I destroyed our family's Thanksgiving this year

[Anonymous]

Yes, just get a little help from the store, you don't have to tell everyone. We are spending Thanksgiving in a cabin in the mountains and hiking. I am making the following, with no apologies to anyone.

Turkey - in show time rotisserie oven
bob evans mashed potatoes
bob evans mac and cheese
marshmallow topped sweet potatoes
broccoli
pumpkin pie - using the recipe on the can plus cool whip
turkey gravy from a jar
stove stop stuffing.

Yum yum, sounds good to me.

[Anonymous]

All of that sounds disgusting but more power to you!

[Anonymous]

Woe is me!

[Anonymous]

We once had to cancel a feast for 25 including my own family. We spent the next 48 hrs. sitting on toilets with our heads in buckets. The guests appreciated us canceling. And we resumed our hosting duties the following Thanksgiving. It will be ok.

[Anonymous]

Don't worry this too will pass. I gave all my in-laws and my extended family roto-virus one Thanksgiving. It took 16 years, but now it isn't the first story that gets "remembered". I even gave it to my 94 year old grandmother who hadn't been sick since she survived the flu of 1918 - in Kansas (the epi-enter).

Save the Turkey and cranberries and cook it in December for Christmas, Yule, New Years or just because.

Are you at least feeling better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, just get a little help from the store, you don't have to tell everyone. We are spending Thanksgiving in a cabin in the mountains and hiking. I am making the following, with no apologies to anyone.

Turkey - in show time rotisserie oven
bob evans mashed potatoes
bob evans mac and cheese
marshmallow topped sweet potatoes
broccoli
pumpkin pie - using the recipe on the can plus cool whip
turkey gravy from a jar
stove stop stuffing.

Yum yum, sounds good to me.

Don't forget the Tums, Rolaids, Alca-seltzer

[Anonymous]

Love this PP! Hahaha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP you sound a tad bit overdramatic yoursellf. Chill. Get over whatever you've got and book a trip for next Thanksgiving if it's such a headache to have a few people for dinner.

+1. Seems to have more real problems than this thread blah blah.

[Anonymous]

Get some Swanson frozen turkey dinners and call it a day, OP! The manly size should satisfy everyone.

[Anonymous]

Have some chicken soup, put up your feet, snuggle up in a warm blanket and just relax.

Put the turkey in the freezer and enjoy it on Christmas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get some Swanson frozen turkey dinners and call it a day, OP! The manly size should satisfy everyone.

Come on, at least recommend Marie Calendar's

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were supposed to host, and I had an elaborate home-cooked menu planned out. On Friday morning a migraine hits me, and wouldn't you know, I spend the next 3 days trembling, sweating and coughing in bed, only getting up to: pee, vomit, or get more water.

MIL comes down to check up on us, and by the end of the visit, she's not feeling so hot either. Long story short, she goes to the ER on her way home (!) and she has pneumonia. I don't think I gave her the pneumonia, but she had been recovering from a nasty cold herself.

Upshot is, MIL is probably going to need all week and maybe more to recuperate, and SIL is pregnant so she is going to give us a wide berth--despite having made plans to fly in with her family. My own mom is elderly herself so that's a nogo. I either have the flu or an extremely virulent cold strain, and I am just today getting on my feet after popping 4 prescriptions.

So my grand vision just exploded right before my very eyes--all due to me. All I have is a frozen turkey in the fridge and 2 huge bags of cranberries--I had barely gotten started on the shopping.

DH says he's tired of hosting year after year, why doesn't his mom host for fuck's sakes like a proper matriarch, but I know why, she can't cook, and hey, who doesn't want a party thrown without putting in any of the effort? She said that if she felt "inspired" she will bring a pie. I didn't care, I just wanted to cook and feed people.

If SIL wasn't pregnant Thanksgiving would still be a go-ahead, but with sickness all around, it doesn't look like it's happening this year.

What a disaster.

You are too dramatic! You ruined nothing. People get sick. If you did not have pnuemonia you did not give it to anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's Monday. You've got time. I haven't even done my shopping yet. Simplify the menu. Send DH to the store to buy the ingredients. Or just get some pre made items. DH can take on some/most of the cooking tasks.

I'm not getting what is ruined either and I agree with the bolded. I started my shopping yesterday after work and will finish it tonight after work and will start my pies this evening. The stores have plenty of stuff.

[Anonymous]

I was just at the store to get my ingredients. The deli counter had everything you could possibly want for a great Thanksgiving, with no more prep needed than heating it up.

I would just buy everything and warm it up.

You can't help getting sick.

[Anonymous]

OP, I am confused. You said your MIL has pneumonia. Why would you expect her to drop everything and host? With pneumonia?