Gatherings and dinners

TeresaPickar

Christmas tradition going way back has always been baking cookies, pastries and those sweet tasty treats that add to the waistline. Thats a tough one to kick out of tradition, because we really don't bake the rest of the year. Us foodies tend to celebrate festivities with too much savory meals too.
Love gathering with friends and family and look forward to it! Just have to keep on the exercise regime too! Need encouragement for sure!

TavistockToad

Bake cookies... eat one... enjoy...

Not sure how that's so hard? Surely one cookie or treat fits in your daily calories?

sofchak

Focus your efforts on the process (making memories), not on the outcome (cookies).

Personal anecdote: My family and I had changes to make when it was determined that I am gluten sensitive - Pizza and cake for birthdays was not a tradition that anyone wanted to alter (except for my birthday we have whatever I want). Since Pizza and cake don’t work for my lifestyle, I bring my own dinner and dessert and focus the enjoyment on spending time with family, not on what we are eating. Took a bit of practice, but we are all on the same page now.

SusanDSME

I'm with you, @TeresaPickar ... I bake, my mom bakes, my son bakes... I just have to remember that those goodies can last a month if I just eat one or two cookies a day! I'm worried about Thanksgiving, though, and Christmas dinner (tourtiere- a French Canadian pork pie). Let's cheer each other on!

namelesshere

I am getting ready to do my Christmas baking. I usually make 5 double batches of sugar cookies, 3 double batches of spritz, maybe some cream cheese mints and save about a dozen. The rest go to our church cookie sale where it can go on someone else's hips. Great tradition and I get my holiday baking out of my system.

Fitnessmom82

I'm going to make room in my budget for a few cookies here and there. To try to avoid all together would be crazy!! I bake hundreds if cookies for family, friends and my husband to bring to his employees that have to work during the holidays. I usually keep quite a few for us, but this year his guys will be well fed with treats. But baking tons is a tradition that my grandmother passed on to me. It's my duty to keep it alive, so I'll have to really practice restraint!

Circa1964

Not much baking anymore, I usually make homemade Beef Jerky and give to a few friends. They love it!

TeresaPickar

SusanDSME wrote: »

I'm with you, @TeresaPickar ... I bake, my mom bakes, my son bakes... I just have to remember that those goodies can last a month if I just eat one or two cookies a day! I'm worried about Thanksgiving, though, and Christmas dinner (tourtiere- a French Canadian pork pie). Let's cheer each other on!

Oh wow! French Canadian Pork Pie sounds really good! Enjoy! Enjoy most of all your time with family and friends! Everyone always has such busy schedules, but needs to take time to have fellowship with one another.

cwolfman13

SusanDSME wrote: »

I'm with you, @TeresaPickar ... I bake, my mom bakes, my son bakes... I just have to remember that those goodies can last a month if I just eat one or two cookies a day! I'm worried about Thanksgiving, though, and Christmas dinner (tourtiere- a French Canadian pork pie). Let's cheer each other on!

You really shouldn't be worried about two meals...they're just two meals and pretty immaterial to the big picture.

COGypsy

Circa1964 wrote: »

Not much baking anymore, I usually make homemade Beef Jerky and give to a few friends. They love it!

I wish I had friends like you! I usually toss whatever holiday goodies I get because they're so sweet. It seems so much more thoughtful to give something that would actually get eaten!