Free Printable Thanksgiving Dinner Planner!

Get this free printable Thanksgiving dinner planner to make planning your holiday menu easy and straightforward.

If you are deep in the throes of planning the food for Thanksgiving, here’s a simple FREE planning tool that can help! It includes a printable shopping list, hour-by-hour schedule for cooking and baking, and a master list to plan the menu.

I use this planner year after year, and it is so helpful for keeping all the recipes, timing, and groceries straight!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I use this EVERY year. Just printed it off again for this year!!!! Thank you, Mel!!!!! You help us live rightly. -Carla

What is in the Thanksgiving Menu Planner?

In this free printable, you’ll get a simple Thanksgiving menu planner that works as an official planner OR as a brainstorming session. Print as many copies as you need.

• A column to note if someone else is bringing that particular item (read: that means you’re off the hook!).
• Areas to note how long a recipe cooks and what the oven temperature is (those two pieces of info are crucial to making the day happen!).
• A column for make-ahead notes; in this area, I write down the day I can start prepping certain recipes. For instance, most pies can be made a couple days ahead of time, and it might be helpful to make a note in this column when to thaw the turkey, etc.

Also available is a half hour-by-half hour Thanksgiving day schedule.

➡️➡️ This is a 2-page schedule that goes from 6:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; you can print back to back or two separate pages.

I find this planning tool helps spread the work throughout the day, so I don’t over commit my oven to baking 12 things at once.

And finally, there is a simple grocery shopping list spreadsheet to use as you finalize the menu. Once you jot the ingredients down here, you could easily snap a picture of this on your phone and take a paperless copy with you to the store.