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" With family and friends pouring in on Thanksgiving Day, it&amp;#039;s no wonder home cooks can feel, well, a little overwhelmed during the holidays. The pressure to deliver a Rockefeller-esque meal with seemingly no more effort than it takes to boil a pot of water runs high around this time of year, but I&amp;#039;m here to tell you to take a step back and breath. With these 6 perfectly acceptable Thanksgiving day &amp;quot;cheats&amp;quot;/shortcuts/mama&amp;#039;s little helpers, you can get some much-needed assistance in the kitchen without feeling like you&amp;#039;ve fallen short in the domestic goddess department.    Broth - This is a no-brainer. I don&amp;#039;t think I have to work too hard to convince you to use store-bought chicken broth for all your holiday needs. While homemade turkey stock is always the best tasting, the winners from this month&amp;#039;s taste test are a suitable substitution for the real deal. We even found that the concentrates that you have to dilute in boiling water (2 out of our 3 winners) tasted even closer to homemade than the ready-to-use stuff from a carton and are much cheaper ounce for ounce.  Cranberry Sauce - Whilehomemade cranberry sauce takes just 10 min. and 1 small pot to prepare, it might not be the cooking time that bogs (get it? BOGS!) you down, but rather having yet another dish on your holiday to-do list. There&amp;#039;s no shame in using store-bought. Whether it&amp;#039;s the stuff made in-house at your local store or one of these winners from ourcranberry sauce taste test, you have plenty of options if you just don&amp;#039;t feel like making it yourself. Soup - A pureed soup is an elegant way to start a meal. Plus, it&amp;#039;s easy to make 1-2 days ahead, refrigerate, and reheat the day of, but what if you lack precious fridge space and don&amp;#039;t feel like placing food outside, warily eying the temperature and praying it doesn&amp;#039;t climb above 40 degrees (I can&amp;#039;t be the only one who&amp;#039;s ever done this)? Instead, try Campbell&amp;#039;s Golden Butternut Squash Bisque. It&amp;#039;s tasty, inexpensive, and all you have to do is heat it up, top it with croutons, bury those empty cartons in the backyard, and your guests will never know. Salad Dressing - It&amp;#039;s super simple to throw together a vinaigrette by just combining a few ingredients in a jar and shaking, but what if you want more variety or your family likes creamy dressings? While we&amp;#039;re not huge fans of bottled dressing here in the GH Test Kitchen, two products get the thumbs up from our picky palates: Newman&amp;#039;s Own Ranch Dressing and Annie&amp;#039;s Naturals Goddess Dressing. Rolls - In an ideal world, all of our Thanksgiving tables would be graced with a big basket of warm, buttery, homemade rolls. Right...okay, well, no one&amp;#039;s going to scold you for not making fresh rolls for Thanksgiving, but if your carb-loving family needs bread at all costs, these frozen French rolls from Alexia come in handy and are much closer to freshly baked bread than the kind from a can. Plus, they come in whole-grain and sweet potato varieties too. Now I don&amp;#039;t care how talented a hostess you are, I don&amp;#039;t know anyone who bakes up 3 different types of fresh rolls for Turkey Day (if you do, please give me that person&amp;#039;s address, I&amp;#039;d like to shake his/her flour-caked hands).    Pie Crust - Completely-from-scratch pie making is fraught with perils and pitfalls, which are avoidable, but still potentially stress-inducing. To go halfsies on pie making, try starting out with these Wholly Wholesome frozen pie crusts. Each pack comes with 2 so you can even make double-crust fruit pies. Another bonus? They come in 6&amp;quot; and gluten-free options. Feel like I&amp;#039;ve left anything out? Which Thanksgiving shortcuts are always in your pantry? Do tell! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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