Best Thanksgiving Meal Delivery for 2023 – CNET [CNET]

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Updated on Nov. 4, 2023

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David Watsky Senior Editor / Home and Kitchen

David lives in Brooklyn where he’s logged more than a decade writing about all things edible, including meal kits and meal delivery subscriptions, cooking, kitchen gear and commerce. Since earning a BA in English from Northeastern in Boston, he’s toiled in nearly every aspect of the eats business from slicing and dicing as a sous-chef in Rhode Island to leading complex marketing campaigns for major food brands in Manhattan. These days, he’s likely somewhere trying the latest this or tasting the latest that – and reporting back, of course. Anything with sesame is his all-time favorite food this week.

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Best for a complete Thanksgiving meal kit (turkey, sides, dessert)

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Hosting Thanksgiving is a stressful endeavor, even for the most prepared kitchen warriors among us. A Thanksgiving meal kit will take a ton of prep, shopping and gruntwork out of the big day with simple recipes and recipe bundles that include all the ingredients for a full Thanksgiving dinner, down to the bunch of fresh thyme or gravy starter that you totally forgot to buy last year.

If you’ve agreed to shoulder Thanksgiving hosting duties this year, buying your turkey online is one way to ensure you nail the main course. As for the sides and dessert, ordering a Thanksgiving meal kit can keep your spirits high and blood pressure low. Many Thanksgiving meal kits include the turkey, or a large turkey breast, depending on the number of mouths you need to feed. There are even prepared Thanksgiving meal delivery boxes and catering options if you don’t feel like cooking at all.

If you’re hoping to score a Thanksgiving meal kit from HelloFresh, Purple Carrot or another service, know that most of them will sell out, since they only stock limited amounts for the season.

Note about delivery: Many of these specialty meal kit boxes and prepared meals must be ordered before a certain date. Please check with the individual vendor to ensure timely delivery before placing an order. 

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feed as many as 15 people starting at $170.

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If you really want to get your Thanksgiving gathering some social media attention, go for the turducken. That’s a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey. Many of them have stuffing too, so we’re talking a lot of food all ready to roast. Goldbelly has large turduckens to feed as many as 15 people starting at $170.

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PieCaken monster. Yes, that’s an apple cake, pumpkin pie and pecan pie all in one.

Thanksgiving pies from Goldbelly:

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full review of Martha Stewart & Marley Spoon meal kits here. 

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If you want to host like Martha you gotta think like Martha and the queen of the kitchen has developed a meal kit via her meal kit subscription service Martha Stewart & Marley Spoon. This is more of an a la carte approach with brunch, appetizers and four Thanksgiving sides that will go live with the normal, rotating menu. Think parmesan-thyme biscuits, glazed vegetables and stuffing with sausage and leeks. There are also easy dessert recipes, including a pecan pie with maple, caramel and homemade pastry

You must be a subscriber to take advantage of Martha’s Thanksgiving meal kits, but you can pause or cancel at any point with no penalty. Read our full review of Martha Stewart & Marley Spoon meal kits here

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