Butterball said in its 2025 Thanksgiving Outlook that 89 percent of Americans planned to celebrate Thanksgiving this year with a group of nine people. Only 28 percent of consumers expected inflation to change their plans this year, down from 53 percent in 2024, while more than half won’t make any changes at all, Butterball said in the report.

While the Consumer Price Index for the cost of food at home was up 2.7% in September compared to a year ago, Wells Fargo's Thanksgiving menu price has fallen by about 2% to 3%, depending on the shopper's strategy, said Michael Swanson, chief agricultural economist for Wells Fargo.

There are two make-ahead strategies worth covering here: The dish you can prep from start to finish and is just as good served at room temperature as it is hot, and the dish you get 90 percent of the way there, with some brief heating before serving.

Local organizations are making it exceptionally easy this year to connect with our community and the world outside South Florida.

Hollywood can look forward to Thanksgiving box office history repeating itself with a robust Wednesday-Sunday opening expected from Disney’s Zootopia 2 with $125M-plus. That result could make the sequel to the 2016 Disney original animation title the second highest opening ever over the Thanksgiving box office behind last year’s Moana 2 ($225.

Need an extra pumpkin pie or an early gift? Here's where you can shop in person when you're not busy feasting.

“What the polling showed is people are becoming extremely disgruntled with Trumpism and its attack on healthcare,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, told reporters. “Democrats cannot cave. Healthcare has got to be dealt with in any resolution that we have.”