What's on your Christmas Eve (Sunday) Menu RNYers?

I don't usually join in on weekends but saw the thread wasn't up yet.

Happy Christmas Eve!

QOTD- Christmas Carols- yay or nay? We all LOVE carols and listen to them non-stop from the middle of November on. My favourite is Christmas in Killarney.

Menu:

Breakfast: Hard boiled egg- maybe Kelly's egg salad actually

Lunch: No plans but I've been reading recipes involving Brie.

Supper: we are having my in-laws over and it will be appetizers. I will choose protein forward.

Have a wonderful day and if you're driving anywhere stay safe. We're expecting more snow tonight.

Good Morning and Merry Christmas Eve, Teena and Menu Family!

Thank you for starting us off, Teena!

It snowed last night so we're having a white Christmas!

QOTD: I LOVE Christmas carols! Hard to pick a favorite, but I think Silent Night because it is so peaceful and Joy to the World because it is so joyful! I'm excited for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to get here, but also sad because after that all the Christmasy things will be over. But then I have my daughter's January 5th Birthday to look forward to.

Accountability: Yesterday: I didn't do so well. Protein was low, carbs were high. Protein - 46, Calories - 1,205, Carbs - 156.

B: prosciutto & mozzarella sticks, light & fit Greek yogurt

L: cheesy chicken

D: Not sure what we're having at the family celebration, but I'll try to eat wisely.

S: prosciutto & mozzarella sticks, light & fit Greek yogurt. banana, 2 Atkin's peanut butter cups

E: I might take Blossom for a walk in the snow.

Have a joyous and peaceful Christmas Eve and Christmas Day everyone!

~ Karen

Happy Christmas Eve! White Christmas here, too! It snowed in the night. Yesterday I didn't post, but I started a new tradition with my cousin, an Icelandic tradition of the "Christmas book flood." We exchanged book gifts, then lay around my living room drinking hot beverages (no-sugar cocoa for me) and reading our books in our pajamas all day. She gifted me a secondhand book by Neal Shusterman called Unwind, not having noticed that the copy she picked up at the secondhand bookstore was inscribed by the author with a really cool message relevant to the book! Photo below.

we went to my in-laws last night for dinner and a gift exchange. I received a Game of Thrones cutting board that says "Dinner is coming." It had started snowing on our way back into town.

qotd: top on my list is a pressure canner, I'm expanding my garden in the spring and would like to preserve more of it! I've only done water-bath safe items thus far. But if I don't get one, that's completely ok and I can buy one before canning season.

lazy day today!

breakfast: bacon! And scrambled eggs

lunch/dinner: I made chicken pot pie minus crust yesterday (basically just the filling) and have plenty left over.

i likely won't be on tomorrow, hope everyone has a merry Christmas!

Good morning all! I already made a side dish for our Christmas Eve dinner at SIL's tonight, but am still on my PJs at 10 am. DS is making a sous vide tenderloin tonight. This afternoon we are going with DS to his birthmothers home. She has invited us every year since we fully opened his adoption 13 years ago, but this is the first year we are available. We were always visiting with MIL previously (she passed away this May).

QOTD: I had a difficult time with Christmas carols for about 10 years after DD died (made me cry). So I just started enjoying them again a few years ago. I have Irving Berlin's White Christmas movie on right now and my phone ring is White Christmas (obviously just for the holiday).

Have a wonderful Christmas Eve everyone!

1 year, 9 months post-op:

B: eggbeaters, cottage cheese, and Canadian bacon

L: tuna salad, pickles and cottage cheese

D: Tenderloin, squash, small amount of stuffed potatoe

S: Likely bites/nibbles when we visit relatives today

How wonderful you're getting together with your son's birthmother! I've been really interested in birth families reuniting after finding a friend of mine's birthmother a few years ago - and since reading the book "the Girls Who Went Away" (about birth mothers and closed adoptions back in the 50s and 60s). I'm in a couple of Facebook groups where searchers try to find birth relatives (and are often successful). I'd love to do something like that (be a searcher) -- maybe after I retire...

That would be cool. We are so thankful that things can be so open these days. So much healthier for everyone.

absolutely! At that time (mid-century) closed adoption was thought to be win-win for everyone (birth mother doesn't have to deal with the stigma, kid gets to grow up in a two-parent household, childless couples get the opportunity to be parents, etc), but it was *really* hard psychologically on most birth mothers and birth children. Open adoption is much healthier on all involved. I'm glad they're doing it that way now.

Good morning and Merry Christmas eve!! I am getting so excited! My son goes to his dad's on Christmas eve and we are staying home, throwing some gorgeous steaks on the grill and watching It's a wonderful Life. Tomorrow is our Christmas and then off to my family gathering.

QOTD - I love Christmas Carols when I am in the mood, so not all day everyday... I am leaning toward the religious classics lately - I love them all

Accountability - Yesterday I was overcome with wanting to cheat while grocery shopping. I was about to rip open a bag of Doritos and box of frosted sugar cookies to stuff my face when I decided to stop by GNC instead. I picked up some protein powder samples to make protein waffles/pancakes, some quest chips, a couple of protein bars to try and cake bites - yum! Although these are not great choices, they are far better than what I really wanted. I ate too much yesterday, cals about 350 over, but I had excellent protein intake, lol. Although I overdid it and I'm bloated, I was only up .4, not bad.

b-coffee w/hc

l-meatballs w/ sauce and parm

d-steak

v/l - on track

Have a wonderful day everyone!!

Merry Christmas Eve!

We didn't go out for coffee this morning as we often do when we're both off - DH wanted an omelet since it's a holiday, so we had our coffee here. We'll head over to the yoga studio in a bit for the 10:30 meditation class (I'm really hooked on that class!) They weren't calling for snow any time in the near future (just really cold temps - ugh), but it's snowing lightly out there now, and there's a dusting on the street. I hope it's not too slick. I hate driving in snow! Then it's off to my mom's later today for Christmas Eve dinner - and we'll be there again tomorrow night for Christmas dinner. We're having an NC barbecue thing tonight (pulled pork, baked beans, cornbread, coleslaw), but we're having tiramisu for dessert. Why? My sister wanted to bring a dessert for tonight, which would have most likely been something that would go with an NC barbecue, like sweet potato pie or something (although I didn't ask), but I'd already planned to make tiramisu for tomorrow night's dinner (lasagna - and my mom specifically requested tiramisu, which *does* fit with lasagna). There is no way on earth that we needed one dessert for tonight and another for tomorrow night, because none of us need all the leftovers they would generate. So we'll just have the tiramisu on both nights. And my mom can keep whatever is leftover after that, because I don't want the thing anywhere near me!

accountability wasn't that great yesterday. Too much tasting going on while I was making the tiramisu, plus I ate way too much protein pudding. I could kick myself because we have those two dinners coming up, and the plan was to undereat my calorie allotment the last couple of days. Didn't happen - I went over both days. I'm going to have to really try to watch it tonight and tomorrow, and spend this week really working on offsetting this.

QOTD: I like Christmas carols - we have them playing on the kitchen radio right now, in fact. "Silent Night" is my favorite, I think..

2 years 6 months out:

B: had a Fit & Light yogurt around 5:00 because I took my vitamins then (didn't think I'd end up falling back to sleep, but I did...), then had 1/3 of an omelet at 9:00 (made of mostly of egg whites I had left over after making the tiramisu yesterday (which uses yolks), plus bacon, green pepper, onion, tomatoes, and cheese). Plus coffee with half & half

L: I'm going to be full for quite awhile, so maybe something like cottage cheese around 2:00 (or whenever I get hungry)

D: pulled pork, baked beans, coleslaw, maybe a little tiramisu (although that sounds really awful right now...)

have a great day, everyone!

Hey everyone! Merry Eve! I've been on my run, breakfast is done and I'm waiting for the bathroom to be empty to clean it. Zero plans today. I'd like to play a board game- so that's probably going to be today's entertainment.

Qotd: I generally do not listen to music, Execpt when I'm exercising or at Christmas time. Love!!! carols... silver bells and carol of the bells are my favorites!

Goal today: stick to a firm 950 calories! 207 today, 2.7 Years out.

M1: 1 scrambled egg, 3 turkey sausage links, 1 slice cinnamon raisin toast and 4 pineapple chunks.

M2: Greek yogurt, berries

m3: steak, 4oz, corn 1/2c

m4: ? Maybe roast, planned for it for tomorrow but would rather cook it today and add the leftovers tomorrow as an option.