Memorial Day plan?!?!

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  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    I think there's too much salad and not enough bacon

    What kind of half-arsed day is that?
    There's bacon in the baked beans. Duh.

    Baked beans come out of a can

    With Heinz on the label

    *fact*

    This is why there's no such thing as British food tourism. Well, part of why.

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  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
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  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.

    You redeemed yourself...
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
    The problem with not making enough for 100 if there are only 10 is with the variety of dishes. It's hard to make really small amounts of some of the stuff.

    The pea salad is peas, boiled eggs, finely grated cheddar, finely chopped onion, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some mayo to moisten it.

    In an emergency, I could just eat a mound of brisket and then the cobbler and ice cream.
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
    The problem with not making enough for 100 if there are only 10 is with the variety of dishes. It's hard to make really small amounts of some of the stuff.

    The pea salad is peas, boiled eggs, finely grated cheddar, finely chopped onion, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some mayo to moisten it.

    In an emergency, I could just eat a mound of brisket and then the cobbler and ice cream.

    I feel like that would actually have a pretty good macro split.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
    The problem with not making enough for 100 if there are only 10 is with the variety of dishes. It's hard to make really small amounts of some of the stuff.

    The pea salad is peas, boiled eggs, finely grated cheddar, finely chopped onion, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some mayo to moisten it.

    In an emergency, I could just eat a mound of brisket and then the cobbler and ice cream.

    This is why you have high levels of obesity ...you call stuff like that "salad"
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    You haven't figured out Memorial Day 2016 yet??? Pshaw...that's so fall 2014.

    It's Independence Day 2017 that's going to be the REAL problem. I'm already clutching my pearls fretting over it.
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    kkenseth wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    I think there's too much salad and not enough bacon

    What kind of half-arsed day is that?

    In for more bacon.
    Also bacon on the smoked jalapeño poppers, but those don't always make it onto the menu.

    Smoked jalepeno poppers? They'd always make it onto any menu I'd be planning.

    They could be the whole menu as far as I'm concerned.

    Well, followed up with peach cobbler, of course.

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  • kk_inprogress
    kk_inprogress Posts: 3,077 Member
    You haven't figured out Memorial Day 2016 yet??? Pshaw...that's so fall 2014.

    It's Independence Day 2017 that's going to be the REAL problem. I'm already clutching my pearls fretting over it.

    :joy:
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
    The problem with not making enough for 100 if there are only 10 is with the variety of dishes. It's hard to make really small amounts of some of the stuff.

    The pea salad is peas, boiled eggs, finely grated cheddar, finely chopped onion, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some mayo to moisten it.

    In an emergency, I could just eat a mound of brisket and then the cobbler and ice cream.

    This is why you have high levels of obesity ...you call stuff like that "salad"
    Well, it's not really a casserole. It's not cooked. What would you call it, instead?

  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
    The problem with not making enough for 100 if there are only 10 is with the variety of dishes. It's hard to make really small amounts of some of the stuff.

    The pea salad is peas, boiled eggs, finely grated cheddar, finely chopped onion, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some mayo to moisten it.

    In an emergency, I could just eat a mound of brisket and then the cobbler and ice cream.

    This is why you have high levels of obesity ...you call stuff like that "salad"

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  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    kkenseth wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    I think there's too much salad and not enough bacon

    What kind of half-arsed day is that?

    In for more bacon.
    Also bacon on the smoked jalapeño poppers, but those don't always make it onto the menu.

    Smoked jalepeno poppers? They'd always make it onto any menu I'd be planning.

    They could be the whole menu as far as I'm concerned.

    Well, followed up with peach cobbler, of course.

    We use Oaxaca cheese, some with shrimp, some without, wrapped in bacon. They are so awesome.
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  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    kkenseth wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    I think there's too much salad and not enough bacon

    What kind of half-arsed day is that?

    In for more bacon.
    Also bacon on the smoked jalapeño poppers, but those don't always make it onto the menu.

    Smoked jalepeno poppers? They'd always make it onto any menu I'd be planning.

    They could be the whole menu as far as I'm concerned.

    Well, followed up with peach cobbler, of course.

    We use Oaxaca cheese, some with shrimp, some without, wrapped in bacon. They are so awesome.

    Chorizo stuffed dates, wrapped in bacon, brushed in maple syrup. They're life changing.
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    auddii wrote: »
    kkenseth wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    I think there's too much salad and not enough bacon

    What kind of half-arsed day is that?

    In for more bacon.
    Also bacon on the smoked jalapeño poppers, but those don't always make it onto the menu.

    Smoked jalepeno poppers? They'd always make it onto any menu I'd be planning.

    They could be the whole menu as far as I'm concerned.

    Well, followed up with peach cobbler, of course.

    We use Oaxaca cheese, some with shrimp, some without, wrapped in bacon. They are so awesome.

    Chorizo stuffed dates, wrapped in bacon, brushed in maple syrup. They're life changing.

    I'm not much of a date fan, but bacon and maple. And chorizo. Do you grill them?
  • tincanonastring
    tincanonastring Posts: 3,944 Member
    auddii wrote: »
    kkenseth wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    I think there's too much salad and not enough bacon

    What kind of half-arsed day is that?

    In for more bacon.
    Also bacon on the smoked jalapeño poppers, but those don't always make it onto the menu.

    Smoked jalepeno poppers? They'd always make it onto any menu I'd be planning.

    They could be the whole menu as far as I'm concerned.

    Well, followed up with peach cobbler, of course.

    We use Oaxaca cheese, some with shrimp, some without, wrapped in bacon. They are so awesome.

    Chorizo stuffed dates, wrapped in bacon, brushed in maple syrup. They're life changing.

    Oh, shii......

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  • pondee629
    pondee629 Posts: 2,469 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
    The problem with not making enough for 100 if there are only 10 is with the variety of dishes. It's hard to make really small amounts of some of the stuff.

    The pea salad is peas, boiled eggs, finely grated cheddar, finely chopped onion, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some mayo to moisten it.

    In an emergency, I could just eat a mound of brisket and then the cobbler and ice cream.

    This is why you have high levels of obesity ...you call stuff like that "salad"

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    This is why I always ask for lettuce and tomato on my bacon swiss cheese burger. It's a salad.
  • kk_inprogress
    kk_inprogress Posts: 3,077 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
    The problem with not making enough for 100 if there are only 10 is with the variety of dishes. It's hard to make really small amounts of some of the stuff.

    The pea salad is peas, boiled eggs, finely grated cheddar, finely chopped onion, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some mayo to moisten it.

    In an emergency, I could just eat a mound of brisket and then the cobbler and ice cream.

    This is why you have high levels of obesity ...you call stuff like that "salad"

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    IFLY.
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    shell1005 wrote: »
    kkenseth wrote: »
    My main concern, though, is the grazing.

    I can get reasonable portions -- maybe unreasonable portions of the brisket and cobbler -- but then the stuff sits there taunting me for the rest of the day. Maybe prelogging will work, but it's harder than usual to stick to it.

    The trick to staying slim while being a grazing animal is having at least one predator. Hire a contingent of angry, carnivorous wildcats to stalk you throughout the day. It will keep you moving. A fat zebra is a dinner zebra.
    Or I could hire kkenseth, make fun of teams that wear red, and get an angry predator and someone to steal the snacks right from my hand at the same time.

    *nods* My predatory instinct is strong.

    Back off the red, Tex. I'll let you become a fat dinner zebra.

    I've read all of The Hunger Games. I feel prepared for this challenge.

    I always felt The Hunger Games movies franchise missed out on ad revenue opportunity by not doing a cross promotion with Snickers.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
    The problem with not making enough for 100 if there are only 10 is with the variety of dishes. It's hard to make really small amounts of some of the stuff.

    The pea salad is peas, boiled eggs, finely grated cheddar, finely chopped onion, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some mayo to moisten it.

    In an emergency, I could just eat a mound of brisket and then the cobbler and ice cream.

    This is why you have high levels of obesity ...you call stuff like that "salad"
    Well, it's not really a casserole. It's not cooked. What would you call it, instead?

    Pea and cheese mayo? Tuna and mayonnaise is tuna mayo not tuna salad
    Pea and cheese hash?
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    kkenseth wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
    The problem with not making enough for 100 if there are only 10 is with the variety of dishes. It's hard to make really small amounts of some of the stuff.

    The pea salad is peas, boiled eggs, finely grated cheddar, finely chopped onion, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some mayo to moisten it.

    In an emergency, I could just eat a mound of brisket and then the cobbler and ice cream.

    This is why you have high levels of obesity ...you call stuff like that "salad"

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    IFLY.

    You just FL bacon :)
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
    The problem with not making enough for 100 if there are only 10 is with the variety of dishes. It's hard to make really small amounts of some of the stuff.

    The pea salad is peas, boiled eggs, finely grated cheddar, finely chopped onion, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some mayo to moisten it.

    In an emergency, I could just eat a mound of brisket and then the cobbler and ice cream.

    This is why you have high levels of obesity ...you call stuff like that "salad"
    Well, it's not really a casserole. It's not cooked. What would you call it, instead?

    Pea and cheese mayo? Tuna and mayonnaise is tuna mayo not tuna salad
    Pea and cheese hash?
    Sure it is, all the more so with more ingredients.

  • kk_inprogress
    kk_inprogress Posts: 3,077 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    kkenseth wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
    The problem with not making enough for 100 if there are only 10 is with the variety of dishes. It's hard to make really small amounts of some of the stuff.

    The pea salad is peas, boiled eggs, finely grated cheddar, finely chopped onion, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some mayo to moisten it.

    In an emergency, I could just eat a mound of brisket and then the cobbler and ice cream.

    This is why you have high levels of obesity ...you call stuff like that "salad"

    0935f651f7c398601371d0aaa9215725.jpg

    IFLY.

    You just FL bacon :)

    *nods* Rabbit is wise.
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Since you're within driving distance, I was wondering what time I should be there?
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    kkenseth wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Pre-log. Eat some of everything in reasonable portions.

    Don't make enough food for 100 people if there are only 10 people at your house.

    Re-think the menu a bit. Maybe do some grilled vegetables/fruits instead of salads.
    Potato salad is somewhat sacred in my family so it would be a must have item. Baked beans are pretty standard. What is in a pea salad besides peas? I would jettison peas from the menu. Fruit salad could go too.

    Skip all other food and just eat peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
    The problem with not making enough for 100 if there are only 10 is with the variety of dishes. It's hard to make really small amounts of some of the stuff.

    The pea salad is peas, boiled eggs, finely grated cheddar, finely chopped onion, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some mayo to moisten it.

    In an emergency, I could just eat a mound of brisket and then the cobbler and ice cream.

    This is why you have high levels of obesity ...you call stuff like that "salad"

    0935f651f7c398601371d0aaa9215725.jpg

    IFLY.

    You just FL bacon :)

    Why you hatin' on juggernaut love?
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    auddii wrote: »
    kkenseth wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    I think there's too much salad and not enough bacon

    What kind of half-arsed day is that?

    In for more bacon.
    Also bacon on the smoked jalapeño poppers, but those don't always make it onto the menu.

    Smoked jalepeno poppers? They'd always make it onto any menu I'd be planning.

    They could be the whole menu as far as I'm concerned.

    Well, followed up with peach cobbler, of course.

    We use Oaxaca cheese, some with shrimp, some without, wrapped in bacon. They are so awesome.

    Chorizo stuffed dates, wrapped in bacon, brushed in maple syrup. They're life changing.

    I'm not much of a date fan, but bacon and maple. And chorizo. Do you grill them?

    I roast them in the oven, but they should work well on the grill as well.
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    maidentl wrote: »
    Memorial Day will be here before you know it. Usually we smoke brisket and ribs. We also have potato salad, pea salad, baked beans, fruit salad, homemade vanilla ice cream, and peach cobbler with the last of the canned peaches from the summer before.

    Anyone have any good ideas for approaching all of this calorie-dense food while still enjoying the unofficial start of summer?

    Since you're within driving distance, I was wondering what time I should be there?
    Around 1:00. The brisket goes on at about 9:00PM the night before.
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