Pix, I usually use TJs or some kind of premade bread crumbs as well. I cut any and all corners that don't massively impact the tastiness of the meal. I R LAZY.

I've never had oyster stuffing, but I'll try it if it turns up at Thanksgiving one of these years.

My sausage stuffing recipe is pretty simple: bread cubes, butter, sage, cooked sausage, chicken stock.

Our sausage stuffing is some mix of sweet and hot Italian sausage, sauted onions, stale bread or croutons, Bell's seasoning, and turkey or chicken broth.

Yeah, I need to do that whole make a list thing since everyone is coming to my house for Thanksgiving. I told Bobby we could go to the grocery store after 10 tonight so I don't get too aggravated. List. Must make one.

We always cook and decided for the first time to go out. We've both been traveling a lot and away from each other, so we blew off family invites and going to our favorite local tiki place for T-Day on a date.

Excellent plan, Scrappy. One year when I had had enough I took the boys camping in Key West for Thanksgiving. The only thing I messed up was not having someone take the dog because the boys and DH were off fishing and swimming and enjoying and I was stuck in the tent dog sitting. I did get at ton of reading done and it was generally grand, but I was rather restricted.

I have always broken up the stale bread for stuffing, but I am so seriously time crunched this year I want to just buy something. Anyone have a rec that does not involve the non-existent Trader Joe? Just now starting my shopping list.

We generally do the Pepperidge Farm stuffing, we just amp it up a bit.

About half of the gang is vegan and the other half committed to the turkey so the plan so far is - Turkey & gravy Stuffing with sausage Stuffing with apples and nuts Roasted veggies - broccoli, cauliflower, sweet potatoes Mashed white potatoes Pumpkin soup Looking at a recipe for mushroom gravy and a pretzel & cashew crusted tofu that looks fancy. Hence no time to break up bread for stuffing! Other peoples will bring other stuffs

Stuffing really does seem to be the most variable component of a turkey dinner.

Vent, ahoy. So Mom is doing ingredient fetching and throwing them at me to make into dinner. This was a great plan for me because working but I like cooking.

She doesn't care about dressing. I actually really like the kinds that I like. Which is perfect. I get to have yummy dressing. Asked her to buy sausage if TJ's carries it and mire poix because I am lazy and also refuse to cut celery since I hate it (I just accept that it is part of some food) that veggie. I anticipated delicious sausage cornbread dressing and not really sharing much of the leftovers.

You see where this is going? Yeah. She bought pre-prepared stuffing from TJs and then also stressed about finding quasi-mire poix because she forgot that. It'll be fine. She then went to two additional stores looking for chopped veggies (I needed them for the dressing) that I will only use making stock now, but it'll be yummy turkey stock.

The week after Thanksgiving? I am making myself an entire recipe of sausage cornbread dressing. I will make it, bake it, cut it into squares and freeze most of them. The dressing shall be MINE. I'm putting extra sage in it.

Tomorrow Will and I are going to a diner and eating their turkey dinner for lunch and that will be Thanksgiving. I'll probably see him on Thanksgiving but since Best Buy is open at 6 pm and I have to be there at 5 and was told to allow for plenty of time to find parking, there's not going to be much time in the day.

I may splurge and go back to the grocery and get a Vermont Smoke and Cure ham slice and have that with sweet potatoes.

I'm kind of frustrated with this week. There's barely enough coverage and there were 2 shifts they forgot to schedule for. And last Friday the Xbox One was released and I'm the person who handles the phones and in store pick ups. So on Friday this is what I had to do:

Check receipts and hand over Day One Edition Xboxs in store pre orders, process pick ups of Day One online pre orders, take tickets and hand over the regular Xbox editions. Explain about (and try to sell) the Epic Bundle to the online pre orders and also explain it to as many people as we could. Or at the very least get the protection plan on the console.

Handle the regular pick ups, answer the phones and deal with the calls preferably in 3 minutes or less. And make the sales goal for the day through over the phone sales calls (which take longer than 3 minutes and that's allowed, but all the other calls should be kept to a minimum).

And we were flooded with calls which had a common theme of: do we have Xbox One (yes, it's first come first serve, blah blah), do we have PS4 (actually we might have a limited number because people didn't pick up the pre orders, it will be ticketed on Sunday on a first come, first serve basis, we open at 8 am), do we have the ipad Air/mini with retina/iphone 5s. Can you tell me if this item is going to be on sale on Black Friday/what are your Black Friday hours/can I buy the item now at the Black Friday price.

Then there were all the other regular pick up stuff and the other phone calls we get.

And two people called out sick so the person woh was supposed to close couldn't and they couldn't get a hold of the other person that can work the position and they knew was available so I worked a double.

Then Saturday we had a store meeting at 7:30 and I started work at 9:30. Then we had some PS4s and whoever scheduled for my dept didn't KNOW we were opening at 8 am so I was volunteered to come in and work on Sunday.

Then Sunday I discovered that no one was scheduled for Wed. So I'm working everyday this week.

Next week - I work open to 5, M-F and have coverage every single day. In fact there's double coverage for part of the closing shifts. Which is the kind of scheduling we needed this week.

Plus I had a really shitty experience at Lane Bryant Saturday after work when I was treated badly. I thought it was a salesperson but it turns out it was a MANAGER. So now I have on my list of things to do: complain to the district manager. I actually went back and talked to another sales person who was really nice and encouraged me to call their district manager.

Since I was so long winded with the other stuff the Lane Bryant issue boiled down to: the manager didn't pay attention to what I said was my style, argued with me when I said I was phsyscially uncomfortable wearing clothes, and actually said "So What do you Hate about this?" When I came out of the dressing room one time. With something I picked out and was my style.

It's like she was trying to dress me in her style and was pissed or offended when I didn't like what she liked. Instead of paying attention to my style.