What did you gorge on?

msarro

This is a completely non-judgemental thread. Thanksgiving is a day for celebrating everything in this world we have to be thankful for, and one of those things in my head is the ability to feast once a year with my family. So I ate a ton. For everyone else who did the same - what did you eat today?

I started with a bowl of cereal and milk for breakfast. I snacked on nuts all day, and water up until thanksgiving dinner. For dinner?

Stuffing
Baked Ziti
Mashed potatoes
Sweet potato streusel
mixed veggies
corn
2 rolls with butter
Chow-chow (PA Dutch dish, basically pickled veggies)
2 dill pickles
Cold pumpkin soup (oh my god this was incredible)
Blueberry tea
2 glasses of Tawny Port wine

And yes, I went back for seconds on ziti, and chow chow

For dessert?
A slice of pecan pie
A tiny slice of apple pie my aunt made (!!!!!!)
A thin slice of pumpkin roll
and a cup of earl grey tea with milk, and a teaspoon of honey

Now I am totally stuffed, and probably will be for about 2 days. I'll do my best to take a chunk out of it with running, but honestly I regret nothing. It was wonderful to spend time with my family. How about the rest of you? What'd you have for dinner??

SatelliteCrush80

Cajun fried turkey (white meat only and no skin)
Collard greens with sauteed peppers and garlic
Stuffing
Gravy
Mashed sweet potatoes
Baked macaroni and cheese
Turtle pumpkin pie
Green bean casserole
Rolls

Since we hosted and I was the chef, everything except dessert was fairly healthy. My belly's full and I have no regrets at all.

msarro

Cajun fried turkey (we ordered it, no way I was trying that myself)
Collard greens with sauteed peppers and garlic
Stuffing
Gravy
Mashed sweet potatoes
Baked macaroni and cheese
Turtle pumpkin pie
Green bean casserole
Rolls (on the menu but I skipped it)

Since we hosted and I was the chef, everything except dessert was fairly healthy. Took the skin off my turkey and it was still delicious. My belly's full and I have no regrets at all.

That turtle pumpkin pie and collard greens sound awesome!

SatelliteCrush80

Cajun fried turkey (we ordered it, no way I was trying that myself)
Collard greens with sauteed peppers and garlic
Stuffing
Gravy
Mashed sweet potatoes
Baked macaroni and cheese
Turtle pumpkin pie
Green bean casserole
Rolls (on the menu but I skipped it)

Since we hosted and I was the chef, everything except dessert was fairly healthy. Took the skin off my turkey and it was still delicious. My belly's full and I have no regrets at all.

That turtle pumpkin pie and collard greens sound awesome!

Oh, they were good...I did the greens differently and it was the first time I'd made that pie but they are both keepers!

wannabethinner

Ok since we are being honest......Dressing
Sweet Potato Casserole
Corn (from my mother's garden)
Crowder Peas (from my mother's garden)
Potato Salad
2 homemade yeast rolls
Pumpkin cake w/cream cheese icing

By the way I have never heard of Turtle pumpkin pie but I can only imagine what it taste like. I bet it has caramel and pecans, and I would love a piece. Anyway I could get the recipe?

ivykivy

Ham
Carrot Cake
pound cake with butter cream icing
Sweet potato custard/souffle
dressing
macaroni pie (macaroni and cheese)
green beans
more ham
more carrot cake
more sweet potato souffle

There was a continuous salty sweet battle. You have ham then you need something sweet to counteract.:bigsmile:

BamaRose0107

I really did not gorge on anything but I ate things I normally would have past on. I did eat a small portion of banana pudding and a slice of friendship cake they were so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LaurelFisher

:flowerforyou: Hey everyone and Happy Thanksgiving. I started my day with 3 Jimmy Dean Sausage. For lunch I had
Glazed Ham
Turkey
Sauerkraut and Kielbasa
Sweet Potato Casserole
Oyster Dressing
Mashed potatoes
one Dinner roll
more ham
more kielbasa
pumpkin pie

for dinner I had
more ham
more kielbasa
more pumpkin pie

OMG :sick:

then I walked a mile

VballLeash

All I can say is I feel sick. I don't even know what I ate but I know I ate a lot more than my tummy is used to handling... my favorite was the pumpkin crumble thing that my aunt made.... mmmm

~Leash v

dangerkitty2001

I had spinach dip. I still drank a diet soda and didn't have any dessert, but good Lord the spinach dip was sooooo good I couldn't say no.

weaklink109

I had dinner at a friend's house. She did the turkey and made her infamous yams with apricots and brandy, and had a relish tray with baby corn, pickles, and olives, and chose the wine, a great chardonnay. It was from California (she moved from there 5 yrs ago) and we are in Washington, so I got a laugh by announcing we were drinking "foreign" wine!!:laugh:

I did green beans, brought healthy whole grain dinner rolls with cranberries in them; mashed potatoes mixed with cauliflower; salad was coleslaw with salad shrimp and pineapple, My mom, at 93 years young, made her wonderful wild rice with mushroom and sausage stuffing, and supervised the making of the gravy, as our hostess said she was "culinarily challenged" in this area.

We had pumpkin pie AND chocolate cake for dessert (with vanilla ice cream)--in honor of my dad's 83rd birthday, which happened to be today!!

I had a little of everything, but no seconds. We held off on dessert to let things "settle." So it gave us a chance to visit. My mom and our hostess are both originally from BC, Canada, and ironically, they both emigrated to the US when they were about the same age, though for my mom, it was considerably EARLIER than for my friend, who is in her 50's.

They had some shared experiences, and I heard a story I had not thought of in years. My mom got out of the Royal Canadian Air Force at the end of WWII and hitch hiked from Vancouver, BC to California:noway: with another female friend (both in their military uniforms, which they were allowed to wear for a month after discharge). She spent a somewhat wild night in Portland with some of her cousins, and they also visited another relative in LA who worked in the offices of a radio network. They even made it to Tijuana.

It sounded like great fun, but you certainly couldn't hitch hike safely now!!:grumble:

I also enjoyed hearing my parents reminisce about their travels by canal boat in Great Britain and France. As I said earlier in another post, I am truly blessed to have both of them still with me, and even though there are a lot of other things in my life that are not going well, I am thankful for this.

If I "gorged" on anything today, it was probably enjoyment of the moment.:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: But I am still planning an extra long walk tomorrow morning.,:laugh:

xeniasimms

Dinner:
turkey breast
ham
dressing with gravy
cheese spaghetti (yummy homemade version of mac n cheese)
candied yams
candied pumpkin
string beans
rolls
cranberry sauce
black olives

Dessert:
coconut cream pie
dulce de leche ice cream

I am very full but I am very proud of the portions I chose. Usually I feel completely over stuffed as if I need to throw up.

Tamishumate

well I had egg whites and wheat toast for breakfast, then I went to the gym and burned 700 calories.
THEN

I had banana bread with chocolate chips

two glasses of wine

turkey

mashed potatos

stuffing

1 roll with butter
corn
thats it. one plate, after that I was and still am so full that I didnt even have pumpkin pie or cheesecake.

And let me say, My body is NOT use to this food!

pannellkat

Gym/cardio for an hour in the a.m. then...

Turkey white meat,
The best ham on the planet
Green bean casserole
Instead of mashed potatoes, I made mashed seasoned cauliflower and it came out great!
Gluten free gravy
2 slices of sweet potatoe pie with whipped cream
half glass of wine

and then a 25 minute power walk around the block....

I love Thanksgiving!

shinybonnie

Agree with Tamishumate that my body is not used to eating like this! But I knew Thanksgiving was going to be all about the food, and knew I was going to eat what I'd been WAITING ALL YEAR FOR!! Lol! I wish I'd thought to go to the gym first, as you did, Tami. Maybe next year.

I ate one full plate (last year, I would've had 2) of:

Turkey (my favorite - thigh meat)
stuffing
one roll w butter
cranberry salad
sweetpotatoes with marshmellow

I was so stuffed! Then my wonderful mother in law encouraged me to go for a 45 minute brisk walk with her (I would have laid out on the couch instead until ready for pie). When we returned, my wonderful husband had DONE THE DISHES!!!! and I ate:

big slice of pecan pie
tiny slice of pumpkin pie

a00link

I didn't "gorge" or anything, but I had some turkey, small amount of mashed/sweet potatoes, vegetables like corn, green beans, green bean caserola, salad, whole grain roll, fruit sugarless jello, and for dessert a Hummingbird Cupcake.

I had a lot, but in small portions so my meal wasn't bad at all, just very varied.

arewethereyet

I didnt gorge, per se but can someone PLEASE come and get this fresh loaf of sourdough bread and stick of butter my son left here??? :sad:

arewethereyet

:blushing: had to come back because my daughter read my post and said:huh:

I gorged on my homemade turkey sausage stuffing............

Throughout the day I can bet I ate 3 cups.......easy:blushing:

arewethereyet

Cajun fried turkey (white meat only and no skin)
Collard greens with sauteed peppers and garlic
Stuffing
Gravy
Mashed sweet potatoes
Baked macaroni and cheese
Turtle pumpkin pie
Green bean casserole
Rolls

Since we hosted and I was the chef, everything except dessert was fairly healthy. My belly's full and I have no regrets at all.

Regrets, I have a few
But then again, too few to mention
I need a singy smiley for this one...........:laugh:

Nikki143

honestly, I don't think I did as bad as I expected...

I had ALOT of turkey...
Mashed potatoes
stuffing
cranberry sauce..
NO rolls this year!! Yay, That was a BIG accomplishment!
and HALF of Mrs. Smiths Apple pie...

jam0525

I'm right there with the rest of you who referred to yesterday as "not gorging" but eating stuff that I normally would not have since joining MFP and trying to loose weight. I did decide not to weigh myself until next Tuesday and what ever it is update my ticker.

I ate ham, green beans, rolls, mashed potatos, spumoni, chips and dip (called it dinner) and a few cookies. My splurge was the 1 cup of mashed potatos smothered in green chile instead of butter.

While it might sound weird chile (red or green) really doesn't have a lot of calories.

Here's to all the extra excercise we will all be doing this weekend:drinker:

JAM

arewethereyet

:blushing: had to come back because my daughter read my post and said:huh:

I gorged on my homemade turkey sausage stuffing............

Throughout the day I can bet I ate 3 cups.......easy:blushing:

Cindysunshine

I had fried whitemeat turkey no skin, a mashed sweet potato with mini marshmellows melted on top and 2 rolls. I ate waaayyyy too much pumpkin pie though. We did take a 1 mile walk last night but I still feel stuft and bloated. Cindy

atauds

We served:

potato rolls
rye rolls
turkey
turducken
butternut squash casserole
green bean casserole
cornbread stuffing
mashed potatoes
gravy
cranberry sauce
pumpkin pie


But I only ate:

turkey breast
butternut squash casserole
cornbread stuffing


1/3 of 1 slice of pumpkin pie

Not too bad!

wannabethinner

Oh my goodness, reading all this food makes me want to go do it again!!!!!!
I am eating a handful of almonds instead.

arewethereyet

We served:

potato rolls
rye rolls
turkey
turducken
butternut squash casserole
green bean casserole
cornbread stuffing
mashed potatoes
gravy
cranberry sauce
pumpkin pie


But I only ate:

turkey breast
butternut squash casserole
cornbread stuffing


1/3 of 1 slice of pumpkin pie

Not too bad!

How was the turducken? We almost got one....freshly boned at the Delaware Market (they have a farm a few miles away) Instead we had a fresh, organic turkey that was out of this world!!

bonkers5975

I love reading this thread because of the varied traditions we all have. It's interesting the way other folks do it :happy:

I have to say the same, compared to last year, I didn't gorge, but still felt it when I got done. My family prepared

Herb-Brined turkey
english pea cass.
green bean cass.
sweet potato cass.
summer squash cass.
pistachio salad
cornbread dressing
giblet gravy
crescent rolls
cranberry sauce
pumpkin pie
pecan pie

And for hor d'ourves spinach dip tucked inside Haiwiian bread.

And I had one of everything, no seconds. And did a very fast 3 mile walk in the morning.

And I am very thankful for everything I have in my life.:flowerforyou:

sissy56

Didn't really gorge, but had too much and too much left over, also. The best dish was roasted delicata squash and sweet potato with some dried blueberries and bacon bits. Next year, store -bought dip and desserts, only 1 package of rolls, and no pistachio salad because no one ate any except me.

SatelliteCrush80

Someone asked for the Turtle Pumpkin Pie recipe, so here it is...it was delicious, but rich enough that a little goes a long way.



1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp. caramel ice cream topping, divided
1 HONEY MAID Graham Pie Crust (6 oz.)
1/2 cup plus 2 Tbsp. chopped PLANTERS Pecans, divided
2 pkg. (3.4 oz. each) JELL-O Vanilla Flavor Instant Pudding
1 cup cold milk
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed, divided


POUR 1/4 cup caramel topping into crust; sprinkle with 1/2 cup nuts.

BEAT dry pudding mixes, milk, pumpkin and spices with whisk until well blended. Stir in 1-1/2 cups COOL WHIP; spoon into crust.

REFRIGERATE 1 hour. Top with remaining COOL WHIP, caramel topping and nuts just before serving.

*I actually made mine the day before, hoping that the added time in the fridge would help it set better, but it still didn't do what I had hoped. Freezing it for a little while might help.

courtney_love2001

I had my Thanksgiving today, and I feel terrible right now :laugh:

I had:

turkey
dressing and gravy
mashed potatoes
sweet potato casserole
roasted carrots
a nibble of roll
green beans
a slice of pecan pie
a nibble of italian cream cake

I also brought home some sweet potato casserole, dressing, and cake. My mom also has leftover fried chicken, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, and biscuits and gravy. Help meeeeeeee

AlyssasMommy

Was anyone else visibly bloated today? I looked in the mirror this morning and freaked! I looked 6 months pregnant!!!:noway: :noway: :noway: