Tuesday, November 26, 2013

A light meal ? I don't think so !

No one is totally sure how many calories the average American eats during Thanksgiving. The Calorie Control Council puts the number at 4,500
Tara Parker Pope did a personal experiment at home and found that a chef-described "gluttonous" meal, prepared in her kitchen for taste rather than health, would set a dinner guest back 2,486 calories.
That sounded abstemious to us, so we decided to do our own calculation. We made up a plate of Thanksgiving classics, keeping in mind our tendency toward a sweet tooth and an appetite for extra dinner rolls, to determine how many calories we think the average celebrant would consume on Thanksgiving if they weren't trying to rein it in. I'll be eating light .....Don't want to gain back my 14 pounds ! - Kathy

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