Anyone else not like Thanksgiving food?

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  • Amadbro
    Amadbro Posts: 750 Member
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    I love Thanksgiving food! Juicy turkey, green bean casserole, creamy mashed potatoes, sausage and cornbread stuffing, green bean casserole, pumpkin pie, more green bean casserole. Did I mention green bean casserole?
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  • Railr0aderTony
    Railr0aderTony Posts: 6,803 Member
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    ThanksGiving is my One Cheat day of the year. I love it.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,741 Member
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    Yep, I have always been this way! Even as a kid, I would make a meal out of a roll, piece of turkey, and maybe some cranberry sauce. Same applies now, except that I don't eat turkey anymore...so yeah...haha

    My husband and I will bring our own dishes to Thanksgiving, which will make it better...but he DOES like a lot of the traditional stuff and I don't really. I especially dislike all of the sides my family makes, such as green bean casserole, broccoli cheese casserole, sweet potatoes with marshmallows baked on top, etc. I'd rather have plain green beans or broccoli or some nice sweet potato fries. And I've felt this way for decades, it has nothing to with eating healthy for me...I just do not like those other dishes!

    Stuffing/dressing = gross and I've never been into gravy.

    I don't DISLIKE pumpkin pie, but I couldn't care less about it. I don't even really think of it as "pie" when compared to all of the other more delicious (in my opinion) pies like strawberry rhubarb, chocolate, banana cream...oooh PIE... ;-)

    Christmas OTOH - that is a much bigger challenge for me due to all of the cookies, candy, fudge...and foods I actually like to eat, snacky hors d'oeurves, fish, fresh breads, and soups.
  • Moosycakes
    Moosycakes Posts: 258 Member
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    I live in New Zealand and we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but I've always thought it sounded like hell on earth... lots of disgusting food, socialising with family... bleh
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
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    I was never a fan of turkey until recently so we switched our traditional main dish to prime rib a number of years ago. I'm putting it on the rotisserie again this year.
  • dancephysics
    dancephysics Posts: 53
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    Also, I know a bunch of people around here have some really ****ed up issues with food...but traditional T-giving foods are in no way "unhealthy"....it's just your jacked *kitten* perception of ****.

    I have no issue with the healthiness (or unhealthiness) of the food. Just the taste. Most T-giving foods are mediocre-tasting at best.
  • GothyFaery
    GothyFaery Posts: 762 Member
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    I know how you feel. I hate turkey and I'm allergic to cinnamon. The whole month of November sucks for me because everyone thinks to be festive, you have to throw those cinnamon pine cones everywhere. I can't go to the grocery store or even Wal-Mart without having an asthma attack. I will make the whole turkey dinner (minus the pumpkin pie) for my husband though. He looks forward to Thanksgiving every year. We have a 17 pound bird for just the two of us and I'm only going to pick at it. It makes him happy though.
  • rebeccaaa_elizabeth
    rebeccaaa_elizabeth Posts: 56 Member
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    You're not alone! :smile: I've never been overly excited about Thanksgiving
  • Greenrun99
    Greenrun99 Posts: 2,065 Member
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    I usually don't eat cranberries (we have them for holidays) or pumpkin pie.. but good thing there are usually more than 1 kinds.. outside of that I eat all the foodz!
  • catjrow3
    catjrow3 Posts: 681 Member
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    I am so not a fan of Thanksgiving either. NEver have been. I pick at best. I actually take a huge salad now, as my mom does not really put out a good one, and thats what I eat. They have gotten used to me doing it though, thankfully! i visit with family, but not dont eat alot.. :)
  • MasterKat
    MasterKat Posts: 149
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    Ah yes, I am slow cooking ribs, grilled asparagus and a bunch of other Non-Thanksgiving food. Beer included...
  • catjrow3
    catjrow3 Posts: 681 Member
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    (now... if Thanksgiving dinner was like italian food).... I WOULD EAT MY WEIGHT OF IT... LOL Love me some pasta and sauces!!
  • fullerbrickroad
    fullerbrickroad Posts: 22
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    I don't get excited about holiday meals anymore. I have to go to my MIL's house, and she's not a very good cook.
  • mank32
    mank32 Posts: 1,323 Member
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    love turkey. hate pumpkin pie. dislike dairy and fat. like mostly fruit and veg. this makes TG a mixed bag for me.
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
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  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
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    I'm with you. It's not "bad" food, just "meh". It is definitely NOT what I'd pick to eat a ton of.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
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    I don't like turkey, cranberries or pumpkin pie. I make myself a troughload of vegetarian stuffing, though.
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,022 Member
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    Depends on who's doing the cooking. My grandmother typically does most of our Thanksgiving meal, and she's an amazing cook, so it's all good. Thanksgiving food is not as big of a deal to me because I grew up eating that kind of food all the time. We basically had Thanksgiving dinner every Sunday, so I don't go nuts over turkey, dressing/stuffing (we call it dressing down here), and mashed potatoes, but I do like all those things and plan to eat as much as I want.

    Dessert, on the other hand, is a different story. I can't get enough. I'm in charge of all the desserts this year. I'm doing a traditional pumpkin pie, bread pudding, bourbon pecan pie, and a Dutch apple crisp.
  • mem50
    mem50 Posts: 1,384 Member
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    Turkey leaves me blah. Pumpkin pie I love at any time during the year. I just don't get the whole gotta cook all this food thing really. When I was younger it was food, food and more food. Now it's just another day for DH and me. Yes, we do have the MIL over for dinner but I just cook a regular meal.

    This year is Pork Roast, mashed potatoes, peas, crescent rolls and the pumpkin pie.
  • Lonestar5775
    Lonestar5775 Posts: 740 Member
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    What's not to like about bacon?

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