A moveable feast!
#124549 - 11/22/04 06:41 AM
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Nelly
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Well, I'm off this week for thxgvg, and to help my mom with her radiation therpay. She's also decided that I'll have to deliver the dinner.
Now, keeping in mind that I don't cook (hate the smell of raw food) I've been researching some food stores and restaurants which will sell a full turkey meal. My IBS will take a back seat this year, as I have ample time to get sick and recover, and I'm at the mercy of our guests' expectations. No way my bossy SIL will choke down the dry, bland fare I'd gladly welcome on my plate!  (Tho it'd be great to torture her. Heh, heh.) 
So in ascending order of price, Shoppers Food Warehouse, Giant, and Boston Market all sell full meals. BM (lol!) might give me the most trouble, but it's the fanciest. I'm going to tool around town to see if I can spot any more deals.
Anyone have any ideas on meals (for 4 + 1 IBS-er) I can cram in my trunk and motor over to the thxgvg table, ready-to-eat? 
Am I being too ambitious?? I kinda feel dumped on, but as I don't have anything else to do on my time off...
~nelly~
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Oh Nelly, I feel sorry for you - I particularly hate organising anything - am pretty lazy about such things - so have no advice for you. Only to ask you - what do you mean you hate the smell of raw food? is everything you eat cooked?
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Hey daliatree! Thanks for responding!!
Yep, everything I eat is cooked. I can't do any fruit or veggies (unless they're green vegs and cooked within an inch of their life). I gag at the smell of raw meat, and fish and eggs. Always have. I can't even bake a cake unless I rinse out the egg shells and move them out of the house into the garbage outside, pronto. I also can't take out the garbage for the same reason. I always gag.
For some reason, when cooked or raw food sits out for 20-30 minutes, it smells really vile to me. I don't normally eat out, but at a thxgvg dinner I have to breathe through my mouth to avoid smelling the food in front of me. It just smells like decay to me. The smell of raw celery makes me gag. Carrots and corn too. But breathing through my mouth (and a little wine to take my mind off of it) helps.
I'm ok at organizing, tho. I do it for a living, so I'm ok there. This is not a real problem. This is a throw some money at it and it'll go away problem.
Just a liiiittle ironic that the girl who doesn't eat normal food is organizing the normal meal. I dig irony.
~nelly~
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check local restaurants and hotels.. we have both that offer specials, both eat in and carry out... Webers is a local hotel witha restaurant in house and they turn the hotel ballroom as well as the restaurant into turkey day to order family tables as well as offer pick up orders of turkey and fixings... yummy according to peopel I know who do it but doesn't meet my dietary needs...
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Good idea~!
#124568 - 11/22/04 07:43 AM
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Nelly
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Thanks for the sug, khyricat!
There aren't a whole lot of hotels in my area, but you're right, I have heard of certain hotel restaurants offering take-out meals. I'll check around. I just wish I knew my neighborhood better. I spend all of my time in DC, and none of it in MD that I've lost touch with what's available here!
If all else fails, I'm hitting the soup kitchen. They have the best meals, anyway.
Funny story: I volunteered at a soup kitchen for 5 or 6 hours before dinner at a new boyfriend's house. But a wino hocked his dinner on me just as I was out the door. They had some donations in back, so I grabbed some canvas overalls like 6 sizes too big out of the donation pile and headed out. I showered and changed at home, and made it over to the parents' house just in time for pumpkin pie. But I was covered in fleas and didn't know it. Evidently they sanitize collections before handing them out, and I'd missed that little step. (!!!)
Parents' house, my car, and my house had to be de-flead, but I never gave up the reason why. Late to dinner and bringing 300 little friends with me?? Ha, no WAY I was coming clean about THAT. *shaking head* 
~nelly~ Guess who's coming to dinner
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I forgot where you were.. Mortons used to make amazing t'day meals and there was a place my grandparents used ot take us to eat buffet, one of the hotels, but I forget which... been too long since I was actively living or anything in that area.
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IBS - A
Dairy Allergic
Fructose and MSG intollerant
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Hey Nelly,
Wow...and I am given such a hard time by people because the smell of roasting lamb and the strong cheeses make me want to throw up everywhere. you are very sensitive! you know when women get pregnant their sense of smell becomes so intense...I wonder if you have a baby..what will happen to yours!
You are very brave to deal with the thanksgiving if you react to smells this way....has it always been like this with you....?
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Thanks anyway!!
#124576 - 11/22/04 07:51 AM
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Nelly
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No, I appreciate the input! We can't move my mom cos the radiation is making her tired and flushed. So we have to have dinner at her place (she insists!).
Guess she'll have to deal with a dinner that smells faintly like spare tire.
Good thing about me, is that everybody's expections of me are low. I'm the absentminded professor of my family. A little bit spinster. A little bit rock 'n roll.
~nelly~
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Yep. <story insues> One 4th of July when I was 8, we had an egg throwing contest. I caught the egg thumbs first, exploding raw egg all over my face, hair and torso on the hottest day of the year. We were about 2 miles from home, and my dad wouldn't let me back in the car. They tried to wash me off with some ice from the cooler, but there was beer in the ice and I ended up with a wet sticky egg beer mixture on my clothes, in my hair, and on my face and ears for the whole walk home in the burning sun. (voilins playing ). I never got over that smell!! What 8 year old would?
But I've had heightened smell for my whole life. On car tirps I can smell if there's running water nearby. I can smell apples and tomatoes being peeled almost anywhere in the house. Unf, it's not something I can turn off, tho. 
~nelly~
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I've always had good luck eating at Boston Market (my favorite place to eat!). I usually get the turkey (no gravy), steamed veggies (which are not cooked in butter), and sweet potato casserole. I pawn the cornbread off since that's the only thing that really gives me trouble.
Good luck with whatever you decide!
Now I have a craving for Boston Market... LOL 
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