One of the great things about Thanksgiving is gathering around with all of your family. It's a great time to laugh, share, and eat. The traditional feast at Thanksgiving is always very heavy and can leave you feeling bloated and horrible at the end of the day. You don't need that and here are a few ways you can make sure to solve your feasting problems.
Change the menu this year. Tell your family that eating right is important to you. After you have the support of your friends and family, you'll have a much easier time making a menu change. You don't have to make all the fattening things you do every year. You might have a little resistance at first, but you can kick them out of the kitchen since you're the one cooking.
Changing the menu will make your life much more simple and save a lot of time and work. You won't have to prepare any extra dishes, you'll get to buy fewer ingredients, and there is a lot less to keep track of. When everyone is eating the same thing, you won't feel left out at all. Once people start tasting all the good dishes, they will probably stop complaining and might even ask for more of the same thing next year.
Another great idea is using multiple houses. If you have friends or family that are close, you'll have a really easy time with this. The idea is to eat part of the meal at one house and then go to another house for the second part of the meal. You can use this idea to make the workload smaller for each person cooking. You'll only have to make part of the meal and you can make yours however you want. If you're worried that you won't have a good option at another house, just grab some extra for yourself to take with you.
The third idea is to serve your meal in courses. Most people forget that this is even an option. Serving the meal in courses lets you make healthy portions as well as the unhealthy portions that you want to stay away from. You can make the first courses healthy and filling so that you won't feel the need to eat something bad. Leave plenty of time between courses so that your body can tell you it's full. When you eat in courses, you'll spend more time cooking, but you'll have greater control over what's on your plate when you're the hungriest, which is at the start of the meal.
You can solve all your Thanksgiving problems with some basic changes in how you make your meals. You don't have to sit and stare at all the foods you can't have. You have the power to choose and to change everything that will end up on your plate.
