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.
Featured: Omaha Steaks
America’s favorite butcher is offering up more than sirloins and strip steaks this holiday season! You can get your entire Thanksgiving feast, from perfectly seasoned turkey to scrumptious pumpkin pie, delivered right to your door from Omaha Steaks.
You can build your own Thanksgiving meal, with custom packages for four, six or eight people, or you can choose from the brand’s Thanksgiving Dinner packages — all packed with Omaha Steaks’ high-quality proteins and classic holiday sides. Looking to stray from the norm? Why not try a Seasoned Cornish Game Hen or a decadent Salmon Wellington. Whatever options you choose, you’ll love the easy-to-follow instructions and guaranteed delicious results.
During the Omaha Steaks Semi-Annual sale, you can save 50% off sitewide and get 10% cash back on your purchase. You’ll also get free shipping and four free burgers on orders of $149 or more, making this holiday deal a no-brainer.
Blue Apron
Blue Apron is the meal delivery service of choice for many people’s everyday needs. However, you can also turn to Blue Apron when you don’t want to prepare an entire Thanksgiving dinner on your own.
For Thanksgiving, Blue Apron offers three meal kits that can help you “celebrate more and stress less.” There’s the Classic Thanksgiving Box that serves six to eight guests, the Vegetarian Holiday Box for eight to 10 people and the Holiday Ham Box that’s also designed to feed eight to 10 guests.
Depending on the meal kit, you could be enjoying savory turkey, baked ham with a brown sugar and honey glaze or vegetarian delights like three-cheese cavatappi with mushrooms. As you would expect, your Thanksgiving meal from Blue Apron will also come with several sides and a delish dessert. You can order your meal during the three weeks that lead up to Turkey Day.
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.
Thanksgiving Celebration Platter ($18.99), the Thanksgiving Celebration Platter ($16.99) and the Thanksgiving Hot Meal ($99.99). The Platter meals provide enough food for one person, while the Thanksgiving Hot Meal can serve six guests.
All meals except the Thanksgiving Celebration Platter come with slow-roasted turkey, hickory-smoked ham, house-made bread and celery dressing, cranberry relish, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans and ham, buttered corn, dinner rolls and even some pumpkin pie. The regular Thanksgiving Celebration Platter is a little cheaper because it doesn’t include ham.
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 $145.
If this feast sounds perfect for your Thanksgiving table, you can start reserving your to-go or catering Thanksgiving order starting on Oct. 23.
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 (eight to 10 guests) and Family Dinner (four to six people) 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 by ordering individual items like holiday pies and mouth-watering sides.
Cracker Barrel Thanksgiving meals are available for pickup Nov. 19-26 and must be used within 72 hours of pickup. However, keep in mind that the meals are only available while supplies last.
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 $8.49 per person and is guaranteed fresh for at least two days after receiving it.
Best of all, FreshDirect offers this meal all year, so you can order it whenever you like. Sometimes, we all just need a little Thanksgiving dinner.
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. Harry & David offers 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, you can select the convenient express two-day shipping option for many items.
HelloFresh
HelloFresh is an 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 $19.99 per person or a meal that features beef tenderloin as the star for $26.99 per person. You can count on finding delicious sides with your meal, including creamy mashed potatoes, brioche stuffing and garlic green beans. The meals also come with apple crisp for dessert.
HelloFresh will be shipping the turkey and tenderloin dinners between Nov. 14 and 21 so that you’ll have them in time for Thanksgiving.
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 delicious surprise 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 2:59 a.m. on Nov. 17.
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