Last week we asked readers to share your Thanksgiving plans. Here’s what you said.

Who you spent Thanksgiving with

• 3% – a mix of blood relatives
• 20% – blood relatives or chosen family (tie)
• 7% – other

Of those who responded “other,” some planned to celebrate with family and strangers, whole others looked forward to a solo Thanksgiving “staycation.”

Your favorite savory dishes

• 53% – stuffing/dressing
• 13% – turkey or mashed potatoes (tie)
• 7% – brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes or mac and cheese (tie)

Your favorite Thanksgiving dessert

• 3% – Apple pie
• 7% – Pumpkin pie
• 20% – Pecan pie
• 7% – Blueberry pie, cookies or other

Most popular write-in response: peach cobbler.

What you’re most thankful for

Here is a sample of the many things you shared your gratitude for:

• Being a new employee at UC Health
• My personal and professional growth that has taken place in the last five years
• Working with so many wonderful people at UCOP
• Family, friends, and colleagues who have been supportive through tough times this year
• My family and our health, and what awesome young people my three teenagers have turned out to be
• My partner, my community, my health and having housing security in the Bay Area
• My health, my friends and my family

… and, two of you welcomed new daughters this year. Congratulations!

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