Thanksgiving doesn’t have to be perfect ~ as long as loved ones are together and the turkey is tasty, the festivities around it can be as imperfect as ever!
Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a first-time cook, Thanksgiving is bound to be fabulous as long as you have those you care about with you and a great meal to enjoy. This year (and every year) my family and I get together not only for our wonderful meal but also for the planning, preparing and devouring this our turkey and all of the side dishes on this festive occasion. After all, planning and preparing our food is half of the fun!
There is definintely one must-have for Thanksgiving and that is the TURKEY! We always choose a Butterball Turkey because we know that our bird will be tender, juicy and the best quality available. You can’t go wrong with Butterball! Other than our turkey, out Thanksgiving menu usually consists of dressing (or if you prefer, stuffing!), mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, rolls, cranberry sauce and of course pies!
No matter what is on your menu, the day will be awesome because you know that Butterball is always available to assist when needed. You can email, call, chat online or even text your questions to the fully trained staff at Butterball and they will do whatever they can to ensure that your turkey is perfection. That’s just one more reason to choose Butterball. So, don’t stress…simply relax and enjoy the time spent with family and friends and of course enjoy your Butterball turkey!
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I’ll spend it at home, like every year recently. With family.
spending time with loved ones
This year it will only be hubby and I on Thanksgiving Day. We expect o have family in the day after!
We are headed out to Grandmas for Thanksgiving.
I will be celebrating my Thanksgiving holiday this year with my family including aunts, uncles and cousins by having some Turkey.
I plan on having family over for Thanksgiving. I plan on cooking and baking while i listen to the parade on tv.
We usually have a big dinner with extended family but we have lost three family members this year and no one seems to be in the mood to celebrate. Don’t know yet what we might be doing.
My sister is hosting this year so I’m baking several different desserts.
The family is getting together for dinner and then having game night.
We are having friends and family to the house. Games and the parade on television and delicious foods. This is the best holiday!
We will be having Thanksgiving dinner at home.
I am having Thanksgiving with my parents and brothers for the first time in over a decade. 🙂 We just moved back home and can’t wait for a big dinner with everyone.
I will cook but this year will be different. Both of my daughters will be working opposite shifts so no real family dinner.
Visiting with family members.
We are staying home and sharing our dinner with family and Airmen from our base who do not have any home to go to for Thanksgiving. It is our tradition.
Our plans is to entertain family over at my house!! Will be so much fun!
We are having a family Thanksgiving dinner at my Grandma’s house this year.
Traveling to be with family for Thanksgiving.
We have a big meal at my mom’s house on Thanksgiving and then we do some shopping.
I was waiting for a invitation so I didnt have to cook but…. it didn’t come so I will be cooking at home.
i am making Thanksgiving dinner at home , and my dad is coming down from another state to celebrate with us
I am cooking a dinner for my family
gathering at my house so lots of cooking going on
I am cooking and hosting a small family Thanksgiving dinner.
I plan to make dinner for my family.
The family is actually coming to my place for once. This would be a great help if I won!
My plans are to go up north and visit the parents
We’re having dinner at my house this year. It should be fun since we’ve got enough hands on deck.
Plan on a family dinner and movie
We will have a family dinner on Thanksgiving Day.
We’re going to have dinner as a family. My oldest won’t be there for Thanksgiving, but, she is moving back by us on Dec 1st, so all is good! On Black Friday, we are getting together with old friends. Their son is leaving on Monday for the Marines.
No plans. Kids live out of state.
We always go to my parents on Thanksgiving. I love turkey but I’m REALLY looking forward to the homemade stuffing, yum!!
I will likely see my brother’s family on Thanksgiving since they live right across the street. I’m sure my youngest nephew will be wandering over at some point looking for sweets, lol.
I always go with butterball they have the best turkey’s for me. I do usually get 2 turkey breasts now.
We are making dinner, and having family over to celebrate.
Some of the family and some friends will be here for Thanksgiving dinner.
Small gathering of friends and family at my house this year. It’s going to be a good day. 🙂
I will be housesitting for my friends over Thanksgiving so that they can visit their family.
hanging at home and cooking up a storm..
I am going to Thanksgiving dinner at my uncle’s house this year.
I’m not sure yet, my mother in law just had surgery yesterday. If they don’t have it at their home, we will have it here at home with just my husband, myself, our 2 daughters and son in law.
Spending time with family and having a nice thanksgiving meal.
We make a big dinner with all the goodies and invite over some of our friends for the day. Then the shopping begins!
Having the dinner at my house with tons of food.
We’re driving north to the cold to visit family for Thanksgiving.
We all are going to cook and meet up at mom’s house. Hoping everyone has a chance to see each other at once.
Most of my family has passed away last few years.I invited a few friends to celebrate with me who have no loved ones .I love my stuffing so I look forward to it all year.
We are making dinner for Thanksgiving.
I plan to get together with my family & eat lots of delicious food and be thankful that I have both
I plan on having a nice dinner and spending time with family
I will be going to my Dad’s for Thanksgiving.
Most of my family has passed away so I will be going to my inlaws for Thanksgiving
I’m working a 12 hour shift on Thanksgiving 🙁
We all get together at Mom and Dad’s
I plan on having dinner at my grandma’s house.
My plans for Thanksgiving is to have my children home for a big turkey dinner.
We are all going to my parents house for Thanksgiving!
I’m hosting! We’ll start the day with the parade and some cooking, and then the family will come over for food and fun!
Everyone is coming to my house. Again. I love it, but sometimes it would be nice to have someone else host.
I get to pull a 48 hour shift, Thanksgiving and the day after. We can’t leave base, so I get to miss it this year, as usual. The perk of being a flight nurse, in someone’s sordid humor.
Cooking, eating, napping, holding babies.
My whole family is going to my parents house for a nice Thanksgiving dinner.
I’ll be cooking the bird for a small gathering at my house. Looking forward to a relaxing day of eating and watching football!
I think Thanksgiving will be eating too much, as usual, lol. but that’s OK. Hey, it only comes once a year. Of course, it follows too much candy in October & precedes a big feast in December…hmm, who put these holidays so close together???
Hangin’ and feastin’ with Pete!
Turkey and football.
I am hosting Thanksgiving at my house this year and cooking everything! We let everyone we know- family and friends that everyone is welcome and have an open door policy! I’m slightly terrified at how many people are coming now….
Small family gathering at my home.
We are headed to my stepdaughter’s house to visit the grandbabies.
We will be traveling to see my parents and my husband’s parents.
i plan to go to my dads on thanksgiving
Dinner with the family and close friends!
Eating!!!
My plans for Thanksgiving is to make a nice dinner for 2.
going over to my brother in laws house
i will be spending the day with my mother!
We’re driving 18 hours with a 1.5 year old – wish us luck!
we are planning to have a nice dinner together as a family on thanksgiving. it will be nice.
I’ll spend Thanksgiving at home, so at least I don’t have to travel, lol. I expect I’ll try and make some of the typical family recipes, maybe my Grandma’s stuffing.
We are having a family dinner.
Nothing like staying home and hosting a small family dinner.. By small, I mean not to many people, but still a ton of food! 🙂
We as a family all go over to my moms house for a nice Thanksgiving meal. She prepares the turkey while we each bring a dish to go with the meal.
I am having family over at my home for Thanksgiving. Thank you
This year we get to spend it with all of our kids/grandkids – so excited.
My family is going to my mothers house for Thanksgiving.
I expect this year to be different, kind of up in the air, because this is our first Thanksgiving without my Mom. She passed away in July. So, I will see my brother’s family (just across the street) but I know it will feel like someone is missing.
Small gathering at our house this year.
We’re driving halfway across the country to visit family.
My family is coming up from the southern part of the state and we are all heading to my parents house for a Thanksgiving dinner.
Somehow, everyone in my family managed to have the day off work, so we’ll be spending the day together cooking and eating, and enjoying each other’s company 🙂
Cooking, cooking & cooking somemore!
We are cooking at home and having friends over
I am thinking about visiting my Aunt. She lives 12 hours away from me. It will depend on have much time I get off from work.
Our plans are to have dinner with my family then watch football.
Just a small family gathering this year. Same great food, just a little less hectic.
The whole family will get together at my moms house for a big meal
I live across the street from my brother’s family, so I think I will see them on thanksgiving, lol. Most of the family I see will be them & my sister-in-law’s family, though, because most of my family lives a few hours away.
We are going to my parents for a nice Thanksgiving dinner.
I’m going to help cook the Thanksgiving Day meal this year, I’m very excited. Our family is just going to take it easy; cook some turkey, talk, laugh and just enjoy some time together.
I plan to volunteer with Ooeration Turkey again this year!
My mom is coming to spend Thanksgiving with us, I am making the full deal.
I’d really like to try making my grandma’s stuffing this year. I skipped it last year, but it is so good!
Big dinner with family.
We are having a few uncles and cousins over for a family dinner this year.
We have family coming from out of state. We plan to have a nice meal with all our family in state and out of state this year!
I’ll be working all day!
I’m going home to my parents’ house for Thanksgiving, and almost all my siblings will be there too.
I am cooking for mine and my sisters families
We will be going to dinner at my sister-in-laws.
This year we are going to my aunt and uncles where the whole extended family will be together for the first time in over 20 years!
we are going to Mexico for Thanksgiving
My thanksgiving plans are hopefully to see my family and go into a turkey coma. lol
My extended family all comes to town to eat at my mother’s house.
Honestly there are no plans this year. Its just me and my kids. Probably a small dinner at home.
We are driving 18 hours to visit family for Thanksgiving.
I cook for the entire extended family. No shopping just food and football.
My plans for Thanksgiving are cooking and spending time with family.
We’re just staying home this year for Thanksgiving and we’ll have turkey and fixings with our foster kids.
We’ll be cooking at home!
I think I will try making some of my Grandma’s & my Mom’s recipes this year. It’s a way of feeling they are still here with us.
Everyone to include friends and family come to my house for Thanksgiving dinner. I spend the night before and the entire day vooking.
we do a pot luck thanksgiving dinner
Me and my husband are driving to my daughters house to spend Thanksgiving. We usually would built the gingerbread house kids with all 4 kids…
Sleeping since I work nights.
I am just going to be cooking for my husband and myself.
We are spending Thanksgiving with family.
My Dad, Aunt and Cousins are all coming for dinner.
my mother cooks and I eat
I’m preparing Thanksgiving dinner for my family.
We will be going to my daughter’s for Thanksgiving.
We will be hosting my family and my inlaws for Thanksgiving!
I will be going to my Sister in laws for Thanksgiving dinner, the whole family will be there. We all do our part in preparing the dinner and that what makes it so special.
I am having all of the family come over.
I am going to my son’s house in West TN for Thanksgiving.
I will be hosting Thanksgiving this year.
I am going to have a family dinner with my cousins
I’ll be working on Thanksgiving.. Yay Work! :-/
Hanging out with my family first, then my husbands family and eating amazing food all day!
Share a dinner with loved ones.
As I work in the resort industry, most likely be working
We will be going to my parent’s house for Thanksgiving dinner and spend time with my family.
This will be the first Thanksgiving without my Mom, who died in July, so my plans will be different this year. I will probably spend some time with my brother’s family.
I’m probably going to my parents for Thanksgiving dinner.
I am headed home to spend time with family for Thanksgiving.
My family has used Butterball Turkeys since before my great grandmother!
I don’t have plans yet, but I usually spend it with family and prepare a side dish.
I will be cooking dinner for my husband, three sons and their families.
I plan to stay home and cook a big dinner and watch football and movies.
We’re hosting about 30 people for Thanksgiving. So we’ll be busy cooking and entertaining.
Not sure yet if we are having Thanksgiving dinner at my house, my brother’s house or my sister’s house. Either the day before Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, or both (before guests arrive), I’m going to volunteer at a soup kitchen.
It’ll just be the three of us, at home. My plans? Make WAY too much food, (starring, of course, a Butterball turkey) recognizing that we LIKE thanksgiving leftovers. (Good thing too.)