"Tor" wrote in message
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What's wrong with turkey? Nothing I guess, if we're talking about a
sandwich
with lean turkey breast with mustard on multigrain bread. But that's
hardly
everyone's idea of turkey Christmas dinner.
Once the average Christmas turkey and the trimmings and the side dishes
and
the mashed potatoes and whatever are on the table and have been consumed,
in many cases we're talking portion sizes of say 1500 calories and maybe
300
grams of carbs? That's hardly my idea of being nice to myself at Christmas
time. The alternative, watching others eat the big portions and sticking
to
one spoon of stuffing and one spoon of mashed potatoes doesn't sound like
all that much fun either.
That aside, no two diabetics are completely alike in how they respond to
food or in what their preferences are. I'm not coming down on those who do
chose to stick with their turkey and stuffing, just telling my own story
for
those who might be motivated to look for an alternative.

I fail to see how a turkey dinner could be a bad meal for a diabetic. In
fact, that is one meal that always works for me, unless perhaps the turkey
was honey roasted or there is fruit in the stuffing. My daughter and I had
macaroni and cheese and wax beans on Xmas Eve. That was her choice. On
Xmas day, we had turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing made with a lot of added
celery, onions and carrots, the leftover beans and corn. I didn't eat the
corn. It's not one of my favorite veggies. Can't say that I care for
stuffing too much either. Perhaps I'm just not used to it. We never ate it
at our house when I was growing up. My dinner was in no way 1500 calories
and only 45 g of carbs. Worked for me!

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