Eating “healthily” over Christmas

rockgran

Thank you for saying "healthily" and not "eating healthy". ( I'm a bit fussy - some might say pedantic - about adverbs}.

Or worse....eat healthy!

Calistemon

A sprout is for life, not just for Christmas

It all sounds rather Abigail's Party ?

Sounds more like a wartime idea to make food go further?
I bet the result tastes like something the dog coughed up.?

Not a great sprout fan, I know the effect they have on me and it's not pretty. Nuff said!

Did anyone see Celebrity MasterChef yesterday? Judi Love put a whole scotch bonnet in with her sprout stir fry and nearly blew Greg and John's heads off!

I love sprouts but they need to be cooked properly, yesterday we went to the local pub for a Christmas lunch, the sprouts were undercooked and horrid.
One day a year you can give yourself a treat and relax the diet, just don’t overdo it and remember each alcoholic drink can be 200 calories.

Mmmm ....sprouts with bubble and squeak, including chopped up sage and onion stuffing, with a bit of halloumi and pickles. My veggie Boxing Day favourite.

I didn’t like sprouts as a child but my grandad convinced me they were lovely if I added a drop of vinegar to each one. I now love sprouts but only with the vinegar which causes raised eyebrows when eating away from home. I always cook too many to add to leftover mash and other veg for perfect bubble and squeak

I love sprouts. I have been known to get up in the middle of the night and cook a small bowl of sprouts and eat them with a knob of butter.

...yes I did notice my full stop.

Thank you for saying "healthily" and not "eating healthy". ( I'm a bit fussy - some might say pedantic - about adverbs}.

We love sprouts! One of my DCs used to eat them raw, hot and cold!

I remember my mum eating cold leftover sprouts with little cheese chunks and 1000 island dressing.

I would prefer sprouts to remain on the shop shelf. I will be having either duck or fish for my main course with not a sprout or cabbage in sight.

It's the constant grazing on high fat snacks thats the problem. I have cut back so much. This pandemic has made me more aware of peoples plights some with little food or treats at all and have sent quite a lot of things to the food bank locally.
So although I will hopefully enjoy a nice Christmas dinner I won't be going crazy on extras. Although I will expect a satsuma and chocolate coins in my stocking and will be a bit cross if no one has gifted me the odd treat or two!! Merry Christmas one and all. X

How very skinny latté? I think we've been watching too many films from USA over last 30+ years that show an absolute struck full of different dishes on a groaning table, impossibly huge fake turkeys and it's all become the desired s effect, vom inducing greed! We had turkey stuffing with sausagemeat roast spuds sprouts carrots agravy.full stop no pigs in blankets(never knew about these until the80s!) And I picked up some German sides from my X MiL But just Christmas pud with custard/cream for afters. Why all the YUKKY OTT desserts and ridiculously weird sides?! Some nuts dates and tin of quality street and lucky numbers(my fave) that's it! I think we need to get back to traditional British dinners and ditch the Yankee Doodle brandies!

Since my teens, I have politely refused all brussel sprouts irrespective of how they are served. Before that I ate them under protest.

I NEVER have served bought snacks at Christmas - everything that goes on the table or is eaten between meals is home-made. Cooking and baking is part of the fun of getting ready for Christmas in my book.

But I thought it was our lack of a car, our habit of walking or cycling to the shops etc. and a sensible everyday diet that kept DH's and my waistlines from expanding greatly. We are both about 3 inches larger round the middle now than we were when we were 16.

For me it's genetic, my father wore the kilt made for him when he was 17 all his life, and only needed the top strap and buckle moved a quarter inch sometime after his 80th birthday.

Eat healthier at Christmas no it's criminal I eat healthy all year. I am another sprout lover just slathered in butter and pepper.

I love sprouts, but they don’t like me.
If you know what I mean!

I still eat them though.

I’m also not a sprout fan. As a nod to tradition (and because I am cooking them for the rest of the family) I nobly eat one on Christmas Day. Having said that, they can be well hidden in bubble and squeak.

Not sure how you make them but in New York we had "Blackened Brussel Sprouts" they were fabulous.
Amazing what you can do with a Sprout!

I love sprouts and would happily have half a plate full for dinner. They have to be very slightly undercooked though!

I have done my last supermarket shop, just a veggie box to be delivered, and we are eating healthily. No fripperies. However, I do have a box of chocolates tucked away from my birthday, and am really looking forward to eating whatever my daughter provides on Boxing Day!

I'd be fine with that. As a vegetarian, without a sweet tooth, I don't pile in too many extra calories at Christmas but I am a sucker for nuts and crisps and roast potatoes.

"Before person"? Flipping predictive text, that was meant to be "veggie person"

Definitely not a before person here so anything sproutie is an absolute no from me.
Living alone, xmas day food for me is whatever I can be bothered to pull from the cupboard, fridge or freezer, I know there's pizza, I stuffed some chicken breasts with sausage and stuffing then wrapped them in bacon a few days ago and shoved them in the freezer, or if I really can't be bothered I've got bread so a sandwich is a possibility and there's plenty of eggs, cheese or beans to go on toast.

Listening to TV they seem to suggest that most people hate sprouts, but it seems Gransnetters are the exception to the rule. Thank you for the cooking suggestions for the fresh sprouts from our garden .