Start planning ahead when and where you’ll be buying each of your ingredients.

Don’t forget to plan what you’ll be eating in the days before and after Thanksgiving. You may have an overstuffed fridge that won’t allow any non-Thanksgiving groceries to fit for a day or two before. You might easily find yourself skipping a meal while cooking if you don’t plan what you’ll eat. And make sure you have all your leftover containers ready to go.

Want to save yourself some time (and last-minute grocery runs) on your Thanksgiving? Prep all your spices a couple days ahead of time and label them so they are good to go.

To make sure you don’t have to make a last-minute Thanksgiving morning grocery trip, set out all your recipes and ingredients to check that everything is in stock and that you have enough of each ingredient for each dish that it will be in.

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