All I have to bring for my in-laws Thanksgiving dinner is Dinner rolls & Green Bean Casserole.  There will be 15 people there.  Plus probably 4-6 extra because the kids almost always bring a friend or 2 (and we have 4 kids!), my in-laws daughters almost always have a b/f there...so I plan on providing for around 20-25.  I shopped at sam's to be able to buy the stuff I need in bulk.  I got a hugh bag of french fried onions for around $4.00 (just one regular size in the grocery store costs this much!!!), bought the cream of mushroom soup (in a six pack) for a little more than $6.00 & a 3# bag of frozen green beans for a little more than $3.00.    total cost of  casserole:  $13.00.  It will actually only take about half of the ingredients to make a big enough casserole to feed everyone so I will actually get 2 casseroles out of all the ingredients so total cost of 1 casserole to feed 25 people = $7.50

The Texas Roadhouse (TTR) has a gift Card Deal going on.  Buy a $30.00 gift card and you get a small galvanized bucket of peanuts with TTR seasoning salt & TTR steak sauce for $5.00 (plus it has a cute little shiny christmas ball in it & it is cello-wrapped &  has a bow ready for gift giving!)  and you get a dozen of their dinner rolls for free.  so...everytime we have went to TTR for the past month we have ordered this gift card.  We go to TTR just about every w/e!  We now have enough dinner rolls for our Thanksgiving dinner and didn't have to pay for them, plus we have 8 of our Christmas gifts bought & paid for!  (4) $30 gift cards for TTR for my 2 siblings and my husbands 1 sibling and hubby's daughters b/d gift, & then we have 4 of the gift buckets (@ only $5.00 extra), 1 for each of my husbands kids.  Now all we have left to buy for is the grandkids.  I will probably go to Spangles where you can buy individual $1.00 gift 'bucks'.  I think it's spangles that does this.  Either spangles or BK.  anyways...u can get a kids meal at any of those places for about $5.00.  sooo...$5.00 for each kid = $35.00.  Not bad for gifts for 6 grandkids!  They will get plenty of toys from their aunts & gr. grandma so I doubt they will miss one less toy.  Plus it will be a special treat for them.  They love eating at fast food places but their parents can only afford it for them as special treats like on b/d's or for a good report card or a special night out.

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