Instead Of Cooking Thanksgiving Dinner For Her Entire Family, She’s Going To The Beach Alone For The Day
Over the last eight years, this 27-year-old woman has been the one in her family expected to cook dinner for Thanksgiving for 20 or more people.
Every year, she shops, cooks, and gets everything organized for dinner by herself.
Months prior to Thanksgiving, she usually starts scouring prices at the grocery store and adjusting her recipes to make sure that the food fits everyone’s dietary requirements.
She has a lot of Caribbean family members, as well as vegans and pescatarians in her family. There are also guests who eat meat.
Plus, she always likes to make sure that guests who are in college will have food to take with them as leftovers.
“I usually make three turkeys, two party pans of mac and cheese, and a party pan of mashed potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, collard greens, yams, mini seafood quiches, stuffed mushrooms, rolls, and a salad from scratch. Plus, all the desserts: apple pies, sweet potato pie, cheesecake, homemade ice cream, and breads, all from scratch,” she said.
Leading up to Thanksgiving, she begins making the stocks and doughs on Tuesday night.
On Wednesday, after she’s done with work, she bakes the bread that she uses for the stuffing and makes the cheesecake and pies.
Then, on Thanksgiving, she cooks throughout the whole day.
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Her goal is usually to serve dinner at 4 p.m. because her aunts are nurses who work night shifts, so she wants to be sure that they have enough time to eat before leaving for work.
Each year, her family members invite guests to join them for Thanksgiving dinner without notifying her ahead of time, and sometimes, as many as 30 or more people show up.
“I would be okay if it were plus ones, but my mom invites her friends and their kids. My mom and aunt ask me to make additional turkeys and some sides for their units. I never feel appreciated for everything I do to make it special and accommodate everyone,” she explained.
Unfortunately, she and her husband separated this year.
Because of this, she doesn’t think she can emotionally handle putting in so much work to make a wonderful dinner for so many people who aren’t appreciative and don’t leave enough leftovers for her to make a sandwich the following day.
Since she lives in Florida, she decided that for Thanksgiving Day this year, she would take advantage of it by having a day at the beach.
Family members reached out to her to ask how much all of the adults attending dinner this year should pay her through Zelle to fund the groceries that she’d have to buy to make all of the food.
She told everyone that she wasn’t going to cook dinner this year.
“Yesterday, I received a Zelle from my uncle, and when I returned it, he asked why. I reminded him and the family group chat I wasn’t cooking,” she shared.
Her family wasn’t supportive of her decision and asked her to cancel her plans to hang out at the beach so that she could cook dinner for them instead.
However, she doesn’t want to do this.
Understandably, she’s devastated by her separation from her husband, and she doesn’t have the emotional energy right now.
She doesn’t feel excited about cooking Thanksgiving dinner this year, so she wants to spend time by herself.
What advice would you give her?
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