Hosting Thanksgiving for mostly seniors, very traditional

[Anonymous]

Op I haven’t read all six pages but did someone suggest asking your in laws for their favorite traditional recipes?

That’s what I’d do. Ask your spouse to take on preparing two of his/her family’s favorite the way they had it growing up. Then do some of your own.

[Anonymous]

Op just buy the ready made mashed potatoes at the grocery store. It comes in the refrigerated section. Not expensive.

[Anonymous]

Bob Evans brand. They will love it.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bob-Evans-Original-Mashed-Potatoes-Refrigerated-Dinner-Sides-24-oz-Pack-of-1/10309114

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op just buy the ready made mashed potatoes at the grocery store. It comes in the refrigerated section. Not expensive.

Seriously. She could get Bob Evans for the ILs and Wegmans or Whole Foods so that her BRASH, BOLD, ADVENTUROUS other guests can eat something more commensurate to their superior life status.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bob Evans brand. They will love it.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bob-Evans-Original-Mashed-Potatoes-Refrigerated-Dinner-Sides-24-oz-Pack-of-1/10309114

Thanks, I might do this. I haven’t seen ready made potatoes but I’m assuming around thanksgiving they will be out in the case if I look. And not $20-30 like I’ve seen for restaurant side dishes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bob Evans brand. They will love it.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bob-Evans-Original-Mashed-Potatoes-Refrigerated-Dinner-Sides-24-oz-Pack-of-1/10309114

Thanks, I might do this. I haven’t seen ready made potatoes but I’m assuming around thanksgiving they will be out in the case if I look. And not $20-30 like I’ve seen for restaurant side dishes.

OK, you’ve never shopped at Whole Foods or Wegmans? Because even the fancy grocery stores worthy of you have mashed potatoes in their deli/hot food section, freshly made every day. You might have gotten away with never seen Bob Evans (food for peasants) at Giant or Safeway, but even the most expensive grocery stores that carry the highest-end items have mashed potatoes ready to carry out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bob Evans brand. They will love it.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bob-Evans-Original-Mashed-Potatoes-Refrigerated-Dinner-Sides-24-oz-Pack-of-1/10309114

Thanks, I might do this. I haven’t seen ready made potatoes but I’m assuming around thanksgiving they will be out in the case if I look. And not $20-30 like I’ve seen for restaurant side dishes.

OK, you’ve never shopped at Whole Foods or Wegmans? Because even the fancy grocery stores worthy of you have mashed potatoes in their deli/hot food section, freshly made every day. You might have gotten away with never seen Bob Evans (food for peasants) at Giant or Safeway, but even the most expensive grocery stores that carry the highest-end items have mashed potatoes ready to carry out.

I don’t know what Wegmans is but no, I’ve seen potato salad, Amish potatoes, never mashed potatoes, but I haven’t really been looking for it either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bob Evans brand. They will love it.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bob-Evans-Original-Mashed-Potatoes-Refrigerated-Dinner-Sides-24-oz-Pack-of-1/10309114

Thanks, I might do this. I haven’t seen ready made potatoes but I’m assuming around thanksgiving they will be out in the case if I look. And not $20-30 like I’ve seen for restaurant side dishes.

OK, you’ve never shopped at Whole Foods or Wegmans? Because even the fancy grocery stores worthy of you have mashed potatoes in their deli/hot food section, freshly made every day. You might have gotten away with never seen Bob Evans (food for peasants) at Giant or Safeway, but even the most expensive grocery stores that carry the highest-end items have mashed potatoes ready to carry out.

Also, I don’t know why people are assuming I shop at “fancy” stores. There is Kroger and Target near me. I shop there and Costco.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bob Evans brand. They will love it.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bob-Evans-Original-Mashed-Potatoes-Refrigerated-Dinner-Sides-24-oz-Pack-of-1/10309114

Thanks, I might do this. I haven’t seen ready made potatoes but I’m assuming around thanksgiving they will be out in the case if I look. And not $20-30 like I’ve seen for restaurant side dishes.

OK, you’ve never shopped at Whole Foods or Wegmans? Because even the fancy grocery stores worthy of you have mashed potatoes in their deli/hot food section, freshly made every day. You might have gotten away with never seen Bob Evans (food for peasants) at Giant or Safeway, but even the most expensive grocery stores that carry the highest-end items have mashed potatoes ready to carry out.

Also, I don’t know why people are assuming I shop at “fancy” stores. There is Kroger and Target near me. I shop there and Costco.

So you live…in the Midwest? And you’ve been mocking Midwesterners? Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bob Evans brand. They will love it.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bob-Evans-Original-Mashed-Potatoes-Refrigerated-Dinner-Sides-24-oz-Pack-of-1/10309114

Thanks, I might do this. I haven’t seen ready made potatoes but I’m assuming around thanksgiving they will be out in the case if I look. And not $20-30 like I’ve seen for restaurant side dishes.

OK, you’ve never shopped at Whole Foods or Wegmans? Because even the fancy grocery stores worthy of you have mashed potatoes in their deli/hot food section, freshly made every day. You might have gotten away with never seen Bob Evans (food for peasants) at Giant or Safeway, but even the most expensive grocery stores that carry the highest-end items have mashed potatoes ready to carry out.

Also, I don’t know why people are assuming I shop at “fancy” stores. There is Kroger and Target near me. I shop there and Costco.

So you live…in the Midwest? And you’ve been mocking Midwesterners? Wow.

No. Previous poster(s) apparently assumed I lived in DC, shopped at Wegman and was mocking Midwesterners.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just make regular mashed potatoes without the skins. If people like mashed potatoes, they like mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes with skin does not equal adventurous eating by the way. I'd keep the kale salad and serve it along with whatever traditional items the elderly like.

Mashed potatoes with skin and pepper would be adventurous for the older in-laws.
Is cornbread or dinner rolls "safer"?
Part of the problem here is that I grew up eating non-american food (parents are immigrants) so I'm not sure what is "standard." But I know the inlaws will not want to eat anything "different."

Presumably you know how to Google, and you still can't figure out what a "standard" American Thanksgiving meal typically entails?

Honestly I don't think there is a standard. There are regional differences, for sure. Some areas will put sausage or oysters in their stuffing. Some will use cornbread instead of bread. Some will insist on calling it dressing.

Dressing is a different dish than stuffing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just make regular mashed potatoes without the skins. If people like mashed potatoes, they like mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes with skin does not equal adventurous eating by the way. I'd keep the kale salad and serve it along with whatever traditional items the elderly like.

Mashed potatoes with skin and pepper would be adventurous for the older in-laws.
Is cornbread or dinner rolls "safer"?
Part of the problem here is that I grew up eating non-american food (parents are immigrants) so I'm not sure what is "standard." But I know the inlaws will not want to eat anything "different."

Presumably you know how to Google, and you still can't figure out what a "standard" American Thanksgiving meal typically entails?

Honestly I don't think there is a standard. There are regional differences, for sure. Some areas will put sausage or oysters in their stuffing. Some will use cornbread instead of bread. Some will insist on calling it dressing.

Dressing is a different dish than stuffing.

Most people use it interchangeably.

[Anonymous]

Just remember, we all will be old someday, and our kids or grandkids will be taking about how we irritated they are with having to put pomegranate seeds into the salad and ruin beautifully flavored natural potatoes with aggressive amounts of garlic, pepper, and whatnot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bob Evans brand. They will love it.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bob-Evans-Original-Mashed-Potatoes-Refrigerated-Dinner-Sides-24-oz-Pack-of-1/10309114

Thanks, I might do this. I haven’t seen ready made potatoes but I’m assuming around thanksgiving they will be out in the case if I look. And not $20-30 like I’ve seen for restaurant side dishes.

OK, you’ve never shopped at Whole Foods or Wegmans? Because even the fancy grocery stores worthy of you have mashed potatoes in their deli/hot food section, freshly made every day. You might have gotten away with never seen Bob Evans (food for peasants) at Giant or Safeway, but even the most expensive grocery stores that carry the highest-end items have mashed potatoes ready to carry out.

Also, I don’t know why people are assuming I shop at “fancy” stores. There is Kroger and Target near me. I shop there and Costco.

So you live…in the Midwest? And you’ve been mocking Midwesterners? Wow.

Regardless, shopping at Wegman’s is nothing to brag about.

No. Previous poster(s) apparently assumed I lived in DC, shopped at Wegman and was mocking Midwesterners.

[Anonymous]

FWIW, my New England relatives put out a pretty bland, traditional menu with no lump potatoes (yes, all, use a ricer).