10 Thanksgiving Dinner Delivery Options for the Easiest Holiday Ever (2024)

A customizable Thanksgiving dinner delivery option sent straight to your front door? Sign us up! With Harry & David’s create-your-own-feast option, you have the luxury of handpicking the dinner menu. Each purchase includes your choice of appetizer, two sides, dessert and garnish. And of course, the roasted turkey. Just heat all and serve! Consider Thanksgiving meal prep done.

Two words: turkey feast. The only simple thing about this Thanksgiving dinner delivery from Omaha Steaks is that it arrives ready to go from the freezer to the oven. The elevated dishes themselves, including a whole basted turkey, creamed corn and green bean casserole, are anything but simple. Give the illusion of cooking dinner without the hassle—no one has to know it’s actually pre-made!

Here’s a Thanksgiving dinner delivery option for small-to-medium gatherings. Magic Kitchen delivers partially cooked, oven-ready turkey breast and sides—like mashed potatoes, apple sage stuffing (um, yum!), dinner rolls and dessert—straight to your door. With six servings, it’s perfect for feeding small households with enough leftovers to feast on over the weekend.

The Blue Apron vegetarian holiday box allows for a meat-free, stress-free Thanksgiving. A meal-kit delivery, this contains the ingredients needed for mushroom-spinach cavatappi, roasted Brussels sprouts, arugula salad, delicata squash and chocolate mousse pie, affording you the excitement and pride of cooking your own feast without the menu planning and shopping. Blue Apron also offers boxes with turkey and ham.

Did you know Williams Sonoma offers dozens of Thanksgiving dinner delivery options? It’s true, and they also have you covered for Christmas dinner delivery. The beauty of their complete turkey dinner is the Willie Bird turkey arrives brined and chilled, so all that’s left to do on your end is pop it in the oven Thanksgiving morning. This dinner for a dozen also arrives with frozen traditional fixings, such as mashed potatoes, green bean almondine, cranberry and sausage stuffing, bacon mac and cheese and, of course, pecan and pumpkin pie.

For a Middle Eastern spin on the American Thanksgiving staples, Ilili delivers—literally. Available through Goldbelly, turkey breast and dark meat, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, roasted sweet potatoes, as well as fig jam, mint yogurt and halva, ship straight from the restaurant’s New York location. All items arrive chilled and ready to pop in the oven, where they require no more than 20 minutes of heating.

Get your fam a Thanksgiving feast that can do both with the Ultimate Holiday Meal Bundle from Perdue Farms. With plenty of food for the whole crew (and options that meet their taste preferences!), this box includes a 5-pound turkey breast and sliced ham, creme fraiche mashed potatoes, green bean almondine, and apple blossoms. Everything comes oven-ready. You’ll be feeling fancy and freed up!

The best part of a Thanksgiving meal kit is the satisfaction of cooking it on your own—hey, you earn those compliments! HelloFresh’s outside-the-box entree of beef tenderloin caught our eye, but the company also has a turkey option. Both include a slew of sides, such as creamy mashed potatoes and ciabatta stuffing. Whichever you pick, you’ll receive step-by-step instructions and pre-portioned ingredients for all recipes so you can plate them up with pride.

At $9.99 per plate, FreshDirect offers an affordable (and microwaveable!) Thanksgiving dinner delivery option that’s perfect for small- and medium-sized gatherings. Each plate includes the favorites: turkey breast, cornbread and sausage stuffing, green beans, and mashed potatoes and gravy. Although it doesn’t include dessert, this service saves you time (and money) on preparing the main course so you can spend it instead on baking the tastiest pie of all time.

If you prefer only one kind of poultry, the Cajun Turkey Co., despite its name, is looking out for people like you. The star of the show of this meal box, you ask? The deboned chicken is stuffed with Louisiana-style cornbread, but it hardly outshines the stellar sides of seafood gumbo, spinach madeleine, potatoes au gratin and bread pudding. The meal arrives fully cooked, requiring just a quick reheat. Check out the company’s traditional turkey mealtoo!

What to Look for in Thanksgiving Dinner Delivery

To ensure that your big holiday meal goes off without a hitch, here are some factors to consider when picking the right Thanksgiving dinner delivery service:

• Portion Sizes/Number of Portions: Carefully consider how many guests you will have compared to the number of portion sizes the service offers. If there are too few, you may still have hungry guests by the end of the meal. If there are too many, you’re going to have to find a place to keep the leftovers, which you could be eating for the next week.
• Guest Dietary Restrictions: Pay close attention to the ingredients in your Thanksgiving meal delivery, especially if you have guests with dietary restrictions. Food allergies and sensitivities are nothing to play with (and could potentially be dangerous), so this should be at the top of your list regarding importance.
• Delivery Dates: Some of these services will deliver as late as the day before Thanksgiving, so long as you secure one of those delivery slots. Others might deliver several days before. Make sure you’re prepared for this in either case.
• Pre-Meal Storage: Even if you get your delivery the day before Thanksgiving, you’ll still need to store your food (and reheat it) on that day. Ensure you have proper storage space (like in your refrigerator) for everything you order.
• Post-Meal Storage: If you have leftovers, you’ll need to keep them somewhere. Luckily, many Thanksgiving foods freeze pretty well, so you have more options. Just be aware that you’ll probably need some storage space for leftovers. Of course, you can also send leftovers home with your guests.

How We Found the Best Thanksgiving Dinner Delivery Options

We started by looking into the meal delivery services that actually offered Thanksgiving dinner delivery, as many do not. Then, when we had a clearer picture of the options, we prioritized trustworthy, time-tested brands and positive customer experiences. Then, we selected a range of options from that array that met different dietary and portion-size needs. Lastly, we settled on this final list comprised of the best of the best for a range of diets, budgets, party sizes, etc.

Why You Should Trust Us

Madi Koetting has reviewed hundreds of home products, including kitchen appliances, cooking gear, cleaning gadgets, furniture and home decor. She has also written about them in trusted publications, such as Taste of Home,Reader’s DigestandFamily Handyman. With over five years of experience writing and editing for publications, including two years on the Taste of Home shopping team reviewing products and optimizing content, Madi is especially qualified to speak on home Thanksgiving dinner delivery.

FAQ

How do you send Thanksgiving dinner to friends?

So long as you have a proper delivery address, you can send any of the above meals to your friends and family. Just make sure they know to expect the delivery, or you could end up with a confusing, awkward situation.

Does Amazon deliver Thanksgiving dinner?

While Amazon’s Prime service has a grocery component (and you can get the ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner delivered ahead of time), the brand doesn’t actually offer a Thanksgiving dinner package. Furthermore, the brand doesn’t offer same-day delivery on Thanksgiving day (the same goes for Christmas and New Year’s Day).

Do meal delivery companies deliver on Thanksgiving?

While we can’t say definitively, generally, the answer is no. Even if you buy a Thanksgiving Dinner delivery package, most of these brands deliver ahead of time by at least a day or two (but sometimes more). This means you’ll have to have some method of refrigerated storage for your meals, and you’ll have to reheat them on Thanksgiving Day.

Additional research contributed by Annamarie Higley, Taste of Home shopping editor.

Originally Published: November 04, 2022