Making a full<\/span> Thanksgiving feast for guests can be daunting, for some perhaps even terrifying. The world, and especially Hallmark movies, is full of holiday disaster stories: burnt turkeys, failed desserts, steamed hams<\/a>. But I’m not bragging when I say that the first Thanksgiving dinner I prepared for my extended family\u2014a little early, this year\u2014was an unmitigated success.<\/p>\n My aunt couldn’t stop talking about the black pepper in the biscuits and the sage on the carrots. My uncle went in for the turkey and the apple-sausage stuffing. My father didn’t speak at all, unless prompted. He just ate and ate. This was a compliment.<\/p>\n But of course, I had cheated. I had ordered my Thanksgiving in the mail\u2014one of the new breed of Thanksgiving meal kits.<\/p>\n The meal was genuinely home-cooked, of course, prepared mostly from scratch. But the entire seven-platter feast\u2014its ingredients and recipes\u2014had arrived two days before, in a box large enough to house a primal cut of beef. It was Thanksgiving in a box: a $200 \u201cChef’s Table Thanksgiving\u201d meal kit available from sister meal delivery plans Sunbasket and Gobble<\/a>.<\/p>\n The spread from Sunbasket was vast and generous. The table contained a nearly 3-pound roast of turkey, mounds of mashed potato, pebbled cranberry compote, roasted carrots dressed in miso-sage butter, brussels sprouts dappled with pecorino romano and pancetta, an endless platter of fennel-apple-sausage-stuffing, Gruy\u00e8re black-pepper biscuits caked more than an inch tall, a tureen of deep brown turkey gravy, a ginger apple crisp waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n Sunbasket is among a new bounty of meal kit companies that aim to ease the stress of the holidays by doing the planning and the shopping for you\u2014big meal boxes tailor-made for those who still want to make a home-cooked meal but for whom the prospect of planning a vast and complicated feast is prohibitive. In fact, two weeks later I cooked another Thanksgiving meal from Blue Apron<\/a>, this time for my sister’s family.<\/p>\n Here was my experience with Sunbasket and Blue Apron\u2014and some of the other Thanksgiving meal delivery options to get your whole Thanksgiving meal delivered to your home.<\/p>\n Update Nov. 18, 2025: Added a review of the Blue Apron Thanksgiving and holiday meal kit dishes, after preparing an eight-dish meal. Also updated prices, ordering deadlines, and offerings throughout.<\/em><\/p>\n Want meal kits for more everyday occasions? See WIRED’s guides to the best meal delivery services<\/a>, and the best plant-based meal delivery kits<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n The Blue Apron \u00e0 la Carte Thanksgiving (and Holiday) Meal Kit<\/p>\n Available till December 29. Order by November 19 to ensure delivery by Thanksgiving.<\/em><\/p>\n Photograph: Matthew Korfhage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Photograph: Matthew Korfhage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Photograph: Matthew Korfhage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Photograph: Matthew Korfhage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Blue Apron<\/p>\n Blue Apron, one of the OG meal kits in the US, has undergone a wholesale transformation this year. One of the biggest changes is that subscriptions are no longer required, and \u00e0 la carte meal ordering is possible\u2014indeed, it’s now my favorite no-subscription meal kit offering<\/a>. What this means is that for this Thanksgiving, you can order individual Thanksgiving recipe kits to prep fresh at home, without ever setting foot in a crowded grocery store.<\/a><\/p>\n That means roasted grape and goat cheese salad ($12), a big ol’ turkey breast with gravy and cranberry sauce ($50), rosemary herb stuffing ($15), a truly excellent casserole worth of truffle-oiled Southern mac and cheese ($20), almond apple crumb pie ($15), brown butter mashed potatoes ($8), challah rolls with maple ($8) and roasted brussels sprouts with pistachios, ($10). I made all of these recipes for my sister’s family and our parents, a little early this year\u2014and it was a surprisingly delicious feast fit for at least eight people. Probably even 10, if you add an extra order of mashed potatoes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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