Healthy Eating Support Group
This community is a forum for people who are determined to improve their eating habits for health, personal wellness and other reasons. What you eat can have a dramatic impact on your life expectancy, your mood, your physical and mental well-being and much more. Share your experience eating healthy, get advice and find others who have similar goals.
Well, today is that most challenging of all days for healthy eating people. I have had mixed success over the years. I gave a speech once for Toastmasters that outlined healthy eating options. The speech went over with a dud when I usually did well in my speeches. I have since kept my mouth shut about trying to be healthy on this day. I do have a few strategies for myself to try to minimize the damage a bit while still enjoying the day. It should be about thanks and not food so I'm try to remember that. I'm also using my mother's good china for my meal. My mother died in 1992 so it's a good memory for me on a sad day without your loved ones. It's also a very small plate. We used these plates for all our Thanksgiving meals when I was a kid. I remember having a hard time getting all the food on it. I will use it to encourage me to use some control on portion size while still honoring my Mom's memory. My husband will turn up his nose on the size but he can have his own plate and that will work fine. We are not having company for the day so that works out. I wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksiving for everyone who visits this group.
For appetizers we're having a veggie platter with 3 kinds of dip (Garlic hummus, bleu cheese roasted pecan, and ranch), and fresh cheese and crackers. Then for desert I'm making chocostrawberry mud pie (chocolate pudding, cool whip, strawberries, gram crackers), and pumpkin pie.
Even though we're making so much food, we're going to have a lot of leftovers. My goal as well is that I am making everything fresh. Nothing is instant. Nothing is processed. Nothing will be diced up and boiled so most of the nutrients will still be there in all the food. I chose foods of all different colors to try to take advantage of the different nutrients in the different colors, and the way our Thanksgiving dinner goes, that one meal is all we eat that entire day. We having appetizers around 1. Dinner around 3-4. Then desert at 6-7 or later. It's a full day. So if you look at it that way, it's not as terrible because it's not like you're eating 2 other meals that day too.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! I'm going to enjoy cooking today :D
Only blip was I pulled out hte pumpkin pie to put in the fridge to chill before we ate and it was all moldy!!! I was so disappointed. But I returned it today and they gave me my $5 back with no hassle so that's good.
I'm glad you had a great day on Thanksgiving! Everyone has something to be thankful for.