Canadian Thanksgiving will fall on Monday, October 13, 2025.
American Thanksgiving will fall on Thursday, November 27, 2025.
What do you have planned for your Thanksgiving this year?
I will make a small roast turkey, bread and apple stuffing, roast parsnips, a fall salad, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie . I may also make mashed potatoes and cauliflower cheese.
My sister is ordering a full turkey dinner, pre-cooked, just heat and serve, from Sobeys. None of us can be arsed to cook it from scratch these days 
i ended up giving our neighbour 75 percent of the roast turkey the next day.
I donāt mind roasting them.
Itās gotta be tiring (not to mention boring) making the same dishes year in, year out. Turkey, gravy, mashed, green beans, etc. etc.
Most likely one of our friends will be hosting, but if not I may just make a shrimp curry or a spicy Sichuan dish.
It still feels too far out to plan. Iām currently trying to get down plans for the end of October.
I still want to try and make some version of potato pave. Last yearās initial attempt tasted fine, but didnāt get the crispy brown surfaces I was hoping for. The slices didnāt really hold together as well as I hoped when frying.
I did it for years when my parents were still around and for work, Iām good just ordering take out now
Hugh PITA if you ask me, and the mess?!?!?! No thanks.
We prefer to get invited 
After all Iāve been through this year, I hope to get invited to a āFriendsgivingā or likewise. The fam can potluck something if theyād like, somewhere. I am too tired to plan, execute and clean up this year.
same, but I usually end up helping in some capacity because of my previous life
Very much this. A BBQ place near us does an excellent smoked turkey breast. Weāll make a veg or two for the side, maybe a potato thing, and some form of bread. Bottle or three of wine. Done. So very over cooking for two days straight - I donāt even like roast turkey. (Smoked, however, is pretty good!)
Iām happy as long as I get some stuffing, cranberry sauce, and a slice of pumpkin pie.
I have had half a dozen relatives get married on Canadian Thanksgiving weekend since 2005, so half a dozen of my Thanksgivings have been on the road. I have gotten my Turkey Dinner fix at a Bob Evans on the way home from Pittsburgh, and at the Saskatoon Sheraton. LOL
When I lived in the States, I got my Canadian Thanksgiving fix with a Thanksgiving on a Roll sandwich which used to be on the menu year-round at the Comfort Diner in Manhattan.
Comfort Diner has a Thanksgiving Dinner on their menu every day. (but no Thanksgiving on a Roll Sandwich right now)
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While takeout turkey would work for me, one of my DCs doesnāt like take-out anymore. So, no take-out turkey unless itās for me on my own.
I usually contribute a salad, since Iām the salad queen in our circle 
Wow, that snuck up fast!
Thanksgiving is up in the air for me this year: my aunt, the hostess of the holiday, just sold her house and moved to temporary accommodations (well, her best friendās vacant house, so not unknown), and thereās a wedding that requires travel right after.
Soā¦ I donāt know. If I were a betting person, Iād say my cousin will host with my aunt trying and failing not to backseat drive 
, Iāll go for the day (because weāll all need some sense of ānormalcyā), and Iāll fly out for the wedding right after.
The traditional meal is the only meal we all want that day ā we make, eat, and enjoy it once a year: Turkey, stuffing balls, mashed potatoes, gravy, buttered green beans, and roasted brussels sprouts. (Plus pies and ice cream for dessert, which I donāt partake of because Iām already stuffed by then.)
Dealerās choice on apps: almost always smoked salmon / gravlax, a cheeseboard (with or without baked brie on the side), bacon-wrapped sausages (if youāre going to overdo it, just overdo it!), baguettes, and some new entrants every year depending on who felt like trying out what recipe.
Do one of the DCs want turkey as a critical component of the meal?
tbh Iād rather switch to chicken, and keep suggesting it and keep getting overruled by the 2 people who want turkey 
(Iām happy for the leftovers ā turkey curry and turkey soup are significant improvements to even the best roasted turkey.)
Yep, turkey is sort of traditional for us. My DCs only eat turkey one week a year. Thanksgiving and the 2 days after Thanksgiving.
I make chicken once or twice a week so we wouldnāt do chicken on Thanksgiving, unless I couldnāt find turkey.
I occasionally have roasted a duck for Thanksgiving.
I have made turkey thighs and turkey drums, and a breast rolled up by the turkey farm. One DC prefers seeing the whole bird. So, I roast a whole bird. We prefer dark meat, so last year I gave all the white meat to our neighbour.
I keep the bones to make turkey avgolemono, and sometimes tom kha turkey.
This looks good
I get a kick of seeing photos online of British Xmas dinners with their bacon- wrapped sausages. I havenāt tried any yet.
Use to have Dungeness crabs for Thanksgiving in NorCal but that no longer seems like an option as the season has been pushed back to after the new year, even into late Jan early Feb. Going on ten years or more. Oh well.
Itās gotta be tiring (not to mention boring) making the same dishes year in, year out. Turkey, gravy, mashed, green beans, etc. etc.
Itās not for me because I only make those dishes once a year (except maybe buttered corn). Even mashed potatoes - for no particular reason, I never make this for dinner and prefer roasted potatoes, even though I enjoy a good mashed potato. I experiment with different brines and herb blends, and last year I tried the herbed mayo rub on the turkey. Thereās just enough little tweaks each year that make things interesting. Plus it smells so good, and that Iām pretty happy to indulge in this once a year.
we have three children, no grandchildrenā¦
we have always done big invites and big deals Thanksgiving and Christmas.
often, it was 2-out-of-three, sometimes just-one, rarely all three attended.
last Thanksgiving, bought a fresh turkey - everybody had āotherā plansā¦
froze the turkey for Christmas - everybody had āotherā plans.
we got a rotisserie chicken for Christmas dinner. eventually threw the fresh-to-frozen turkey away - none of the local food banks can āhandleā frozen donations.
this year, no invitations will be issued. in fact, weāre contemplating a vacation elsewhere, and far away . . . .
sheetz happens, but weāre just too old to put up with it.
not especially a happy kindaā thing, eh?
