My family of 4 spent $130 to have Cracker Barrel make our Thanksgiving dinner, and I’d do it again for any holiday

• We’ve made Thanksgiving dinner for decades. Last year, we ordered from Cracker Barrel instead.
• For $130, we received a turkey breast, seven sides, and a cinnamon-roll pie.
• It was so stress-free and tasty that we’re thinking of ordering from the chain again for Christmas.

My husband and I love to cook, but after making a full Ina Garten Thanksgiving dinner last October, I knew I wouldn’t have the stamina to cook another Thanksgiving meal just a few weeks later.

We’d never considered ordering our holiday meal from a restaurant, but last year, we decided to try Cracker Barrel’s “heat n’ serve” family dinner.

For $130, I ordered a turkey-breast dinner designed to serve four to six people (plus a few extras) to pick up the morning before Thanksgiving. This meal and similar ones are already available to preorder this year on Cracker Barrel’s website, too.

Here’s what Cracker Barrel Thanksgiving was like for me, my husband, and two teens.