Whether you’re preparing the big Thanksgiving Day feast, attending a Turkey Day potluck, or planning on dining out, we’ve got all the resources you need to ease any stress this year.

Don’t feel like cooking? Head to a restaurant.

Many restaurants are celebrating Thanksgiving with festive specials and fancy dinners. Some of our food-loving bloggers have put together great roundups. Check them out:

• Eat out for Thanksgiving - (Metrocurean)
• Annual Thanksgiving Guide (Girl Meets Food)
• Thanksgiving in D.C. (EveryFoodFits)
• Thanksgiving Options for Every Eater (We Love DC)
• Thanksgiving at Northern Virginia restaurants (Gut Check)

Don’t forget to make reservations!

Cooking this year?

Alejandra Owens from One Bite at a Time and Borderstan hosted a Turkey Talk on Twitter last week. Tweeps weighed in, offered recipe suggestions, and some great advice. You can check out her round-up here.

• Food bloggers answer Thanksgiving cooking questions and offer great recipes and advice. Read transcript here.

• Thanksgiving menus from the food bloggers (Borderstan)
• Thanksgiving: Best pumpkin recipes round-up (Florida Girl in DC)
• Must-try recipes for Thanksgiving (TwentySomethingBites)
• Best turkeys for Thanksgiving (The Hungry Beast)
• Recipes with Apple Cider (The Kitchn)
• Prepare the perfect turkey (Let's Talk Live)

Where to buy your turkey

• List of farmers markets to order your turkey from (Florida Girl in D.C.)
• Truck Patch Farms at the 14th and U Farmers Market (Borderstan)
• Where to buy fresh, local turkeys (Washington Post)

Where to deep-fry your turkey

Because you only live once… BGR The Burger Joint will deep-fry your turkey for you for free. Bring your fully thawed turkey to the Bethesda location from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

If you want to deep-fry the turkey yourself, here are some resources:
• A Deep Fried Delicacy: The How-To on Deep Frying Turkey
• How to deep-fry a turkey

Thanksgiving Cocktails

What’s a holiday celebration without a festive cocktail or two?

• Top 10 Thanksgiving Cocktails (FoodVu)
• Healthy Thanksgiving Cocktails (SheKnows)
• 10 Wines for Thanksgiving (Metrocurean)
• Apple and Cinnamon Infused Vodka (French Twist DC)
• Hot Buttered Apple Cider with Rum (Metrocurean)
• Thankful for drinks (We Love DC)
• Pumpkin Pie Shooter (Capital Cooking)
• Spirits: A Thanksgiving pre-game strategy (Washington Post)
• Thanksgiving cocktails from Legal Seafood chef David Morel (EatMore DrinkMore)

More tips for cooking Thanksgiving dinner
• 101 Make Ahead Thanksgiving recipes (New York Times)
• Thanksgiving for vegetarians (New York Times)
• 45 Minute turkey and a few other things (Bittman)

• Chefs share tips and what they're most thankful for this year

More Thanksgiving recipes from around the blogosphere

• Acorn Squash with Fresh Nutmeg (Arugula Files)
• Brussels Sprouts, Bacon and Figs (Adventures in Shaw)
• Chef David Guas' Sweet Potato Tart Tatin (EatMore DrinkMore)
• Gingersnap Ice Cream (FrozenFix)
• Green Beans with Horseradish Mustard Vinaigrette (Not Derby Pie)
• Honey Cranberry Orange Relish (Robyn Webb)
• Mac and Cheese (Mango & Tomato)
• Pumpkin-stuffed French Toast (TwentySomethingBites)
• Pumpkin Whoopie Pies (Modern Domestic)
• Roasted Carrots with Thyme (Metrocurean)
• Roasted sweet potato and carrot soup (Mango & Tomato)

Where to buy Thanksgiving takeout

If you’re hosting Thanksgiving this year, but can’t cook or don’t have the time to, there are plenty of places where you can buy your entire Thanksgiving meal.

• Balducci’s (Locations in Bethesda, Alexandria and McLean)
The gourmet “food lover’s market” offers custom dinners that serve six to eight people. Prices range from $130.00 to $140.00. Customers can also order items separately. If you want to taste some of the items, the market will have sampling hours until Sunday, Nov. 21. See here for sampling schedule. Delivery is not available the week of Nov. 22 to Nov. 25 and pickups must take place before 2 p.m. on Nov. 25.

• Dean and Deluca (3276 M St. NW; 202-342-2500)
The specialty food, wine, and kitchenware shop offers a variety of options for turkeys, sides, and desserts.

• Fairmont Hotel (2401 M St., NW; 202-429-2400)
The hotel offers a Thanksgiving dinner package that serves 10 people for $260.00. Orders must be placed by Monday, Nov. 22.

• Fyve Restaurant (1250 South Hayes St., Arlington; 703-415-5000)
The contemporary-American restaurant in the Ritz-Carlton offers a Thanksgiving dinner package that serves six people for $225.00. Orders must be placed by Friday, Nov. 19.

• La Madeleine (Multiple locations in D.C., Maryland, Virginia)
The French bakery and café offers a Turkey Holiday Feast for four to six people ($64.99), eight to ten people ($94.99), and 12-14 people ($149.99). Thanksgiving orders must be made by Sunday, Nov. 21.

• Maggiano’s (Locations in Chevy Chase and McLean)
The Italian-American restaurant offers a Thanksgiving dinner package that serves about 5 people for $175.00. Pick-up orders must be made by Nov. 19.

• Rocklands (Multiple locations in D.C., Maryland, Virginia)
The barbecue and grilling company offers a variety of turkeys, sides, and desserts separately. Customers can also choose non-traditional Thanksgiving items such as grilled marinated gulf shrimp ($25.99 per pound) and crab and artichoke dip ($74.00 per quart). Orders must be placed by Monday, Nov. 22.

• Tuscarora Mill (203 Harrison St., SE, Leesburg; 703-771-9300)
The Leesburg restaurant and bakery offers a Thanksgiving dinner for six ($145.00) and a Thanksgiving dinner for 12 ($275.00). Customers can also order wine and additional sides a la carte.

• Whole Foods Market (Multiple locations in D.C. Maryland, Virginia)
The market offers a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for eight ($129.99), a Southern Thanksgiving dinner for eight ($129.99), and dinner for two, plus a few ($59.99). Customers can also order turkeys (fresh, oven-ready, or cooked), sides, and party platters separately. Thanksgiving vegan options are also available.

• Zola Wine and Kitchen (505 9th St. NW; 202-639-9463)
 The wine shop and cooking school offers an oven-roasted turkey dinner that serves six to eight people ($129.00) and an herb-roasted turkey dinner that serves six to eight people ($149.00). Customers can also order starters, sides, and turkeys separately. Orders must be by placed by Monday, Nov. 22.

• More Thanksgiving meals to go (Nycci Nellis)

Volunteer on Thanksgiving

Here are some volunteer opportunities if you have a few hours during the week of Thanksgiving or on the day itself.

• Bread for the City, an organization that provides those in need with comprehensive services, such as food, shelter, medical care, and legal services, is looking for volunteers and donations for their Holiday Helpings program.

• Community for Creative Non-Violence, an organization that provides basic essentials to those who are homeless or poor, is looking for volunteers to help out at their annual Thanksgiving Day dinner.

• Food & Friends, an organization that serves those with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other life challenging illnesses, is looking for volunteers Nov. 22 to Nov. 25. Opportunities include food preparation, meal assembly, and holiday meal deliveries.

• Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry, a nonprofit agency that provides services to those living with HIV/AIDS, is looking for volunteers to help delivery Thanksgiving food baskets to families affected with HIV/AIDS. Food baskets will be distributed from the NOVAM offices in Falls Church and delivered to 3-4 families living in Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, or Woodbridge.

• Thanksgiving Together, an annual holiday dinner hosted by Purcellville area churches and businesses, is looking for volunteers to help out on Thanksgiving Day. Opportunities include helping out with the dinner and delivering meals to those unable to attend.

• Valuable Blessings, a Prince George’s County-based organization that promotes higher education in the community, is looking for volunteers for their second annual Community Thanksgiving Banquet.

• YMCA of Metropolitan Washington is looking for volunteers to help out with their 28th annual Turkey Chase. Opportunities include preparing, setting up, working the events, and cleaning up.