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I am not looking forward to Thanksgiving dinner. =(

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We go to my MIL's for dinner and she's a food nazi. She thinks we are all too fat(which we are). Everything is low fat, low sugar, low cholesterol, and low fun. Yack! There is nothing to look forward too. =(
 
Thanksgiving is not a time for being "healthy", even if you are already eating unhealthy. It's a time to be thankful for the bounty of food we have available. I repent the day after.

I had one family that was kind of that way....vegetarian....so the meal was done accordingly. The food was good, but there is a limit on Tofu Turkey Casserole or similar substitute. I much prefer to carve a turkey and even participate in its making so I know what I am eating and can savor the fat and calories going into my body.
 
Your mil sounds like mine. I have heard her make comments to my sis in law and her two girls about weight. As a result both teenage girls are obsessive about their weight now.
She knows better than say squat to me but she does make mention occasionally about my cooking putting a belly on her son. My answer is always the same. Her sons lack of self control and metabolism has nothing to do with my cooking. Her food stinks when she makes the occasional holiday dinner. She cooks just like your mil. I have actually stopped and gotten myself a nice chef's salad and taken it to her holiday dinners to have for my dinner more than once. I can live without her dried out, over cooked, under seasoned food. Don't get me wrong ...we get along. I just dont put up with any of her crap. She knows I see right through it and tell her so.
If I were you I would cook my own little Thanksgiving feast the way I wanted it. Go to her house as planned and pick at enough of her crap to be polite then go home and enjoy a real meal. People like that just like to make themselves feel better by putting down others.
 
I love love love Janie's suggestion!!! Hee-hee

My new song will go like this:
MIL's beware there is a human in there inside your DIL and she aint taking yo crap no mo!!! So back off Joe..............

Now wasn't that a cute little diddy;)
 
CanMan said:
Thanksgiving is not a time for being "healthy", even if you are already eating unhealthy. It's a time to be thankful for the bounty of food we have available. I repent the day after.

I had one family that was kind of that way....vegetarian....so the meal was done accordingly. The food was good, but there is a limit on Tofu Turkey Casserole or similar substitute. I much prefer to carve a turkey and even participate in its making so I know what I am eating and can savor the fat and calories going into my body.
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I am with you CanMan, Just bring it in on Calories & ALL!!!! I love Thanksgiving, even if all my favorites are not being served! I will figure out a way to get what I like!
 
lol I have always had a sore spot when it comes to anyone getting picked on. I dont care what the reason is I just cannot stand to see anyone bullied.
 
to begin with - what is so fattening about a roast turkey?? and most meals include tons of veggies which are good for you -

Can Man is right - that is one day you can indulge - eat yourself into a turkey coma and enjoy yourself. It's once a year.

Ditto with Christmas, Easter and other holidays. Those are days you are supposed to enjoy with family and friends. Even "fat" people can enjoy themselves.

You don't need to be a glutton - but a full belly on those days is well deserved.

Think about it - will you all be together again next year? Things happen - the tables size begins to shrink as years go by - so is it worth being like that?

Our table has really shrunk - but at least they always had the best I could serve them and they were very happy - it's more important than rolling tasteless crap in your mouth to ingest.
 
Mama Mangia said:
Ditto with Christmas, Easter and other holidays. Those are days you are supposed to enjoy with family and friends. Even "fat" people can enjoy themselves.
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And I enjoy myself and so thankful for all of those Monday "holidays" so I don't have to think about what I eat. The more holidays the better. :D ;)
 
CanMan said:
And I enjoy myself and so thankful for all of those Monday "holidays" so I don't have to think about what I eat. The more holidays the better. :D ;)
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We need more holidays! It seems that when it's the holiday that is the only time people are nice to each other!
 
Thankful

Has anyone seen The Everyone Loves Raymond Episode with the Tofu Turkey.
I never laffed so hard. Specially when they referred to the turkey as shaking like jello.

To me putting out a Holiday meal is something I want to put some pride into.I don't care what shape a person is in as long as they appreciate the meal. The last thing I would do is prepare a crappy meal and then degrade everyone while they ate it. I even go out of my way to prepare something knowing what most of the guest like. If you don't like turkey, there is some Baked Ziti for you. Sweat potatoe casserole or just baked sweat potatoes. You don't like cornbread stuffing, have the plain. Everyone is spoiled, even me, I hate green bean casserole because they were always pushed on me, lol. But I make it because I know who wants it. If I see someone pouring my gravy over everything on their plate, the last thing I would do is insult them, I'm just greatful they appreciate my gravy. I'll make sure that person notices the dinner rolls too. Lets say thankful.... Thankful for friends, thankful for family, thankful to be able to celebrate with everyone and for the meal. Thankful to God and always say a blessing before the meal.

Isn't that what Thanksgiving is all about?
 
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And I say Amen to everyone's posts! Thank God you are able to eat, and give Him thanks and Praise! There is a friend of ours who was in a terrible Motor Cycle accident two weeks ago, he lay in a coma at the Earlanger Critical Care Unit, and is on life support, his family is sick with grief and worry! I thank God he has made it thus far and pray for them as they wait!
 
I hope they keep talking to him and keep him informed and tell him how much they love him and want him back in their active lives - he CAN hear everything. That is something many do not realize! Always make POSITIVE conversation - if you can't - then read a positive book or the Bible to him. It will help. Trust me - I know....
 
I agree. How would you like to be the family of a guy that was in a coma for 23 years and considered by the medical community on a regular basis to be in a vegetative state.....only to learn now that he was NOT in a coma, but was just totally paralyzed and had full brain function/activity for 23 years.

Mom: Son in coma heard everything for 23 years

I just love the medical community!
 
CanMan said:
I agree. How would you like to be the family of a guy that was in a coma for 23 years and considered by the medical community on a regular basis to be in a vegetative state.....only to learn now that he was NOT in a coma, but was just totally paralyzed and had full brain function/activity for 23 years.

Mom: Son in coma heard everything for 23 years

I just love the medical community!
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Wow I just read that how wonderful he was given a keyboard by which to communicate!
 
23 years of living like that - his doctors should be shot - I hope he gets a team of lawyers and sues the pants off everyone of them and the hospital

they may have been able to give him therapy and he would have had a better life and been able to live with family or at least had a better life in a home that would have helped him instead of neglecting him for that time
 
The really horrible part is just wasn't one hospital and one set of doctors. There were dozens of places, hospitals, doctors, spe******ts, all over the country over that 23 year period. THAT is a complete failure of our medical profession. I'm sure we will hear much more on this case in the months to come.

But it all just seems to be one more example of our world unraveling as incompetence and wrong doings are exposed more and more. The latest now being exposed emails from Global Warming scientists showing they've been lying about it for years.

added: "s p e c i a l i s t s" is a banned word? :confused:
 
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