I'm single, living in Vegas. What do I do for thanksgiving?!
I don't have a car but I want a traditional Thanksgiving.The problem is,I work for Vegetarians. I live in the guest house and only have a small frig, microwave, and toaster oven.I think I also have a small George Foreman grill. Anyone have any Ideas on what I can do next week for thanksgiving all on my own.Should I just go out to eat?
Answers: I am a live in nanny in Las Vegas!
I don't have a car but I want a traditional Thanksgiving.The problem is,I work for Vegetarians. I live in the guest house and only have a small frig, microwave, and toaster oven.I think I also have a small George Foreman grill. Anyone have any Ideas on what I can do next week for thanksgiving all on my own.Should I just go out to eat?
here is a thought , Make a Cornish game hen stuffing and all the fixings. Just like a miniature turkey and you can enjoy it and have leftovers too.
Go to a restaurant where they will serve dinner. Only thing bad about that is if you don't order extra you wont have any leftovers. There is 2 of us here for thanksgiving and we don't care for turkey , so we make a couple of Cornish game hens and dressing, potatoes usually scalloped , a vegetable and pumpkin custard ( like a pumpkin pie but without the crust, since the crust gets soggy when there is only 2 people to enjoy it.,) we have our own little thanksgiving and then go for a walk afterward if it is nice out. but we have our dogs too. so thanksgiving isn't lonely for us.
Potluck with friends?
go out girl!!! cracker barrel all the way
If you've made a few friends, get together with 3+ friends. Someone must have space. Cook a bird and have stuffing and cranberries etc—share preparation of items. Happy Thanksgiving!!
Call a cab. Go to the nearest homeless shelter and volunteer to cook Thanksgiving dinner with the other folks. To be the most loved person there, bring a can of coffee. (They only get coffee if it is donated.)
Sure or may be we can have dinner together.......
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find restaurant close by that's open,order your traditional thanks giving dinner. buy a bottle of white wine. borrow your employers car to pick everything up. i wish you a happy thanksgiving. is there a local bus that you can take to a restaurant, if so eat there and take the left overs home. good luck i hope this helped. happy tgd.
Some stores and restaurants sell pre-made thanksgiving dinners. You can probably get it for two, and have the usual leftovers. After dinner I would go to the movies. They are always open on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
call on your friends and go out....
Going out is a good idea but it might not be as fun if you're alone. I suggest staying home. It'll be a chance to get to settle in your surroundings and will act as a friendly gesture to break the ice with your new clients. As for food, I'm a vegetarian too, so just make some mashed potatos, beans, soup, and sandwiches and call it a meal. Don't forget sundaes! Use this oppurtunity to bond with your clients, and enjoy this warm holiday.
This may not be what kind of answer you were looking for, but here's my little anecdote....
When i was in middle school my family's thanksgivings started to feel like any other day because there were only 5 of us (no extended family nearby) and we as a family ate most dinners together anyway.
My parents started noticing the 3 of us acting bored and taking Thanksgiving and the abundant food for granted year after year, so the following thanksgiving, my mom announced that she had signed all of us up to volunteer at the city's largest thankgiving meal drive for the homeless and poor. I wasn't crazy about the shift she signed us up for (started at 4 a.m.) but once we got there, i knew i was going to love this thanksgiving and give me something to be truly thankful for.
Through the years i did everything from opening 5 # cans of corn and stirring them in giant pots with loads of butter for batch after batch, until i had been stirring corn for 6 hours straight. My favorite memory was when i was finally old enough, and got to actually work on the service line to server all the thankful souls who came in for their thanksgiving meal... I had the best thankgiving ever standing behind that line, greeting all the smiling and grateful faces as they passed by, pouring gravy with a huge ladle onto the turkey, nervous that I would pour too much and spill it everywhere! But my favorite part was when the head volunteers told us that our shift was over and to get in line to have some food for ourserlves. We (the kids) started to look at each other thinking "what? we want MOM's thanksgiving food, not the stuff we just made here?!?!" with glaring eye, my father nodded the three of us toward the end of the line.
After our plates were filled, my younger shy brother quickly noticed that there were no seats together--only single seats amidst the tables. I felt proud as I walked off on my own and plopped down next to an older man and a few other people. As the man talked to me, I learned that he was in his 70's, homeless, and a Veteran. Most of his relatives had died, and others he had simply lost touch with. However, he never stopped smiling the entire time we ate and talked. I then realized how great this thanksgiving really was compared to sitting around and eating and watching football like gluttons! :) I've been volunteering on thankgiving ever since...
p.s. i'm glad that i have this option and tradition for myself now, because as you can never predict the future, my family of 5 has grown up and pretty much split up due to some unfotunate and sad family "issues" and arguments. So now, my family consists of my mom and i....and i am so thankful that i have her AND that she forced us to wake up at 3:30 a.m. so many years ago....
pps i just read your additional details about the volunteer opportunities being full--that did happened to us a couple of times. One year, my mom and i thought we'd just show up anyway and talk to them to see if they needed us to run errands or anything...sure enough, there were plenty of no-shows for volunteers and they were so pleased we came!
Or, if you decide to do this and they really are full, offer to ride along with one of the volunteers who is delivering a meal to someone who is home bound just so you can bring some conversation to their day!