budget thanksgiving meal for couples: menu & cost✨

This Thanksgiving, me and my husband are dining alone! We decided to still make ourselves a nice Thanksgiving dinner but in an easier way so that we didn’t end up with loads of leftovers that would never be finished 🥹 Considering this a fun Thanksgiving date night for us, and it’ll be less expensive than an actual fancy dinner out!

Here’s our modified Thanksgiving menu for 2 ✨

Menu:

Turkey & Swiss croissant sandwiches- decided to get creative so we’re combining the ‘roll’ and ‘turkey’ aspect of the meal into one with a little sandwich bc there’s NO WAY we are making an entire turkey for the two of us lol

Green bean casserole- this is both of our favorite side so we’ll absolutely be making this 😂

Mashed potatoes- tbh I didn’t think it was necessary but Zack disagreed so we’re making them bc why not 🥔

Cranberry sauce- we both really enjoy the sliced canned stuff 🙈 so that’s an easy thing to add to our plates

Cinnamon apple pie- honestly, we were going to make handmade mini pumpkin and apple pies, but we saw this at our store and both agreed it was ~for the best~ 😂 cannot wait to dig into this

Olipop - we don’t drink so we thought it would be nice to have a fun Olipop drink to put in our cute goblets and have with dinner :’)

Thanksgiving is what you make it and I am still SO excited for our meal together. Honestly just very grateful to be able to spend time together off work and be able to enjoy the day cooking together. 🤍

Are you spending Thanksgiving with family this year? 🦃🌲🍁

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