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Post by bmazzo on Oct 12, 2018 3:08:42 GMT
Posting early for Friday,
Constant forward motion isn't required to make great strides. Sometimes, we need to take a step back, or retrace our steps, or just stop for a moment and stand still.
Looking forward to the upcoming holidays:
1. What are the hardest things for you to get around during the holidays? (food wise)
2. Do you ever try to lighten up family recipes? If so, what are some of the things that you have tried?
3. How do you deal with large family gatherings (or any holiday gathering), where there is a ton of food involved?
4. Do you feel pressured to make family recipes to keep others happy? Are you able to keep yourself on track when you are cooking?
Just for fun: Have you ever been on tv?
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Post by cathygeha on Oct 12, 2018 7:39:56 GMT
1. What are the hardest things for you to get around during the holidays? (food wise) Sweets
2. Do you ever try to lighten up family recipes? If so, what are some of the things that you have tried? I have in the past. Used to make pumpkin fluff instead of pumpkin pie
3. How do you deal with large family gatherings (or any holiday gathering), where there is a ton of food involved? Don't usually have them as family is not nearby...my family anyway. Hubby's have never done the big family thing
4. Do you feel pressured to make family recipes to keep others happy? Are you able to keep yourself on track when you are cooking? Not really...used to sometimes.
Just for fun: Have you ever been on tv? I have not. Tried out for that dating show where the three women or men were on one side and the person choosing date was on the other side. My sister was on Art Linkletter and was asked if Noah took fleas onto the ark and she, at 2nd grade age, said "Yes, on the animals"...
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Post by bmazzo on Oct 12, 2018 14:10:31 GMT
I think I forgot to answer my own questions yesterday, so I will try to do it today.
1. Hardest thing for me are the mountains of cookies that are made at my house every year.
2. I don't really try to lighten up holiday recipes during the holidays, sometimes, I will take myself out a serving of potatoes before the cream & butter are put in, but I don't lighten up anyone else's. Sometimes, I will make a holiday favorite during the year (dressing comes to mind), just for myself & make it ww friendly. I also love the ww cranberry salad.
3. Most of the family affairs are at my house, I do have a lot of problems with the constant array of food that is at every meeting, every where I go.
4. I do generally make the holiday favorites for my family. I feel that it is a special occasion & so many of the things only get made once a year.
Fun: Actually, I have been on tv a couple of times. Once, several years ago, DD & myself went to a live QVC show. We were on tv. More recently, last year when we donated the Christmas tree to the state, we were interviewed by 3 different news stations at the lighting ceremony, we were on all of them. They asked us about the history of the tree, how long we had had it growing in our yard, etc. We were even interviewed along with the governor.
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Post by cherryt38 on Oct 12, 2018 14:59:03 GMT
1. What are the hardest things for you to get around during the holidays? (food wise)
** The cookies, bars, desserts, and candies.
2. Do you ever try to lighten up family recipes? If so, what are some of the things that you have tried?
** For a long time I have used ff sour cream and skim milk along with a little butter in mashed potatoes. Other things I will use less of in a recipe than what is called for.
3. How do you deal with large family gatherings (or any holiday gathering), where there is a ton of food involved?
** I try to choose more of the less calorie laden foods and less of the others. I also try to eat until satisfied rather than stuffed.
4. Do you feel pressured to make family recipes to keep others happy? Are you able to keep yourself on track when you are cooking?
** Not really, as I don't have a lot of family close by and we are all watching our weight. I usually do the cooking.
Just for fun: Have you ever been on tv?
** Not on TV although I have been interviewed on the radio and a couple times in the newspaper.
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Post by jan on Oct 12, 2018 15:24:37 GMT
1. What are the hardest things for you to get around during the holidays? (food wise) I am lucky in that for Thanksgiving, I usually go to a very health conscious family's house. I also try to take no more than a tablespoon or 2 of everyday things like potatoes, etc. In years past I have tried to eat as slow as the slowest eater. (got that from a WW meeting)
2. Do you ever try to lighten up family recipes? If so, what are some of the things that you have tried? I usually take a WW recipe to whatever I am going to. I haven't tried the mashed cauliflower yet. I would like to try it and see what I think.
3. How do you deal with large family gatherings (or any holiday gathering), where there is a ton of food involved? Stay away from the food (don't hover) and only take small portions.
4. Do you feel pressured to make family recipes to keep others happy? Are you able to keep yourself on track when you are cooking? Nope. No family around
Just for fun: Have you ever been on tv? not on tv, but my picture was in the newspaper years ago holding my nephew (he was about 2) while he looked at eagles through a telescope. The friend that I walk with in the mornings was a contestant on Lets Make a Deal when she lived in California and won a whole bunch of prizes.
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Post by pamthomas46 on Oct 12, 2018 20:04:05 GMT
We look forward to family favorites, especially Korean meal and leftovers. We already have it scheduled. We limit the sweets which is easiest if we leave them at others houses.
Have a great day everyone. We are heading home this afternoon. It’s been a wonderful week.
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Post by jasimons on Oct 12, 2018 20:48:29 GMT
1. What are the hardest things for you to get around during the holidays? (food wise)
We usually only have one main holiday event - usually on Christmas with DH family, which helps. Specifically, I really usually like all of the little "snacky" things, dips, cheese, crackers and so on. But, again, since it's just one day, it is not a big problem.
2. Do you ever try to lighten up family recipes? If so, what are some of the things that you have tried?
I can't recall right now an traditional holiday recipes I've tried to adapt.
3. How do you deal with large family gatherings (or any holiday gathering), where there is a ton of food involved?
Kind of the same as first question, because they are not frequent, that makes it a lot easier to deal with.
4. Do you feel pressured to make family recipes to keep others happy? Are you able to keep yourself on track when you are cooking?
I don't have family in the area (not much family at all!), so no pressure to make anything specific.
Just for fun: Have you ever been on tv?
As a child, attending a live kids TV show - hosted by "Captain 11" at KELO TV. Have been in the local paper for work related stuff. And on the radio back in college days during internship - recording commercials, reading newscasts.
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Post by Holly Gail on Oct 13, 2018 1:00:49 GMT
I'm Lifetime at Goal. I look over the Thanksgiving table and decide what I want to taste and what I want to eat. Because I don't mix dairy and poultry (which is considered "meat") at the same time, if I want something that has dairy in it, I have it first and don't put turkey (or anything that has, for instance, turkey drippings) in it until the foods with dairy are completely off my plate. So if I want to taste the mashed potatoes (assuming I already know that they don't have both turkey drippings [or broth] and butter in them), I take a SMALL helping (like maybe 2 tablespoons worth). I don't waste my points on white bread, so I rarely taste the stuffing (so not an issue for me). Then I take a small helping of turkey breast meat and anything else that has zero dairy (like veggies with perhaps olive oil or maybe lemon juice on them). All in all, my dinner is VERY LOW in points. And then when it's dessert time, I abstain from the dairy ones (at least for a few hours), which cuts down on my choices. I am not particularly fond of pie or cake, so I rarely eat either of them. I have a bad reaction to caffeine, so when DBIL makes tiramisu I am not tempted. (He also makes homemade ice cream to die for, but because I have to wait a few hours, the temptation is less; I still eat some after waiting, but most people have left the table so there's less temptation to sit and keep talking and eating.)
I usually eat at least one fried potato pancake with apple sauce during potato pancake season (one week in November or December). Potato pancakes have to be incredibly delicious for me to want a second one (I've been eating these since early early childhood, so believe me, I can tell the difference between good ones and great ones). I just don't go overboard with them.
DH works with this one woman who makes Christmas cookies every year. We know in advance which day she's going to bring them. I save points that week; I LOVE cookies (in particular, I love almost anything chocolate, but I do have a soft spot for cookies in general). DH bring them home without tasting any. I go through them and separate the ones I'd like to eat (or at least taste) from the rest. DS gets the rest. I will take one bite of the ones I want to taste (and DH gets the rest of them too). And I attempt not to eat in only one day all of the cookies I want to eat. (Yes, sometimes it works; often, however, I do eat all of 'em in one day. Oh well; I've planned for cookies so it's not terrible).
And that's the extent of my "holiday season" food story...
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