It seemed like such a great idea at the time. And, really, I am excited that my mom is coming for Thanksgiving. It's been a crazy rollercoaster of a year, and the last time I saw her, the insanity was just beginning. It will be nice to see her, to show her my new home, to give her a tour of the hospital so she can see what it is that I do. That will be cool.
But there is still the Thanksgiving dinner to be considered... One of my cousins who lives here in Columbus is hosting the dinner, and so will take care of the turkey and stuffing. She and I discussed it, and decided that Mom and I will handle side dishes and desserts. Great, I've got some fun recipes, and it will feel good to cook for a bunch of people -- I love to do that, and don't get to nearly often enough. But, Mom has prepared a grocery list...
Splenda instead of sugar. No better way to suck all the life (and taste!) out of your holiday pie. She insists that you can't taste the difference. She's wrong.
Multi-grain bread, "for sandwiches after." I guess I should be grateful she's not in charge of making the stuffing. Bleuch.
Low-sodium mushroom soup for the green bean casserole. OK, I'll grant you, this one doesn't really taste all that different, but it IS significantly more expensive.
And fat-free half & half... which... first of all, since traditional half & half is a blend of whole milk and heavy cream, I can't even begin to figure out what a fat-free version of that IS. Skim milk and... water? And secondly, it's ThanksGIVING, for fuck's sake. Can't we just let it go for ONE day???
Yeah, and it was MY idea that they stay until Monday, instead of leaving on Saturday... somebody be sure to remind me of that next week, m'kay?
Sunday, November 19, 2006
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4 comments:
I'll distract her while you grab the list and burn it!
You can so taste the difference between Splenda ans sugar! Her taste buds are just immune to it. Remind her that there may be persons unable to partake of sugar substitutes (allergies, other health reasons).
And fat-free half and half is just putrid. Ask me how I know.
I'm OK with multi-grain bread, just as long as it isn't rye. bleuch.
But yeah, I'm with La Ca on the splenda, I use it at work in my coffee, but I woudln't use it for making a pie. And the whole sugar substitutes and allgeries thing, if she doesn't want all the sugar, she should just take a smaller piece.
And fat free half and half....why bother? What's the point? Just use coffeemate...or yeah, throw an ice cube in your coffee, it'll do the same thing.
I should clarify. She doesn't want this stuff for personal use to consume while she's here... she wants it to use in the stuff she's going to make for Thanksgiving dinner, thereby inflicting it on everyone present.
I use sugar-free applesauce as a substitute for the oil, but I don't skimp on the real sugar. It makes a difference. Every little bit helps.
-Zes
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