What are you making for Thanksgiving this year?

Prime Rib

pumpkin pie

we are having turkey and all the trimmings but i have to work the night before and the night of so i will be sleeping part of the day and my partner will make dinner. i am lucky!! then on the weekend we will have dinner with friends.

cranberry sauce and squash

Nothing! Don't think we're celebrating it at all this year. Today is our 9th anniversary but Tom is in Shanghai. We have concert tickets for tomorrow night (American Thanksgiving) and will be going out to dinner before the show (not for Thanksgiving fare, either). I thought about cooking over the weekend. However, we have a car care clinic in the marina on Saturday and on Sunday we need to get organized for the boat to be hauled on Monday morning to get the bottom repainted.

I don't really care...Thanksgiving is not one of my favorite holidays. The kids will have a big Thanksgiving "dinner" for lunch tomorrow at school. If I had family that lived nearby, it might be a different story. We went over to a fellow American's house last year which was fun. If we weren't going out tomorrow night, we'd be spending Thanksgiving at her house again.

Pork roast, spinach souffle, apple pie, blueberry pie, and traditional hardsauce for said pies.

I am making the following
I am not making anything
I do not celebrate Thanksgiving
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We have Harvest Festival over here.

Thanksgiving was a month ago, thank you very much.

I'm not the one doing the cooking--my neighbor is--and I don't know exactly what he's going to decide on yet. I will be the one doing the shopping though. It could be baby back ribs, a roast chicken, pork tenderloin, ham, or even a turkey. Likely from Trader Joe's or Whole Foods. Prime rib was a possibility earlier but it costs so much.

Nothing. I'll be working. My dad and step-mom are having Thanksgiving dinner on Friday, but I'm not expected to make anything for that. I don't even know for sure if I'm going or not.

It's an American holiday, we don't celebrate it in Australia

I don't celebrate it.

Turkey and trimmings... we'll have 8 people for dinner.

Just a simple dinner....only 5 to 7 of us tomorrow. A 20 lb. Turkey and gravy...., dressing,... mashed potatoes...., broccoli salad,..... waldorf salad,.... pea salad, .....warm green beans with bacon and onion, .... (pickles, olives, peppercini) , .....warm biscuits/butter, .......sparkling cider, .....egg nog, ....sweet potato/pumpkin/pecan pies with cream.

I wish all of you a lovely Thanksgiving Day!

Oh, I missed fresh cranberry sauce...

I'm making: turkey, stuffing, walnut bread, challah, roasted beets, roasted cauliflower, roasted sweet potatoes, and gravy. Friends are bringing pumpkin pie, pumpkin cupcakes, pumpkin baklava (!), mashed potatoes, squash, cranberry sauce, and green beans. The turkey's fresh, from a local farm... I think it was walking around a few days ago...

I am only helping make dinner. We are making the usual, turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing etc.

Mmmm, definitely turkey, with stuffing. Also, you gotta have the sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce. After that it's all gravy. Mmmm, gravy. Oh, I almost forgot, apple pie and whatever other pies I can afford or have the energy to make.

My husband is making a turkey to take to the family gathering at Grandpas. I'm his lovely assistant.

The usual. Turkey, stuffing, potatoes, green beans, gravy, cranberry sauce, pie. A salad for a little color. It's just me and my SO this year.

I am going out for Thanksgiving this year and to help others and be their with them

Don't you just love shopping at Trader Joe's? I do most of my shopping there.

It's the most reasonably priced store that we've ever had. I heard there's going to be another opening up soon here -- that'll make 4 of them. It's a wonder the other stores can stay in bizness with Trader Joe's prices so much lower, and healthy stuff too.

A War of Un-Independence - mwahahahahahahahaha!!!

Making tracks to another house where there is a warm family get to gether with turkey and all the trimmings.

Thanksgiving was in October. I worked that day. I came home and made a couple of smoked turkey sandwiches on my break.

> It's an American holiday, we don't celebrate it
> in Australia

Thanksgiving was first celebrated in Canada in 1578. The Americans didn't start doing it until 1623.

Oh, I didn't know that. We did celebrate it once when we were living over there, with family that live in CA. I have to say I liked it, great food! ;)

Around here, it's usually the biggest pig out of the year. A celebration of gluttony!

Just working, maybe eat out if anything is open

You mean you don't celebrate the corrupted american culture of stuffing your self off mashed potatoes and turkey, after all the Pilgrims wen't through a lot to come over here from a country where they were being killed, they come here and poison the indians and burn witches, "all right, we broke away from King Whoever, now it's time to kill the Indians and start a witch hunt" I don't blame you either, i don't celebrate thanksgiving either

I agree, their prices are much better, and they carry some things that the other stores don't carry. I do my entire grocery shopping every week at Trader's. They have a good selection of vitamins and minerals too. Periodically, I shop at a main grocery for paper products.

Thanksgiving is not celebrated where I live.
Thank you. Drive thru!

Thanksgiving is over man.... the birds done, soups even gone... done done done

I already celebrted in october.

Not sure..what all we're having..I'll tell you after I eat..

Yeah, some things TJ's doesn't have, like I have never seen canned evaporated milk there, nor pod coffee. I buy nearly all of my vitamins and other supplements there. They aren't open today here, Thanksgiving, though, but the other markets are, including Whole Foods. Happy Thanksgiving to you.

You're right they don't have those products, perhaps we can make suggestions to them....they have suggestion cards at the desk.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I haven't seen those suggestion cards at TJ's. I keep hoping they will get a Website like Whole Foods has, where you can suggest they get items or complain or whatever. Whole Foods has suggestion cards. I've made several requests to them and a few to TJ's desk, though in person to TJ's, not a card.

About a couple years ago, I received a card from the desk for suggestions. I suppose every T.J.'s does some things differently. I've never been to a Whole Foods store. What are they like?

I already made it. It`s over now.

They are a huge natural foods supermarket chain. They are more expensive than Trader Joe's, especially their produce, but they have lots of things TJs doesn't have. They have a butcher, bakery, deli, "Whole Body" which is natural personal care like toothpaste, mouthwash, etc., a huge selection of vitamins and other supplements, and healthy items regular markets don't carry. It's staffed with friendly people who are always willing to help you find what you're looking for and they try to keep the lines short. I can get kefir and cans of evaporated milk from Whole Foods while I can't yet from TJs. But Whole Foods is a bigger store. In summer they have potted herbs and veggies out in the parking lot area. Oh, another thing I like about WF is they have their own store brand called "365" which items are very inexpensive -- canned goods, etc. I also have found that their dairy products tend to be cheaper than regular (non-natural foods) supermarkets -- milk, half-and-half, etc. and the big tubs of yogurt are around 2 dollars cheaper at WF than the very same brand at a regular market. So some of their products are actually cheaper than regular markets and the store is full of only natural foods. You're not going to find soft drinks there but you can find healthy alternatives to all the preservatives, MSG, high sodium and high-sugar stuff you see in the regular supermarkets.

Sounds good to me. I don't think they have a Whole Foods store around here...I'll look and see. I think the only way we can really make a difference in our health is "whole foods" literally. I think the reason many people in their 90's have survived, is because they ate whole foods, scratch cooking at home, made their own bread, made things more naturally, ate lots of herbs, ate a different way, not a lot of "empty foods. I feel sorry for the future generation with all the junk foods.

I'll look up Whole Foods here, I hope they have one.

I am fortunate to have a next-door neighbor who loves to cook; and believes in cooking from scratch and with healthy ingredients. I think schools should have a mandatory class about healthy nutrition. Kids watch so much TV that they're constantly being bombarded by commercials promoting such "empty foods."

I agree! The high school that my two grandchildren attends, offers nothing but junk food...pizza, hamburgers, French fries, taco bell, etc...the same as if they went out to the fast food restaurants. I believe the fast food restaurants bring it into the high schools. From what I understand, the high school will, in the next couple years, start providing healthier foods, as they're building and opening a kitchen to make healthier foods. I ask you, why haven't they done this before? The schools have known very well that good nutrition is important in the learning process. They have the junk machines, soft drinks, pastries, the kids also waste their money on that junk. About a year ago, I had a survey call about money and schools. They asked if we’d like the junk machines out of the schools, I said absolutely, get them out. They then asked if I’d be willing to give up the $25,000 each year, given to the school allowing the machines in. I was appalled to hear that…the children were made to suffer, just because the schools want more money…too bad, let them manage their money better, put the children first…..get the machines out of the schools. The old adage is so true….we are what we eat.

It's a wonder more kids aren't overweight than already are. When they go off to work they'll see the same things in corporate cafeterias and office break rooms -- all I used to see wherever I worked were soft drink machines and other junk food. So it's up to the individual to realize they're doing themselves harm by eating and drinking this kind of thing; and since the schools apparently don't care, it's up to the parents to talk to their kids about eating right for their health now and in the future. But today's parents have grown up on TV advertising and probably don't know much about nutrition themselves.

You're so right...the generations since the 60's have known the junk food craze. When I went to high school, they served good food, had a good kitchen. In the elementary school level, my mom made me lunch. the mid level, I did both, take my lunch, and sometimes ate in the cafeteria. You're right the children of today are being raised by junk food parents....plus junk food is a lazy way to eat. You're right, it's a wonder why there aren't more obese children. I'm glad you are conscientious and eat well.

Ate out this Thanksgiving, my boyfriend took me to a high class place and had steak and lobster

Well I've always been into health foods -- so was my mom before me. But I think as we grow older we start to think more about our bodies and what we can do to try to stay healthy. Kids think they can do anything they want, that they're immortal. I see a lot of young people today smoking and am amazed that so many do it, yet there's so much proof out there that it's a poison.

I don't celebrate thanksgiving

Food.