T-day Trial

We had our Thanksgiving meal trial tonight. Probably the lamest T-day meal ever but let me tell you, it was mighty fine to me! We had an all-natural turkey which turned out great. I was afraid it would be all dry and flavorless since the turkeys we're used to are injected with butter and "flavor." That's one thing this diet has taught me, no food is sacred. It's all been injected or chemically man-handled in some way. I think once I'm done with this diet I'll still go for the all-natural food with ingredients I can pronounce. As nature intended. It's made me more aware of what I've been stuffing my body with.

The turkey was goood. Oh my God I ate dark meat even. I haven't had dark meat in so long because it's too fatty. It's so wonderful not having to worry about fat since I know I don't get enough as it is. And turkey skin, yuuuum yum. Slimy skin, this was such a nice change. We got tons of turkey drippings so I made gravy. Do you know how important this was? Gravy is like a sauce, a condiment other than olive oil. Before this diet I would never touch gravy. Ever. But now, I could drink it straight. It was something different in my diet. And it was diet approved as long as it was made with organic rice flour. I made mashed potatoes even, another amazing change. Since I couldn't use milk and just mashing up plain potatoes isn't very exciting I came up with the brilliant idea to mix them with gravy and mash it up together. OK brilliant it probably wasn't but it made it seem like they were real mashed potatoes. Next time though, I'm just gonna mix them with the turkey drippings before I make that into gravy. That's why we had this trial before the big day. But just using the turkey juice would give them a great consistency too and then I'll top them off with gravy. Ohh, mouth is watering all ready.

I don't think B found this meal to be quite an impressive Thanksgiving meal as I did but you know what, it wasn't rice and it wasn't ground turkey breast. And that is something to be thankful for. Sure it was missing the corn and pies and the hundreds of other side dishes that go along with it but this, oh this was a gourmet meal for me. B does have a guilt-free pass to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner at his mom's to get a real holiday dinner but he is sacraficing his FAVORITE meal to eat bland-o-rama with little ol' J and I, AKA this year's holiday scrooge.

What's the best part of Thanksgiving meal? The endless leftovers which I'm off to enjoy right now. I just better make sure I don't get sick of it by tomorrow because it's all I have to eat for the next week straight.