how many people do what we do

[bambii]

on thanksgiving we go out to eat? since it only the four of us realitives live 80 miles away. so we go out and eat at a buffet style resturant???

 

[marybet]

I wish I could talk my husband into going out. There is just the two of us, but he wants a turkey. It is just as much work to cook for two as it is for 6 or 8. But he likes leftovers, and homemade stuffing.

 

[pjlla]

How far in advance do you make reservations?.........P

 

[escape]

We've done it before. I have no problem with it.

 

[aprilgail2]

I wish I could talk my husband into going out. There is just the two of us, but he wants a turkey. It is just as much work to cook for two as it is for 6 or 8. But he likes leftovers, and homemade stuffing.

Well if he is the one that wants to stay home for a big meal I would suggest to him that HE cook it and let you sit back and relax!
We normally go out for dinner, this year we are staying home and I got a precooked turkey package, just heat up the whole meal and there ya go! I like to go shopping in the morning, then to the movies in the evening so don't want to blow to much time cooking!

 

[EpcotKilterFan]

I do! There is only 3 of us and I cook all the time. We made reservations about a week ago.

Debbie

 

[PrincessKitty1]

Just DH and I (we turned down Thanksgiving dinner with toxic relatives this year--oops, wrong thread ).There aren't a lot of places open in our town on Thanksgiving--we once ended up at TGIFridays when we discovered Cracker Barrel (and everyplace else) was closed on Thanksgiving!

If we do cook, it's nothing elaborate. Our favorite thing to do on Thanksgiving is to see a movie--there are always so many good movies out at this time of year!

 

[SRUAlmn]

We have a very small family. Even with my sisters and I bringing our fiance's there are only about 9-11 of us total. We go to a ski resort in New York called Peek n Peak for dinner every year. It's a gorgeous buffet and it's so much fun. No one has to cook or clean. It's great. Although, my fiance and I just moved to SC, so now I have a 12 hour drive to my mom's house and then about 3 more to the resort Let the fun begin

 

[disykat]

We always spend the holidays with friends who also have family far away. The few years all our friends have gone to family, we've eaten out. Several of the fancier restaurants in the area do special buffets.

Back when I was still single, one friend and I were alone when everyone else went "home" so we took ourselves out to the Space Needle in Seattle for Thanksgiving Dinner!

 

[trip]

Even when there are just 4 of us, we make the whole at home dinner. The family loves having leftovers. They say it's not Thanksgiving without leftovers!!

 

[Lil_Tink]

When we lived by our family we had about all 20 of us and had a feast. But we moved, cousins off to college ext. So now we do it with our friends who also cant go to their family and their adorable 1 year old twins.

 

[ducklite]

For as long as I can remember we've either been at WDW or at my brothers with lots of family on Thanksgiving. This year we're in FL, it's jsut the three of us, so I made reservations about three weeks ago for one of the nicer restaurants in the area that we really enjoy.

Anne

 

[CharityLynn]

My husband's grandparents pay for the whole family to eat at a buffet, unfortunately the buffet doesn't take reservation so we have to wait until they have seating for 20+ people..

Honestly I don't like eating out for Thankgiving, I would prefer the whole turkey, stuffing and all the trimmings but I;m not much of cook. I am thinking of doing a thankgiving dinner the following weekend possibly, maybe try it out.

 

[blowinbubbles]

Last year we went out to eat on Thanksgiving at a buffet at a restaurant on the harbor in Destin, Florida. It was awesome! Not only did they have turkey, dressing and all the trimmings, but they had some great seafood dishes, too! I wish I could go back this year, but we are having Thanksgiving at my MILs.

 

[hiwaygal]

Only once do I remember going "out" for Thanksgiving dinner...but it was becase my stepfather was working out in California...and he wasn't going to celebrate alone so I flew out there and we had dinner at one of the restaurants at Knott's Berry Farm! It was cool! Then we went to the amusement park part and had a blast!

The next day we went to Disneyland and I was SOOO psyched!!

Anyway...that's another story!

It's just DH and me...but I always make Thanksgiving dinner with all the "traditional" trimmings...we both enjoy it and then I don't have to cook the rest of the weekend!!

 

[Chattyaholic]

For the past several years my parents have taken all of us to a restaurant for dinner on Thanksgiving. It used to be nicer sit-down restaurants when Dad was working, but when he retired they started opting for less-expensive buffet-type places, which is fine, no problem.

THIS year Mom said they wanted to take us to a church that was having a dinner. I checked into it and it it mostly for homeless people, single people, and elderly couples who don't have family to spend the holiday with so the rest of us "suggested" we have dinner at home. Our DS and his wife are hosting the dinner. They're doing two turkeys (one in the oven, and a deep-fried one). I'm taking stuffing and a pumpkin dessert.

Next year I may suggest we just all go out and everyone pay their own way.
That way nobody has to cook. We all get together at our house for Christmas and everyone shares in the cooking, it's kind of nice to do Thanks-giving at a restaurant.

 

[Jsme]

If we lived out by ourselves with no relatives close we would do the same.