, not just the famous pumpkin pie. The meal will come frozen, and the turkey breast is uncooked, but everything else is heat-and-eat.
On the menu: The Fortune Gourmet Thanksgiving Dinner ($200, serves eight) includes a boneless turkey breast, mashed potatoes and gravy, macaroni and cheese, corn, green beans, stuffing, cranberry relish, dinner rolls, pumpkin pie, and apple pie.
Whether you’re a fan of turkey, ham, or prime rib, Safeway offers several prepared Thanksgiving meals for five to 10 people that can be reheated at home within two to three hours. Additional sides are available a la carte, and there are plenty of pie and dessert options from the store bakery.
On the menu: The Homestyle Turkey Dinner ($70, serves six to eight) includes a 10- to 12-pound cooked turkey, mashed potatoes, homestyle stuffing, gravy, and cranberry sauce.
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Yes, ham is certainly on the menu here, but so is turkey. Honeybaked Ham offers frozen full holiday meal bundles that you can pick up in store or have shipped to your door. Most items can be cooked directly from frozen, or in the case of hams, eaten straight from the fridge.
On the menu: Pick up a Honey Baked Ham and Turkey Feast ($175, serves 12 to 16) with an 8-pound bone-in ham and smoked turkey breast, plus four sides like cornbread stuffing, cinnamon apples, macaroni and cheese, and green bean casserole. Or get a frozen meal shipped, including the Oven-Roasted Whole Turkey Feast ($135, serves 10 to 12) with an 11-13 pound turkey, stuffing, sweet potato souffle, gravy, and pecan pie.
The mail-order pros at Omaha Steaks will ship Thanksgiving meals for six to 10 people to your door, whether you prefer ham, turkey, or prime rib. All meals are shipped frozen and are completely customizable, and main dishes, sides, and desserts can be ordered separately, too.
On the menu: The Build Your Own Thanksgiving for 8 ($160) includes your choice of turkey breast or spiral-sliced ham; smashed or sweet potatoes; green bean casserole or broccoli and cauliflower gratin; green beans in butter sauce or brussels sprouts with bacon; caramel apple tarts or chocolate cakes; and pumpkin or chocolate pie.
Look past the chocolates and famous pears, and you’ll find plenty of options for low-stress Thanksgiving feasts at Harry & David. As long as you can allow two to three days for thawing, there are turkey and ham meals for four or more. Main dishes, appetizers, sides, and desserts can also be ordered a la carte.
On the menu: The Gourmet Turkey Feast ($270, serves eight to 10) includes a whole roasted turkey, apple sausage stuffing, black truffle and almond green beans, brown sugar sweet potatoes, cranberry chutney, gravy, and pumpkin cheesecake.
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Yes, Buca di Beppo offers pre-made Thanksgiving feasts, and no, they don’t involve pasta — unless you want to order some on the side. Choose from meals for three or six, or order larger catering pans for gatherings up to 20. Either way, customers can opt for meals they can heat up at home, or pick up food that’s served hot and ready to eat. A la carte dishes are also available.
On the menu: The Traditional Thanksgiving Feast ($160, serves 6) is served hot and includes sliced turkey, gravy, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, spicy Italian sausage stuffing, seasonal vegetable, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie.
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Sibling Italian chains Bravo and Brio offer the same menu of Thanksgiving take-out and catering. To-go feasts serve anywhere from three to 20 people, and are served hot and ready-to-eat, or cold for reheating. Pasta, pizza, and other Italian favorites can be added on, too.
On the menu: The Traditional Thanksgiving Feast ($160 serves six) includes sliced turkey, gravy, Italian sausage stuffing, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie.
This high-end grocery chain offers traditional, vegetarian, and “unexpected” Thanksgiving meals for families big and small. Meals serve from four to 12 people and come ready to heat and eat within an hour or two, depending on the meal. Main dishes, sides, appetizers, and desserts can also be ordered a la carte.
On the menu: The Classic Roast Whole Turkey Meal for 4 ($100) comes with turkey and gravy, cracked pepper green beans, mashed potatoes, herb stuffing, and cranberry orange sauce.
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This chain, based primarily in California, has long offered take-out options for holiday celebrations. Choose from turkey or ham meals for either four to eight people. All options are served chilled and can be reheated in about three hours. Main dishes, sides, and pies can be added on a la carte.
On the menu: The Ultimate Ham and Whole Turkey Feast with Pumpkin Pie ($230, serves six to eight) includes apple-sage stuffing, fire-roasted yams, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, chef’s vegetables, cornbread, and either pumpkin pie or apple pie.
Grocery shoppers in the Lone Star State have an easy Thanksgiving option in H-E-B, which will offer complete turkey or ham meals for four or eight people. Served chilled, they’re available for both curbside pickup and delivery and can be heated and served within a few hours.
On the menu: The Oven Roasted Whole Turkey Meal ($150, serves eight) also includes Yukon Gold mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, gravy, cornbread stuffing, and green bean casserole.
This Whole Foods competitor offers turkey and ham holiday meals for families as small as three to five and as large as 12 to 14. They can be heated in one to three hours. There’s also a large a la carte menu of main dishes, including turducken, prime rib, and pork roast; plenty of traditional sides; and pies and cakes.
On the menu: The Ultimate Holiday Meal ($200, serves 12 to 14) includes a 10- to 12-pound turkey, a 3.5-pound boneless sliced ham, whipped potatoes, herb stuffing, turkey gravy, butternut squash with pecans and cranberries, green beans, cranberry relish with walnuts, and dinner rolls.
Maggiano’s customers can opt for carry-out Thanksgiving meals that serve four to five, or they can customize a catering option for larger groups. The carry-out meals are served hot if picked up on Thanksgiving; otherwise, they are chilled and ready to heat. Turkey, ham, sides, and cheesecakes are also available a la carte.
On the menu: Maggiano’s Thanksgiving Carryout Package ($210, serves four to five) includes roasted turkey, giblet gravy, sausage stuffing, smoked ham with whipped sweet potatoes, spaghetti and meatballs, four-cheese ravioli, caesar salad, garlic mashed potatoes, bread, cranberry relish, and pumpkin praline cheesecake.
