What did you gorge on?

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?

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

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:

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!

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

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:

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:

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