Well here it comes - the UC mother of all holidays!

This will be my first thanksgiving since being diagnosed. I'm a little nervous about it, especially since I'm still in an active flare and my dr just took me off of all steroids last week. I just plan on eating small amounts and not going overboard.

One year I was in the hosptial for Thanksgiving thanks to a horrid flare. :(

Now that I have had surgery and have a j pouch I can enjoy eating again but if I eat too much at one sitting it's pouch overload! I will end up with a big ol stomach ache. So I just eat a little of this and that and enjoy it without stuffing myself. (which that's what you are supposed to do anyway) Hope you get to enjoy some of it. :)

i'm excited! we are having the family over. mother just picked up our 22 lb turkey from the farm near us.

i'm making butternut squash gratin, crustless pumpkin pie, and crab and bacon stuffed mushrooms.

now feeling well enough to eat everything is another story. i will have small servings of all the fibrous veggie food and eat as much turkey as i want. that carcass is going in the crockpot the next day for some good bone broth.

Oh I just love Thanksgiving food. All of it and I am lucky that usually I don't feel any ill effects from it except maybe needing to go an extra time the next day. Go figure with all that food. Oh and PIE!!!!

Digestion starts in the mind, so be very mindful of what I am eating and drinking, try not to focus so much on the food and just be thankful for everything "else" good going on in my life. Come to think of it this will be the first Thanksgiving I have been in active flare. For 11 years I guess that is something to be thankful for in its self.. UC gets me really down but the stress of being down only makes it worse.

I always cook. Thanksgiving food doesn't bother me unless there is too much fat, which upsets my IBS. So goodbye butter, hello a light brushing of canola oil. I cook my bird the night before, so the next day I can skin the solidified fat off the top of the broth. Saves all the flavor without the fat. We now have pumpkin pie rather than pecan, so that doesn't bother me at all.

I've always loved Thanksgiving. To me, it's such an undemanding holiday. No gifts to buy, no over-the-top expensive decorating, just a four-day weekend and good, healthy turkey breast.

Serenity you'll have to forgive me. I mean, I'm still trying to catch up with The Sound of Music winning Best Picture.

On a side note, if anyone has a favorite gluten free pie crust recipe and is willing to share, I am looking for one!

I am planning to eat all of the Thanksgiving goodies I want and celebrate the fact that I'm in remission! Two years ago, I was so sick in bed with a bad flare.... My hubby and kids went out to eat for Thanksgiving with my mother-in-law while I stayed in bed sulking. It was pitiful to see the sad look on my 7 year old's face as they left.