The Hour-by-Hour Thanksgiving Dinner Plan

Everything you need to host Thanksgiving dinner for 12, planned out hour by hour!

Hosting Thanksgiving can feel like a lot. The turkey needs the oven for hours, the stuffing needs a different temperature, the biscuits have to go in at the last minute, and everyone is sitting down at 4:00. It’s enough to turn a lovely day into a stressful one.

But what if the whole day was already planned for you? With The Hour-by-Hour Thanksgiving Dinner Plan, you’ll know exactly what to do and when, from the first shopping trip to the moment dinner hits the table!

This 39-page PDF includes 16 recipes for turkey, sides, bread, dessert and leftovers, all scaled to feed 12. You also get a kitchen checklist, a shopping list split into two easy trips, and a make-ahead week that has six dishes finished before Thursday morning.

Plus, the Thanksgiving Day timeline walks you through every step from 8:00 a.m. to dinner at 4:00. Every dish was picked to share one oven and two slow cookers, so nothing fights the turkey for oven space. Can you say STRESS-FREE?

Whether this is your first Thanksgiving or your fifteenth, this plan takes the chaos out of the day so you can actually sit down and enjoy dinner with the people you love. Happy cooking!