IT'S CHRISSTMAASS!!! What are your diet plans?
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I'm weighing in about three pounds below my target weight every week. I'm not going to worry about Christmas.1
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Eat as much *kitten* as possible. Then feel bad about it.
Kidding.
Sort of.
I know french toast casserole is on my agenda for sure tho. It's our Christmas morning go-to.1 -
We (Hubby, me and 2 yo) are driving from Texas to Michigan to spend time with family, so gonna try and sample everything but make no promises on my intake.0
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I'm gonna eat and drink whatever I want this weekend and New Year weekend (and try to be good in between) and then back to the diet Jan 2nd!0
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Reduced calories mon-fri. Work out sat and sunday early morning, pig out sat and sunday night. Return to normal on the following monday. Don't care if i gain to be honest. I'm spending all friday and saturday cooking, so i'm going to pig out on tasty greek food ;D0
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CurlyCockney wrote: »Christmas lunch is:
Welcome Christmas cocktail or fruit juice
poured and ready half an hour before your arrival, from 1:00pm
Starter
Garlic and stilton mushroom bouche (v)
with black truffle foam
Soup
Pea, apple and hazelnut (v)
with apple crisps, hazelnut oil
Fish
Trio of smoked salmon
rolls of smoked salmon filled with prawn Marie Rose, crayfish, cream cheese and chives served alongside dressed mixed leaves, a wedge of lemon and pan-fried tiger prawns
Sorbet
Blood orange sorbet
Main
Roasted Kentish turkey and roasted goose, roast potatoes, sausagemeat stuffing, pig in blanket, and all the festive trimmings
Dessert
Trio of festive desserts
homemade Christmas pudding with a brandy cream, dark chocolate and Grand Marnier mousse, warmed cherry and almond tart
Cheese and Biscuits
A selection of British cheeses served with homemade chutney, grapes, celery, biscuits and bread
Tea and coffee
with a homemade Christmas shortbread
Boxing Day lunch is a carvery.
I don't think I'll be eating again until New Year :-/
I do hope you take reservations. What a menu that is!0 -
I have been banking calories but I don't plan to indulge too hedonistically.
Christmas Eve - lunch with best friends at Korean BBQ(a tradition). Should be easy to stay behaved with lean meats, sauces, and veggies. Then I sing at church for 9 hours and they cater food for us so i'll be able to eat some carved meats and salads.
Christmas Day - Sing at church again in the morning then drive 2 hours to my family for Christmas Brunch which will be lasagna, garlic bread, salad, assorted pies, assorted canapes, and always deviled eggs for some reason. Then laze about and for dinner we eat tamales. After that, back to the routine!0 -
I'll eat more than usual I'm sure, but I won't stuff myself silly. I like to over indulge a little on special occasions. I don't like to overeat to the point of discomfort ever.0
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I'm making baklava to eat on Christmas day and letting the calories fall where they may. The rest of the day will be just normal eating as we're not big celebrators.2
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Too early in the game for me to be indulging. This is a great opportunity for me to practice self control. I will modify some of the foods available, for example a few pieces of holiday ham with an extra serving of veggies instead of mac n cheese.This worked great for me at thanksgiving
I'll also have some yummy roasted veggies prepared just in case lol and then only taste everything else. 
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Christmas day:
An assortment of truffles: chocolate raspberry, cake batter, cheesecake, red velvet, gingerbread, ?? (whatever I decide on the spot depending on which ingredients are left, lol)
Booze.
Banoffee pie made my my sister in law.
Buttery iced shortbread cookies.
Pavlova (depending on humidity) with whipped cream and berries.
For dinner, there will be a butterball turkey stuffed with apple-sage-sausage stuffing, vegetable 'surprise' (mashed carrots, turnips and squash), roast potato in duck fat and bacon grease, cheesy cauliflower.
New Years Eve:
A selection of mini cheesecakes (key lime, strawberry shortcake, salted caramel and s'mores).5 -
CurlyCockney wrote: »Christmas lunch is:
Welcome Christmas cocktail or fruit juice
poured and ready half an hour before your arrival, from 1:00pm
Starter
Garlic and stilton mushroom bouche (v)
with black truffle foam
Soup
Pea, apple and hazelnut (v)
with apple crisps, hazelnut oil
Fish
Trio of smoked salmon
rolls of smoked salmon filled with prawn Marie Rose, crayfish, cream cheese and chives served alongside dressed mixed leaves, a wedge of lemon and pan-fried tiger prawns
Sorbet
Blood orange sorbet
Main
Roasted Kentish turkey and roasted goose, roast potatoes, sausagemeat stuffing, pig in blanket, and all the festive trimmings
Dessert
Trio of festive desserts
homemade Christmas pudding with a brandy cream, dark chocolate and Grand Marnier mousse, warmed cherry and almond tart
Cheese and Biscuits
A selection of British cheeses served with homemade chutney, grapes, celery, biscuits and bread
Tea and coffee
with a homemade Christmas shortbread
Boxing Day lunch is a carvery.
I don't think I'll be eating again until New Year :-/
Can I come to your house for Christmas? Sounds amazing!1 -
CHristmas Eve - I'm half Danish and this is when Danes celebrate Christmas
Dinner is a traditional Danish Christmas dinner including caramalized potatoes ,red cabbage,buns,potatoes,veggies I'm vegan so I don't eat the roast or goose or whatever it is they will have it's never a turkey though dessert is risalamande which is a very decadent rice pudding with almonds and cherry sauce
Plus lots of snacks ,sweets and Danish Christmas cookies
Christmas Day
Ableskiver for breakfast which you could describe as Danish pancake balls? Lol I guess
Lots of snacks like popcorn,chips,chocolate candy
Drinks are vegan holiday nog and Scandinavian glogg which is a mulled berry and fruit drink served warm
Then we have Canadian style Christmas dinner for me it's tofurky,mashed potatoes ,stuffing .some kind of veg,gravy and buns
Dessert is an amazing caramel sauced apple crisp I make and also a chocolate cake both with ice cream
Boxing day will be more lazing around cleaning up
probably online shopping for those Boxing Day deals and lots of eating leftovers
My plan is eat whatever I want as much as I want and try not to puke?? Sounds good I will pretty much stop caring about logging or what I eat from Christmas Eve till January 2
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CurlyCockney wrote: »Christmas lunch is:
Welcome Christmas cocktail or fruit juice
poured and ready half an hour before your arrival, from 1:00pm
Starter
Garlic and stilton mushroom bouche (v)
with black truffle foam
Soup
Pea, apple and hazelnut (v)
with apple crisps, hazelnut oil
Fish
Trio of smoked salmon
rolls of smoked salmon filled with prawn Marie Rose, crayfish, cream cheese and chives served alongside dressed mixed leaves, a wedge of lemon and pan-fried tiger prawns
Sorbet
Blood orange sorbet
Main
Roasted Kentish turkey and roasted goose, roast potatoes, sausagemeat stuffing, pig in blanket, and all the festive trimmings
Dessert
Trio of festive desserts
homemade Christmas pudding with a brandy cream, dark chocolate and Grand Marnier mousse, warmed cherry and almond tart
Cheese and Biscuits
A selection of British cheeses served with homemade chutney, grapes, celery, biscuits and bread
Tea and coffee
with a homemade Christmas shortbread
Boxing Day lunch is a carvery.
I don't think I'll be eating again until New Year :-/
Can I come to your house for Christmas? Sounds amazing!
Sure! I won't be here though, I'll be in a hotel eating all that stuff ;-)3 -
cerise_noir wrote: »Christmas day:
An assortment of truffles: chocolate raspberry, cake batter, cheesecake, red velvet, gingerbread, ?? (whatever I decide on the spot depending on which ingredients are left, lol)
Booze.
Banoffee pie made my my sister in law.
Buttery iced shortbread cookies.
Pavlova (depending on humidity) with whipped cream and berries.
For dinner, there will be a butterball turkey stuffed with apple-sage-sausage stuffing, vegetable 'surprise' (mashed carrots, turnips and squash), roast potato in duck fat and bacon grease, cheesy cauliflower.
New Years Eve:
A selection of mini cheesecakes (key lime, strawberry shortcake, salted caramel and s'mores).
I need these.1 -
I only started losing weight again after Thanksgiving so I'm going with water to drink and small portions of whatever looks good. Hoping to get in some walking at the in-laws or chasing after small children
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Apparently the Christmas cookies my daughter and I baked last weekend were all for me. Because most of them are gone.
Sigh. I'm going to get back on track after Sunday.3 -
I'm on a restricted diet following pancreas surgery (great timing doc), so my daughter is keep a very close eye on what I eat for Christmas day. We are actually going to have brunch instead of dinner, and she is bringing all the food. Oh yeah! Maybe she'll throw in a treat or two for me.1
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snickerscharlie wrote: »
I have to make more shortbread before the butter goes bad. I know, I can use butter in other things, but why waste butter on toast when I can put it to proper use in shortbread cookies?5 -
What's fascinating in this thread are the differences in what is "traditional" Christmas food depending on where folk are. I am playing guess the location by what people are eating (or avoiding).
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What's fascinating in this thread are the differences in what is "traditional" Christmas food depending on where folk are. I am playing guess the location by what people are eating (or avoiding).
Yeah that fascinated me too. I'd love to have a Christmas where I try many different ones.0 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »
I have to make more shortbread before the butter goes bad. I know, I can use butter in other things, but why waste butter on toast when I can put it to proper use in shortbread cookies?
It's very important that shortbread cookies be taste tested prior to serving to family. I only require 12-16 cookies for this, for a control group......
*pretty please?
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salembambi wrote: »CHristmas Eve - I'm half Danish and this is when Danes celebrate Christmas
Dinner is a traditional Danish Christmas dinner including caramalized potatoes ,red cabbage,buns,potatoes,veggies I'm vegan so I don't eat the roast or goose or whatever it is they will have it's never a turkey though dessert is risalamande which is a very decadent rice pudding with almonds and cherry sauce
Plus lots of snacks ,sweets and Danish Christmas cookies
Christmas Day
Ableskiver for breakfast which you could describe as Danish pancake balls? Lol I guess
Lots of snacks like popcorn,chips,chocolate candy
Drinks are vegan holiday nog and Scandinavian glogg which is a mulled berry and fruit drink served warm
I want in on these Danish meals. Sounds delicious! @salembambi0 -
I'll eat what I want within my calorie goal, just like I did for Thanksgiving.
But my sister's birthday is a few days later and we have a casino trip planned. Together we've lost around 75 pounds in this last part of 2016, so in celebration we're taking the day off from logging, getting drunk and eating what we want without worries
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What's fascinating in this thread are the differences in what is "traditional" Christmas food depending on where folk are. I am playing guess the location by what people are eating (or avoiding).
Our family's traditional Christmas dinner is a pasta festival. My daughter and I are vegetarians and my husband and son aren't. None of us like turkey or the traditional foods and it's just the four of us, so we decided to eat what we wanted after we stopped doing the extended family thing a few years back.
I'll be making turkey meatballs for the meat eaters (they prefer them) and a very cheesy pan of gluten free baked ziti and some regular home made ravioli. There will also be home made sauce and salad. I still haven't decided on dessert.0 -
What's fascinating in this thread are the differences in what is "traditional" Christmas food depending on where folk are. I am playing guess the location by what people are eating (or avoiding).
I'm American who lives in Newfoundland, Canada (triangle island off the east coast). For me and how I was raised, it's all about cookies/desserts/sweets. My ILs have to put on the dog - full stuffed turkey, 4 kinds of roasted veggies, mashed potatoes, cabbage, and gravy. They have no desserts. Now they add, because of me: a whole turkey breast (I guess the 2 on the turkey won't work?), corn (Iowans eat corn with every meal, right?), and green beans. Honestly, I hate eating what they cook because they don't cook it "right" - too much salt (everyone in the house has HBP, but let's salt the f*** out of the food), half a stick of butter on all veggies (then MIL starts in on hubby about needing to lose weight), and gravy on EVERYTHING. I would make my own Xmas dinner, have even tried, but the day before, day of, and day after there's no way to cook anything in the kitchen, including using the microwave or boiling the kettle. They insist every year to make me my "special food" and I'm not going to turn it down (I've tried; they just keep doing it and it's frowned upon donating cooked food).
I'm a little stressed being unable to cook, can you tell?0 -
Roasting a chicken is absolutely foolproof. Basically its just... Put it in oven and turn it on. Ok you can do lots of things to improve on that, but that will still be tasty.
Unlike turkey (huge dry hulk of cardboard that you have to add flavour and moisture to), chicken is moist and flavoursome (unless you buy battery farmed rubbish). So hard to get wrong. Roast spuds too are easy. Roast pan, oil, splosh them about in this bath, and bang in oven. If you use a dry frier you can use luxury big cholesterol fat because its just a spoonful for the lot. (Goose is good) (coconut is weird but silky and nice.)0 -
What's fascinating in this thread are the differences in what is "traditional" Christmas food depending on where folk are. I am playing guess the location by what people are eating (or avoiding).
Yeah, it makes my meal look pretty plain.
Ham
Some kind of potatoes
Veggies
Biscuits
Christmas dessert, and this year date pudding (usually part of our Thanksgiving desserts but we pushed it back this year due to time/my dad being in Florida in November)1 -
cerise_noir wrote: »Christmas day:
An assortment of truffles: chocolate raspberry, cake batter, cheesecake, red velvet, gingerbread, ?? (whatever I decide on the spot depending on which ingredients are left, lol)
Booze.
Banoffee pie made my my sister in law.
Buttery iced shortbread cookies.
Pavlova (depending on humidity) with whipped cream and berries.
For dinner, there will be a butterball turkey stuffed with apple-sage-sausage stuffing, vegetable 'surprise' (mashed carrots, turnips and squash), roast potato in duck fat and bacon grease, cheesy cauliflower.
New Years Eve:
A selection of mini cheesecakes (key lime, strawberry shortcake, salted caramel and s'mores).
I need these.
I just made these today (haven't coated them yet, though). SO good!1
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