Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving this year!! Thanksgiving is always a fun holiday for me. Mainly because it always centers around lots and lots of food. The main dish on Thanksgiving however, is of course turkey. This is not a bad thing at all... but it is a thing that I cannot eat. There are of course other vegetarian substitutions for the turkey such as Tofurkey or Unturkey, but many vegetarians are perfectly happy to just eat the many sides provided with the dinner. This is how I am. If there are multiple vegetarians in a family then it may make more sense to get a non- turkey main dish, but as I am the only one, I don't want to make my mom do any more work. Some of the sides do have meat in them, so for those my mom will normally make some changes so that I can have it. The stuffing, for instance, generally is made with the turkey, but there are many other kinds that are not. Other than that, typical sides for my family include yams, fruit salad, mashed potatoes, salad, and cranberry sauce. Another difficulty for vegetarians is the gravy. Many people like to put gravy on their mashed potatoes, and some people seem to like it on everything... but often gravy is meat based and so if it is something you want to have with you during your meal, you will probably need to make a special request. I do not need the gravy with my mashed potatoes, but I have had a vegetarian kind before and I found it to still be quite tasty so there are other things you could do. Other than that, you probably had dessert, but I am sure that that all remained meat free and I hope you enjoyed it!!