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My husband and I have Thanksgiving alone, no family left. Since it's just the two of us we have a small meal, chicken, dressing, green beans, chicken and dumplings, basically whatever we feel like. One year we went to a restaurant and it was really good but swore we'd never do that again because of the line and crowd.
My husband has always taken care of his teeth but he's been fighting a losing battle and finally gave up, they continue to break. Monday he goes in and will have them pulled. We could join some others here for a potluck but he has to be a soft diet, we'll be having soup. The Dentist thinks having well water most of his life could have caused this.
What plans do you have and do you have a big traditional meal?
Is the dentist blaming the lack of fluoride in well water for your husband's bad teeth? Just wondering. Sorry about his troubles with this teeth, sounds as though his thanksgiving dinner may be the softer parts of the feast-maybe mashed 'taters, the dumplings, that sort of thing.
We (my husband, myself, grown daughter and my mother-age 92) generally spend the holidays here at our home, with a whatever we feel like eating and is more or less easy to make type of meal. My husband isn't crazy about the traditional turkey and insists he wants spiral sliced ham, so that's part of the meal. But I like turkey, so we also have one of those 3 lb boneless turkey breasts, with accompaniments such as mashed potatoes/gravy, sweet potatoes, stuffing, salad, veggies for nibbling, and dessert-usually a ready-to bake pie witb whippies or ice cream.
Hubby's been on a low carb diet all year, so he won't eat the taters or stuffing, and I've promised the family the dessert this year will be a sugar free cheesecake, with melted sugar-free chocolate chips swirled through it. This is made with no crust, sweetened with "Swerve", a substitute sugar product-erythritol- available in Publix. I've made it several times before and it got rave reviews. Not low calorie, for sure, or cheap to make, but it's easy and good.
There are lots of leftovers so it provides meals for the whole weekend.
This year I'm hoping this galloping bronchitis I've picked up and which seems to be hitting the whole family won't derail those plans.
Amazing how many don't read the original thread question.
they just respond the way they choose... but it has nothing to do with OP's question.
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No, about half mentioned friends, kids, in laws, etc. Your first post was one of them. That is not alone or with spouse.
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You should ask a mod to delete all those posts that are unnecessary. That way this thread will have only what you want to see and be very short.
I had a rep that said I had the wrong person. perhaps I misread the intent of thinkalot. If so I apologize for picking the wrong target. I'm still not sure if they agree or disagree with greatblueheron.
Although we normally spend Thanksgiving with my parents, sister and BiL, it'll just be my wife and I this year. We have a season subscription to the Broadway in Miami Series at the Adrienne Arsht Center downtown and it just so happens that our tickets for Hello Dolly fall on Thanksgiving, so we're skipping the big family get together this year.
Rather than cooking a big meal, the two of us were going to go out for a pre-theater dinner at a restaurant near the theater, but our plans changed yesterday when I happened across a last-minute special for a five-night Celebrity cruise to Cozumel and Key West that departs Saturday afternoon. The cost is only $199pp and includes a $100 credit for onboard spending. Although we already have plans for a 10-day Southern Caribbean cruise over Christmas to Antigua, St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, St. Maarten, and Tortola, the price of this cruise was just too low to pass up. We decided to skip the T'giving dinner at the restaurant, which would have cost about $200 with tax and tip, and use that savings to just about pay for the five night cruise. That way, we can just think of the cruise as one long Thanksgiving celebration.
Wife and I will be spending Thanksgiving together on the mountain, she insists on cooking her traditional meal; 12lb Turkey, mashed potatoes, along with peas, gravy, cs, and stuffing, got to love it.
Fortunately I still have some of my choppers left, my Dentist keeps trying to sell me implants, I suppose if I was thirty years younger and had longevity on my side I'd give it some thought. I lost a crown on a front tooth biting into a rib bone fifteen or so years ago and had an implant installed, I highly recommend them.
Is the dentist blaming the lack of fluoride in well water for your husband's bad teeth? Just wondering. Sorry about his troubles with this teeth, sounds as though his thanksgiving dinner may be the softer parts of the feast-maybe mashed 'taters, the dumplings, that sort of thing.
The Dentist actually said it was possibly the reason. I've heard that a mineral deficiencies especially of calcium, magnesium, zinc, or riboflavin can affect oral health in many ways. He's had a lot of health issues (2 types of cancer) since 2014 so I don't know if any of that helped speed up the process but he made it 68 years with all his teeth. He considered implants but decided at this point it's not worth the cost.
For Thanksgiving we're having homemade creamy potato soup and jello which will be easy on him.
DW doesn't even like turkey. Too tired of ham to have it more than once a year. A email from Denney's says they'll be open, but the local one closed this year. Maybe Bob Evans.
"What plans do you have and do you have a big traditional meal?"
retired for 3 years.
visiting my 94-year-old mother.
traditional, since the whole fam damily will be there.
mother-in-law died last year. father-in-law died last month.
we are hanging on to the "traditional" for as long as it lasts.
My Thanksgivings (and other holidays) have been more often alone/alone-with-spouse than with larger groups. DH and I have spent a few Thanksgivings feasting with the Indians (casino buffets - they do an extra-specially good spread for holidays). Lately we've taken our Thanksgiving dinner camping with us out into the desert.
When I was going to university I worked in the Sheriff's records department. One other co-worker who was also alone, and I, worked double shifts most of the holidays since the others wanted to be with family, and we got paid double-time for the first shift and double-time-and-a-half for the second shift. Win-win!
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