Thanksgiving Countdown

My Mom asked for my help this year planning our Thanksgiving meal. I absolutely love to cook, so planning out the meal and giving everyone a side dish, entree or desert has been fun for me. I am tasked to help my Mom with the brisket, noodle kugle, salad, mashed potatoes and dessert. I would love to be in charge of the turkey some day, but for now, we will order from a local grocery store. Some years it's just easier to do that.

So last night I decided to take a stab at a mashed potato recipe I found in one of my food mags. (I have been obsessed with looking at the Food Network magazine, Rachel Ray magazine and other food magazines and tearing out holiday recipes! My recipe book is growing by the second!) The potatoes turned out freaking ridiculous! I also made enough to feed us until 2011. I will most definitely make this dish for the fam in a few weeks.

I served this with maid rites and a veggie medley I got from Aldi. I asked a few friends if they knew what maid-rites were and was shocked that no one knew! When I googled it today, I noticed that it's as a fast food restaurant which has about 70 locations throughout the Midwest. We grew up having maid-rite sandwiches at family functions or parties. It's an easy thing to whip up and the recipe I stole from the Iowa Girl Eats blog was delish!

For those of you out there not sure of what a maid rite is: it's a "loose meat" sandwich. While the component meat is similar, the Maid-Rite sandwich's meat is not formed into a patty, making it similar to a sloppy joe only without the tomato-based sauce.

Sorry for the random rant on maid-rites :).

I had a great work out last night and woke up early to hit the gym again. I did 30 minutes of cardio (walked at an incline on the treadmill) and did about 25 mins of arms. I have a feeling I will be sore tomorrow which is fine by me.

My meal for the day:
Pre-workout - Cereal bar from Aldi. Only 90 cals
Breakfast - Hardboiled egg and soy sausage
Snack - Veggies and hummus
Lunch - Morningstar buffalo nuggets and soup
Snack - Red grapes
Dinner - We are having dinner with Nate and Hunter tonight and they have planned out the menu. When I talked to Nate the other day, he told me that the menu is being prepped with 30 x 30 in mind. What a good pal! Nothing like a solid support system!

I'm looking forward to catching up with the boys. Have a good one!
PK