The Best Delivery Thanksgiving Meal Kits (2025)

Fill up The Thanksgiving party for guests can be intimidating, even terrifying for some. The world, and especially Hallmark movies, is full of holiday disaster stories: burned turkeys, failed desserts, steamed hams. But I’m not bragging when I say that the first Thanksgiving dinner I cooked for my extended family – earlier this year – was a complete success.

My aunt couldn’t stop talking about the black pepper in cookies and the sage in carrots. My uncle went to get the turkey and the apple and sausage stuffing. My father didn’t speak at all unless prompted. He just ate and ate. It was a compliment.

But of course I had cheated. I had ordered my Thanksgiving by mail, one of the new Thanksgiving meal kits.

The meal was of course truly home-cooked, prepared mostly from scratch. But the entire seven-plate feast – its ingredients and recipes – had arrived two days before, in a box large enough to hold a prime cut of beef. It was Thanksgiving in a box: a $200 “Chef’s Table Thanksgiving” meal kit available from sister meal delivery plans Sunbasket and Gobble.

Sunbasket’s distribution was vast and generous. The table held a nearly 3-pound turkey roast, mounds of mashed potatoes, pebbled cranberry compote, roasted carrots dressed with miso-sage butter, Brussels sprouts speckled with pecorino romano and pancetta, an endless platter of fennel, apple and sausage stuffing, black pepper gruyere biscuits topped more than an inch high, a soup tureen of dark brown turkey gravy, an apple ginger crisp waiting in the wings.

Sunbasket is part of a new generation of meal kit companies that aim to alleviate holiday stress by doing the planning and shopping for you: large, custom-made meal boxes for those who still want to prepare a home-cooked meal but for whom the prospect of planning a large, complicated feast is prohibitive. In fact, two weeks later I made another Thanksgiving meal from Blue Apron, this time for my sister’s family.

Here’s my experience with Sunbasket and Blue Apron, as well as some of the other Thanksgiving meal delivery options to get your entire Thanksgiving meal delivered to your home.

Updated November 18, 2025: Added a review of dishes from Blue Apron’s Thanksgiving and Holiday Meal Kit, after preparing an eight-course meal. Also updated prices, order times and offers throughout.

Want meal kits for more everyday occasions? Check out WIRED’s guides to the best meal delivery services and the best plant-based meal delivery kits..

The Blue Apron à la carte meal kit for Thanksgiving (and holidays)

Available until December 29. Order by November 19 to guarantee delivery before Thanksgiving.

Blue Apron, one of the OG meal kits in the United States, underwent a major transformation this year. One of the biggest changes is that subscriptions are no longer required and ordering meals a la carte is possible. In fact, it’s now my favorite subscription-free meal kit offer. This means that this Thanksgiving, you can order individual Thanksgiving recipe kits to prepare at home, without ever setting foot in a crowded grocery store.

That means Roasted Grape and Goat Cheese Salad ($12), Large Turkey Breast with Gravy and Cranberry Sauce ($50), Rosemary Herb Stuffing ($15), Great Southern Mac and Cheese Casserole with Truffle Oil ($20), Apple Almond Crumb Pie ($15), Brown Butter Mashed Potatoes ($8), Challah Rolls maple ($8) and roasted Brussels sprouts with pistachios ($10). I made all of these recipes for my sister’s family and our parents earlier this year, and it was a surprisingly delicious feast that fit at least eight people. Probably even 10, if you add an extra order of mashed potatoes.