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Post by bbbearsmom on Oct 11, 2020 23:15:29 GMT
Monday, 10/12
With the holidays coming up, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Day/Eve, how much is special/certain food, the act of eating associated with celebrating these holidays for you?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Oct 11, 2020 23:16:01 GMT
I do associate Halloween with having candy, and usually indulge some when I'm giving out the candy. Haven't decided if we are going to do it this year with the virus. We might leave a bowl of candy out on the porch. Thanksgiving I associate with having turkey, stuffing, and cranberries. Christmas I associate with cookies. When I was a child my father would buy us See's candy at Christmas and Easter.
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Post by cathygeha on Oct 12, 2020 6:38:40 GMT
The holidays had more food impact when there was family to celebrate the holidays with. Now that it is just my husband and I at home and we live outside the USA things are different. Halloween in Lebanon has a later religious holiday that is similar to Halloween with dressing up and treats but with the pandemic...doubt much will happen with that and being a foreigner at the end of the road never have seen this in real time.
Halloween: associated with candy and costumes - not a thing any more
Thanksgiving: turkey with all the fixings, family gathering, overeating - not a thing without children or friends and I am not eating turkey so would need modification. Could do a "thanksgiving" meal...might think about that and make it Core and OP.
Christmas: used to be the biggest deal as a child, parent and with friends but will not celebrate this year due to the pandemic and don't have children or family around so...not happening and if I decorate will do so minimally. The meal was usually the same as Thanksgiving.
I am considering the idea of preparing a "festive" meal and using the good china. Could do that for the three holidays mentioned above. We also used to have a "nice" meal when we did not go out to eat at a restaurant after church...do want to use the nice china and now that it is getting cooler might consider making a roast or something else once a week and use the good china and crystal and sterling silver...
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Post by mac on Oct 12, 2020 14:25:20 GMT
Not sure about the holidays this year, when my husband was alive we spent them together. I will either spend Thanksgiving here in Michigan or maybe Texas, to early to make plans where I'll be. Not sure what day Halloween is on, if the week-end with my daughter. I don't have any immediate family still alive, very few relatives as most have passed away! For the holidays we used to eat out or prepare a simple meal at home of holiday foods to enjoy!
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Post by lani on Oct 12, 2020 16:34:40 GMT
I stopped preparing Thanksgiving at home after my mom's death. Wow, that was back in 2008; time flew. We would eat at a restaurant for several years and then it just got to be too much food. So it is now just a regular meal day. We would stop by Mr. Lani's family for dessert.
I do bake at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Don't know if anyone will be getting together this year, in which case I most likely won't bake.
Ditto on Halloween. In the past I would have far too much leftover candy. When Mr. Lani was working he would take it to work and the young ones would fall on it like starving animals. I suppose I will just put some outside this year.
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Post by mac on Oct 12, 2020 19:11:14 GMT
lani Funny story about the young people loving the candy Mr. Lani takes to work! My son was thinking about handing out candy for Halloween and I suggested he use a kitchen tong to hand it out because it wouldn't be very sanitary to let people get candy out of a bowl, too many people digging in there!
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Post by lani on Oct 12, 2020 22:08:35 GMT
use a kitchen tong to hand it out Hey, that could work. My hand gets tired if I manipulate tongs for too long. Everyone is getting creative.  |
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Post by mac on Oct 12, 2020 22:15:01 GMT
lani, Have Mr. Lani hand it out or help you!🎃
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Post by bbbearsmom on Oct 12, 2020 23:54:19 GMT
mac, lani, I had originally thought of getting snack size plastic bags and putting candy in them and handing them out with tongs. I might still do that if I have the oomph to do it, otherwise it will be candy in a bowl on the porch.
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Post by mac on Oct 13, 2020 0:28:26 GMT
We stopped giving out Halloween candy as many others in our block did because it wasn't just neighborhood kids coming to the door, we had kids from the country and out of town, large numbers, also some big kids which concerned us as we were older. Long ago I loved giving out candy by taking out the window in the screen door or sitting outside to hand the candy out to many people we knew and many of my students, lot of fun in those days! We used to eat a lot of the candy as well so no Halloween candy here this year! 🎃
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Post by lizlor on Oct 14, 2020 15:49:44 GMT
mac, I’m so very sorry for the loss of your husband. Holidays have always been associated with elaborate meals and dishes. My mom was a gourmet cook and food was always front and center. I’m curious what we’ll keep and what we’ll simplify now that she’s gone. I know whatever we serve, we’ll be thinking about her during this first holiday season without her. In the past it’s been: thanksgiving:turkey, cornball stuffing balls, butternut squash casserole, green bean casserole, oysters, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Will likely do this for the kids. Christmas Eve: French onion soup and empanadas Christmas Day: croissants and fruit salad, and this year will be a simpler, easier dinner unlike productions of dinners’ past. I want to spend time relaxing, not in the kitchen.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Oct 14, 2020 16:53:41 GMT
lizlor, Hugs for getting through the holiday season without your mom.
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Post by surfgirl on Oct 14, 2020 19:53:16 GMT
Halloween:
We quit that years ago, for the same reasons mac mentioned - we started having minivans pull up and unload gobs of kids from other communities in our neighborhood, and then we had very old teens that came to the door once at like 9:00 or 9:30 and they were rude and quite frankly I felt uncomfortable opening my door at that hour and being faced with semi-drunk, beligerent 'teens'. So I quit Halloween. Thanksgiving:
My fav holiday because it's just about good food, family, friends. We usually try to go to New Orleans to my sister's family but this year that's out because we don't want to risk flying and we would have two college students home from college right before the holiday and god knows what they're bringing home so we will do our own small TDay dinner: vegan turkey cutlets, sage gravy, mashed potatoes, some green veg, cranberry sauce. And a dessert of some sort. Hanukkah:
We normally go once a year to a local Jewish Deli for, as my husband calls it, "the food of my People" - blintzes & latkas. This year we might do take out or I'll make something at home. Christmas: We used to do our annual Swiss Fondue for Xmas Eve but it's too much with Xmas dinner the next day, so now we do a variation on Thanksgiving dinner. We might do home made biscuits for Christmas Breakfast. New Years Eve: We moved our Swiss Fondue to NYE now, and it's quite festive for that occasion. On all the above holidays, we usually take a big walk down to the ocean during the mid-late afternoon. |
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