Save your sanity this holiday by ordering one of these scrumptious prepared Thanksgiving dinners in Chattanooga and the surrounding areas. These take-and-bake wonders will allow you to skip all the most draining parts of the holiday, like cooking for hours and endlessly scrubbing pots and pans, and focus on your family and friends instead.
Most of the pre-cooked Thanksgiving dinners below offer all of your favorite foods like roasted turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, and much more. Some of the to-go meals offer more out-of-the-box choices like fried okra and collard greens. Yum!
Even if you don’t decide to purchase a full meal, you can still cut down on prep and cleaning time by ordering items a la carte. Various meats, sides, and desserts are all available for individual purchases to make your life easier. Check it all out below!
1. The Acropolis Grill
- 2213 Hamilton Place Blvd., Chattanooga, TN
At the Acropolis, you can purchase a full Thanksgiving dinner with a delicious roasted turkey or spiral-sliced ham and 3 traditional sides, including stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, and more.
There are also several delicious dessert choices including pecan pie, pumpkin pie, strawberry cake, cheesecake, and baklava. Most items are also available a la carte.
2. Bluff View Art District
- 411 E. Second Street, Chattanooga, TN
Save the day by ordering a complete or partial meal package from the delicious restaurants in the Bluff View Arts District. Pick up an 8-person turkey for around $45. Sides include cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes, rolls, and more. Each side serves 12-15 people and costs between $35-$45 each. There are also a variety of scrumptious pies and cakes available for dessert.
3. Cafe on the Corner
- 826 Scenic Highway, Lookout Mountain, TN
Reduce your holiday workload by adding some delicious sides or desserts from Cafe on the Corner. Choose from cornbread dressing, cheesy mashed potato casserole, broccoli casserole, sweet potatoes, squash casserole, corn, and more! Their delectable pecan pies, pumpkin pies, apple pies, or Kahlua cakes will make an excellent addition to your dessert table.
4. Carrabbas Italian Grill
- 2040 Hamilton Pl Blvd Suite 100, Chattanooga, TN
Choose from a variety of delicious take-and-bake pasta including Penne Carrabba with Chicken, Pumpkin Mascarpone Ravioli, Lasagne Bolognese, or Rigatoni al Forno with sausage.
5. Costco
This pre-cooked Thanksgiving dinner serves 8-10 people and boasts roasted turkey breast, Brussel sprouts, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, green beans, biscuits, pumpkin pie, and apple pie. The complete meal package costs right around $220. Order online.
6. Cracker Barrel
- all locations
These yummy take-and-bake feasts serve 4-10 people and include either ham or turkey, cranberry relish, gravy, cornbread dressing, choice of 3 sides, and sweet rolls. Enjoy delicious pumpkin and pecan pie for dessert.
7. Denny’s
- 1011 Paul Huff Parkway, Cleveland, TN
The pre-cooked meal pack includes sliced turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and a vegetable of your choice. Each pack feeds 4 people. For an additional charge, you can choose a yummy pie for dessert.
8. Food City
Enjoy a scrumptious dinner including turkey or ham, green beans, gravy, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls, and cornbread dressing. There are a variety of packages to choose from that feed between 4 -14 people.
9. The Fresh Market
- 2288 Gunbarrel Rd, Chattanooga, TN
Tantalize your taste buds with scrumptious spiral ham, roast turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, cranberry relish, and corn souffle. The dinner pack serves 8 people and costs around $135.
10. Herman’s Soul Food
- 3821 Brainerd Road, Chattanooga, TN
For Thanksgiving, Herman’s will offer special to-go meals including ham or turkey, stuffing, turnip greens, mac and cheese, broccoli salad, or broccoli casserole. There will also be a variety of yummy desserts like key lime pie, sweet potato pie, and red velvet cake.
Head on down to the restaurant to view the complete Thanksgiving menu and place your order.
13. The Honey Baked Ham Company
- 2020 Gunbarrel Rd Ste 303, Chattanooga, TN
- 4454 Frontage Rd NW, Cleveland, TN
At the Honey baked Ham Company, you can choose from a delicious spiral-cut ham, whole-roasted turkey, or turkey breast. Add on delicious prepared sides like green bean casserole and sweet potato souffle to make it a complete meal. Price is per item.
14. Main Street Meats
217 E. Main Street, Chattanooga, TN
Main Street Meats is your one-stop shop for a deliciously prepared Thanksgiving dinner. Customers can choose from 3 different types of turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, broccoli, cornbread and sausage dressing, green beans, mac-n-cheese, sweet and delicious pumpkin bread pudding, and bacon chocolate chip cookies. Yum! Turkey starts at $9.99 per pound. The sides are large enough to feed 2-3 people and start at $12.00 each.
15. Mike’s Smokehouse
- 3147 Broad Street, Chattanooga TN
At Mike’s Smokehouse, you can grab a delicious smoked turkey and yummy sides like mac-n-cheese, hash brown casserole, pinto beans, green beans, and broccoli casserole.
16. Publix
- all locations
Feast on fully-cooked turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, marshmallow delight, and cranberry-orange relish. At Publix, it’s around $90 to feed 14 people and around $50 to feed 7.
17. Puckett’s Grocery & Restaurant
- 2 W. Aquarium Way, Chattanooga, TN
This year, Puckett’s will be offering heat-and-serve Thanksgiving dinners with loads of choices. Pick between turkey, spiral-sliced ham, brisket, pulled pork, or smoked baby back ribs.
Sides include cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, green beans casserole, sweet potato casserole, corn pudding, broccoli and rice casserole, dinner rolls, and cranberry relish. Sides are priced between $12 and $30.
Desserts cost between $15-$30 and choices include pumpkin pie, maple pecan pie, peach cobbler, and apple cobbler.
18. Ruth’s Chris Steak House
- 2321 Lifestyle Way, Chattanooga, TN
While you can’t get a complete meal, you can lighten your cooking load by bringing home some delicious to-go side items including mashed potatoes, green beans, sweet potato casserole, creamed spinach, and more. Each side dish feeds between 10-12 people and costs about $35
19. Shoney’s
- all locations
Each take-out meal pack feeds 6 people. The meals include ham/turkey, sweet potatoes, stuffing, rolls, and more!
20. Whole Foods
- 301 Manufacturers Rd, Chattanooga, TN
This classic Thanksgiving dinner comes with turkey, cranberry sauce, butternut squash soup, cornbread and sausage stuffing, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls, gravy, and a pumpkin apple pie.
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