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Maybe FaceTime while you eat dinner at your place while the people you were traveling to eat at their place?

I'm married with kids now but in my 20's I spent some Thanksgivings away from my parents/siblings. It was just me and my boyfriend - we cooked a turkey with all the trimmings and watched football. It was different not to be around a crowd but it was relaxing and fun. Not everything turned out gourmet but it was still o.k.

Trader Joe's. Get there quick, they do run out. They have smallish portions of already roasted turkey breast (leftovers make great soup!) Or at least that's what I'd do, since I LOVE LEFTOVERS and seriously would not mind eating turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing and green bean casserole for 3 days. Whole foods is probably a better bet if you don't want any extras.

I know you didn't ask for this suggestion, but if you like to cook, Serious Eats has a lovely idea for a one-skillet, one-hour Thanksgiving meal that you can whip up yourself!

Balduccis and rent some chick flicks, sleep in, wear pjs and a fuzzy robe all day, drink wine, read a great book, nap...

I was alone one year on Thanksgiving. I did exactly those things, and it was kind of awesome.

Balduccis.

I would do take out Chinese, if I was alone. I'd order a lot of small appetizers, some noodles, a meat dish and some dumplings. Yum. I'd spend Wednesday watching all the poor souls on the road stuck in traffic.

Why bother?

Honestly, turkey is kind of gross and it's not that big of a deal at all to not eat Thanksgiving dinner anywhere but your house by yourself. Really, it's just not. My fave Thanksgiving is when I had a slight cold and my sisters had newborns and were FTMs. They demanded I not come. I stayed home, at chinese and watched tv. No big deal.

Why not make your own? You could do a turkey breast, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc. And then enjoy the leftovers for the next week. Freeze some for later. Make some turkey stew, turkey tetrazinni..

We are traveling to see family and, while I love them to bits, I would LOVE to have a holiday to myself. I find the Whole Foods sides to be just okay, (stuffing is dry) so maybe try one of the other options. Don't forget the wine!

Anonymous wrote:At Whole Foods you can just buy from the prepared foods section, what you want, as much as you want. They had all the basics -- various types of stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, turkey, sweet potatoes, etc. Buy a small container, medium, large, etc. Just like their salads.
Pretty sure you have to buy a whole pie, though .

they sometimes have mini pies too!

OP, I've spent many Thanksgivings alone (no local family, husband who works on Thanksgiving, no friends who invited me). I usually just went to a grocery store and bought yummy items from the deli counter, or did a pizza. This year it's just me, husband, ad baby, and we're just doing take-out from a restaurant. We weren't invited anywhere for Thanksgiving and our families are too far away to travel to and are not coming to us.