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Which is impressive. I don't normally cook, especially things as complex as Thanksgiving, and I didn't think this was the year to start. I had visions of a turkey thawed in the refrigerator, or worse in the oven half-cooked, when I went into labor. Plus, who needs a whole turkey (even a small one) for two adults and a toddler?
So I got a rotisserie chicken already cooked (I know!), packaged stuffing, canned cranberry sauce (my favorite kind anyway), canned green beans, etc. You name it, I cheated it into Thanksgiving dinner.
Net result: first, I brought out a snack tray around maybe 10. Drew was ALL over it. Two kinds of meat, two kinds of cheese, three kinds of crackers, pickle slices, and black olives. I think Drew ate half a can of black olives, and for sure a lot of meat and cheese.
We had Thanksgiving dinner about 1:15 or 1:30 and Drew had some green beans (not bad, all things considered, and he ate all he took!), and decent helpings of peaches, stuffing, and cranberry sauce (well, a whole slice of it, which is a lot for a 2-year-old...technically two slices, but the second was mushed up without eating when he got full!). And a glass of milk. What he didn't have any of, even to put on his plate, was the chicken. I was baffled, but considering that he had plenty of meat off the snack tray earlier, that's not too bad.
I probably should've had a second vegetable to tempt him (and us), but we had enough left-overs as it was.
For a Thanksgiving dinner planned around minimal waste (mostly the chicken) if we had to defer it a few days, and one for just our small family, I think that actually worked fairly well.
Me, I could've eaten beef barley soup and been content with the day. But it mattered to me to give Drew something of a "normal" Thanksgiving food-wise, even with all the limitations on how we did it. And given his enthusiasm for the food, I think it worked okay.
Now to see if a Thanksgiving nap is possible. For him, I mean. I'm definitely needing one.
So I got a rotisserie chicken already cooked (I know!), packaged stuffing, canned cranberry sauce (my favorite kind anyway), canned green beans, etc. You name it, I cheated it into Thanksgiving dinner.
Net result: first, I brought out a snack tray around maybe 10. Drew was ALL over it. Two kinds of meat, two kinds of cheese, three kinds of crackers, pickle slices, and black olives. I think Drew ate half a can of black olives, and for sure a lot of meat and cheese.
We had Thanksgiving dinner about 1:15 or 1:30 and Drew had some green beans (not bad, all things considered, and he ate all he took!), and decent helpings of peaches, stuffing, and cranberry sauce (well, a whole slice of it, which is a lot for a 2-year-old...technically two slices, but the second was mushed up without eating when he got full!). And a glass of milk. What he didn't have any of, even to put on his plate, was the chicken. I was baffled, but considering that he had plenty of meat off the snack tray earlier, that's not too bad.
I probably should've had a second vegetable to tempt him (and us), but we had enough left-overs as it was.
For a Thanksgiving dinner planned around minimal waste (mostly the chicken) if we had to defer it a few days, and one for just our small family, I think that actually worked fairly well.
Me, I could've eaten beef barley soup and been content with the day. But it mattered to me to give Drew something of a "normal" Thanksgiving food-wise, even with all the limitations on how we did it. And given his enthusiasm for the food, I think it worked okay.
Now to see if a Thanksgiving nap is possible. For him, I mean. I'm definitely needing one.
