BUSINESS INSIDER – Walmart’s 2025 Thanksgiving meal comes with 15 items, including store-brand, Great Value products like three boxes of mac and cheese, three cans of corn, brown gravy mix, and pie crusts.
Ingredients from other brands are included, too, like Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup and Stove Top stuffing mix.
Using the store’s app, I was able to automatically load everything included in the $4-a-person deal into my cart. From there, I could adjust quantities as needed.
The only thing I changed was the amount of corn — I’m not a huge fan, and I couldn’t imagine what I’d do with three full cans of it.
“The stuffing, gravy, dinner rolls, and mac and cheese were the easiest parts of the meal, and didn’t necessitate any ingredients beyond butter.”
Every item in the meal was in stock at my local store and ready for pickup within a few hours. The entire haul cost me just under $43, including tax.
Some recipes were straightforward, but I bought a few extra ingredients to make the turkey and cranberries.
I picked up all 15 ingredients that evening.
Notably, Walmart’s list doesn’t include certain essential cooking basics and pantry staples I ended up using — namely, sugar, milk, butter, eggs, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Thankfully, I already had these in my kitchen. If you don’t have them on hand, though, I’d suggest adding them to your cart so you can make the full meal, including the pumpkin pie.
Later on, I also bought a few extra items to flavor the turkey with, including cooking wine, sage, and parsley — plus oranges to use when cooking my cranberries.
Altogether, I spent an extra $10 on these additions, but I had a feeling the splurge would pay off in terms of flavor …
