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I heart garlic mashed potatoes. I love mashed potatoes any time of year but Thanksgiving justifies heaping spoonfuls and spoonfuls onto my plate. ;)

I love mashed potatoes as well, but the problem with them is they seem to expand in my stomach preventing me from eating everything else. I have to monitor their intake or else I will be on a pure potato diet all of Thanksgiving.

The composition of my stomach intake on a typical T-day:

15% turkey
5% cranberry sauce
5% squash
5% gravy
10% miscellaneous vegetables
10% miscellaneous casserole
10% wine
40% mashed potatoes

You need more meat. Some roasted pork and honey baked ham should work just fine.

Turkey Leg.
My stepmom and I are the only ones who like legs.
So we each get a leg.
mmmmmm legs.

Carb addict for life. Seriously.

I'll do some honey baked ham, actually. Good suggestion. Surprisingly, I haven't seen much roasted pork in my Thanksgiving meal career thus far.

My favorite food would have to be the honey baked ham, and my mom's macaroni and cheese. I could eat just those two things and be happy for hours.

Thanksgiving food used to taste much better years ago, when I lived with my parents and my mom did the cooking. All I had to to was help a bit and show up at the table. Now that I'm the mom, by the time I've cooked it all, I have very little desire to eat any of it.

The thing that I eat most of on Thanksgiving these days is the munchies before dinner (veggies & dip, chips, fruits & dip, etc.) and my cornbread stuffing, which has apples, sultanas, onions, ground turkey, parsley, bourbon, and is lightened with egg whites. Yum. That's even better as leftovers, cooked up kinda like pancakes in a skillet. Oh, and one slice of pecan pie, if there is any (the rest of my family likes pumpkin, so I usually have to wait until Christmas for pecan!)

I'm weird: my favorite Thanksgiving foods are asparagus and stuffing. More on the asparagus than the stuffing, and I have no idea why but I can put away like 20 stalks no problem.

Sushi, but I doubt where I am going they will have it.

I don't eat meat, so I'm going to have to say pumpkin pie.

Anything that has gravy poured all over it. Except maybe pie.

I'll second dreamweaver on 2 points - a) Thanksgiving is always better w/mom around and b) I can, if not careful, consume my weight in the premeal goodies.

I'm all over that asparagas too.

My Dad make a similar gravy... best in the world! I also love a turkey that's been roasting for hours. Yum!

As this is my first Thanksgiving ever (I'm staying in the USA for a month) I have no idea. I am looking forward to being surprised. But anything that contains pumpkin or cranberries can make me happy. The irony is that I'm a veggie so I won't know what the famous turkey is about.

Just the turkey! Oh and my mom's sweet potatoes... and the various desserts... mmmm looking forward to gaining 10lbs in one night!

** completely off topic - how come my posts are dated 11/20 when it's still the 19th? **

I could eat stuffing all day, especially with gravy. This year...we're going to try it with chestnuts, I think. Yum...

As a Malaysian Catholic, I hardly take turkey but chicken. It is much cheaper and juicier. I love the pumpkin soup made by my dear mother, and her aromatic baked potatoes.

Scrivs,
//At my Grandmother's there is this gravy that she makes with all the leftover stuff and you toss that on the rice and mashed potatoes and you won't eat anything else//

I find it meaningful for you and your family to take leftovers in your grandmother's house. It shows your appreciation of what you have. It is economical too. A lot of Chinese cuisines make use of leftovers as well and they are delicious. What for spending a large fortune on expensive ingredients? It's more blissful celebrating the occasion in a humble way.

Being simple is beautiful and it lives up to the spirit of Thanksgiving.

My favorite thing to eat has really nothing to do with the specific food itself. I'll explain. My mother contribute to the meal at my sister's home. She brings stuffing. It is probably Stove Top with nothing special mixed in. It doesn't sound special or delicious. It is my favorite thing on the whole table .... because my handicapped mother made it.

I didn't want to give all of you the wrong impression, so I'll add 'the rest of the story'. For several years now, my family has had to celebrate Thanksgiving differently to accomodate my parent's health. So now we all travel a few hours by car to my sister's and although she does most of it, we all bring stuff. Right now, my apple pie is in the oven and I'm catching CNN while it's baking and trying to ignore the state of my kitchen and sink.

My Thanksgiving (the Canadian version) was in October, but I guess I can still answer this question...

I'm actually not a huge fan of Thanksgiving-type foods. I usually only eat a tiny bit of turkey, I won't even touch the stuffing, and I don't really see the point of mashed potatoes. I am a huge fan of cranberry sauce though - I've been known to spoon some onto my plate and just eat it straight, without any turkey accompanying it. Pumpkin pie is okay, but I don't really see the big thrill in it.

Now I probably sound like a total Thanksgiving-hater, but I actually love the holiday because it's a chance for my extended family to get together and spend some quality time all together.

Turkey and cranberry sauce. That's all I need until the pumpkin pie rolls out.

Green Bean Casserole all the way. Of course, turkey and stuffing go without saying, but I am definitely all about the green beans on Thanksgiving!