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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!
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What's for Dinner: January 5 - January 11

Looking for dinner inspiration? Here's what I've planned for dinner at our house this week!

Vehicle on Road Between Trees | Photo by Liam Pozz via Unsplash

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It's already Sunday. Which means tomorrow is Monday. And given how my Saturday went, I'm just not ready for Monday.

Let me back up to Friday.

I had taken the day off from work and signed up for a cooking class at Sur La Table to make progress on my 40 Before 40 list. (Actually, it was a baking class about Rustic European Breads.) I was so inspired, I decided to pick up a few things in the store afterward to help with my baking endeavors at home. As I drove home, I started thinking about what I wanted to bake the next time I have some free time over the weekend.

This brings us to Saturday.

Stephen and I had errands to run, so we packed the kids up in the car and headed out for the morning. While at HomeGoods, I stumbled across something I had been searching for for a long time... storage for our root vegetables. But when I went to pay for it, I discovered my credit card was missing.

Guess where it was... That's right... At Sur La Table. I left it there after buying my post-class goodies.

Instead of going home and working on the rest of my to-do list, I had to shift gears. I dropped the family off, wolfed down some lunch, and drove all the way back to Sur La Table to pick up my credit card. I say "all the way back" because Su La Table is more than an hour away from our house... so I had to spend a lot of unexpected time in the car yesterday.

Which brings us to Sunday.

I have to try and make up some of the time I lost yesterday. Meal prep, laundry, putting the Christmas decorations away... Lots to do!

While I go tackle my lists, I hope you keep reading to see what I've planned for dinner at our house this week!


A Week of Dinners: January 5 - January 11


Sunday: Spaghetti and Basic Baked Meatballs with Marinara Sauce

Monday: Slow Cooker Veggie Pot Pie

Tuesday: Stephen's Choice

Wednesday: Macaroni and Cheese with Peas

Thursday: Leftovers

Friday: Pizza with Mushrooms and Bell Peppers

Saturday: Breakfast for Dinner: Fluffy Pancakes with Sausage


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