The Holidays
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For Thanksgiving, I am visiting my best friend's family and having Thanksgiving with them. I have met my friend's mother before, but that is it. I don't plan to consume 5k calories or whatever, but so as to not appear like a disrespectful guest, or too odd, I will be having the traditional Thanksgiving food, including the carbs. For Christmas time (also my birthday), I will be with my parents and family, and will be going keto the whole time. With my family I have a lot more say about what goes down :-)
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I know I want to make a keto friendly thanksgiving foods for me when the time rolls around. Still debating on the other Holidays because I know I'm gonna want some candies.
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I'm gluten intolerant and I attend holiday festivities with non-gluten intolerant folks. So I'm naturally limited to meat, sauce-less veg and whatever I bring. What I'm going to miss most this year is dessert. I'm going to try and figure out a go-to low carb/GF dessert to bring places so I know I'll have SOMETHING to enjoy.0
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I've really thought a lot about this. Halloween is here, and I do not think it will be hard for me.
Thanksgiving is not a super day for me, I've never enjoyed the majority of the foods but we go to my best friends house every year, so this year I will enjoy my day but I do not plan to go overboard.
The week of Dec 9th, I'm taking my daughter to Disney world for her 10th birthday, I'm sure it will be VERY hard to stick to low carb while @ Disney. So I'm planning on staying focused until then, once I come back I will go low carb.
Christmas is very non-traditional for us-we make enchiladas every year. I still plan to continue this and enjoy my holiday.0 -
Halloween came and went (except our city ended up moving trick or treating to tonight because of bad storms yesterday, but I forgot to buy candy anyway...oops!)
For Thanksgiving my husband and I normally do all of the cooking (or most of it) at his mom's house. Turkey will be slathered in butter and unstuffed, so no problem there. I'm considering making a keto dressing/stuffing option (ground sausage, celery, onion, seasonings...mmm) and possibly a paleo/primal pumpkin pie to splurge a little. I avoid artificial sweeteners so if I'm gonna have something sweet, I choose fruit or use maple syrup or honey. Pumpkin pie with a pecan/walnut crust and maple syrup as the sweetener??? Sounds like fall to me! It's like a pecan pie and pumpkin pie in one!
Christmas will be similar...but with the temptation of cookies and homemade toffee. We normally make a crap ton of cookies for all of the gatherings we go to...so we might have to change things up, or at least limit them a bit this year. I might choose one or two things to have a taste of, but I don't think I'm going to completely lose it this time around. I'm feeling far too good to CHOOSE to have a massive headache, stomachache, and sleepiness through all of my family gatherings! I want to spend time with them without feeling like crap!
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Halloween came and went (except our city ended up moving trick or treating to tonight because of bad storms yesterday, but I forgot to buy candy anyway...oops!)
For Thanksgiving my husband and I normally do all of the cooking (or most of it) at his mom's house. Turkey will be slathered in butter and unstuffed, so no problem there. I'm considering making a keto dressing/stuffing option (ground sausage, celery, onion, seasonings...mmm) and possibly a paleo/primal pumpkin pie to splurge a little. I avoid artificial sweeteners so if I'm gonna have something sweet, I choose fruit or use maple syrup or honey. Pumpkin pie with a pecan/walnut crust and maple syrup as the sweetener??? Sounds like fall to me! It's like a pecan pie and pumpkin pie in one!
Christmas will be similar...but with the temptation of cookies and homemade toffee. We normally make a crap ton of cookies for all of the gatherings we go to...so we might have to change things up, or at least limit them a bit this year. I might choose one or two things to have a taste of, but I don't think I'm going to completely lose it this time around. I'm feeling far too good to CHOOSE to have a massive headache, stomachache, and sleepiness through all of my family gatherings! I want to spend time with them without feeling like crap! Far more important!
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