Several grocery chains and retailers are making your Thanksgiving dinner easier, whether by offering budget-friendly meal plans or cooking for you.

The average cost of a typical Thanksgiving meal (including turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie) to feed 10 people was $61.17 last year, a decrease by 4.5% compared to the high costs observed in 2022, according to the American agency. Federation of agricultural offices. If you prepared what the Farm Bureau describes as an “expanded” Thanksgiving meal last year — ham, russet potatoes, green beans and other holiday dishes — the cost rose to $84.75.

Target and Aldi offer a set of traditional Thanksgiving ingredients needed for your meal at a lower price. And if you’d rather save time, several grocers offer pre-cooked meals for your vacation. Here’s a sample of your options in California.

Albertson

Order your Thanksgiving meal from Albertsons, which offers a turkey, ham or prime rib dinner option with classic sides for the holiday. Next, select when and where to collect your holiday meal.

Aldi

Aldi announced in October that its “Thanksgiving Basket” fed a group of 10 for less than $47 (although prices and availability may vary by store location). This is the cheapest Thanksgiving basket in five years, Aldi said. It includes a Butterball turkey, gravy, rolls, macaroni and cheese, stuffing, plus ingredients for cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, bean casserole greens and pumpkin pie.

Ralphs

Ralphs offers various holiday dinner packages from $75 to $175 via a Home Chef meal kit and delivery service. The latter price is for the Thanksgiving Feast Package, which serves eight to 10 people and includes a Butterball turkey, boneless ham, stuffing, green bean casserole, maple-pecan mashed sweet potatoes, a mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and gravy. Next, select a date and time to collect your meal.

Sam’s Club

Member Mark’s Thanksgiving meal at Sam’s Club feeds up to 10 people for less than $100. It can be delivered to Sam’ Club members’ homes in less than three hours and is fully pre-cooked. The meal includes a whole hickory-smoked turkey, dinner rolls, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, Brussels sprouts, salad and mashed sweet potatoes.

Cabbage growers market

Get a fully prepared holiday meal from Cabbage growers market for Thanksgiving. Sprouts offers meals for two to three people and meals for six to eight people. Meals range from $39.99 to $89.99 and include turkey, ham, prime rib roast and vegan options. For example, the turkey meal for six to eight people costs $69.99 and includes a fully cooked, oven-roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, homemade stuffing, homemade gravy and cranberry sauce. Customers must order their holiday meals 48 hours in advance.

Stater Bros. Markets

Choose from a $69.99 Turkey Dinner, $69.99 Ham Dinner or $129.99 Prime Rib Dinner at Stater Bros. Markets All dinner options feed up to six people and must be ordered 48 hours before the pickup date. Then, you just need to allow two to three hours to reheat your meal. Each meal contains the same sides of cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes, homemade gravy and cranberry sauce.

Target

Get your Thanksgiving meal for $20 (before taxes) at Target. The meal for four offers shoppers a frozen, basted young turkey weighing up to 10 pounds, russet potatoes, green beans, Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup, Ocean Spray jellied cranberry sauce, turkey stuffing mixture and turkey gravy.

Walmart

Walmart offers an “Inflation-Free Thanksgiving Meal” that feeds up to eight people for less than $7 per person, meaning you’re looking at a meal that costs no more than $56. Walmart’s Thanksgiving meal has 29 items and includes a frozen turkey weighing between 10 and 16 pounds, Hawaiian rolls, corn, cranberry sauce, russet potatoes, sweet potatoes, pecan pie and other ingredients for side dishes and desserts such as green bean casserole and pumpkin pie. .

Whole Foods Market

Order through November 26 for a catered Thanksgiving meal starting at Whole Foods Market. The price of Thanksgiving meal packages varies depending on the number of people intended to feed and the dishes they include. At $99.99, the classic whole roast turkey meal for four includes turkey with gravy, green beans with sea salt and cracked pepper, creamy mashed potatoes, stuffing and gravy. cranberries and orange. Other packages include a prime rib meal for eight people for $259.99 and a maple-bourbon ham meal for eight people for $159.99.

Paris Barraza is a trendy journalist who covers California news at the Desert Sun. Contact her at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @ParisBarraza.

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