[–] callthehambulance 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Personally, for me, Christmas is the one day where I don't count calories. I'm having this year, homemade beef wellington, roast spuds, peas, carrots and chestnuts roasted with sprouts and pancetta, with christmas pud and cream for after.
I'll cook a load and it'll be dinner for the whole week, but that one day, I just don't count calories. I'll go for a run early in the morning and not eat til dinner is made. I always lose weight over Christmas though, cos I don't drink booze and I always struggle to finish a plate of food
[–] DorothyMantooth 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Yeah, I don't worry too much about calories and such over Xmas, either. I bake tons of cookies--five or six different kinds, and several dozen of each--and give some away, but also eat as many as I like. (And there are always Hershey's Kisses and mini peanut butter cups in every stocking.) Granted, "as many as I like" is generally maybe five cookies over the course of the evening--I still don't eat during the day--but still. I do go for longer walks and play with the dog more, but if I gain a pound or two over the course of the week I know I'll lose it again once the cookies are gone and my eating is back to normal, so I don't care. And heh, I usually end up losing weight instead, too, because I'm constantly walking/busy in the kitchen/cleaning/whatever. The jeans I'm wearing now keep falling down; the other day I had to pee, and forgot to unzip them, and they still came right down.
Our Christmas dinner is always the same: Xmas Eve we have cold cuts and cheese with crackers and warm bread, and I make scalloped potatoes for a hot side. (I also brine my own corned beef, so that's in the fridge right now, and I'll cook it on the 23rd so it's nice and cold for slicing on the 24th.) Christmas Day is a "fancy" beef bourguignon, ("fancy" meaning instead of just browning some meat and braising it in wine, I marinate the meat for 24 hours first and the stew has bacon, cocktail onions, and mushrooms as well) over rice. Sometimes for Yule I'll do slow-roasted pork with roast potatoes and parsnips and sprouts, too, but not this year.
And New Year's Day I make a traditional (Marcella Hazan) lasagna: a slow-cooked bolognese with beef, pork, and veal, started with a soffritto and pancetta, then layered with pasta (sometimes home-made) and bechamel sauce, with a little fresh-grated parmesan--no ricotta or mozzarella here! Most years I'll make some bread to go with it, too, maybe with a little garlic butter.
So yeah, I put a lot of effort into our holiday food, and I enjoy the results. I'm sure most fats would be shocked that our one pan of lasagna usually lasts three meals, or that I barely cook at all between Xmas and New Year because we have so many leftovers of cold cuts and bourguignon that we just eat that for the week...but as I said I want to enjoy the results of all my work, and enjoyment doesn't include making myself sick from overeating.
[–] callthehambulance ago
Hah, I have the same issue going on right now with the jeans I'm wearing.
Your Christmas food sounds wonderful. I tend to keep stuff light i the days building up to it, so dinner tonight was a fish finger sandwich. Next couple of days will be cereal, oatmeal or scrambled eggs.
Oh gosh. Veal. I've not had that in years now and I miss it. Tne most beautiful of meat.
I'm popping up to the butcher's tomorrow to get my beef joint. I'm looking forward to it and to the coming days of having a fridge stuffed with leftovers. Best feeling ever
[–] CowboyDancer 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Haha this reads like the most British post ever. Where are you from, did I guess correctly?
Why make all that food if you won't even get to eat it all.
Great one sentence summary of fatbrainz: lazy, selfish, gluttonous wrapped in one phrase. You didn't even have to say "250 lbs and doesn't shower", I inferred it from this quote.
[–] ThirteenthZodiac 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
That's fucking crazy talk.
[–] DorothyMantooth 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It really is. Yorkshire puddings are pretty "light," I mean, they're filling but they're not fat-and-sugar bombs, so I can't imagine basically adding a ton of salt, fat, and sugar to one. (Who can eat that much honey, anyway?)