Thanksgiving can be daunting. Meal kit boxes from Sunbasket or Marley Spoon offer the satisfaction of making a home-cooked feast, with a lot less stress.

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Making a full Thanksgiving feast for guests can be daunting, for some perhaps even terrifying. The world, and especially Hallmark movies, is full of holiday disaster stories: burnt turkeys, failed desserts, steamed hams. But I'm not bragging when I say that the first Thanksgiving dinner I prepared for my extended family—a little early, this year—was an unmitigated success.