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2024 Thanksgiving Menu and Meal Prep Timeline

* image These past few months have been busy for our family, especially since our oldest joined a local swim team. Between juggling our work schedules and balancing school with practices... we're all pretty wiped out. Although it's a lot of work, I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving. Preparing the holiday meal for our family fills my heart with joy, and I can't wait to get started. To make things easier for me, I don't deviate much from  our first Thanksgiving  as a family. The dishes I make are familiar ones, and the recipes for them live at my fingertips. Keeping the same menu year after year means I don't have to spend time researching recipes or planning a new one. Here are my tried-and-true Thanksgiving recipes, as well as my prep timeline for the big day!

Stay Hydrated with Hydro Flask {and a Giveaway}

21-oz. Hydro Flask Stainless Steel Water Bottle in Acai Purple | Taste As You Go

I was provided a Hydro Flask Stainless Steel Water Bottle at no cost to me. Hydro Flask will be providing the prize for this giveaway and will be shipping the prize directly to the winner. I did not accept monetary compensation for this post. All opinions expressed are my own.

We've heard it at least a thousand times before -- one of the best things you can do for your body is to drink plenty of water. Not only does water help keep the internal systems of your body in balance, but it also does wonders for your skin, keeping it moisturized and leaving you looking fresh and youthful. Now, with their line of stainless steel insulated water bottles from Hydro Flask, staying hydrated and taking care of your body has never been so fashionable!


21-oz. Hydro Flask Stainless Steel Water Bottle in Acai Purple | Taste As You Go

I can't explain why, but I've found that I'm way better about drinking water throughout the day when I carry a water bottle around with me. We're somewhat active people, so Stephen and I have a shelf in one of our kitchen cabinets dedicated to our embarrassingly-large water bottle collection. But I can't remember the last time I used a bottle other than my Hydro Flask, generously sent to me a few months ago by the company.

Top of 21-oz. Hydro Flask Stainless Steel Water Bottle | Taste As You Go

All of Hydro Flask's water bottles are 100% BPA-free, so you don't have to worry about the chance of toxic chemicals leaking into your beverages. Plus, the double-wall vacuum-insulated design makes for a very controlled internal environment. The temperature of the liquid you pour into your bottle will stay consistent for hours and hours, meaning your icy cold water (which is the way I like it) won't cause the bottle to "sweat" and your scalding hot coffee won't make the bottle too hot to handle without a protective sleeve. Hot contents will stay hot for 12 hours and cold contents will stay cold for 24 hours.

Kind of brilliant, actually.

21-oz. Hydro Flask Stainless Steel Water Bottle in Acai Purple | Taste As You Go

Another feature I love? The 1.81-inch mouth. It makes filling (and refilling!) the bottle so much easier.

But... maybe the whole filling-a-water-bottle-without-getting-water-all-over-the-counter-and-possibly-the-floor thing is just something that I have a problem with. *blush*

Enough talk. How would you like to win a Hydro Flask of your very own?

Giveaway Details

Hydro Flask will be providing one (1) winner with a 21-oz. Standard Mouth Hydro Flask in the color of their choosing. There are 9 color options, so you're guaranteed to find a bottle that will fit your style. (I have the Acai Purple bottle, in case you were wondering.)

This giveaway is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada only and will end at 12:00 am on Friday, August 9, 2013. Good luck!!

A Taste As You Go / Rafflecopter Giveaway



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