Posts Tagged ‘Thanksgiving’
Posted by terrepruitt on November 25, 2014
In January of this year my friend posted a picture of the Christmas cards she received. I loved what she did with them and asked her if I could post her picture and idea on my blog. She is super sweet and she said yes. She created a Christmas Tree with her Christmas cards! January is obviously after Christmas and I thought if I posted it in January we would forget about it come December. So I told her I would post it closer to Christmas so that we could use the idea for Christmas 2014. She had asked if I wanted a better picture because the one posted here I took off of FB. I said no. I do believe it is a bit blurry, but I think blurry is good so all the photo cards she received aren’t posted clearly on my blog. It is about that time of year when we start thinking about sending out Christmas cards. And here is a great idea of what to do with the cards you receive. In the past I have posted about what I do with my Christmas cards, I do put them on the wall, but I really like the idea of putting them in the shape of a tree. Thanks, CeCe.
Such a great idea. A lot of people don’t get or put up actual trees for a multitude of reasons, but this is a great way to still have a little tree spirit. It is also a great way to display the cards. I love it. I didn’t ask her how she did it, but I think if I were to do it, I would start with the top card and add a row as I receive cards. But my rows would start from the middle so I would always have a trunk. Yes? Does that make sense? Would that work?
Oooo! You could also attach some flat ornaments to the wall. Hanging them in between the rows of cards. Yeah, That would be nice. I might just do that.
I was a little sad last year because I estimated that we sent out twice as many cards as we received. While we do not send out cards just to get one in return, I just love cards and I was a bit sad that it seems as if the tradition of sending out Christmas cards seems to be disappearing. Although, it could also be that Thanksgiving 2013 was the very LAST week in November with no time after before December started. That always makes for a super busy Christmastime and I remember having not received a lot of cards when that happened previously. It is the same this year. Thanksgiving is the last week in November. Too close to Christmas. It would be nice to have at least a week after Thanksgiving before December starts. Or we should celebrate Thanksgiving in October, like Canada. That would give us enough time to enjoy it more. Anyway . . .
Last year we had a great Christmas tree. It was severely misshapen, but after we decorate it, it looked beautiful AND it lasted a long time. Even after we put it outside and my husband cut it up for collection, it smelled fresh for days. This year we might have two trees. A real tree and a card tree!
So there you have an idea of how to creatively display the Christmas cards you receive and have a “tree” at the same time!
What do you think? What do you do with the Christmas cards you receive?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Canadian Thanksgiving, Christmas card tradition, Christmas Card tree, Christmas cards, Creative Christmas Card Display, Thanksgiving | 5 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on November 8, 2014
I received cranberries last year a couple of times in the organic produce box that we buy. At least one batch went to waste. I think — I can’t remember, but I think we ate some from the next batch, but not a lot. So part of that container went to waste. I was convinced that I could make something with them, but I had no idea what. Everything I looked up just didn’t seem appealing. I asked a question on my blog about what people are eating. I mentioned cranberries, asking what to do with them and one of my students replied with a very delicious and EASY recipe. It is a “no cook” relish. I didn’t know that I would like it, I am not a relish fan. But this is fresh fruit and not a pickled variety. Also, this student, this friend, has supplied me with great recipes before so my trust level is high. The recipe is so easy. Sometimes I think that adds to a recipe. If it is something you can whip up quick it helps it taste better. The relish is raw, no cooking involved. That is one way that it is easy. It is a cranberry orange relish. It is delicious!
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Cranberry Orange Relish
a little over a cup of cranberries
1 apple
1/2 of a medium to large size orange
a little less than 1/3 C sugar
maybe a little salt
Remove the core from the apple. Leave the peel on. Then cut the apple into large chunks. Cut the orange into chunks — LEAVE THE PEEL INTACT. Put the cranberries, apple chunks, cut up orange WITH THE PEEL ON, sugar, and pinch of salt into the food processor or blender. And pulse until the ingredients are mixed up and finely chopped. Scrape the sides down, if necessary, in between pulses.*
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I served it on some boneless pork chops. It was awesome. I figured since my husband likes Porky Pork Chops, which has apples, the relish with cranberries, apples, and oranges would be good. And it was. It was soooooooooooooo good. We had some leftover. And my friend mentioned eating it on crackers. So I wanted to try that. DELISH!
This relish is so good you don’t need to put it on anything, you can eat it by the spoonful!
It is also so good, I can imagine it on a variety of things. It would be good on chicken, on some salad greens, on pancakes, on waffles, on French Toast, or served as a fruit “bruschetta”. I don’t eat dressing/stuffing, but I imagine it would give your holiday dressing a little zip. I know . . . and I mentioned it in the post that netted me the recipe . . . that my sister-in-law put cranberries in her dressing so this would be just a little bit more umph!
It would be yummy as an ice cream topping. Perhaps it could even go on a fruit pie.
Really it can go anywhere your imagination goes. I wanted to post this recipe in time for Thanksgiving in case you wanted to use it for Thanksgiving Dinner. (Or Thanksgiving Lunch – as is the case with us because someone has tickets to the 49er game so we have to have dinner at noon!)
To see my friend’s write-up of the recipe (she used about 4 cups of cranberries or a 12 ounce bag – which she says is about 3 cups) go to my post and scroll down the comments. Then go make it and tell me what YOU put it on.
Thank you, again, for the recipe Joan!
Doesn’t this sound good? Doesn’t this sound easy? What are you going to put it on?
Posted in "Recipes", Food | Tagged: 49er game, breakfast topping, cranberries, no cook relish, orange peels, pork chop topping, something to make with fruit, Thanksgiving | 8 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 24, 2013
For many it is Christmas Eve. Some might not celebrate Christmas or it is past the day, but here, where I am, it is Christmas Eve. It is Tuesday so normally I would have had a Nia class in the morning, but the Park and Recreation Department of San Jose took the day off so there was no Nia this morning. They also have instituted a very abbreviated Group Ex schedule so my Nia classes with the City of San Jose are done for the year. We will be back Thursday, January 2, 2014. (WHOA! 2014!) I have one more Nia class in Willow Glen this year and one more class this year that I am subbing for the YMCA. Then onto the next year! So today I had a very relaxing Christmas Eve Day. Probably thee most relaxing Christmas Eve Day I have had in a LONG time. It was nice. One thing I had to do today was make spinach dip. In my world this is a common party treat. I have been making it for as long as I can remember. Although I had not made it in a long time. I think I first heard about spinach dip when I worked at my first mortgage job in the mid ’80s. So that is a long time. Spinach dip seems pretty common and timeless.
One thing I notice over Thanksgiving when I made a quadruple batch was that the recipe calls for a 10 ounce package of frozen spinach. Well our big green friend now makes his frozen spinach in 9 ounces sizes. I thought that was funny. Then today as I happened to be READING the recipe I noticed something that had me saying, “WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!” The directions actually say to COOK the spinach. I have never heard of such a thing. I have NEVER cooked the spinach. And as I mentioned I have been making spinach dip for YEARS. Cook the spinach? Really?
I prefer the Knorr Vegetable soup mix. But one year I couldn’t find it ANYWHERE and I ended up with the SPRING Vegetable mix and that was awesome because it had mushrooms in it. Now I can’t find that. I have also used other soup mix and have not been as happy as when I use Knorr. But this “cooked” really made me laugh out loud. Here is the recipe I am sure many of you are familiar with:
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Knorr Spinach Dip
Ingredients
1 box (10 oz.) frozen chopped spinach, cooked, cooled and squeezed dry
1 container (16 oz.) sour cream
1 cup Hellmann’s® or Best Foods® Real Mayonnaise
1 package Knorr® Vegetable recipe mix
1 can (8 oz.) water chestnuts, drained and chopped (optional)
3 green onions, chopped (optional)
Directions
1. Combine all ingredients and chill about 2 hours. Serve with your favorite dippers to your favorite people.
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Also, for me, the water chestnuts are NOT optional! They are a requirement. In fact, to me, the are the best part. If you watch me getting some spinach dip you will probably see me pushing my cracker/bread/veggie through the dish just trying to get at that chunk of chestnut.
In addition to the change in weight of the spinach they also now package it in a plastic, which helped when squeezing the water out. After I squeeze the spinach it is all clumped together so I use forks to pull it a part.
So I have two main questions for you:
1) Do you COOK your spinach?
2) How do you squeeze all the water out of the frozen spinach? To me that is the worst part.
Let me know because I am soooooo curious.
And to all I say:
Merry Christmas!
Posted in "Recipes", Food | Tagged: Best Foods® Real Mayonnaise, Christmas, Christmas celebration, Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve Day, City of San Jose, Diane Bacho - 1948 to March 11, 2014, frozen spinach, Group Ex, January 2, Knorr Vegetable soup, Merry Christmas, mortgage job, Nia, Nia class, Nia class in Willow Glen, Park and Recreation Department of San Jose, spinach dip, Thanksgiving, Thursday, water chestnuts, YMCA | 12 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 6, 2013
We are into December. And there are only three more chances for Goodie Jar Check Ins. WOW! I think that we should get the lawmakers to pass a law that makes Thanksgiving either in October like they do in Canada or at least the second to the last Thursday in November so that we can have more time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I really like more time from Thanksgiving to December. I am feeling the rush. Part of it has to do with the fact that I am in the process of getting hired on at the YMCA as a Nia teacher. There are a lot of things to do to get hired on at the YMCA as there is with many companies.
So I am feeling the rush. But I still have time to put things in my Goodie Jar. One of them, of course, is having an additional place to teach Nia!
How about you? Are you making time to make notes of the good things? Are you stopping and “smelling the roses”?
Posted in Good Things in the Goodie Jar | Tagged: Canadian Thanksgiving, Christmas, December 2013, good things, Goodie Jar – Check In #40, Nia Teacher, stop and smell the roses, teaching Nia at the YMCA, Thanksgiving, YMCA | 4 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on November 29, 2013
I don’t know about you but here it is another week with A LOT of good things to put in my Good Things Jar. Well, that is kind of the point, really. To always find something good to put it the Goodie Jar. Sometimes you might find it easy than others. But hopefully you are always able to find something. With this week being Thanksgiving week in the U.S. and Hanukkah I am thinking there are a lot of people with good things to put in the jar. I am seeing a lot of posts on Facebook. So, I hope you are filling that jar up!
How is your jar doing? Getting full?
Posted in Good Things in the Goodie Jar | Tagged: Facebook, good things jar, Goodie Jar, Goodie Jar – Check In #39, Hanukkah, something, Thanksgiving | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on November 28, 2013
Today is Thursday, a day a regularly post on my blog. You know I mainly post about the cardio dance I teach called Nia or food. I am either sharing something about Nia or a recipe. But today is Thanksgiving and as I sit here trying to think of something to write before the day ends, I am coming up with nothing. Nothing, but the usually post of gratitude and thankfulness. I didn’t want to do that again this year, but it really is so appropriate. You know I am doing a Goodie Jar where I put good things in a jar. Well, a lot of that is stuff I am thankful for, but a post about being thankful is a bit different. I won’t go on and on about it. I will just say that I am very grateful.
We had a very nice dinner at my husband’s sister’s house. I brought my camera and didn’t even think about it until we were walking out the door to go home. I did not take one photo. Her table was set as lovely as ever. It was the first time we all were able to fit at one table as not all of the kids made it to dinner. She made a lovely meal. We had a nice dinner and a great time. I am grateful.
I am also thankful for the usual stuff. And I am thankful for you. Thanks for reading. I hope you had a nice day — a Happy Thanksgiving, if that is what you celebrate. A Happy Hanukkah, if that is your Holiday. And/or a nice Thursday, if that is what today was for you. Either way, thanks for being here.
Posted in Misc | Tagged: cardio dance, good things jar, Goodie Jar, Hanukkah, Holiday, Nia, Nia Dance, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving 2013, Thanksgiving dinner | 8 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on November 26, 2011
A while ago I heard something that explained the myth around turkey and tryptophan. But I couldn’t remember what it was so I was thinking about it and I realized that it probably isn’t really the amount of tryptophan in the turkey that causes people to get sleepy it is more likely the combination of foods that are being consumed during a holiday meal AND the amount. I was thinking that all the carbohydrates would be a reason that people feel sleepy after eating a turkey dinner. So, of course I looked it up and the wonderful Wiki had a lot of great info.
First of all, the amount of tryptophan is less in turkey than in cod, soybeans, Parmesan cheese, and cheddar cheese. It is slightly higher in turkey than chicken, beef, and pork chops. A direct quote from Wiki: “It is particularly plentiful in chocolate, oats, dried dates, milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, red meat, eggs, fish, poultry, sesame, chickpeas, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, corn, spirulina, and peanuts.” Basically protein based foods. Tryptohphan in turkey has been blamed for many people falling asleep after a Holiday meal.
Tryptophan is an essential amino acid so that means we must eat it because our bodies cannot produce it. If you are experiencing depression, anxiety, irritability, impatience, impulsiveness, inability to concentrate, weight gain or unexplained weight loss, overeating and/or carbohydrate cravings, poor dream recall, or insomnia, according to WHFoods, you could need to add more tryptophan to your diet. Adding more foods that contain high amounts of tryptophan could possibly help you with these things. It helps form serotonin which can help you feel better and help you sleep.
The ByteSize Science did a little video explaining that tryptophan does not make you sleepy. This video says there is LESS in turkey than in chicken. It explains that tryptophan on its own could cause you to be sleepy, but the amount in turkey has to compete with all the other food and so it is not enough to actually cause you to be tired. This video also says that most people eat more calories in one Thanksgiving meal than they normally it in a regular day. This huge amount of food makes the body have to work extra hard to digest the food. The blood goes from the brain to the stomach which causes the tiredness and grogginess.
Not sure how the turkey-tryptophan myth started, but science has proved it to be exactly that – a myth. So instead of blaming turkey, and the amino acid that our body needs to make necessary compounds, for our post Holiday food coma we should actually acknowledge it is probably the amount of food and the combination of food that is responsible. Armed with this information we could eat our turkey without fearing it will cause us to get sleepy and maybe eat less food and less carbs and avoid the food coma that usually ensues a Holiday meal. What do you think?
This is a portion of a chart on Wiki:
| Food |
Protein [g/100 g of food] |
Tryptophan
[g/100 g of food] |
Tryptophan/Protein [%] |
| cod, atlantic, dried |
62.82
|
0.70
|
1.11
|
| soybeans, raw |
36.49
|
0.59
|
1.62
|
| cheese, Parmesan |
37.90
|
0.56
|
1.47
|
| cheese, cheddar |
24.90
|
0.32
|
1.29
|
| pork, chop |
19.27
|
0.25
|
1.27
|
| turkey |
21.89
|
0.24
|
1.11
|
| chicken |
20.85
|
0.24
|
1.14
|
Posted in Food | Tagged: ByteSize Science, cheddar cheese, chicken, cod, essential amino acid, foods high in tryptohphan, Holiday meal, Parmesan cheese, protein based foods, ryptophan, sarotonin, serotonin, soybeans, Thanksgiving, turkey and tryptophan myth, turkey makes you sleepy, WHFoods, Wiki | 4 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on November 24, 2011
Since my posting schedule is Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, I am always going to end up posting on Thanksgiving. My hubby and I don’t have kids and we are both the youngest of the children. I have always figured that I don’t get to do the Holiday dinners because I don’t have kids and I am the baby. That is fine with me. As I have shared with you before, I am not a fan of all the traditional Thanksgiving Day food. I usually just eat the turkey sans gravy, the bread, the potatoes, and the salad. If there is another vegetable I will eat that. But I don’t like the sweet potato casserole, the stuffing/dressing, the cranberries, or the gravy. So to me the meal is not one of those meals that I look forward to all year long. But I do like to give thanks. I am very blessed so I give thanks all year round, but on Thanksgiving people are more apt to accept the compliment and the gratitude.
This year there are some sad things surrounding our holidays. This is the first year we will be without the matriarch of husband’s family. This is a source of great sadness, of course. I am sure there will be many tears shed as we gather without the light that brightened every family gathering. I am sure it will be a bit surreal. Also my hubby’s best friend will be experiencing his first holiday without his mom. And another loss that I am feeling – although less drastic – one of my best friend’s is moving away. She is moving far enough away that there will be no day trip visits. This will be the first Christmas in 25 years that we will not have “Christmas with the Girls.” Yes, I know this is a post about Thanksgiving, but she will be gone right after, so I mention it. So much loss, so much sadness.
But even though moments of sorrow might have me bowing my head for tears to fall, life is still a blessing. There is so much to be thankful for. I cannot deny the blessings that I have. I can’t walk around in a constant state of gloom. I have to go on being joyful. I have to go on with the dance. As we say in Nia, Dance Through Life. Yeah, right in the middle I might stop stricken by the realization, stopped by a thought or a memory, but it’s not right to dwell on the sadness and the injustice of it all. Not only will dwelling on the negative effect me, it is an affront to all that is good.
So while this Holiday season will have a large shadow hanging about, I will shine bright enough in my thankfulness that I will not allow the darkness to prevail. Of the things I will be expressing gratitude for is the blessing of these people having been in my life. So I like thanksgiving, because it is a time to gather and give thanks. It is a time for gratitude.
I hope this finds you and yours well. I hope there are things in your life you can be thankful for. Even if this is not the time of yerr for your Thanksgiving (Canada does it in October) or if you don’t celebrate it at all, maybe you can give thanks just because your are grateful.
Posted in Misc | Tagged: blessings, cranberries, Dancing Through Life, death of a family member, dressing, gratitude, gravy, Holiday dinners, joy, joyful, Life is a Dance, Nia, stuffing, Thanksgiving, traditional Thanksgiving, turkey | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on November 22, 2011
Yesterday, after my Nia class in Central San Jose, I went to Campbell to pick up some locally “grown” honey. It has been pretty cold here so I have been drinking tea and I was thinking soup. It was at the last minute and through a chance of “well this light is green so I will turn this way” that I ended up at Trader Joe’s. I don’t get to Trader Joe’s often because it is just not in my regularly traveled areas. I didn’t know what I was going to get there until I saw the package of cut butternut squash. Then I was on my phone trying to find the recipe so I could make certain I got all the ingredients for butternut squash soup.
I have made this soup at least twice before, but the last time I made it I put too much pepper in it. Probably not even as much as the recipe calls for, but it was WAY too hot for me to eat. I was soooooooo disappointed. But at least it didn’t go to waste because my hubby loves spicy hot food so he ate it.
I remembered from the times before that one package of cut butternut squash is about 6 cups of squash and that is what the recipe calls for. With Thanksgiving coming I thought that we could just eat it all week if I doubled it. I am fortunate in that my hubby doesn’t mind eating the same thing over and over. So my plan was to make a double batch. But my plan was also to not follow the recipe exactly.
Before I had made it the very first time, I had read the reviews and I believed what the majority of them said so I was already adapting, but I was even thinking of more modifications. The problem is I don’t always know what I am going to do until I do it. As I am cooking an idea will pop into my head and then I don’t always remember what I did when it comes out great. I thought to write as I cooked but I didn’t.
After I sat down to eat it though I decided I had to make note of what I did because to me and for me, this is the best batch I have made and I want to make it EXACTLY like this from now on. Please excuse me for being brand specific. Normally I like to be more Rachel Ray than Martha Stewart, and I will say use whatever, but for me, I am going to use these exactly ingredients to make this soup. I really think that these particular flavors are what made it so yummy. But you of course are free to use the brands and flavors you like, but if you don’t want to lick the pot when you are done than it really might be the brands. 😉 I would have taken pictures of the cooking process had I thought I was going to post about this. 
I had thought NOT to post, but then after I ate it, I realized I HAD to post just so I would have record of it. The pictures of the products are after I fished the packages out of the garbage.
Butternut Squash Soup Adaptation
Two packages Trader Joe’s cut butternut squash (2 lbs each)
Olive oil spray
salt
4 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup chopped onions
1 box (32 oz) Trader Joe’s Low Sodium Vegetable Broth
4 packages Trader Joe’s Savory broth – chicken flavor
3 1/2 cups water
1 tsp marjoram
6 turns of the smoked pepper pepper mill
two light sprinkles of cayenne pepper
1 8 oz package cream cheese
2-3 tablespoons of whipped cream cheese
Heat the oven to 450. Spread the squash on a pan or two, spray with olive oil, sprinkle with salt. Roast the squash. The goal is to cook it until it is soft, but it is nice to have some of it browned. Roast for at least 30 minutes. Flip, stir, or shake so as to move the squash around a bit. Here is where you decide how roasted you want your squash.
Melt the butter in the stockpot, add the onions, and a little salt. Cook the onions until tender. Put the roasted squash in the pot, add the box of broth, add the water, add the contents of the broth packages, add the marjoram, add the pepper, sprinkle the cayenne. Bring to a boil.
Take the pot off the burner and blend the soup until smooth. (I use the immersion blender). Add the cream cheese. Stir. Blend until the cream cheese is full incorporated in the soup. Depending on how long it takes you to blend the soup and how hot you want to serve it. You might have to put it back on the stove.
This recipe makes a nice creamy squash-flavored soup. It is not sweet, but it is not spicy hot. If you like spicy hot you can add more pepper. The actually recipe on Allrecipes.com calls for a 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper and a 1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper. That is too hot for me. I just put a few twists and a sprinkle. The thing about making the pot mild is that people can add their own heat. My hubby sometimes adds hot sauce. But then sometimes he doesn’t. He can decide.
As with any recipe, of course, you can modify it as you want. But for me THIS IS IT! Also as with anything, I would love to hear what you think.
Posted in "Recipes", Food | Tagged: butternut squash soup, Campbell California, cayenne pepper, cream cheese, hot soup, Martha Stewart, Nia, Nia class, Nia San Jose, Rachel Ray, roasted butternut squash, San Jose Nia, San Jose Nia class, Thanksgiving, Trader Joe's | 6 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on November 23, 2010
For many of us, Thanksgiving is almost here, at least in the United States. For many, Thanksgiving is about food. Turkey dinner. I am not saying that giving thanks is not done, I am just saying that sometimes dinner is a very high priority. With the holidays is seems as if there people give themselves permission to over eat. Sometimes it is not even conscious. Eating is such a social thing sometimes we could be doing it and not even really be aware. So in order to help ensure that it is really only the turkey that is stuffed this season remember all of the party eating ideas that you have heard.
—Drink a lot of water.
This will help keep you full and hydrated. Plus if you always have a full glass people will not ask you if you want a cocktail which typically is a high calorie drink.
–Position yourself away from the appetizers.
This can minimize the talking, grazing, listening, grazing, laughing situation that sometimes results in standing right next to a table full of finger foods.
–If you are hungry BEFORE the event, eat.
Eat something really filling and healthy. The idea is that you will be full when you get to your destination and be less likely to graze at the appetizer table or fill up on unhealthy choices.
–Give yourself extra incentive to stay away from the holiday cocktails, by being the designated driver.
Then you can easily say, “No, thanks, I’m driving.” And not have to fight off that well-meaning bartender that loves to make certain everyone is having a great time (with a drink)!
–Fill your plate with salad and greens.
Then barely use the salad dressing. This will help keep you plate too full for a lot of the higher calorie items and help keep you full.
–Don’t fill you plate with vegetables that are in a casserole, cream, or covered in sauce.
The other ingredients in the casserole, the cream, and/or the sauce will make that veggie more calories.
–Take a bit of everything you want from the beginning.
Don’t fall into the “oh my plate is too full, I’ll go back for it”. Just take enough of everything to allow you a taste without planning on going back. Often times we are full but since we said we were going to go back and get something because we didn’t try everything, we do. We go back for that one thing and often times end up getting additional things because they were good. So we end up with even MORE than we had planned.
–Scope out the food before you start filling your plate.
You know what I am talking about. You’ve done it, you’ve heard other people say it, “Oh, I wouldn’t have gotten so much of the xxx, if I’d had known there was yyyy.” So if you have a buffet style meal, walk the line. See what there is make a plan. If it is a sit down where things are passed, you can still see what is being served before you take a huge helping of one thing.
–Be mindful.
Be aware of what you are eating AND drinking. If you really want that pie a la mode, then maybe a small spoonful of mashed potatoes will do ya, instead of the heaping spoonful. Also, being mindful has to do with your individual health goals.
Maybe you aren’t a calorie counter, but you do work to avoid the Transfat . . . so that means you might opt for the ice cream or plain pie instead of the low-calorie non-dairy whipped topping. Just because it is the holidays and we are celebrating doesn’t mean we have to throw away our good eating habits. Enjoy, but do it consciously. Don’t end up stuffed like the turkey.
FYI: I will be having my regularly scheduled Nia classes. Wednesday at 9:30 am in Willow Glen (day before Thanksgiving) and Friday at 9:30 am in Los Gatos (day after Thanksgiving). —Thanksgiving 2010
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