What is your least favorite thing abo...

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Tue, 11-22-2005 - 9:21pm

What is your least favorite thing about Thanksgiving?



  • The expense
  • The travel
  • The family/stressful relations
  • The food
  • The time of year
  • The start of the Christmas season
  • The mess in the house/kitchen or the cleaning for company
  • Something not mentioned here
  • It is my least favorite holiday
  • I don't care


You will be able to change your vote.


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Registered: 02-19-2004
Tue, 11-22-2005 - 10:59pm

Other: 1) Only having my dd with me every other thanksgiving and 2) Having every single family member (other than dd) living 1/2 way across the country from me.

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Registered: 04-24-2003
Wed, 11-23-2005 - 12:35am
I voted the start of the Christmas season. I love the season but not the commercialization of it.
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Registered: 12-05-2004
Wed, 11-23-2005 - 8:27am

I voted for "Food" this year. Not that it's a big deal, but this year, I began a doctor-approved/supervised Vegan diet in order to lower my cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, and blood pressure (all became elevated in the year before I told my Dh about the debt we were in). They came down a little after I told DH everything last December, but being 33, I needed to get them WAY down from where they were. So this year, my Dh and Ds will be having a normal turkey with the trimmings, and I will be having a vegan meal that I will prepare seperately. :-D

Pat :-D

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 11-23-2005 - 7:59pm

Hey Pat,

I've got several vegan friends, and we used to do potlucks all the time. I've got some terrific vegan recipes that are among our favorite meals to eat. Email me if you want recipes. My favorite vegan meals are:

Asian noodle salad (it's a Lynn Rosetta Casper recipe--probably our very favorite meal--calls for chicken, but we actually prefer it without the chicken)
Saffron veggie stew
Dolmades (stuffed cabbage leaves--the kids absolutely adore these and I can't make them fast enough to keep ahead of them if I let them start eating before I'm done wrapping)

Of course, we also eat vegan hotdogs, pasta primavera, vegan tacos (easy--just substitute vegan refried beans for meat and skip the cheese or use vegan cheese), various vegetable soups and stews, baked tofu, and so on. But those three I listed are so unbelievably yummy that we eat at least one of them about every week; often we have all three on different days of the week. And it doesn't feel like deprivation--I'll bet even your non-vegan family will eat them. Of the first two, each calls for one somewhat "exotic" ingredient (asian rice noodles may be available at upscale groceries, otherwise available only at health food stores or asian markets; saffron is very expensive, but usually cheaper if you can find it at a health food store that sells bulk herbs--and you only need a tiny little pinch). The dolmades use very common ingredients (unless you consider grits to be exotic, lol).

My email, if you want recipes, is heather@careyhead.net.

Good luck with Thanksgiving dinner! We're just eating roasted chicken--a turkey is too big for the four of us, and it is just the four of us. We actually want it that way--no stress!

Blessings,

Heather

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Registered: 03-26-2005
Thu, 11-24-2005 - 4:38am
For me, it's the weather. I hate snow!!!!!!!
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