My partner works at Walmart so we have to do the big meal today (or sometimes in the past we did the weekend) and I made the call that we do it as basic and instant as possible because I'm exhausted from working overtime at my job for the end of fiscal year.
I think it's okay to not do a big meal. I just want the experience of Thanksgiving and it doesn't require me cooking everything from scratch when I can microwave turkey breast and make instant stuffing and potatoes and veggies from frozen. That's all I want anyways and it's means I don't fall down from exhaustion.
I've been doing more cooking from scratch this year because I have gotten the right amount of medication that helps me with the momentum and clarity of thought to do such a thing and I'm very thankful for that.
Anyways, I still baked banana bread from scratch, and made sweet potato casserole like my grandfather.