Sunday, October 11, 2009

Thanksgiving Dinner #1 SUNDAY

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all my fellow Canadians! Sorry for the late late post today (actually I think it is already Monday ...).

Breakfast this morning was an Amazing Grass - Amazing Meal Packet, mixed with 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk and a banana.



It looked like this:



Yum! It really is "Amazing" - check out the ingredient list:

- Organic wheat grass
- Organic barely grass
- Organic alfalfa
- Organic rice protein
- Organic hemp protein
- Organic Acai, carrot, blueberry, gogi, rose hips, maca, and banana
- Digestive Enzymes and Active Probiotic Cultures
- Organic cane juice, guar gum, red dutch cocoa, and sea salt

It has 10 g of protein, 6 g of fiber, 80% of your RDA of Vitamin A, 40% of each vitamin K and C, 16% Riboflavin, 20% B12, 10% Iron etc. etc.

Lunch was leftover Bee Bim Bop:



With tonnes of my new favorite hot sauce:





I also had one of these little suckers:



(and I may or may not have had one last night before bed)

This afternoon I got a LOT of work done! I worked on my thesis and ran errands, and still had time to relax.

For dinner the hubby and I went to his parents house for turkey and all the fix'ns. This was my ginormous plate:



I was STUFFED after all that, so I passed on dessert. I am not a big sweets person anyway.

I also had 2 glasses of this:



After dinner and visiting, the hubby and I met up with some friends at a place called La Bodega. I had one strawberry beer called Fruli.

Now I am off to bed ... and tomorrow it is turkey day #2!

I know thanksgiving is a much bigger holiday in the US than in Canada ... in Canada, Christmas is the biggest family holiday typically. Which holiday is the biggest in your family? What do you eat at thanksgiving?

8 comments:

Simply Life said...

Christmas is definitely the biggest holiday we celebrate although I LOVE Thanksgiving!

What are you writing your thesis about?

Unknown said...

yum! your eats look fantastic! I think the biggest faamily holiday for me would have to be the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana. My family and friends all get together and have the most amazing dinner with about 60 people at my house! its incredible! I posted about it and took lots of foodie pics!

your turkey dinner looks amazing and so classic thanksgiving! glad you had a great time!

Joy of Food said...

Christmas is our families biggest celebration. We always have my grandparents over and then visit other family memebers on Boxing Day. I also love Bonfire night, which leaves everyone smelling of smoke all night, but it's the whole getting together, watching fireworks and trying to keep warm that I love.

Taylor

MelissaNibbles said...

I love those Babybells. I'm thankful they're individually wrapped or I'd just go to town on them.

The turkey dinner looks amazing!

Anonymous said...

happy thanksgiving!
my mama is canadian, so we normally have canadian AND american thanksgiving... but chrismas is probably bigger. and, we have turkey again for that dinner. (we, clearly, are all about the turkey dinners :-) )

Anais said...

Looks like you had a great Thanksgiving dinner! I'm having some friends over tonight for ours :) Are you doing a Masters? I am! And I'm finding it to be a LOT of work lol!

Happy Thanksgiving to you too, and thanks for checking out my blog!

Mari said...

I can't wait for Thanksgiving! I love eating all the yummy food =)

For my family, it's Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, New Years Eve, AND Three Kings =) We get gifts on that day too

Jocelyn said...

mmmmmmmmmmm thanksgivinggggg.. that plate looks gorgeous ;) I also love chocolatemeal amazing grass - so good, but I definitely always have to add frozen banana and agave to it lol