The planner lives in the Kiwi app: a free download for iPhone and Android, or start on the web. Create a free account to get started. No card.
Five Thanksgiving menus to start from: Classic, Small, Make-Ahead, Vegetarian or a New Twist.
Swap any dish, or import your family recipes from a link, a photo or pasted text.
One complete list by aisle. One click to order online in the app, or shop your local store.
Kiwi plans the make-ahead days, so Thursday is mostly the oven.
Timed to the minute. Kiwi handles the oven temps and the order, so every dish lands hot.
The planner lives in the Kiwi app. Download it free or start on the web; either way you create a free account (no card), then pick Thanksgiving on the home screen.
Every template is a full week of cooking, not just the feast. Start with one, then change anything: the dishes, the headcount, the recipes.
30 minutes or less. Nothing heavy.
Easy, so the evening is free for the pie.
Store-bought pizza and a quick salad. The night before, nobody wants to cook.
The bird, the sides, the fixins and dessert to finish. Made to fit your traditions.
Thursday, made into something new.
It’s the sides. Six or eight dishes that all want onions, butter, cream and stock, and all need the oven at the same time.
You buy a bag of onions and figure that covers it. Then the stuffing takes three, the gravy two, the green beans one more, and you run out with a pan already hot. Someone runs to the store, one dish waits while another gets rushed, and the timing you planned is gone, right as the guests arrive. Kiwi does the counting before you shop.
Kiwi adds up every onion, stick of butter and cup of stock across all your dishes and puts each on the list once, sorted by aisle. You buy what the recipes need, not a guess.
The chopping and make-ahead steps are laid out earlier in the week, so Thursday is mostly the oven, and nothing waits on a missing ingredient.
Every recipe is step by step, with the amounts in each step. Look it up once, then get back to the table.
Start from a Kiwi template, then bring your own: snap a photo of the handwritten recipe card, paste a recipe from a site, or tell Kiwi the dish you want and it finds or writes it.
Quick, light dinners on Monday and Tuesday, pizza night on Wednesday, the feast on Thursday and leftovers on Friday.
The plan, the shopping list, the prep steps and the recipes, on your phone and on the web.
Each template is a full week of cooking. The feast is written for 10 guests, or 4 in the Small plan. In the app you change the headcount, swap dishes and add your own recipes.
Running back to the store on Thanksgiving morning is practically a tradition. It happens because shopping for nine dishes at once is hard: the same ingredients turn up in five recipes, quantities have to be added up, and something always gets missed.
Kiwi does that part. Every ingredient in every recipe is added up, doubled-up items are merged into one line, and the list is sorted by aisle.
Example list. Quantities are illustrative.
Start from Kiwi’s plan and change anything. The recipes and the list follow.
Trade any dish on the menu for another Thanksgiving dish.
Buttermilk-brined turkey instead of herb-roasted. Pecan pie instead of pumpkin.
Cooking for 14, or 6? Change the number of guests and every quantity rescales.
The list does the math, down to the sticks of butter.
Take a photo of grandma’s recipe card, paste one from a site or a magazine, or just tell Kiwi the dish you want. It joins the menu and the list.
The dish people would notice if it was missing.
Three short pages, no account needed.
Count back from dinner: when the turkey goes in by weight, when it comes out, and what fits in the oven while it rests.
Dinner at 4? A 14-pound bird goes in at 11:30.
A pound and a half a person for a whole bird, less for a breast, more if you want Friday sandwiches. The table for 4 to 20.
Ten guests: a 14- to 16-pound turkey.
Every ingredient for the Classic feast for 10, added up across all eight dishes and sorted by aisle, with what to buy when.
Six onions. Two pounds of butter. One trip.
Monday, November 23. Pick a plan any time before Thanksgiving and Kiwi puts the feast on Thursday the 26th, with two light dinners and a pizza night before it and leftovers after. Shop the weekend before.
Yes. The feast is written for 10 (the Small plan for 4). Change the number of guests in the app and every recipe and the grocery list rescale with it. The weeknight dinners follow your household size.
Yes. Prefer a buttermilk-brined turkey, sausage stuffing or pecan pie? Swap any dish on the menu for another Thanksgiving dish or for your own recipe (from a photo, a link, or just its name), and the list updates.
In the fridge, allow about a day for every 4 pounds, before the brine. A 14-pound turkey brined Wednesday night goes from the freezer to the fridge on Saturday. Kiwi works out the day for your bird’s weight.
Every recipe lists its allergens, including the store-bought shortcuts like pie crust and puff pastry. The Vegetarian Friendsgiving plan has no meat at all, and any dish can be swapped.
No. The list is organized by aisle and checks off on your phone, at one store or three, and you can send it to whoever is doing the shopping. If you would rather skip the store that week, send it to Instacart.
Yes. Kiwi is free, and during launch every feature is included: the Thanksgiving plans, the grocery list, online ordering and step-by-step cooking. There is no card to enter, so there is nothing to cancel.
Every plan, the grocery list, Instacart ordering or your local store, and step-by-step recipes, all free.
Get the free app Get the iPhone app Get the Android appNo card, nothing to cancel.
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