Pumpkin spice oatmeal

Steel cut oats

salt

milk

2 tablespoons of canned pumpkin

pumpkin pie spice

splenda 1/2 brown sugar/splenda

or add to a protein powder minus the oatmeal

my favorite Thanksgiving recipe isn't really a recipe. It is my Mamma's Cornbread Dressing. Thankfully I had watched and help her make it for many years. This will be the first Thanksgiving without her.

Make a large cast iron skillet of cornbread with onion. Let it cool. Crumble the cornbread into a large mixing bowl/pan. Add a bag or 2 of Pepperidge Farms Cornbread dressing mix.  Add about a 1/2 dozen hard boiled eggs, chopped. Add chopped giblets if you like them. When your turkey has finished cooking, add the drippings from the pan to the dressing mix. Add enough chicken stock to make the dressing REALLY soupy. I test mine by patting the top. If liquid pools just a little bit, it's "wet" enough. Put in baking dish and bake @ 400 deg. until the top is brown and dry. Serve with gravy, even though you really do not need it.

I hope I do it justice this year! :)

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One of the things I learned in support group is that I needed to stop thinking in terms of "breakfast foods", "lunch foods", and "dinner foods".  I now look for protein to eat and don't really care what kind of food it is.  My first meal may be ham and cheese or chicken or anything that gives me a good good amount of protein for the meal.  Yep.... even tuna salad has made it as the first meal :)

I make an easier version of this - 1 slice provolone (I use Sargento Ultra Thin), placed on parchment paper and microwaved for 30ish seconds until it just starts to brown.  Pull out of the microwave and immediately pull the edges of the parchment paper upwards to form the shell.  Hold for 10-15 seconds as the shell firms.  Voila!