It is creeping up on us: the winter holidays and all the emotionally and culturally loaded food served at them. In the US we are facing Thanksgiving, or turkey day, and well, it's sort of sick to celebrate having enough to eat by killing a bird, cooking too much, eating too much and lying around with a football game on in the background. Thank g-d we don't do that in my house. We hate football and don't make turkey, although I've been guilty of over-portioning food and us having "something from thanksgiving out of the freezer" in January. Here's my basic survive the holidays as a recent veg advice: http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=199813&f=442 it is a continuing discussion, so ask, vent or tell your coping strategies there to help out someone else.:cheers2: Now to this thread: how do you cope with the onslaught of foodfoodfood in ads, on telly, everywhere?
lol... I, umm, don't. We got rid of our satellite TV in April of this year & discovered that we had NO television reception. Rather than pick up rabbit-ears or anything else, we've been quite happy without the telly for the past 6 months. So thankfully that has eased a lot of the "Mama, can we get/try THAT?!?" issues in our house! My biggest "issue" is still my mom, and thankfully she's been a whole lot easier to talk to about food during the past 2-3 months. We'll be heading to her house for Thanksgiving again this year & I KNOW there will be enough food there to feed 45, (with 9 people around the table) but she's been talking about lower-fat & even RAW options this year... so we'll be helping her with leftovers for the next month, but hopefully it will be "good for us" if that makes any sense. The turkey - I'm hoping that averting my eyes & burying myself in arranging veggie/condiment trays will help. I'm getting to the point where the smell of (uncured) meat cooking makes me nauseous & I DON'T know what to do about that yet! love, mom
I hate the fact that I cant even walk down the street without having pictures of greasy dead stuff shoved in my face by adverts everywhere. I try not to look because it makes me feel sick Weve drastically reduced how much TV we watch to basically about 1 or 2 hours a week if that, so that solves that problem, and Ill never sit and watch adverts now I can remember when we did watch more TV it was rammed down our throats constantly. Im glad we switched off And thankfully I have amazing in-laws who are really understanding, and we spend christmas day there (we dont really do thanksgiving over here) My mum in law makes us a complete vegan meal and is very sensitive, making sure she cooks their meal seperately etc, and doesnt make stupid comments, we just enjoy the feast, each to their own
well for Thanksgiving vacation, I'm going to my brother's house in Colorado. My sister-in-law is a great cook and she asked me what I wanted. I told her anything with pumpkins in it. I even found a few pumkin recipes from raw food sites & sent to her. That will be my only real "FOOD" holiday this year. I will be working all during December, so my meals will just be like every other day of the year.
no offense, seeing u were working there last year, but the pumpkin pies were gross everywhere here...even at e-cafe
