Amazon is selling a boxed Thanksgiving dinner for $25, built around an 8-pound Butterball frozen turkey and a cart’s worth of name-brand sides. The company announced the bundle on Nov. 2, 2026, and says it is available through Nov. 26, which is Thanksgiving Day, while supplies last.
The meal comes from Amazon Grocery and is aimed at shoppers who want the holiday basics in one order. Here is what is inside, where delivery applies and how the price compares with buying the turkey alone.
What Comes in the $25 Box
According to Amazon’s Nov. 2 announcement, the bundle includes 15 line items. The centerpiece is the 8 lb. Butterball frozen turkey. The brand-name sides and mixes are:
Ocean Spray jellied cranberry sauce (14 oz), two McCormick turkey gravy mix packets, two boxes of Kraft Mac & Cheese, Stove Top turkey stuffing (6 oz), Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup (10.5 oz), French’s Crispy Fried Onions (2.8 oz) and Nestle Carnation Evaporated Milk (12 fl oz).
The rest comes from Amazon’s own Amazon Grocery label: a 5-pound bag of russet potatoes, two cans of whole kernel corn, a 16-ounce bag of whole carrots, two cans of cut green beans, an 8-count tube of crescent rolls, a 2-count package of pie crusts and a 15-ounce can of organic pumpkin puree.
The release does not say how many people the meal serves. With an 8-pound bird at its center, it is sized for a small gathering rather than a crowded table. Hosts trying to keep the guest list and the grocery bill in line may find Craftingyourhome.com’s list of costly Thanksgiving hosting mistakes useful, and Frenzhub has a comparison for anyone planning to free up the oven this Thanksgiving with a countertop air fryer or toaster oven.
A Green Bean Casserole Hiding in the Box
Three of the items in the bundle line up with one of the country’s best-known holiday sides. The cream of mushroom soup, the canned green beans and the crispy fried onions are the core of green bean casserole, a dish that consists primarily of those three ingredients, according to the Wikipedia entry on the casserole.
The recipe was created in 1955 by Dorcas Reilly while she worked in the home economics department at the Campbell’s Soup Company, the entry says. Seventy-one years later, its ingredients still ship together in a holiday box. Frenzhub’s list of foods from the ’60s most boomers loved with a passion covers more of the convenience cooking that grew up around that era.
The pie crusts and pumpkin puree point toward dessert, though the box does not include eggs, sugar or spices. Craftingyourhome.com’s rundown of 9 pies that show up on Thanksgiving tables across America starts with the obvious pumpkin pick.
Where Same-Day Delivery Applies
Amazon says the meal is available in more than 2,300 cities and towns where it offers fresh groceries with Same-Day Delivery. Orders of $25 or more qualify for free Same-Day Delivery, which means the meal on its own meets the threshold.
The Prime section of the same release describes free same-day grocery delivery on orders over $25 as a Prime member benefit, along with discounts on 1-hour and 2-hour delivery from Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh. Shoppers outside Prime should check the delivery terms shown at checkout.
Amazon’s fresh grocery business has been building toward this for years. Amazon Fresh started in 2007 as an invite-only grocery delivery service in Washington state, according to its Wikipedia entry, before expanding to other metro areas.
Travelers who plan to cook at a relative’s house instead can look at Frenzhub’s picks to skip the checked-bag fee this Thanksgiving.
How the Price Compares With a Turkey Alone
The same announcement lists turkeys at $0.79 per pound for frozen birds from Nov. 1 through Nov. 26, and $0.99 per pound for fresh turkeys from Nov. 14 through Nov. 26. At the frozen price, an 8-pound turkey would cost about $6.32 on its own, leaving roughly $18.68 of the $25 for the 14 other items.
Amazon also listed a run of other holiday grocery deals, according to the release:
Thanksgiving staples under $4 from Nov. 1 to Nov. 26; 40% off pre-made sides from Nov. 15 to Nov. 26; 20% to 25% off more than 300 McCormick products from Nov. 19 to Nov. 30; and 20% off select Ziploc food storage containers and bags from Nov. 26 to Nov. 30, which lands right as the leftovers arrive.
Jason Buechel, Amazon’s vice president of worldwide grocery stores and CEO of Whole Foods Market, said in the release that “Customers love the convenience of getting everything they need for the holidays delivered.”
Thawing the 8-Pound Turkey in Time
Because the turkey arrives frozen, timing matters. Butterball, whose company history includes a Turkey Talk-Line that has run since late 1981, recommends at least one day of refrigerator thawing for every 4 pounds of turkey.
By that rule, an 8-pound bird needs about 2 days in the refrigerator. Butterball’s thawing guide also allows a cold-water method at 30 minutes per pound, or about 4 hours for this size, with the turkey kept in its unopened wrapper and the water changed every 30 minutes. A thawed turkey can stay in the refrigerator at 40 degrees F or below for up to 4 days before cooking, the company says.
For a Thursday, Nov. 26 dinner, that puts the latest comfortable refrigerator start on Monday, Nov. 23, or the morning of the holiday for the cold-water route.
This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
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