Walmart holiday meal basket offers Salina families a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 for about $35
SALINA, Kan. — Salina shoppers can buy a complete Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people at Walmart for about $35, or $3.50 per person, under the company's 2026 Holiday Meal Basket, according to a Walmart announcement dated Oct. 28.
The basket is available through Dec. 24 in stores and online, including pickup and delivery. Salina's Walmart Supercenter is at 2900 S. Ninth St. Kansas is among the states where the offer applies.
This year's basket has 26 items across 17 products, 18 percent more items than last year's version, and Walmart says it costs 12 percent less than the same items did a year ago. The company calls it the lowest-priced basket in the program's history.
What's in the basket
The meal centers on a Butterball frozen whole turkey priced at 97 cents a pound. The basket also includes two boxes of Stove Top turkey stuffing, a 5-pound bag of russet potatoes, two brown gravy packets, three cans of green beans, Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, French fried onions, three cans of corn, two boxes of Jiffy corn muffin mix, fresh sweet potatoes, Jet-Puffed mini marshmallows, fresh cranberries, a dozen brown-and-serve rolls, canned pumpkin, evaporated milk, frozen pie crusts and whipped topping.
Those ingredients cover turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, corn casserole, sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce, rolls and pumpkin pie, Walmart says.
How to buy it
Shoppers can pick up the items in the store or add the full basket to an online cart in one click at Walmart.com/HolidaySavingsBasket. Walmart says customers can also ask Sparky, its AI shopping assistant in the Walmart app, to add the basket. Items can be removed or added to customize the order. No coupon or membership is required, and there is no limit on purchases.
Walmart is offering free Express Delivery on the basket through Nov. 30 with promo code THANKFUL, on orders of at least $35 that include Campbell's mushroom soup, a Butterball turkey or Stove Top stuffing.
Some shoppers have shared on social media that they lowered their total to about $25 using Walmart pickup and delivery promo codes such as DOUBLE10 or FAST30, which coupon websites list as $10 off orders of $35 or more. Those codes depend on the shopper's account and may not work for everyone.
What to know at checkout
The $35 price is an estimate based on an average 13.5-pound turkey and about 3.2 pounds of sweet potatoes, so totals vary slightly with weight. Kansas no longer charges state sales tax on food, but local taxes apply. In most of Salina the combined local rate on groceries is 2.75 percent, according to the Kansas Department of Revenue, which adds about 96 cents to a $35 order. Pickup or delivery fees of up to $19.95 may apply and are shown before purchase.
