Is anyone NOT having Turkey for Thanksgiving?

[Swimnoid]

My DH just doesnt enjoy turkey so this year I am making him rib roast. We have cousins who always made ravioli from scratch for Thanksgiving. Anybody else doing something different?

 

[wdwmom0f3]

We are having two Thanksgiving dinners and for one we are doing something non traditional. I think we are having ham with baked beans and potato salad and other sides, but I am not sure yet what all we will have. I like this idea, but I still like turkey & dressing and allll the other holiday favorites.

 

[mrsltg]

We are not having turkey this Thanksgiving. We are driving to WDW and so are planning to have McDonald's for dinner!

 

[txmommy34]

We're planning on Flame Tree BBQ at AK for Thanksgiving dinner this year!

 

[SC Minnie]

We are having Thanksgiving dinner at WDW too!!!!

 

[Swimnoid]

We are not having turkey this Thanksgiving. We are driving to WDW and so are planning to have McDonald's for dinner!

We're planning on Flame Tree BBQ at AK for Thanksgiving dinner this year!

I hate you both!

 

[Swimnoid]

We are having Thanksgiving dinner at WDW too!!!!

And you too!

 

[minkydog]

We did that...once. I'm a nurse, so I had to work Thanksgiving that year. DHs sister came to see us the weekend before, so we just had our turkey on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. We ate Turkey for about 3 days until we were sick of it. So we orderd pizza on Thanksgiving. No problem, right? WRONG. DS24 (then 6) called my mother long distance, crying, because all we had for Thanksgiving was pizza. Huh! I will never do that again!

 

[disneychic2]

We're planning on Flame Tree BBQ at AK for Thanksgiving dinner this year!

LOVE THIS!!!!

 

[disneychic2]

Sorry, we can't forego the turkey for Thanksgiving. I wish I was brave....

 

[MichelleVW]

We aren't into celebrating by eating anymore. None of us really care about Turkey, the girls are going to be at the UT/A&M game so DH and I will probably just go to the movies and eat popcorn. Super non stressful way to spend the day!!

 

[ForTheLoveofDisney]

We are not having turkey as we are vegetarian and vegan.

 

[Hannathy]

We are not having turkey this Thanksgiving. We are driving to WDW and so are planning to have McDonald's for dinner!

Make sure you plan on stopping at rest stops on the interstates or turnpikes to eat. We were very surprised driving one holiday to find everything fast foody closed if it wasn't at a rest stop. so just make sure where you are planning on eating is open!!!

 

[java]

We are not having turkey this Thanksgiving. We are driving to WDW and so are planning to have McDonald's for dinner!

wanted to second make sure they are open. We found even rest stop fast food places were closed. I believe Waffle houses were open. But I ended up packing some fried chicken just in case and I'm glad I did- we didn't find anything open when we drove down.

 

[JustCallMeMommy]

We have made gumbo some years, usually in the years when we know we'll be going to visit someone else who will be having turkey with all the trimmings.

This year will be a turkey year though - DH just bought an oil-less turkey fryer that he is itching to try out.

 

[Mickeypooh99]

wanted to second make sure they are open. We found even rest stop fast food places were closed. I believe Waffle houses were open. But I ended up packing some fried chicken just in case and I'm glad I did- we didn't find anything open when we drove down.

We ate at Waffle house one year for thanksgiving. We were driving to Disney, and it was the only thing we could find open. It was somewhere in Tenessee back in 1998.

I remember driving around not finding anything open, so we stopped at a Walgreens and I was buying bread, and peanut butter and jelly. The woman behind the counter asked if that was our thanksgiving dinner. She felt so bad for us that she used the phone book to call around and find us somewhere that was open to eat. She found a Waffle House.

We learned a lesson that year. Now we make sure something is open wherever we will be.

 

[scrapquitler]

Last year was the first Thanksgiving without my Dad, and it was just a couple of days after his birthday My nephew was playing Quarterback in the football game at noontime, so my Mom, my brothers and I decided to go non-tradtional last year. We went to the game then back to Mom's house and had Hamburgers, hotdogs and other tailgating type foods. Then by 3:00 I was sound asleep on the couch.

This year, football game again (they are undefeated at this point, 8-0 going into tonight's game) so guess where we will be? My Mom liked not doing the big turkey dinner, so we will be doing something non-traditional again.

 

[Pkaroch]

No turkey here...I cannot STAND turkey, and since I'm the cook...well...

It's just Dad and I, no other family, so I do a small roast with all the usual trimmings. Potatoes, corn, gravy (beef), stuffing (cheap store brand in a box), and cranberry sauce (in a can, of course). We love it, and it works for us. I also make spaghetti sauce from scratch with hot Italian sausage for Christmas, and avoid turkey that day too!

 

[Agri]

Its turkey this year at my mom's request (recovering from a brain tumor means she gets her way! ), but the past few years we've had Moroccan-spiced pork tenderloin, leg of lamb, cornish hens, and pot roast. Its just mom and me, so we don't always do turkey. Especially since I'm not that big on it.

 

[JVL1018]

We are flying to WDW Thanksgiving morning and I haven't even thought of where we're going to eat-some quick service place for sure, not turkey.
Thanksgiving dinner will be at Liberty Tree Tavern on Friday evening.