When is Thanksgiving dinner served in your house?

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86. When my Mom hosted Turkey Day it was at 1 PM

But we got so we told my sister we were eating at noon since she was always late.

Now most years we drive over to my in laws who are in a different time zone. They usually get food set out by about mid-afternoon, maybe 3 our time, around 2 their time. It really sucks since we have a two hour drive there and get up early to organize what we're taking. By the time they are serving, we're completely famished. I might throw a candy bar in my purse or go out for a coffee to keep me going.

This year I'm taking a pecan pie and a key lime pie - and making an extra key lime pie to eat at home. Over the weekend I'm cooking our own turkey dinner so we have leftovers. I also bought a ham - spiral sliced, fully cooked so we already cut it up and packaged it into portions for two to four dinners worth each. We'll do the same with the turkey so we can have "holiday" style meals for months and months!

I grew up in Central Florida, my in laws are in Panama City, Florida though my husband's parents were both from Minneapolis.