I need some good, healthy, sleeve-friendly ideas. I know I'm making a ham and some grilled asparagus with a smidgen of hollandaise sauce. My kids want corn pudding and scalloped potatoes which we choose not to have, and I'm wondering what else I can make to go with the ham that is not sugar-laden or carb-laden that my husband and I can enjoy.

Ideas anyone?

Edited December 23, 201312 yr by gamergirl

I'm going to make and have either your chicken a mushroom soup or roasted butternut squash soup! I'm on full liquids still

Edited December 24, 201312 yr by tami j

Well this is what I had. Ham with maple orange glaze, sweet potatoes in orange cups (thanks Lynda!), asparagus with hollandaise, mushrooms with garlic butter, and a sliver of the best pumpkins pie with the flakiest crust I've ever had outside of a French bakery. My husband's creation of course.

Below is my plate, I finished all the ham and mushrooms but left 1asparagus and most of the sweet potato. Too full.

I'm going to make and have either your chicken a mushroom soup or roasted butternut squash soup! I'm on full liquids still

Oh the chicken mushroom is such a nice rich flavor! But if you do butternut, I'm sure that too would taste delicious with chicken. Enjoy!

We had pear salad and grillades and grits for Christmas Eve dinner. I skipped the salad and had two small pieces of meat, a tiny piece of bread, and some grits. (I tried to avoid eating too much gravy.) I had about half of a chocolate chip cookie, but several glasses of wine.

We're having eggs Benedict this morning, but I won't have the English muffin. I'll probably only have about a half of a Bloody Mary. (I find that they really fill me up quickly.)

Tonight, we're having a standing rib roast, asparagus bundles, twice-baked potatoes, and a Buche de Noel. I'll be happy with just a small bite of the Yule log. Hope that's true of the potatoes too. Merry Christmas everyone!

We're having what my kids call "church waffles" which are waffles my husband makes on weekends. Fanny farmer recipe, lightest, best waffles I've ever had, with a sourdough batter. But I will be making banana protein pancakes for my husband and me, maybe try them in the waffle iron to see how they cook in there.

Christmas in Australia is a lot different, because it's in the middle of summer and it's bloody hot! We had Christmas lunch with one side of the family today, and we are having Boxing Day dinner tomorrow with the other (closer) part.

Christmas lunch:

Lots of chilled Chardonnay and champagne. I didn't drink any because we had afternoon drinkies planned with our neighbors.

Boiled, chilled prawns (very traditional, we bring these)

Seafood salad

Beetroot salad

Cold sliced ham

Crackers, pate, cheeses, dips, hummus

Homemade brioche rolls (my husband makes these, I had about 1/3 of one)

Roast turkey, served cold

There must have been other stuff but I didn't have it

Desserts: trifle (with a tin of white rum in) or mini Christmas puddings. I had about 1/3 cup of trifle.

Boxing Day dinner:

Baked ham (brought by us)

Butternut pumpkin (squash) casserole (baked by me, the sweet kind with nuts and brown sugar on top. I will add an extra egg for Protein -- request of DH's dad)

Banana bread (made by DH. Half the bunch of bananas off our tree went ripe at once so we have to do something)

Whatever DH's dad's Aussie wife decides to cook. Hopefully some vegetables. Sometimes her cooking is amazing and other times it's shocking. (DH and his dad are Canadian, it is a late-in-life marriage.)

I have decided I am not going to drive myself crazy with tracking today. I won't go nuts either, but I planned a menu that I can eat, and I'm going to enjoy it.

Hope you all have a wonderful holiday (those of you who Celebrate it!) And the rest of you, please enjoy the movies!

My side of the family is Italian and we are going to my sisters house so traditionally it is at least 7 different fish dishes. Everything from lobster, shrimp, calamari, clams, mussells and more delicious and healthy in small portions of course.

I'll be over at 2!

If I had not just had surgery we would be having Prime Rib, Yorkshire pudding, creamed spinach, glazed carrots, and French Silk Pie for dessert.

I'm going to make and have either your chicken a mushroom soup or roasted butternut squash soup! I'm on full liquids still

Ditto on the liquids stage....I had several slugs of drinkable yogurt and a chocolate protein drink (instead of traditional eggs Benedict) for breakfast, butternut squash bisque (instead of prime rib and fixings) for dinner, strained French onion soup as a snack, and vanilla PB2 shake (instead of Danish Kringler) for desert.

Edited December 26, 201312 yr by Kindle

Hm. Guess I'm a better planner than I thought, and I'd better stick with the planning.

So, like I said I decided to try a day without tracking, and with eating with the family. That was the nice part.

It really wasn't too out of control, although I did have a small slice of the sour cream coffee cake I make every year, with bacon (breakfast of champions! really out-of-shape, chubby champions!) We did little apps for lunch (stuffed mushrooms, bacon wrapped dates.)

But not measuring out dinner turned out to be a bad idea. My slice of beef tenderloin was probably too big. With that, a couple of teaspoons of spinach and a couple of teaspoons of potato I was uncomfortably full. Fell asleep on the couch for a while. Drank some milk an hour later to "settle" things. (Why do I still think like I am not sleeved? Really, now.) And then I saw that again. First time I have thrown up anything and I was alarmed that it just popped right back out, pretty much. No pie for me. I saw the light.

Anyway, save for actually really sitting down with everyone that was an experiment whose time has not yet come.

Back to the net diary, back to consistent tracking. And maybe back to very light eating today, just to be on the safe side.

I swear I learn something new every day.

I made chicken cordon blue casserole ( recipe off of this site!) and mashed cauliflower. I also had loaded mashed potatoes for those non healthy eaters. My cauliflower was a little to garlicky, and I really like garlic. But the casserole was VERY good! I made taco cupcakes Tuesday and really enjoyed them. ( in cupcake tin with ground turkey and wonton wrappers) Christmas breakfast was egg muffins, another recipe from here!

Hm. Guess I'm a better planner than I thought, and I'd better stick with the planning. So, like I said I decided to try a day without tracking, and with eating with the family. That was the nice part. It really wasn't too out of control, although I did have a small slice of the sour cream coffee cake I make every year, with bacon (breakfast of champions! really out-of-shape, chubby champions!) We did little apps for lunch (stuffed mushrooms, bacon wrapped dates.) But not measuring out dinner turned out to be a bad idea. My slice of beef tenderloin was probably too big. With that, a couple of teaspoons of spinach and a couple of teaspoons of potato I was uncomfortably full. Fell asleep on the couch for a while. Drank some milk an hour later to "settle" things. (Why do I still think like I am not sleeved? Really, now.) And then I saw that again. First time I have thrown up anything and I was alarmed that it just popped right back out, pretty much. No pie for me. I saw the light. Anyway, save for actually really sitting down with everyone that was an experiment whose time has not yet come. Back to the net diary, back to consistent tracking. And maybe back to very light eating today, just to be on the safe side. I swear I learn something new every day.

I completely relate to the wanting to eat or drink something to "settle my stomach". I have restrained myself from doing it but the kid thinking persists.

I think even the days we do t track, we may still have to measure. Weird eh?

I made chicken cordon blue casserole ( recipe off of this site!) and mashed cauliflower. I also had loaded mashed potatoes for those non healthy eaters. My cauliflower was a little to garlicky, and I really like garlic. But the casserole was VERY good! I made taco cupcakes Tuesday and really enjoyed them. ( in cupcake tin with ground turkey and wonton wrappers) Christmas breakfast was egg muffins, another recipe from here!

Is that the one that phoenix79 posted? We've made that at least twice and we love it! For us the key was to use the kitchen aid to shred the chicken really fine and it went down so easy. I also tried it with bottled light Alfredo sauce. Not too bad but of course not as good as homemade white sauce.

Did you have trouble with the wonton wrappers? I tried the taco cupcakes and the wrappers went think so badly I haven't tried them again.

It is odd, but not surprising. I did so well free-styling around Thanksgiving. Then again, I was much more constrained with my choices.

It also occurs to me that tenderloin/filet mignon is essentially a "new" food for me, and that probably added to it. Anyway, back to heavy tracking, light eating, and exercise today and hope that will do the trick.