Here are a bunch of traditional Thanksgiving recipes for holiday favorites like roast turkey, sweet potato casserole, homemade stuffing, turkey gravy and homemade pies all in one place!
The best news!! All of these are dairy free and gluten free recipes and they ACTUALLY TASTE GREAT! You can make this gluten free dairy free Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people for under $35! (The cost depends on how many pies you make.) Don’t let your food sensitivity hold you back! Try these recipes and enjoy Thanksgiving without paying for it later!
How to Save on Thanksgiving Dinner
This is the gluten free, dairy free version of our Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes. Some of the recipes include butter, which is dairy. In these cases, I have included dairy free butter OR butter because if you’re gluten free but not dairy free, you can use regular butter.
- Keep Thanksgiving Dinner Simple! You don’t need a ton of food.
- Don’t make a lot of side dishes. Just 2 or 3 will be fine.
- Make less expensive desserts like chocolate and pumpkin pies instead of pecan pie.
- Cut small slices of desserts and dish out food for kids. They can come back and get more but then food isn’t wasted and thrown away.
- If others are coming, have them help with dinner and bring some dishes.
- Make it yourself. Homemade food tastes so much better and it really is fairly quick and easy.
- Don’t use elaborate recipes with expensive spices.
- Make the table look nice and decorated. Then the food looks great even if it’s not a lot of food.
- Don’t drink soda, cider and other expensive drinks. Just have iced tea, coffee and water.
- Stock up now for your Christmas baking while sugar, gluten free flours, etc. are cheap.
Gluten Free Dairy Free Thanksgiving Recipes
We’ve included all of the traditional Thanksgiving recipes below, but here’s a breakdown of the costs to prepare this Thanksgiving Dinner For 10. (The links are to the traditional versions of the recipes.)
- Turkey – .69/lb. 15 lbs. $7 ($10.35 for the entire turkey. You won’t use the entire turkey) This recipe is adapted from volume 1 of our Dining On A Dime Cookbook.
- Stuffing – 5.00
- Turkey Gravy – $.25
- Dinner Rolls Homemade – .50 Store bought $2.00
- Mashed Potatoes $1.50
- Broccoli Salad – $2.00
- Deviled Eggs – $1.00
- Jello Salad – $1.50
- Sweet Potato Casserole – $2.00
- Chocolate Pie Homemade – $2.00
- Pumpkin Pie Homemade – $2.00
- Apple Pie $3.00
- Dairy Free Whipped Coconut Cream
- Iced Tea – .25
Dairy And Gluten Free Thanksgiving Recipes
Try these easy tips for how to roast a turkey, along with an easy gluten free and dairy free roast turkey recipe! This is the best roast turkey recipe ever and everyone raves about how moist and delicious it is! And with these instructions, it’s easy to make it gluten and dairy free!
How To Roast A Turkey
Turkey isn’t expensive at all so stock up now. I got two turkeys today for .39/lb. I had the butcher cut them in half just like last year and the year before! If you know how to roast a turkey, you can stock up during the holidays, serve turkey in place of chicken and save a bundle on your food bill! Tawra
Thawing
Sometimes turkeys do not cook properly because they don’t get thawed. You need to allow 1 day of thawing time for every 4 lbs. of turkey plus you can keep a thawed turkey in the fridge for at least 3-4 days. Thaw your turkey with the breast side down so the juices will run into the breast.
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Here’s an easy gluten free and dairy free mashed potatoes recipe. It is so easy and delicious, you would never guess they were gluten free and dairy free mashed potatoes!
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This dairy free and gluten free sweet potato casserole recipe is super tasty! It’s a great dish for holiday dinners and potlucks as it can be made the day before and baked the next day – and the best part is you can make it gluten free and dairy free!
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This is my grandmother’s classic stuffing, modified to be a dairy free gluten free stuffing recipe – And it tastes great! Now you don’t have to be left out when it comes to yummy Thanksgiving traditional stuffing recipe made with bread, sausage and more!
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This is the best dairy free and gluten free apple pie recipe you will ever taste! The traditional version has been in our family for 75 years or more and still takes the #1 spot at any meal when served. I recently started making it dairy and gluten free and it is just as delicious! If you’re dairy free or gluten free, you will definitely want to try it!
We’re also including a variation for French apple pie. You use the French apple pie when you have only 1 crust for the bottom and need something to top it with. It is a cross between a pie and apple crisp.
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This is the best dairy and gluten free pumpkin pie recipe! I love pumpkin pie, but after going dairy and gluten free I wasn’t able to eat it. I did a lot of testing and here’s a tasty pumpkin pie you can actually eat!
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Here is an easy dairy free and gluten free pecan pie recipe you can enjoy, even if you have one of these dietary restrictions. This is the BEST homemade pecan pie recipe and is so much less expensive than buying a prepared dairy free and gluten free pecan pie from the bakery!
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This coconut whipped cream recipe makes a tasty gluten free dairy free whipped cream, perfect for holiday pies and other desserts!
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Most of these Thanksgiving recipes are in the gluten free dairy free edition of our cookbook:
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Thank you again for great recipes, Tawra! I have two grandsons who are dairy free.
I’ve recently had to go gluten and egg free. What can I do to substitute eggs? They seem to be in all the gluten free recipes and most the gluten free comercial products. I don’t have dairy issues.
A lot of people have to use egg substitutes.
Great helpful ideas! Thank you
I’m allergic to eggs. JUST EGG Brand Vegan Egg Substitute is Great! You find it in the Egg section that has the Fleishman low cholesterol Egg Substitute (in a carton), etc.. Just Egg is even very good fried or in omelets. You can add “Black Salt” to give it a more eggy taste. It’s sulfury so if it’s the sulfur in eggs that bothers you, don’t use it. I’m so excited that I can now have Omelets again! It’s not really to expensive considering how much the price of eggs has gone up. Where I live it’s about $7 for what equals 8 Large maybe Extra Large Eggs. Safeway and Albertsons have Just Egg on sale quite often for around $5 or $6. You can freeze it in the bottle. It really doesn’t keep long in the fridge. I’d definitely use it up by the suggested time on the bottle. It’s made from Mung beans. I’ve found recipes on line to make it straight from the dried mung beans. It tastes close if you add the black salt, but it has a more pancake consistency. I guess The company separates the protein from the starch, so that’s the difference. They also sell Just Egg already cooked in patties in the freezer section, but I haven’t tried them as they have onions in them and I’m allergic to onions. 😊❣️
Thank you So much!