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By Alison Chew
Reviewed by Rebecca Housh, MS, RDN
We have researched the tastiest all-natural turkey for your Thanksgiving dinner and have listed our top favorites below. These turkeys live life in the sun roaming free on pastures of family farms. They are free from hormones, artificial ingredients, antibiotics, and are non-GMO. Order your Thanksgiving turkey now and share the love of a delicious all-natural turkey with your friends and family.
Looking for Thanksgiving meal kits? Check out our list of Thanksgiving meal kits to save time on planning, shopping, and cooking for the big day!
CrowdCow pastured turkeys are raised by the Gunthorp family on their farm in northern Indiana. Turkeys are free to roam and are also free of hormones or antibiotics, roaming free on Certified Organic pasture.
This year Porter Road is offering pasture-raised turkeys that are free from hormones and antibiotics. These turkeys live a natural lifestyle outside, where they can move around freely and forage, at Jolly Barnyard. Turkeys come with the neck and giblets.
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Pre-order now for delivery by November 25th. All Porter Road Thanksgiving turkeys will ship the week before Thanksgiving. Free shipping on orders $100+.
All of the turkeys from D’Artagnan are packed full of flavor because they are raised free-range and free of antibiotics and added hormones Choose from their exclusive Green Circle™ turkey, organic, heritage-breed, or wild turkey to serve at your holiday feast.
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My Chicago Steak Company not only has free-range antibiotic-free turkeys for your holiday meal, but they also offer beef wellington, lobster, ham, steak, and more. And if you want to order a complete meal check out their premade sides, like Green Bean Casserole and Mac and Cheese, or their Heart-Shaped Cheesecake for dessert.
Rastelli’s brings you responsibly sourced meat directly from the farm to your door. This Thanksgiving, they are offering an all-natural pre-seasoned turkey breast roast. Perfect for those that don’t want to deal with cooking, or cleaning, a whole Thanksgiving turkey, but still want the tender, juicy flavor from a sustainably-sourced bird. These turkeys are raised on American Humane Association-certified family farms in North Carolina with regular access to outdoor pastures and fed an all-vegetarian diet free of antibiotics, steroids, and hormones.
With Stock Yards, you have a wide selection of meat, sides, appetizers, wine, and desserts to make your Thanksgiving or holiday dinner one to remember.
ButcherBox turkeys are all-natural and animal welfare certified. They have never been given antibiotics and do not include basting ingredients, artificial ingredients, and are minimally processed.
Steaks and Game bring you a unique turkey for your Thanksgiving masterpiece. If you are looking for something a little different this year try the Turducken! A Turduckhen is made by stuffing a deboned chicken into a deboned duck and then stuffing that into a deboned turkey. This Turducken is stuffed with pork and sausage Jambalaya.
Grass Roots turkeys are responsibly pasture-raised on family farms across the US and are free from antibiotics, pesticides, hormones and are non-GMO.
Greensbury organic free-range turkeys are raised on Koch’s family farm in Eastern Pennsylvania. They are free from antibiotics, are non-GMO, humanely raised, vegetarian fed and organic.
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Several meal kit services offer full Thanksgiving feasts. HelloFresh offers both a full turkey dinner as well as a beef tenderloin dinner, Purple Carrot offers a vegan dinner, Home Chef offers dinner for 6, Blue Apron offers dinner for 8, Stock Yards has 2 dinners that feed 6-8 people, and Marley Spoon and Dinnerly offer meal kits that feed 2 or 4 people.
Home Chef and Sunbasket allow you to buy only the turkey. There are also several meat delivery services that offer pastured-raise all-natural turkeys for Thanksgiving. We’ve rounded up our top favorite all-natural Thanksgiving turkey providers in this blog post.
Home Chef, Marley Spoon, Gobble, Sunbasket, and Dinnerly give you the option to purchase just the sides.
Marley Spoon, Home Chef, Gobble, and Dinnerly give you several options for a delicious home-cooked Thanksgiving dessert.
Yes! Purple Carrot and Nutrition for Longevity offer a full vegan Thanksgiving dinner.
Yes! Cooked has a fully prepared Whole30 Thanksgiving for 2, 4, or 6.
Yes! Nutrition for Longevity offers a full pescatarian Thanksgiving dinner.
Yes! Cooked and Stock Yards both have fully prepared Thanksgiving meals.
Yes! Cooked fully prepared Thanksgiving comes in 2 servings, as does the Dinnerly and Marley Spoon weekly Thanksgiving meal kit.
How many of these historical Thanksgiving questions can you get right?
1. When was the first recorded Thanksgiving?
2. Thanksgiving always falls on which day?
3. How many days was the first Thanksgiving?
4. What percentage of Americans will serve turkey on Thanksgiving?
5. Which of these was NOT on the first Thanksgiving menu? Swans, dessert, seal, or lobster
6. How long is the parade route of the famous New York City Macy’s Day parade?
1. 1621, but Thanksgiving didn’t become a national holiday until 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln declared it one and that it should be held every November.
“In 1621 the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies.”
2. Thanksgiving always falls on the fourth Thursday of the month.
3. According to Pilgrim chronicler Edward Winslow, “whom for three days we entertained and feasted”, the answer is 3 days!
4. Around 88-90% of Americans will serve a turkey, roasted, baked, or deep-fried according to the National Turkey Federation.
5. Dessert! Because of dwindling sugar supplies and no oven, there were no pies, cakes, or desserts on the first Thanksgiving.
6. 2.5 miles around New York City with 2-3 million spectators
| This post has been reviewed and approved by our dietitian Rebecca Housh, MS, RDN, LDN for nutritional accuracy. | |
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 | Rebecca Housh is a registered dietitian based in Chicago, IL. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Human Physiology from Boston University and a Master of Science in Human Nutrition from the University of Illinois in Chicago. Rebecca is passionate about the idea of food as medicine in both preventative and therapeutic care. Her current professional interests lie in food security, food access, and nutrition for chronic disease. |
