Happy Thanksgiving! What is your menu?
 

Wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Also to give my list of goodies for the feast.
Turkey (of course)---
Squash--
LC Stuffing (made with LC bread, celery, onions, seasoning, chicken broth, butter)
LC Cranberries (large bag fresh cranberries cooked with splenda and a little water then when cranberries pop and cook down I add 1 box sugar free cranberry jello to get that thickness sugar normally gives it.)
LC SF pumpkin cheesecake with whipped cream

AND of course for the non-LC people, rolls, apple pie, pumpkin pie

Now I'm intrested to see what everyone elses menus are going to be:-)

Nibby

Turkey, chicken and dressing made with Atkins corn bread mix, gravy (no carb kind), mashed cauliflower, collard greens with ham hock, green bean cassarole, LC pumpkin bake for dessert.

(Now see why the 21 Days of Christmas Diet?)

we have thanksgiving at church at least 5 families gather together. . .so I am eatting lots of turkey with my own cream gravey, my own stuffing concoction(hope it's good~I am pretty good at this stuff though)4 slices low carb breads (two kinds~ one rye sprouted grain) toasted and cubed. . .sausauge. . .onions . . red peppers. . .turnips cubed. . .walnuts. . .sage. . .chicken broth. . .turkey grease when the turkey's done cooking. . .and cooked until it's really yummy. . .And of course a big salad with lots of yummy greens. Sounds yummy to me. . .I also have a califlower if I feel I need it. . .but I think I will be fine without it. redawn:)

That's a great idea to thicken cranberry sauce with jello!

turkey
sausage and mushroom stuffing
creamed spinach
roasted artichokes
marinated cucumber salad
oxtail stEW! for my non turkey eating husband.

pumpkin marble cheesecake (Shari Kay's recipe) jello, nuts

Happy Thanksgiving to you too!!!
I'm eating out this year but will take with me ...Atkins Coleslaw...Easy Pumpkie Pie(LC recipe) and a LC Green Bean Casserole...SF jello too!

I'm going to Ryan's Family Steak House!
 

We are going to Ryan's Family Steak House and have dinner. They are serving a Thanksgiving Buffet with just about everything. My daughter is wanting me to come off the diet for tomorrow and have a "refeed", but I told her that when I have lost 58 lbs like she has (she is on Atkins also) then I will think about it. I don't believe I will go off the diet because I can eat at this resturant and still stay on Atkins. If I have to I will just eat meat!! Right! :yum:

b4ugo, I eat at Ryan's a couple of times each month and it is fun and easy to stay on plan. Your daughter will be jealous of what you eat! If you are past induction, besides the all you can eat steak, their bbq is great - it is just the pork and natural juices - no sauce added. The salad bar is great too with fresh spinach, cucumbers, cauliflower, broccoli etc. I even treat myself to a small serving of fresh melon or berries if it looks good! Have fun and as long as you don't go to the dessert bar you will probably have more fun and variety with what you eat than your daughter! Have fun and happy turkey day!
Marie

Turkey
gravy (lc)
faux potatoes
baked sweet and white potatoes for those who want 'em
rolls, ditto
brussel sprouts w/ hollandaise sauce (really, it's traditional for us!)
big green with goodies salad
lc cranberry sauce
cranberry/orange relish
pumpkin pies--both types (lc and c)
maybe a lc cheesecake
and just in case that's not enough: olives, nuts, and cheeses.

Think that will take care of us.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day. My daughter's coming home in about 2.5 hours! YIPPEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Jude

Smoked Turkey
Faux Mashed Potatoes
Green Beans
Ceaser Salad
Gravy
Sugar Free Pumpkin Pie
Sugar Free Almond Cheesecake Pie

For Others:
Rolls
Mashed Potatoes
Chocolate Cheese cake
Cherry Pie
Peach Pie

Our dinner is at my house the the other things are what my kids are bringing. I may have a piece of that chocolate cheese cake but I can resist everything else not on my diet. Me and my chocolate weakness. :)

Turkey with Sage Butter
Faux Mashed Potatoes (Cauliflower)
Pork Rind Stuffing
Green Salad
Steele's Cranberry Sauce
LC pan gravy
LC pumpkin pie with whipped cream

HappyT-Day to all!

happy thanksgiving to all! i am making my faux potatoes right now!

breakfast:
1 small slice walnut cranberry and orange bread (4 ecc)
1 piece of pumpkin bake (6 ecc)

lunch:
small bowl of turkey soup & revolution roll (1 ecc)

dinner:
turkey :yum: (0 ecc)
fauxtatos (3 ecc)
savory herb stuffing (4.5 ecc)
cranberry & orange/ginger sauce (6 ecc)
gravy (1 ecc)
revolution roll (1 ecc)
small serving green beans & mushrooms (2 ecc? not sure totally)

desert:
pumpkin cheesecake & whipped cream (8.5 ecc)

total for the day: somewhere around 1800-2000 cals and 35-40 carbs

:) Splurging today, but thats ok because yesterday I ate like nothing to balance it out.

Basic Salad with smoked chicken
Fresh Asparagus blanched and browned in butter
Turnips blanched and deep fried
Deep fried cornish hens
4lb hot wings for later and snacking
Jello with some natural juice peaches inside
Assortment of nuts

spent the day alone so meal had to be cooked as simply as possible, hard to cook outside and in at the same time.

Hope everyone had a great day and spent some time thinking of our military people and those close to you both here and gone.

dave

I hope everyone's Thankgiving went as good as mine.

I worked out with weights and walked 2.1 miles today. Dinner consisted of turkey, gravy, lc dressing, black olives, dill pickles, cucumbers, fresh mushrooms and lc deviled eggs. My carbs are a little higher today because of the dressing , but I did not eat too many.

I considered eating more dressing than I should have but did not. I have eaten dressing a thousand times in my life and really don't miss it now. After a bite or two of the dressing I realized that the thrill is gone for pigging out on stuffing so I had more turkey. That's a new one for me, having contolled my portions like that.

I'm full now and we're about to go shopping for the Thursday only sales. Later I'll have some dessert made of cream cheese, heavy whipping cream, splenda, sf jello and walnuts.

I'm a little late with the menu but it was:
eggplant cavier on flax chips, and raw veggie appetisers
low carb pumpkin soup (the pilgrim bake pumpkins were a disaster so they became soup)
Deep fried turkey
collard greens
flax seed meal stuffing
low carb carnberry sauce like the one Nibby makes but with plain gelatin as the thickener
pecan pie


Hope all of you had a happy turkey day and stayed cheatfree and low carb.