We did go traditional on Christmas but we made use of every leftover. We baked the turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, yams, green bean casserole, hamburger cheese dip and on and on. We put back several cups of turkey and made turkey pot pie and with the leftover mashed potatoes and cheese dip we made shepherds pie. Making pie crust mix ahead of time sure helped on this day! But for New Years we had a huge roast with potatoes and baby carrots. No sweets that day since we had plenty on Christmas.
I have put my vitamix to a lot of use in the last month, grinding wheat, making pies, bread, ice cream. One of the secrets to food that is better for you is making it from scratch so that you know what is in it. For instance, I can choose what kind of sweetener to put in my ice cream and how much. This makes it nice for my husband since he is diabetic. I will probably be doing more experimenting this next year in sweeteners.
Like everyone else my new years resolution is to lose weight, eat healthier and so on. To that I will add, I want to lose weight, eat healthier, make healthier desserts and not hurt my pocketbook doing it! Happy New Years!
