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Simple Thanksgiving Menu, Tips and Allergy Friendliness

Thanksgiving may be a challenge if your family has allergies. Here is a simple Thanksgiving menu, allergy-friendly and adaptable for the whole family with tips for prep and more. We like to keep things simple, easy and doable so that the focus is truly on enjoying family and giving thanks for God’s blessings.

Thanksgiving may be a challenge if your family has allergies. Here is a simple Thanksgiving menu, allergy-friendly and adaptable for the whole family with tips for prep and more.

Don’t you love Thanksgiving? Our celebration is practical, simple and fun. I’m sharing our chalkboard menu with you along with a few tips I’ve learned along the way. I like to ease into the holidays, spreading preparations over several days. Below are our favorite annual Thanksgiving recipes.

Simple Thanksgiving Menu, Tips and Allergy Friendliness

Here are the simple recipes we use!

  • Overnight Turkey (Easy, Delicious and Always Moist!) Be sure to take your turkey out of the fridge several days before! We have loved this Southern Plate recipe for many years.
Thanksgiving turkey and cornbread dressing. Allergy-friendly, simple  Thanksgiving menu
  • Slow Cooker Cornbread Dressing (minus the chicken for this meal). This makes a good amount for a simple Thanksgiving menu.
asparagus casserole - Simple Thanksgiving menu
  • Grandpa’s Asparagus Casserole – when our children were younger, this is how we were able to sneak in some green veggies on Thanksgiving.
Allergy-friendly sweet potato casserole.
  • Sweet Potato Casserole (allergy-friendly version of Cousin Sally’s recipe). Topped with cornflakes rather than pecans) Similar to Kim’s Yam Casserole Recipe.
  • Nana’s Squash Casserole – this is so good!
Thanksgiving may be a challenge if your family has allergies. Here is a simple Thanksgiving menu, allergy-friendly and adaptable for the whole family
  • Mashed potatoes – pulled from the freezer, thanks to my $5 Dinner October Potatofest
  • Field peas
  • cranberry sauce out of the can
  • Brittney’s Biscuits – these are just THREE ingredients and you can easily make them gluten free!
Brittney's Biscuits and Simple Thanksgiving menu

Thanksgiving Desserts

  • Nana’s Fudge Pie
  • Nana’s Apple Pie
  • Nana’s Sweet Potato Pie
  • Faux Pecan Pie (made with pretzels! allergy-friendly for Littlest Girl)

Preparation tips to keep it simple:

  • Lots of Thanksgiving Tips I’m Thankful For at Habits for a Happy Home
  • Making these notes to myself following Kendra’s Note to Self which makes Thanksgiving planning easy

  • We use pretty paper products. I found some this year for just 75 cents!

All of these recipes we enjoy after the children lead us in our Homeschool Unit Celebration!

Thanksgiving Homeschool Resources

  • 10 Thanksgiving Habits for Your Homeschool
  • Hodgepodge Holiday Homeschool Celebrations
  • Thanksgiving Homeschool Activities You’ll Be Grateful For
  • The Ultimate Guide to Fun Thanksgiving Activities for Your Homeschool

Soon it will be time to download your Advent Countdown Chain!

How about you? Do you have a simple Thanksgiving menu? What are your traditions? And, do you prefer pumpkin or sweet potato pie? Stuffing or dressing?

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Filed Under: Allergy Adaptations, HomeCooking, Meal Plans, Southern Recipes Tagged With: allergy adaptations, allergy friendly, celebration, grandpa, holiday, homeschool, Nana, recipe, Tapestry of Grace, Thanksgiving, unit

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Tricia faces a daily dose of chaos homeschooling five children. The biggest lesson she’s learned? At the end of the day – when the dishes are put away and the children are tucked in bed – truly what matters is each child’s relationship with the Lord. Raising children is a God-given privilege and, folks, the time is short.

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