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[quote=Anonymous]My extended family is celebrating a big milestone birthday over Thanksgiving this year, taking advantage of people being off work and school to have a special dinner.

The dinner is Wednesday night, at a restaurant. We are renting a large house in a central location and also have some other events planned over the weekend while we are all together. But on Thanksgiving, the plan is just to watch the parade and football and hang out at the house. But no one, including me, is really enthusiastic about trying to cook a Thanksgiving meal in a rental kitchen especially when we have this big event the night before, so there wont' be a ton of time to prep. I had originally considered trying to make most of the meal the weekend before and freeze it and bring it with us (just do the turkey day of), but now we also have another social commitment that weekend before and it's just not realistic.

Here are the ideas I had for food on Thanksgiving Day, trying to think through the pluses and minuses to these options. Or if there is another option I haven't thought of:

1) Get a traditional Thanksgiving meal catered from Whole Foods, they will apparently package the whole thing up for you and you just reheat and serve things.

2) Make a totally non-traditional meal that is much easier to prepare and we know will be a crowd pleaser the day of (we were thinking enchiladas).

3) Make a few lasagna casseroles two weeks before and freeze, and then reheat day of and get stuff for salad.

No matter what we'll make sure there's tons of snack food, stuff for breakfast and lunch, etc. at the house.

Thoughts?[/quote]

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