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Wondering what to make on Thanksgiving to please everyone? Find what Thanksgiving recipes you need for your dinner menu in this list of our favorites!

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Having Picky Eaters Over for Dinner? Try These Thanksgiving Recipes!

Create the best holiday dinner and find easy recipes perfect for the whole family to enjoy on this list. If you have guests, expect gracious tummies for a superb Thanksgiving meal they will have!

For those of us with picky eaters at our table, a Thanksgiving menu can be a challenge. We'd like to think we could please everyone with one pie (or turkey), but in reality, you need a little variety.

So, I scoured the internet to find 23 Thanksgiving dinner recipes sure to please everyone at your table. From gluten-free recipes, vegan recipes, or traditional Thanksgiving recipes we have it here.

This list sure covers what you need to happily feed all your loved ones this Thanksgiving.

1.CranberryCheddarSausageBites

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These cheddar sausage bites are stuffed with the goodness of fresh cranberries. It makes them a perfect Thanksgiving dinner appetizer.

It's also an easy but tasty idea you can make for fast dinners, or as snacks.

2.Roasted Grape Baked Brie

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Roasting the grapesbrings out the delicious natural sugars.Roasted Grape and Baked Brie make one of the Thanksgiving appetizers to look forward to.

As you all sit back and relax, all you want to do is talk, laugh, drink, and nibble all night long!

3.SweetandSpicyButternutSquashSoup

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Sweet by roasting the squash first with maple syrup and brown sugar. Spicy by adding a chili in adobo sauce and curry powder. Rounded out with nutmeg and cinnamon and you’ve got one delicious, hearty soup.

4.Creamy Pumpkin Soup

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This badass pumpkin soup is creamy, velvety smooth, and simply delicious. Adding a pile of tasty toppings like chopped bacon and sour cream only enhances the flavor.

Lastly, herbs and a few fresh shavings of Parmesan cheese on top and you're done!

5.SweetPotatoBaconBiscuits

These sweet potato bacon biscuits are tasty, made of real ingredient and (guess what) paleo! Delicious little things to munch on before gobbling the Thanksgiving turkey.

6.WholeWheatSweetPotatoBananaMuffins

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Delicious muffins with a hint of banana. These whole wheat sweet potato banana muffins perfect with butter or with hot, good soup.

7. The Best Dinner Rolls

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These best dinner rolls aren't called “the best” for nothing. They're light, soft and sweet.

8.Amish Potato Rolls

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These potato rolls arenot only very easy to make but are fluffy and full of flavor. It'll definitely be awonderful addition toyour Thanksgiving dinner.

9.Vegan Green Bean Casserole

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This vegan green bean casserole is vegan, gluten-free and paleo-friendly. This one is definitely a keeper.

10.Glazed Sweet Potatoes with Whiskey Pecans

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The natural sweetness of the sweet potatoes and the goodness of whiskey is a tasty combo. Add in honey glazed pecans and the balancing tartness of apples and you have an even more delicious mix.

This recipe is a total package indeed–see how you can make it here.

11. ButternutSquashandCranberryGratin

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Creamy, cheesy and perfectly crunchy on top gratin recipe.This butternut squash and cranberry gratin really worth the spot on the Thanksgiving table.

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12. Brown Butter and Bacon Mashed Potatoes

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The brown butter and bacongive the traditionalmashedpotato recipe an extra oomph!This recipe isone of the reasons you need to wear your stretchy pants on Thanksgiving.

13. ApplePearCranberrySauce

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A quick stovetop recipe for apple pear cranberry sauce. You can pair it withmeat or eat it byitself as dessert.

14. Bourbon Vanilla Cranberry Sauce

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This cranberry sauce is so delicious you'll be eating it with a spoon instead. When, the proper way to enjoy it is with turkey sandwiches, Greek yogurt, and vanilla ice cream.

15.Gluten-Free Stuffing with Kale, Caramelized Onions, and Mushrooms

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This stuffing is not only gluten-free but something you would also look forward to, eating. It's easy to make and big on flavor so grab the recipe and learnhow you can make it here.

16. Gluten-Free Cornbread Stuffing with Chestnuts, Leeks, and Chanterelles

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This stuffing recipe gloriously becomesmore delicious by the day as it soaks in gravy and melds with mashed potatoes. You won't mind having this gluten-free cornbread stuffing as your leftover Thanksgiving dish.

17. Citrus and Herb Butter Roast Turkey

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This citrus and herb butter roast turkey is going to steal most of the spotlight during Thanksgiving dinner. This recipe is definitely on my to-do list.

18.Stuffed Turkey Roulade

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This stuffed turkey recipecooks in a fraction of the time than traditional turkey and gives you moist, flavorful stuffing all in one!

19. Roasted Turkey Breast with Bacon and Herbs

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Bacon makes everything better. Even turkey. This roasted turkey breast recipe is a quick, simple, and phenomenally flavorful main dish!

20. Homemade Tofurkey with Brown Rice Stuffing

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Avoid the preservatives of pre-made commercial tofurkey. Make one yourself! Thisvegan tofurkey recipe contains fresh ingredients and a toothsome, nutty brown rice stuffing.

21. CinnamonAppleSugarCake

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This perfectly moist, with a touch of sweet, cinnamon apple cake is a healthier spin on a classic combo. It is also insanely delicious with sugar and pecan crumble topping!

22. Apple Slab Pie

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This is a double-crust recipe with layers upon layers of cinnamon-sugar and thinly sliced apples. This apple slab pie is ridiculously easy and surprisingly serves a crowd!

23. Sweet Potato-Marshmallow Cinnamon Rolls

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One of the great things to do with leftover sweet potatoes is to turn them into these Sweet Potato-Marshmallow Cinnamon Rolls.Marshmallows have taken the place of pecans.

This video from Tasty will show you some impressive Thanksgiving pies recipes:

That’s all, fellow homesteaders! Those are a few of my favorite recipes to celebrate with on Thanksgiving, so feel free to take your pick.

Have fun mixing and matching to bring an extra dash of delicious to your Thanksgiving Dinner menu. And don't forget to give thanks for all that you have.

I hope you enjoyed my post on 23 Thanksgiving recipes to please everyone at your table! Let me know which recipes you are going to try in the comments section below!

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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on October 8, 2016, and has been updated for quality and relevancy.

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FAQs

What is the meal everyone comes together to eat on Thanksgiving? ›

The centerpiece of contemporary Thanksgiving in the United States is Thanksgiving dinner (informally called turkey dinner), a large meal generally centered on a large roasted turkey.

What foods does the chief say might have been on the Thanksgiving table in 1621? ›

The Wampanoag brought deer and there would have been lots of local seafood (mussels, lobster, bass) plus the fruits of the first pilgrim harvest, including pumpkin. No mashed potatoes, though.

What was on the menu at the first Thanksgiving answer key? ›

So, to the question “What did the Pilgrims eat for Thanksgiving,” the answer is both surprising and expected. Turkey (probably), venison, seafood, and all of the vegetables that they had planted and harvested that year—onions, carrots, beans, spinach, lettuce, and other greens.

What does everyone cook for Thanksgiving? ›

While there are plenty of creative ways to cook your Thanksgiving favorites, you can't go wrong with classics that everyone knows and loves. Stuffing, cranberry relish, pumpkin pie: there are so many delicious dishes that deserve a place on the table each year—including the turkey, of course!

What dishes were served by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag in 1621? ›

The 1621 harvest celebration included plenty of wildfowl, and the Wampanoag and English occasionally stuffed birds and fish, typically with herbs, onions or, for the English, oats.

What food was definitely not present on the Pilgrims table for Thanksgiving? ›

Much of the produce associated with Thanksgiving wasn't present at the Pilgrims' dinner table. That likely includes green beans, and green bean casserole certainly didn't make an appearance at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

Which of these foods was definitely not served at the first Thanksgiving in 1621? ›

It is also worth noting what was not present at the first Thanksgiving feast. There were no cloudlike heaps of mashed potatoes, since white potatoes had not yet crossed over from South America. There was no gravy either, since the colonists didn't yet have mills to produce flour.

Which president started Thanksgiving? ›

A few days later, President George Washington issued a proclamation naming Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a "Day of Publick Thanksgivin" - the first time Thanksgiving was celebrated under the new Constitution.

What president refused to declare Thanksgiving a holiday? ›

Thomas Jefferson was famously the only Founding Father and early president who refused to declare days of thanksgiving and fasting in the United States.

What were the first 3 foods eaten on Thanksgiving? ›

But according to the two only remaining historical records of the first Thanksgiving menu, that meal consisted of freshly killed deer, assorted wildfowl, cod, bass, and flint, and a native variety of corn harvested by the Native Americans, which was eaten as corn bread and porridge.

What is a true Thanksgiving dinner? ›

Traditional Thanksgiving dinner includes turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes but the First Thanksgiving likely included wildfowl, corn, porridge and venison.

What's the main dish at a Thanksgiving dinner? ›

Turkey is a classic main course for Thanksgiving dinner, but that certainly doesn't mean you have to serve it every year.

What is the famous meal of Thanksgiving? ›

Turkey. Thanksgiving wouldn't be the same without the turkey. The turkey is usually prepared whole, filled with fruit, vegetables or other stuffing (more on stuffing in #2!). It's also usually seasoned, which means covered in herbs for flavor and smell.

What is the traditional Thanksgiving meal? ›

Southern-cuisine expert and cookbook author Diana Rattray has created more than 5,000 recipes and articles in her 20 years as a food writer. The classic Thanksgiving dinner includes old-time favorites that never change: turkey, gravy, stuffing, potatoes, veggies, and pie.

What is the most important meal on Thanksgiving? ›

Turkey. Some would say a turkey is the most important food item at the table. A turkey is the center of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner. In fact, 88 percent of Americans eat Turkey on Thanksgiving, with 46 million Turkeys eaten on the holiday.

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