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what should the menu include for a small thanksgiving dinner?

I am going to families house for the holiday, but I also wanted to prepare a meal at home for my very small family 3 children under 10 years old and 2 adults. Please give me some meal ideas for this occasion.

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1. Keep it simple. A little turkey, sweet taters and a veggie. If you want to be brave, make some white potatoes too.
2. a small boneless turkey breast,stuffing ,mashed potatoes and a vegetable and rolls and some canned sweet potatoes and a pumpkin pie.
3. here's a dessert idea: instead of a huge pumpking pie, try making little pumpkin custart tarts... buy a frozen pie crust from pillsbury or sara lee (they are really flaky and good!) and cut them into little circles with a cookie-cutter.. place the circles inside muffin tins. fill with pumpkin custard and bake. you have little mini-pies that everyone will love!
4. i would suggest boxed or can items since it sounds like you won't have much time, maybe green bean casserole. it's very good or the boxed stuffing mix. just a couple of suggestions.
5. I would recommend a small turkey (8 lbs), or a medium- sized 1/2 shank ham (pre-sliced is best), mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, rolls, and pumpkin pie! Good luck!
6. Turkey, green beans, and macaroni pie with dressing. Dessert of your choice.
7. Thanksgiving must-- turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, green beans (or caserol), usually mash tators and gravy, and of course,, dinner rolls.
8. Rosmary roasted Turkey, Garlic mashed Potato, Stuffing, Butter glazed Carrots and a mixed grreens salad. Oh, and have some gravey & cranberry sauce of some sort on the side. Have Fun!
9. Turkey, potatoes, stuffing, rolls butter and jam, maybe yams, a vegetable, and I love that canned jellied cranberry sauce! Don't forget pumpkin pie :)
10. ham turkey dressing greens baked beans potatoe salad sweet meat balls and cake or pie thats what i am cooking for a family of 4
11. First of all, wait and buy your turkey the day AFTER Thanksgiving. At most markets you can get good quality birds at almost half price that way. Second, if you don't have a lot of dark meat eaters and mostly want turkey for sandwiches and the like, consider just buying turkey breast instead of the whole bird. It will cook faster too, so you are not tied to the kitchen all day long. So the things most people seem to want for leftovers, to make sandwiches and nosh on through the following week, are turkey, stuffing, gravy, winter squash or sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. Fill in with whatever veggies you know your family will eat.
12. turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, and some green beans or carrots for dessert some pumkin or sweet potato pie
13. You dont have to be traditional for it to be Thanksgiving. Most small families I know just buy a turkey breast instead of the whole turkey.