When I was a teenager, my grandma decided to buy a pre-made, frozen Thanksgiving.
She reasoned that it was too much of a hassle for everyone to agree on what they would have, to divvy out the assignments, and to do all the cooking. It would be much easier to just pick up a meal that someone else had made. Many of us were horrified, but the decision of a family's matriarch always stands, so frozen turkey it would be! Here's the thing, though; it takes just as long to reheat a frozen turkey as it takes to cook one. We were expecting to eat in thirty minutes or so, and it looked like we would have to wait four hours. My blood sugar can be finicky, and I'm notorious in my family for getting hangry (hungry + angry enough to kill.) We were not going to have a good Thanksgiving with thirty starving people, especially if one of those people was me. I couldn't very well make a snack for myself without feeding anyone else, so there was nothing else for it. I would just have to make snacks for everyone. I've always been good at making meals out of whatever I have on hand, or "scraps," as we call them in my house. I scoured the shelves and found every platter we had and pulled out all the breads, cookies, chips, crackers, meats, cheeses, and spreads until there were nearly a dozen appetizer platters on the counter. (I could never do that in my own home, but my parents don't follow the "don't buy too much food" rule, so their kitchen was fully stocked.) I spread cream cheese on ham slices and rolled them up; I popped popcorn; I even put frosting in a bowl and arranged gram crackers around it to use as dippers. Everyone was grateful, and they still talk about the day I saved Thanksgiving. It was a proud moment for me. The point of the story: you can freeze your Thanksgiving leftovers. I should know. I had a defrosted Thanksgiving feast at 9:00 pm that night.
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