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Have no fear if you don’t want to cook on Christmas and you also don’t want to dine out.
Certain restaurants and grocery stores have you covered with prepared to-go Christmas meals.
You need to order your meal ahead of time, then pick up your order in most cases at least the day before Christmas. Heat and eat.
Here are some places serving to-go Christmas meals in South Jersey.
Bob Evans, Mount Laurel
The restaurant offers a holiday hot family meal for $109.99 and it includes slow roasted turkey, hickory-smoked ham, house-made bread and celery dressing, cranberry relish, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans and ham, buttered corn and 12 freshly baked dinner rolls and a whole pumpkin pie. This feeds six.
Bob Evans also has multiple other Family Feast options, including the popular Premium Farmhouse Feast, which is packed cold and ready to heat later.
It includes slow-roasted turkey, hickory-smoked ham, bread and celery dressing, homestyle mashed potatoes with gravy, corn, green beans with ham, cranberry relish, macaroni & cheese, freshly baked rolls, double-crust apple pie, pumpkin pie, and pumpkin bread. This serves eight to 10 and is $164.99.
Meals must be picked up by Dec. 24.
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Boston Market, Woodbury (multiple locations in Philadelphia)
The restaurant has a Heat & Serve holiday menu, including a complete whole turkey meal for 12. This includes cranberry walnut relish, a whole turkey, mac and cheese, corn, two mashed potatoes (and gravy), a dozen dinner rolls, two stuffing servings, a whole pumpkin pie and a whole apple pie. The cost is $249.99.
Other options include a rotisserie chicken or complete half boneless ham meal for six. It has the two pies and the same side offerings, except this option has six pieces of cornbread.
There are also cheaper options for the ham and turkey meals with less sides and no pies included. Individual meals are available, starting at $15.99.
Orders can be made online. Catering services are also offered.
Visit bostonmarket.com for more info.
Boyar’s Market, Ocean City
Boyar’s Market has been around since 1924.
You’re in luck. It offers a holiday takeout menu.
Holiday individual meals for $28.95 include turkey and gravy or pineapple-glazed ham. It comes with cranberry sauce, choice of mashed potatoes or sweet potato casserole, choice of sausage or traditional stuffing, choice of a vegetable (green beans, carrots or Brussel sprouts), bread pudding and a dinner roll. There is also a 6-ounce filet mignon option that comes without cranberry sauce, dressing or the option of sweet potatoes.
Located at 1340 Asbury Ave., Ocean City, Boyar’s Market also offers a family-style roasted turkey breast, sliced in gravy, and family-style Hatfield ham, sliced in a pineapple glaze.
They have a la carte side dishes for sale, either quarter- or half-pound pans, which include, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, vegetables, macaroni and cheese and more.
Cakes, pies (pecan, pumpkin and apple), bread pudding, cheesecake and cookie trays are available for dessert.
Visit boyarsmarket.com for more info.
Cracker Barrel (multiple locations)
Cracker Barrel offers family dinners that serve four to six people and feasts that serve eight to 10 people.
Choices include: sugar-cured ham or prime rib, plus au jus and horseradish sauce, dressing, gravy, cranberry relish, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, green beans and yeast rolls. The meals are available for preorder and pick-up Dec. 21-28 (except Dec. 25).
Visit crackerbarrel.com for more info.
Denny’s, Bordentown, Vineland
Denny’s Holiday Turkey Bundle is to be available for Christmas.
The turkey bundle, which feeds up to four people, can be ordered online 24 hours in advance of pick-up.
It includes tender-carved turkey breast, bread stuffing, red-skinned mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, cranberry sauce and a choice of a second side: herb-glazed corn, fresh broccoli or creamy mac and cheese.
Extra sides can be purchased a la carte. There are also pie choices, either pecan or pumpkin.
You can pre-order online from Dec. 15 to Dec. 22. Final day for pickup is Dec. 24.
Visit dennys.com for more info.
Haddon Culinary, Collingswood, Haddonfield
They are offering a Chef’s Holiday Trimmings package for $199.99 and that includes: maple glazed Brussels sprouts and carrots, beef tallow potato latkes, French beans Almondine, Maine lobster bisque, Jasper Hill Farms macaroni and cheese, poached pear gorgonzola walnut salad and you choose one Isgro pastry from: Italian rum cake, ricotta cheesecake with fresh fruit or holiday yule log.
The package includes Parker rolls and butter and serves six to eight guests.
There are fresh butcher cuts of meat and “ready to eat centerpieces” (such as classic beef Wellington) that can be paired with the trimmings.
All items are also available ala carte. You can also add hors d’oeuvres.
Pickups are Dec. 23 and Dec. 24. Deadline for orders is Dec. 19 at 5 p.m.
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Honey Baked Ham, Marlton
The establishment has multiple meal options for your to-go Christmas, including a Honey Baked Ham & Turkey Feast, which comes with a Honey Baked Bone-in half ham and a Honey Baked turkey breast (roasted or smoked) accompanied by your choice of four of their frozen heat and serve side dishes. That meal serves up to 19 and varies in cost depending on if you get the 8, 9 or 10-pound ham ($181.99 to $199.99).
There is also a signature Honey Baked Ham meal that serves 12 and includes a Honey Baked bone-in half ham accompanied by four of our frozen heat and serve side dishes.
There are multiple other full meal options, and there are options for just the ham, ham and turkey or just the sides as well.
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Verna’s Flight Line Restaurant, Millville
Located at Millville Executive Airport, this popular little restaurant is serving a take-home Christmas dinner that serves 12 to 14 guests.
Entrée options include all-white meat turkey or a ham with accompaniments. Lasagna with meat sauce, meatballs and garden salad are to be available without accompaniments.
The accompaniments include: a half pan of stuffing, a half pan of mashed potatoes, a half pan of green beans, a quart of gravy, a quart of corn and a one-third quart of cranberry sauce.
Dinner rolls, apple pie and pumpkin pie are included. Extra fixings can be added for an increased cost.
No orders will be accepted after Dec. 17. Pick up is Dec. 24.
Visit facebook.com/vernasflightlinerestaurant for more info.
Wegmans (Mount Laurel, Cherry Hill)
Complete holiday dinners are available to preorder for pick-up while supplies last in all Meals 2GO stores. Check the Meals 2GO App or meals2GO.com Catering tab for availability.
Some of the meal offerings include: a classic turkey dinner, which includes herb bread stuffing, whipped potatoes, macaroni and cheese, green bean casserole with crispy onions, homestyle gravy, cranberry orange relish and an all-natural, slow-roasted 12-to-14 pound turkey. The price starts at $185 and the meal can feed 10. That meal is available for carryout only on Dec. 23-24.
There are also options for a hand-carved turkey dinner, garlic-studded rib roast, brisket, spiral sliced ham, salmon, roasted rack of lamb, tenderloin and more with various side offerings. Those meals can feed up to 12.
There are also individual meals such as the turkey, gravy, whipped potatoes, herb stuffing, butternut squash with baby spinach and raisins for $19.99.
Visit meals2go.wegmans.com/browse-menu for more info.
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