Let me just say that I am so full that I can barely sit down! 
LOL I feel like I have an entire turkey sitting in my tummy and yet I’m thinking about a snack of leftovers before we go to bed. 
*shakes head* We were going to go to Woodbury Commons Premium Outlets at midnight, but we’re just too full and tired. The day started off sooo innocently too. We had pancakes for breakfast that I made with Batter Blaster:
112g of Batter Blaster (224 cal) that I cooked in a nonstick pan that I sprayed with EVOO (20 cal). When they were done I added on 2 TBSP Fifty50 fructose maple syrup (35 cal). I made a cup of coffee (2 cal) with 2 packets Truvia sweetener (8 cal), 2oz Silk Pumpkin Spice soy milk (44 cal) and 1 TBSP organic half & half (20 cal), plus a dash of pumpkin pie spice mixed in. The coffee was FANTASTIC! Move over Starbucks with your $6 buck pumpkin spice latte; Jenn’s got a new bag for about .30 cents! hehehe The pancakes were really, really good too! All together: 353 Thanksgiving morning breakfast calories.
I was going to do HIIT today, but I didn’t want to take the chance of giving myself a sore throat/post nasal drip from the cold air, so hubby and I went on a 60 minute walk shortly after breakfast. My heart rate monitor results for the walk:
Summary:
01:00:59
520 cal burned
155 max HR
138 avg
Then I showered and set the table. We were going to have appetizers for lunch, but before we knew it, it was time to eat, so we skipped it and had Thanksgiving dinner. And what a dinner it was! It was absolutely wonderful!!! 
Our table; we didn’t have enough room for a centerpiece, but I think the food was pretty enough on its own! 
Cornbread and sausage stuffing made from a recipe I found on Whole Foods’ website — Recipe: http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/recipe.php?recipeId=1378
Homemade whole cranberry sauce that I got from a thread Ronin posted on TDP. The recipe can be found in this thread: http://www.thedailyplate.com/forum/viewtopic.php…
Corn and asparagus with butter…
Mommy’s mashed potatoes; HEAVENLY!
Organic jellied cranberry sauce for the 2 fusspots at the table 
Sweet potatoes candied with maple syrup, butter and brown sugar
Dessert: French apple pie and pumpkin pie
I bought 2 pie crusts from Whole Foods, then my mother filled them up. I liked the apple way more than the pumpkin; it was INCREDIBLE! Of course, anything with lots of sugar AND butter can only be awesome lol. The pumpkin pie was made from the back of a Trader Joe’s pumpkin can; I didn’t like it. It was light and airy, kind of watery. The crust from Whole Foods also wasn’t that great, so I sort of ate around it. The apple with the crumbly, sugary, oats and butter topping was where it was at! 
The cornbread sausage stuffing was my favorite dish of the meal. It came out SOOOO GOOD! We baked a 9×9 tray of cornbread with this recipe:
1 cup cornmeal
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 egg
1/4 cup applesauce
1 cup milk
Then we baked it on 350F until the toothpick came out clean. It was yummy even before it became stuffing!!
Truthfully, I was FULL halfway through my plate, but I ate all of it. 3 slices of turkey (about 3oz), gravy, about a cup of mashed potatoes, 2 pieces of sweet potatoes, about 1/4 cup corn, 6 spears of asparagus, about 1/3 cup of cranberry sauce, 3 dinner rolls, and like a cup of the stuffing, plus maybe 1/2 cup to 1 cup homemade turkey gravy. Everything was DELICIOUS! It turned out perfectly.
Being I was so full, I had just 1/2 a piece of each of the pies, which is kind of good considering how much I ate of everything else! LOL It was lovely though and I don’t regret one single bit.
On this day and everyday for that matter, I am so thankful for my husband, my mother, our kitties, our ever improving health, our semi-sanity, our business, my blog, our friends both online and off, and of course everyone that visits my blog! 
Without you guys, blogging wouldn’t be nearly as much fun! Thank you for sharing bits and pieces of my food and life with me, I appreciate it and enjoy it very, very much. 
So, it’s after 1:00AM now and I’m super tired. I really wanted to go shopping tonight, but I can’t make it. It’s an hour drive that I’d regret halfway there lol. I don’t think I’m going out into the crowds this weekend either. We’ll see what happens. I’ll probably change my mind come morning! LOL
I hope everyone had a TURK-A-RRIFIC day, even if you don’t celebrate it. I honestly could have done without the turkey lol. Side dishes are what makes Thanksgiving dinner, in my opinion! Maybe I eat too many turkey burgers to get excited about turkey? haha But, Mmmm, STUFFING! Now THAT is a once-a-year thing that you gotta oooh and aaah for!
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