April 2022 Moms
monstera13
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GTKY- Thanksgiving
monstera13
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Getting to know you, Thanksgiving edition! If you celebrate the holiday:
Favorite dish-
Least favorite dish-
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day-
Fun traditions-
Favorite dish-
Least favorite dish-
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day-
Fun traditions-
Re: GTKY- Thanksgiving
Favorite dish-all the CARBS
Least favorite dish-we never have a cranberry sauce, no desire
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day-later
Fun traditions-Not many, watch old home movies and play games usually.
Least favorite dish- I’m not a huge fan of pumpkin or pecan pies. Or turkey lol
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- Earlier, so I can take a nap and have seconds later
Fun traditions- I make key lime pie for Thanksgiving. I love watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade while I prepare the food!
Least favorite dish- mashed potatoes
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- earlier
Fun traditions- Black Friday shopping with my mom and sisters!
Least favorite- pumpkin anything. My husband likes pumpkin so we always have it. This year we already made pumpkin ice cream. I'm not a super fan of either thing so ok.
When to eat- we aim for 3-4 pm. I don't shop after but we play cards and eat dessert at like 6 pm.
Fun Traditions- We make Champagne Turkey a recipe from Vincent Price and we only make it once a year because it's so bad for you but delicious. Playing whist and cribbage. Black Friday is for making caramels.
Least favorite dish- stuffing
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- Earlier. Then we can have a late breakfast and I don’t have to choose between making lunch or starving, haha.
Fun traditions- 🤷♀️ We get together with extended family that we only see a few times a year. Other than that some groups break off to play euchre or darts. I like to walk a bit (depending on where we are) and sit by the fire.
Least favorite dish- Pecan pie or cranberry sauce
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- I prefer earlier as long as I'm not rushing around cooking
Fun traditions- We used to always go to my maternal grandma's house the day after thanksgiving to have dinner with that side of the family. She never wanted it to be a struggle for her family bouncing all over the place to see everyone. Sadly she's no longer with us, but it will always be one of my most fond memories growing up.
Least favorite dish- the turkey.. hah
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- earlier! Then seconds or desert for dinner.
Fun traditions- My mom used to host thanksgiving for our whole extended family. It was so much fun getting to see everyone. This past year she didn’t because of the pandemic, and this year she decided not to either. Also, my grandmother (her mom) is not doing well right now so it makes this holiday hard. But I’ll be holding onto those memories ❤️
Favorite dish- mashed potatoes
Least favorite dish- like literally anything else traditionally thanksgiving-y
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- I hated eating at 3pm when I was growing up, I thought it was so annoying that we spent all this time making all this food and then no one was hungry enough to eat any of it because everyone snacked through lunch and then had to eat like 5 hours earlier than they usually would? So we just do meals at the normal times we would now.
Fun traditions- We do a thankful turkey a la Busy Toddler with DD3, and that's pretty fun, but it's a whole November thing.
Least favorite dish- yams. would it be a crime to say turkey? we convinced (forced) my dad to do prime rib instead this year.
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- we typically eat around 3 or 4 with dessert a few hours later.
Fun traditions- My dad and his brother always throw a roll from one side of the room to the other, apparently they did this as teenagers just to make their parents mad. They start asking who wants a roll and throwing them around to everyone. All while my very strict grandma looses her mind. Also, my DH and brother are weirdos and have started slapping the turkey once its fully dressed and ready to go in the oven. We call it "twice slapped turkey".
Favorite dish- Ditto to the leftover sandwiches on fresh homemade bread!! 😋 I am also a cranberry person so I will slather cranberry sauce on everything so all of the food is cranberry something. For dessert I’m partial to pumpkin bread with a cup of homemade slow cooked apple cider, simmered using apples, oranges, and whole cinnamon sticks. 🥰
Least favorite dish- It totally depends on the recipe and dish— any of these foods could be either really good or not so good. I guess apple pie would be my least favorite. I’d pick almost any dessert option over apple pie.
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- Earlier always feels better, and will usually fill us up for the rest of the day! Our family will typically do a 1PM “dinner.”
Fun traditions- My favorite part of Thanksgiving was always watching the dog show, since I’m an animal lover! 😍 My husband loves watching football so we always are sure to have that on too of course. Immediately following Thanksgiving dinner we will typically listen to Christmas music to officially switch our celebrations! The weekend after Thanksgiving is always the weekend we decorate the house and put up our Christmas tree while watching Christmas movies and cartoons! 🎄
Least favorite dish- my husbands family makes “shelled beans” and well case in point…
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- Like 2/3 ish
Fun traditions- honestly I give my husband thanksgiving with his family so We can do Christmas with mine and his family is kind of boring
Married: October 2011
DS: January 2016
DS: May 2019
#3: April 2022
Least favorite dish- Turkey. We are skipping turkey entirely this year and smoking brisket and pork belly instead.
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- When I was a kid we would always eat at like 8 pm because the turkey timing never worked out and I hated it because we didn't get to snack throughout the day. Now it is nice because we can do 2 Thanksgivings if we really want to because most people seem to eat around 2. Although I think my metabolism is getting too old for 2 Thanksgivings.
Fun traditions- We never really had any "traditions" for any holiday growing up. We just kind of did the bare minimum for every holiday and most holidays left my parents grouchy and annoyed with us, so the most I can say is we made dinner on Thanksgiving. I'm really excited to be able to start my own traditions with the family I'm creating with this little one. It's one of the things that made me cry thinking about the other day.
@Blondesweety444 I laughed so hard at the twice slapped turkey.
Also - I've been trying hard to create family traditions too. My mom was really good at this and it's why my family has continued to be so close as we got older. I'm sure you will be able to do the same with your sweet little family!
Least favorite dish- Bleh to cranberry sauce! I also don’t like pecan pie.
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- Later. It’s so weird to me that people like to eat dinner in the afternoon on just that one day.
Fun traditions- Breaking the wish bone, doing a thankful Turkey with DS4 leading up to the holiday, and Black Friday shopping the next day.
Least favorite dish-green bean casserole 🤢 Also not a fan of cranberry sauce or any kind of pie.
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- we usually eat twice 😆 Once on my moms side (early) and once on my dads (late), although since covid we've been skimping on all the holidays on my dads side since they are a large group
Fun traditions- we dont really have any. I need to start some!
@robbenson I'm a texture eater too so my food touching or gravy on stuff is a hard no for me.
And unlike several people here, I like my food mixed together! If not mixed on the plate, I get a bit of turkey, potatoes, stuffing, etc. on my fork at once.
Least favorite dish- Green bean casserole. For some reason I always ended up being the one to make it (probably because it was relatively easy and my mom was busy with more complicated things), but I would never eat it.
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- Earlier, between 1 and 3 depending on who’s hosting.
Fun traditions- When I was a kid, we would break the wishbone from the previous Thanksgiving.
Married May 2019
Baby #1 due April 19, 2022
Least favorite dish- cranberry sauce. I don't think many people in my family like this...also, it's always the canned version. I also don't like Pumpkin Pie
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- earlier
Fun traditions- hoping to start some of our own in the next few years. but in the past we'd eat at noon and then in the afternoon play board games. I also like watching thanksgiving day/night football.
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I think my unpopular thanksgiving opinion is that I actually like cranberry sauce hahaha. That seems to be a winner for the “least favorite” on this thread.
Least favorite dish- literally all of it. American thanksgiving foods are 1950’s bastard foods and they are grotesque. Sweet potatoes with marshmallows? Green beans smothered in gross cream of whatever with glorified funions on top? Gross. I prefer actual food foods. Give me a nice steak, or some tacos, or some ramen or legit anything that’s actually tasty and not repellant.
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- 4 PM
Fun traditions- we go to my in laws and it’s a big, Italian, catholic family. It’s vaguely exhausting but fun
Favorite dish- Green Bean casserole my whole life but now its tied with MIL's mashed potatoes covered in carmelized onions. She makes those mashed taters a lot though and there is never green bean casserole any other time but holidays.
Least favorite dish- those sweet potatoes with the marshmallows.
Do you prefer to eat earlier or later in the day- I'm with all the early +Leftovers people! I hate that I'm not hosting this year, won't have any leftovers!
Fun traditions- we used to do football games back in the day before i moved away, but my H's fam doesn't really do anything traditional. The foods are traditional for me, I guess. Now we get a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving because of how expensive they are..otherwise I feel like its a waste. So we do that every year.