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Thanksgiving Day

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Greenbelt Thanksgiving Day Restaurant and Grocery Store Openings

Want to go out to eat for Thanksgiving—or want to know grocery stores that will be open? Take a look at some Greenbelt options.

With Thanksgiving around the corner, it’s possible to forget an item or two when preparing favorite dishes. Here's a list of places in Greenbelt that will be open on Thanksgiving Day. For pots, pans, cooking trays or even a gravy boat—the Greenbelt Kmart and Target will be open on Thanksgiving and then again on Black Friday. People looking for an easy way out of cooking that Thanksgiving meal will find several restaurants are open in Greenbelt. If you have a favorite restaurant or grocery store that you know is open on Thanksgiving, let us know in the comments.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Thanksgiving Leftovers: What Do You Do With Them?

Share your best recipes for the day after.

  Dinner’s done and the food coma is sitting in. Now the question becomes: What to do with all those leftovers? While many say simple reheating is all that’s necessary to have a “day after” feast, others have elaborate recipes for turning Thanksgiving leftovers into gourmet delights. From savory turkey soups to sinfully delicious pot pies and mile-high sandwiches, everyone has their own ideas on what to do with what’s leftover. The Food Network even has an entire recipe collection dedicated to the topic. We’d prefer to hear from you! What are your favorite Thanksgiving leftover recipes? Share them in the comments section orupload them as an announcement.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Are Target, Walmart, Other Retailers Ruining Thanksgiving?

Retail 'sale' creep hits the all-American holiday big time this year.

  If all you can wait to do after you chow down on your Thanksgiving meal is start the holiday shopping marathon, retailers are ready to help you. Other Americans, including some retail workers, are saying they want to keep one Thursday in November free of American capitalistic intrusion. Target, Walmart, Sears, KMart and Toys"R"Us have all announced they will open as early as 8 p.m. Thanksgiving Day, making 2012's holiday shopping season of 32 days and four hours perhaps the longest ever due to the way the calendar fell this year. At least one online petition says enough, already. A campaign on the site Change.org entitled, "Target: Take the high road and save Thanksgiving," had been signed by more than 230,000 users as of Friday night. …

Peggy Anne

10:31 am on Friday, November 23, 2012

Black Friday ? Why not play the Funeral March ? Of course consumers in human form have the right to shop 24/7. They have a right to be trampled, poked in the eye with an umbrella, make fools of themselves, and buy discounted caskets. Why not ?everything else is on sale. Big brother brainwashing is alive and well. I like to shop sensibly. Give me an old thrift shop, a rainy Monday, and an ebay …   more ›

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