Celebrate Thanksgiving

[sillygirl]

The holidays are upon us starting with Thanksgiving on Thursday!

What are you planning for a low-carb feast to enjoy?

How do you plan on decorating your home? Tell us what special traditions your family may have as well.

Please post pictures!

[sallyseachange]

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I plan on getting that celebration rush, just reading about all your festivities and fun (being a Brit in Italy)... I know it'll get me into the Christmas mood too!

[ttdriver]

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I'll be running at 8:30 on Thanksgiving Day in the St. Petersburg Times Turkey Trot (10k - 6.2 miles) and after that ...

We plan to have our usual LC feast:

Turkey
LC stuffing made from Nature's Own W&F Bread
Mashed turnips / gravy
LC Cranberry sauce
Dottie's LC Green Bean Casserole
Crustless Pumpkin Pie with whipped cream!

After that, we will be watching our Tampa Bay Buccaneers play the Dallas Cowboys !

Betty

[sillygirl]

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Betty! You are an inspriation here. What an absolutely perfect LC menu you've got going on there! YUMMY!

[Lisa M]

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I was thinking the same thing, Silly. Betty, you're a great inspiration!

Mashed turnips sound good actually. I need to consider adding those to the menu.

Getting my 2 mile walk in and then we'll be going to my mom's for dinner and then back home to start setting up the Christmas tree.

[Babs]

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My husband and I will be celebrating both Thanksgiving and our 26th wedding anniversary with a low carb Thanksgiving meal.

I had planned to make my rich Atkins favorite from the 2000 DANDR book, Coq A Oui (sp), but now that that it falls on Thanksgiving, I'll save this for Christmas.

So when I changed it to turkey dinner, I was going to make the cauliflower mashed potatoes, but now see that turnip can be used, so will make those--sounds good! And since I love being in the kitchen, but won't be baking, I'll make some stuffed mushrooms of some sort. I'll make a few "lc cheese crackers" and celery, a few olives, artichoke hearts and a pickle tray to take nibbles from. And I'm bad--I put my little Christmas tree up this weekend. Good thing no one knows this. And I'll be keeping up with my treadmill challenge.

[Lisa M]

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Happy anniversary, Babs! My hubby gets to celebrate his birthday on T-day once every 4 or 5 years, or so. He actually doesn't mind it too much, with the big turkey dinner and his favorite trimmings.

[sadie147]

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We have our thanksgiving in early October here so it's long come and gone .... we have a traditional turkey dinner, potatoes and dinner rolls for the family...lots of veggies for me! I also always make the deserts, this year i Low carbed a martha stewart pumpkin pie, it was excellent, i also made chocoate, plain and pumpkin mini cheese cakes. we celebrate thanksgiving up at our cottage on the lake, which is 3 hours north of toronto. In early october it's beautiful, the air is perfect fall air and the leaves are changing.

I was in Buffalo NY last weekend and it's funny for me to see everythings still geared more to thanksgiving down there and not as much christmas as here.

[julirama723]

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My boyfriend and I are away from family again this year, and our friends all go to see THEIR families, so we're having a small "romantic" Thanksgiving dinner, just the two of us. Here's the menu:

Roast Turkey Breast
Mashed Fauxtatoes (haven't decided whether to use cauliflower or turnips..what's your vote??)
Green Beans
Pumpkin "pudding"
Whole Wheat Italian Herb Bread (for my bf, don't worry I won't eat it--I'm only making it, but I put wheat flour, wheat bran, and flax meal in it, so it's a pretty healthy bread)
Chocolate Cheesecake (yes it's LC!)

We're also going to be driving out to the mountains to take our christmas card picture. We live about 15 minutes north of a small "island" chain of mountains, and we're going to find a beautiful spot, probably around sunset to take pics...we're both excited!

The day after Thanksgiving, we're going to put up our Christmas tree and decorations, and I'm going to make those ornaments out of applesauce and cinnamon...ohhh they smell soooo good!

[jimmie 48]

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jack will be hunting and my sister and mom are taking care of dinner. i know there will be turkey and green beans and probably stuffed mushrooms. i can dig the stuffing out and fill up on the turkey and beans. they are not low carb at all so i'll really have to be picky that day. i'll be fine though.

[hey_nelson]

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This is my 7th year being alone (at home). So now my friends all ask me over and I house hop on holidays. I will begin in Whittier at noonish, then Downey, about 3 and Back to South Gate near 6pm at Gils house. My friends all know to have a salad, and to keep the meat pure. Whittier will have traditional turkey, Downey we are having Roast Beef, and then in SG. we are having Ham and Turkey.

I do miss holidays with my parents as they loved to eat. lol
Mom would have had the house decorated already with autumn leaves, and bayberry scents. She'd be planning for Dad to watch football all day (Me too).
Dad would wake up early and put the bird in the electric oven outdoors on the patio. Our stoves through the years never seemed to work during the holidays. Guess who has not had a stove working in 11 months????

When we had a dining room table, we would begin making our Christmas Cards to our Family in S.Dakota, Iowa and Ireland. Locals got store bought cards. So we would be cutting out colored shapes and forms and gluing them to the construction paper or cardboard. This is when Da or Mom would tell family stories. Grandfather started this telling us to learn and share the stories and I would memorize every person from their past all all the details I could.

We also would take a photo of the 3 of us. I have our last photo together from 1996 hanging at the front door. I see it as I leave the house everyday.

I'm sorry, I'm a weeping wilma now. Lordy, I miss them. You know, I would probably sacrifice the carbs if I could have a slice of my moms apple pie or some of her baked beans right now. I never learned how to make her crust or filling, nor her beans. I have the clay pot though. I took it down from the cubbard today, and its sitting as a centerpiece on my kitchen table. I cut leaves from the liquid amber tree (mom and da's anniversary tree) and placed them around it.
You know, as a teen I could not wait to move out, be on my own. I've lived on Campus, then in London, a year after I came home became a caretaker 1989 then became an orphan in 2000. I'd give anything to see them again, smell their cologne, hear their laughter, see their eyes twinkle and listen to the stories.

patty ( Istamnehapi teca - my name in Lakota meaning bitter tears )

[Outback Jess]

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Wow, Patty a very touching tribute to your parents. This makes me see my time here with Mom a little differently.
Our family will be home, downstairs at "Moms place"..She is cooking Cornish Game hens. This yr. I hope they are completely cooked, "pink" hen is unpleasant...Caitlin and I will eat bird and cauliflower, and our pumpkin cheescake. My DH is getting up Thanksgiving Morning and making and baking his very own Apple Pie...So the house will be full of happiness and food. I might make small LC cheese cake, but not so sure.
We will get loads of exercise, and be bright and peppy helping Mom prepare for guests. It will be lovely.

[sillygirl]

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Patty! Your Thanksgiving sounds perfect! Very touching indeed.

[Babs]

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Happy anniversary, Babs! My hubby gets to celebrate his birthday on T-day once every 4 or 5 years, or so. He actually doesn't mind it too much, with the big turkey dinner and his favorite trimmings.

Thanks Lisa. Your hubby is lucky to have that for a birthday dinner.

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