Thanksgiving is around the corner. Some of you might have already shopped for that turkey and ham (if you haven't, check out Full Basket Butcher or Queen’s Meat & Deli); some others might be planning a Thanksgiving dine-out with family (Union Jack Public House, The Old Bavaria Haus Restaurant and El Santo have Thanksgiving dine-in options).
Then there might be some who don’t plan to cook at home or go out to dine, but instead want the grand Thanksgiving feast to come to them. If you fall in that category, we’ve got your back. Here's a list of options that’ll allow you to celebrate Thanksgiving without having to stuff the turkey yourself.
Takeout for two from White Spot
If your idea of Thanksgiving is watching a rerun of Friends in your jammies while demolishing a full-blown feast like the one your gran made — White Spot has a ‘Heat and Serve: Dinner for Two’ for $49.99.
The spread will include turkey breast, mashed potatoes, stuffing, broccoli and carrots, turkey gravy, and of course, cranberry sauce. End the dinner with a fat slice of an apple or pumpkin pie without stressing about whether the dough came out too crumbly or the bottom too soggy.
Details: Visit the White Spot website
A large takeout from The Boathouse
Celebrating Thanksgiving with half a dozen others, but have no clue how to roast your turkey, or worse, when to start thawing it?
No worries, you can enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving dinner complete with sliced turkey, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, cranberry sage stuffing, roasted autumn vegetables, cranberry sauce, turkey gravy, dinner rolls and pumpkin pie with just a phone call (or Uber it your way) to New West’s The Boathouse Restaurant. The family pack is available for $200.
Details: Visit The Boathouse website
Pies and tarts by Cooking with Enza
Apple and pumpkin pies are great, but what if you wanted an apple cranberry pie, a lemon meringue or a pear pie this Thanksgiving?
Cooking with Enza has all those pie versions and a range of tarts, including pecan, pumpkin, apple, lemon meringue or butter (with or without raisins) to choose from as part of her ‘Thanksgiving Sweets’ roll-out.
You can send a direct message to the business via Facebook to place your order. Besides desserts, Enza is also offering a turkey dinner for three, priced at $35.
Thanksgiving muffin box by Sweet Little Baker
Dare to stray away from the traditional pie, and bite into a fluffy muffin, this Thanksgiving? Sweet Little Baker’s Thanksgiving Muffin Box includes the little treats done in fall-favorite flavours like pumpkin spice, butter pecan, cranberry orange, fig and walnut, almond chocolate chip and apple crumble.
Each box of 12 muffins, priced at $30, can be ordered by sending a message to Sweet Little Baker on Instagram; you can also send an email to [email protected]. Orders will be available for pickup on Oct. 9 at 527 Ash St.
Fall-themed cookies by Homemade by Harris, Cookies by Christina and Cookies to Crumbs
Fall season is in, and you're probably a pumpkin spice latte or two down for the day. Instead of sipping the quintessential fall flavour, how about taking a bite out of a cookie that tastes so?
Justina from Homemade by Harris is offering pumpkin sugar cookies, and a whole set of fall-themed cookies (think pumpkins, floral plaques, sweaters, mushrooms, and ones that have "You are Gourd-geous!" written on them) this season. But if you are partial to cookies shaped as pumpkins in classic fall colours, order a set from Cookies to Crumbs.
Add these to your Thanksgiving spread, or munch on them as you listen to John Denver or Bill Withers on Spotify. While you do so, make some fall-themed cookies yourself. Cookies by Christina's cookie kits each include eight cookies, three icings, sprinkles, instructions and a scribe tool for decorating.
