Is it too early to talk Thanksgiving?

fitoverfortymom

Halloween is my birthday, so anything goes. We actually almost always have a pot of chili so other than snacking in Halloween goodies and some cake/ice cream, I'm not too worried. I have to commit to keeping Halloween candy on Halloween (which I feel I can do). I have decided to keep it business as usual on Thanksgiving and Christmas and enjoy foods on those days and not before/after. In the grand scheme of things, I think it will be fine.

Chef_Barbell

fitoverfortymom wrote: »

Halloween is my birthday, so anything goes. We actually almost always have a pot of chili so other than snacking in Halloween goodies and some cake/ice cream, I'm not too worried. I have to commit to keeping Halloween candy on Halloween (which I feel I can do). I have decided to keep it business as usual on Thanksgiving and Christmas and enjoy foods on those days and not before/after. In the grand scheme of things, I think it will be fine.

My birthday is the day after and I always claimed Halloween as my own as well lol... Candy!!!

Richie2shoes

I'll be cooking and will make healthier options, but in general I try and build up a bigger deficit the days prior and just watch my portions the day of.

Monisha4005

As a sub for pumpkin pie you could make pumpkin cake/muffins/ cupcakes I made this recipe this week 1 Box Angel Food Mix +1 can 100% pumpkin + vanilla+ pumpkin pie spice + water made muffins and it is Approx 153 per muffin and tastes awesome. U could pair it with a low cal cool whip icing and not add much calories. I think this is a WW recipe pintrest is ur friend.

VeryKatie

Nope, not too early. Thanksgiving is over already! (Bwahahah)

Chef_Barbell

VeryKatie wrote: »

Nope, not too early. Thanksgiving is over already! (Bwahahah)

Next year I am celebrating both Thanksgivings :laugh: Pie X2.

CrabNebula

I think I am going with a Hawaiian themed Thanksgiving:

Kalua chicken
Spicy ahi poke
Hawaiian sweet rolls
Baked sweet potatoes
Ginger wasabi chips
Some type of green salad to balance out the meal
Fresh pineapple
Hawaiian beer

Passionfruit Island Lava
Salted caramel pie (assuming Fred Meyer is still selling this - only buy at Thanksgiving)
Irish cream on the rocks

The first time I made kalua pork, it was with a proper bone-in pork shoulder cut. It was out of this world delicious. I decided to try it the next time with pork loin because calories. Yeah, that was absolutely nowhere near as good. It was a waste of meat. Now pork is not an option period for this meal (long but doesn't have to do with calories - outside the scope of MFP). I can forget chicken breast, will dry out and not be as flavorful because it is basically the same as pork loin in terms of fat/connective tissue content. Bone-in chicken thighs though should be able to stand up to the long cooking time, be moist and flavorful.

I've made spicy ahi poke with ff mayo before. It tastes the same to me because a lot of the flavor is coming from the sriracha and sesame seed oil, not the mayo itself.

Hawaiian sweet rolls, this is what it is. I'll probably make this with half AP/half WWW flour, but otherwise, keeping to the recipe.

The baked sweet potatoes are going to be just pressure cooked in the IP and served with kosher salt and butter (both regular and ICBIINB Light). These are not going to be candied or covered in marshmallows or whatever.

Island Lava is so, so good. Going to splurge and pay the outrageous price to get it shipped to me if the Hawaiian store a few towns over does not have it.

This is my fourth weight loss maintenance Thanksgiving. Planning on again not calorie counting, but making sure I get in my 10k steps (probably will do this first thing in the morning). Assuming I even want to eat the next day, back to the old grind. NBD.

mccraee

I'm gong to eat everything that I love on Thanksgiving including stuffing and gravy. Lucky for me, I'm not that into pie so will have a bit (or pass!). I won't log what I eat on a holiday but I do try to not just eat for the sake of eating. When I wake up on Friday, It's back to normal for me. Entering EVERYTHING into MFP. That means much less stuffing & gravy from then on, of course! But there will be lots of lean turkey around and some awesome soup!

AnarchistKitchen

This is a recipe for loaded potato bites. They're the size of a golf ball. Even though the recipe is vegan you could easily just make it with traditional ingredients. Out of all the appetizer recipes I've made lately this is one of the lower calorie options per serving.
https://richbitchcooking.wordpress.com/2016/12/03/6-vegan-appetizers-for-parties-potlucks-holidays/