How Much Thanksgiving Food Do I Need? Free Quantity Calculator


Vintage watercolor Thanksgiving dinner table with stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls and pumpkin pie for a food quantity calculator

Wondering how much turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and pie you need for Thanksgiving? This free Thanksgiving food quantity calculator does the math for you. Type how many adults and kids are coming, choose how hungry your crowd is, and get the amount of every dish to cook, from turkey to dinner rolls. It works on phone and computer and needs no sign-up.

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How Much Thanksgiving Food Do I Need?

Tell me how many guests you have. Get the amount of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, sides and pie you need to cook.

1. Your guests

Next step

How it works: enter the number of adults and kids (kids count as half a portion), pick light, average or big appetites, and tick the box if you want leftovers. You get the turkey weight to buy, cups of mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce and gravy, pounds of vegetables, number of rolls and pies. Turkey is based on 1 to 1.5 pounds per person, bone-in.

Next, find out when to thaw and cook it with the Thanksgiving turkey thawing and cooking calculator.

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