Menu Plan Monday #1

Usually for Thanksgiving we make turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry relish, scalloped corn, pumpkin pie, pecan pie and mock eclairs...we eat so much we are stuffed almost to the point that we feel sick.  Last year, because I was on THM and thought the whole house should be too, I decided to make things healthy.  In addition to the turkey I made mashed cauliflower...NOT a favorite around this house,  stuffing from cauliflower...ummm also NOT a favorite with a vengeance, no corn and made sugar free pies using nasty tasting sweeteners and no eclairs.  To say I still haven't lived down that meal would be a complete understatement.  My oldest didn't come home for Sunday dinner for months after that AND now every time he comes here he asks if there's cauliflower in it.  Mashed potatoes are my daughter's favorite food in the whole world and I ruined that for her.  My middling kinda goes with the flow for most things and even he said it was the worst Thanksgiving ever.  We didn't even play games afterward because we were all in such a funk.  

 So, when I saw the local casino was having a buffet for Thanksgiving Day I Facebooked the family group chat and asked what they all thought.  My daughters reaction was, "I don't see mashed cauliflower so I'm in."   I know this is not traditional but ease and please is the name of the game this year.  We will all be able to eat what we want and there will be no dishes after.  Win-win! Plus there is a bonus! While the men folk retire to the casino to smoke their ceegars and gamble their hard earned money we females will sit in the lobby and daintily sip water from plastic bottles and gossip.  Forgive me...I fantasize about living the Downton Abbey lifestyle...just once I want to retire to the sitting room for after dinner drinks.

Anyway, onto this weeks menu and some more crappy food pictures!.

 Monday
Pumpkin Oatmeal-leftover from last week
Hot Cinnamon Chai Roobios Tea with collagen, sweetener and cashew milk

Singing Canary (similar to this recipe but with my own touches)

Pizza salad with ranch and blendtons
Pumpkin Cheesecake Mousse
Water

Hawaiian punch ggms (similar to this recipe but with my own touches)



















Orange Triple Z Yogurt with 1/3 cup homemade cocoa krispies mixed in
Water

 Left over roast
salad
Water

 Cottage Berry Whip

 Tuesday
3 hard boiled egg whites
2 okra pickles
Kohlrabi
Celery
Hot Cinnamon Chai Roobios Tea with collagen, sweetener and cashew milk

 Singing canary 



















Big Salad with leftover egg casserole on top, blendtons, salad sprinkles, oil, vinegar and hot sauce
Pumpkin Cheesecake Mousse
Water

 Grape GGMS

 Peanut Butter Cottage Cheese with Strawberries
Water

Ham and Cheese sandwich on Blender Bread with Whole Grain Mustard
Water

 Wednesday
Cranberry Pie with FF Reddi -Wip (personal choice)
Peppermint Mocha BPC

 Out with the Kids.  Chinese...totally off plan, totally worth it. :)

 1 string cheese wrapped with 2 pcs ham

 Cheeseburger Salad with Keto 1000 Island
Water




















Cranberry Pie

 Thursday
Brunch  at the Casino for Thanksgiving

 Popcorn
Grape Zevia

 Left overs if needed

 Friday
Out for Breakfast and getting our tree

 GGMS

Peanut butter sandwich on blender bread and half of a cauliflower crust pizza from Trader Joes (it was quite gross btw)

 GGMS
There it is... Goal, Story and Recipes - all of the ingredients of Journey Soup.
"There is always something in which to be Thankful
health - home - family - friends - food"

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