Saturday, December 4, 2021

How to Stay on Your Diet between Thanksgiving and Christmas

 Afraid of gaining extra pounds between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but reluctant to give up the party atmosphere? Here's some help from Appetizing and Slenderizing Recipes (Patrick J. Conway and Mary Ellenwood Pittenger, 1974).

Start the day with Egg Nog and Melba Toasties. Trying to pretend an egg mixed with powdered milk (and maybe orange juice!) is eggnog should be enough to make you want to swear the stuff off for a while, and trying to figure out what super-thin, super-dry slices of toast have to do with anything will sap your energy to make anything better. Happy holidays!

4 comments:

  1. Finally, an egg nog recipe that will make all the people who love it understand how repulsed I am by that drink. I'm sure that slicing bread to half its thickness would also be easy. The way it is phrased, it sounds like you take a slice of bread, and make it thinner. Of course, I misread the title of the recipe at first and thought it said "Egg Nog and Melena Toasties". Apparently I've been auditing too many chart notes for GI bleeds.

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    1. Luckily, I have so little medical knowledge that I don't even know what that means.

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  2. You're getting bread! You expect to get a topping too? That's crazy talk.

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  3. Ever tried to cut a bread slice in half like that?

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