Key Takeaways
- Sam’s Club will launch an 11-item Thanksgiving meal on Oct. 28 for under $160, feeding up to 16 people for less than $10 per guest.
- The spread includes smoked turkey, boneless ham, two trays of mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, vegetables, cranberry salad, rolls, gravy, charcuterie, and two pumpkin pies.
- Members can prepare the meal in about two hours and order it online for curbside pickup or delivery, avoiding the estimated seven to nine hours required to make everything from scratch.
Thanksgiving dinner is getting a warehouse-club price tag this year.
Sam’s Club has announced it will sell a full holiday spread meant to feed up to 16 people for just under $160 starting Oct. 28, bringing the projected cost below $10 per guest. The estimate is based on feeding 16 people before taxes, and Sam's Club notes that actual prices may vary by location.
The package includes turkey, ham, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, green beans, a charcuterie tray, and two pumpkin pies—basically everything needed to keep people parked around the table long after the first plate is done.
The Walmart-owned retailer’s 2026 Member’s Mark Thanksgiving Meal is also built for hosts who don’t have eight hours to rotate pans through one oven. Sam’s Club says the 11-item assortment can be ready in about two hours. Members can add the entire order to an online cart with one click, adjust the lineup if needed, and choose curbside pickup, delivery, or in-club shopping.
This year’s meal goes bigger than the chain’s previous Thanksgiving packages by adding more protein, turkey gravy, and a pre-dinner grazing option. Along with hickory-smoked turkey and boneless carver ham, the spread comes with Yukon Gold mashed potatoes, sweet corn with garlic butter, cranberry crunch salad, rolls, green beans with dried cranberries and almonds, and two trays of macaroni and cheese.
In other words: enough food for Thanksgiving dinner, next-day leftovers, and the inevitable person who shows up hungry after saying they “already ate.”
Sam's Club members shaped the final roster with feedback, asking for more leftovers and a less bare-bones meal. Ashley Peoples, the company’s senior director of product development, said the team estimated that buying ingredients and cooking the whole assortment from scratch would take an average person seven to nine hours.
“Being able to prepare it in about two hours gives our members more time with their friends, family and loved ones,” she said.
Sam’s Club spent months testing the meal, including cooking competitors’ offerings under the kind of conditions most people actually deal with at home: one oven, two racks, and too many dishes competing for heat.
The club brought nearly 100 members to Dallas for a summer tasting, where the gravy quickly became the standout. Peoples said testers compared it to gravy made by their grandmothers, while one member said she wanted to drink it through a straw.
The timing lands as Thanksgiving food is becoming a full-on seasonal retail lane. Lay’s is launching its Holi-LAY’S line on Oct. 25 with Cheddar Scalloped-Style Potatoes and Roasted Holiday Turkey chips, followed by Maple Bacon in November.
