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If you have ever been in charge of hosting Thanksgiving day festivities, then you know how much time, work, and stress is involved in planning and pulling off that day, from coming up with Thanksgiving dinner ideas, to shopping, to food preparation, to getting the house ready, and so on and so forth. It’s enough to take the true meaning of “holiday” right out of the Turkey Day holiday! I’ve been in that position far too many times and vowed finally a year ago to do something about it.

My latest article covers simple yet effective Thanksgiving dinner ideas to help you make and present an outstanding, satisfying, and memorable meal but still have time to put your feet up and soak in all the holiday splendor at a relaxing pace with family and friends, the way a holiday should be!

In addition, the thing about being the one preparing the Thanksgiving Day feast is that you end up taste testing each dish for the proper taste and seasoning, so you feel like you’re smelling and eating all day before you actually sit down to eat! In fact, at that point, the very idea Thanksgiving dinner can sometimes be a turn-off since the preparation work all but consumed you on so many levels during the day.

Enough is enough already! The one putting all the work in needs to get the most out of having a holiday in my book!

My post even includes a funny video clip for Thanksgiving to help get you in a relaxing, jovial mood, the kind of mood you’re bound to be in anyway if you take to heart a few of the tips about coming up with Thanksgiving dinner ideas that allow you to have a relaxing time and enjoy the holiday itself.

I spend Thanksgiving with my husband’s family. We try to make it more of a pot luck type of affair. Everybody brings something, but that still leaves a lot of work. So I went in search of ways to make the holiday easier when the time comes for me to host the big day. What I was looking for was easy Thanksgiving recipes and do-ahead recipes. This is not to say the dishes would not be every bit as tasty. The goal was to give me more time to spend with my family on Thanksgiving, rather than stuck in the kitchen with a hot oven. Read more to find out what I found.

Thanksgiving Day is the traditional American holiday on which we give thanks for the many blessings we enjoy. It’s also the day that many women get up at the crack of dawn to spend the day preparing this feast. Speaking from experience, by the time Mom sits down at the dinner table, she’s exhausted, thankful to be sitting down! All of this effort is not without its rewards, as the family enjoys the food and regales Mom with compliments. However, some years ago, I decided that, rather than sit down to dinner all worn out, I’d make the next years plan a little more organized, with easy Thanksgiving recipes and do-ahead recipes. This is not to say the dishes would not be every bit as tasty. The goal was to give me more time to spend with my family on Thanksgiving, rather than stuck in the kitchen with a hot oven.

The star of the dinner table is typically, the turkey. If you’re still basting that turkey ten times throughout the day, wondering why it takes six hours to cook, instead of the four hours it’s supposed to, listen up. Here’s the secret. Melt a full cube of…

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