Come and join us.  No boundaries can stop the giving of thanks. If you can't think of a reason to be thankful,  consider your new friends. 

Thank You John . Happy Thanksgiving to all of my ostomates over there too . Hope you all have  plenty of full bellies n pouches too ! And I wish a safe holiday for you all . Zvitusk you are very right we can be Thankful for all our new friends here . Tomorrow will be a busy day for everybody so .

Happy Thanksgiving to all my ostomates and have a safe holiday with family and friends !!

Hey John

I'm just sitting here and was wondering how you guys do Feile an Altaithe (Thanksgiving) over there so I looked up a bit . Interesting guess I had never thought of it . I see a couple traditional dishes you have that are a little different from here the Colcannon and the Mac n Cheese with Stout looks pretty good ! Pumpkin tart with Bailey's and Jameson you Irish know how to do it . And I happen to like a Kitchen prayer you have .

     Bless us

With good food

    The gift

 of Gab And

hearty laughter

    may the

Love and Joy

   We share

  Be with us

 Ever After

    Amen

Anyway Feile an Altaithe to You Lads

Happy Thanksgiving to you all. We do have much to be grateful for. Its been wonderful meeting so many  of  my fellow ostomates.

and most of all THANK YOU to ERIC for creating this place of sharing, learning and friendship.

HI Robert, Colcannon is a very simple dish but boy its good, Guinness and oyster festivals are popular in different parts of the country. now theirs a combination you don,t want to over do.

Happy Thanksgiving Eve!

I've got the day off tomorrow, we eat at my maternal Aunts place with a whole gaggle of family. I'm very much looking forward to Turkey, Green Beans (maybe green bean casserole, I hope), home baked goodies, Mashed taters and gravy, dinner rolls, deviled eggs (a gal can hope).

I usually work Thanksgiving, when I do I get the same spread the old folks get. Pretty nice meal :) Plus I get to spend a holiday with my other family, 23 years and I am still grateful for where I work.

Happy day to all of us.

My wife and I will be taking a vacation away from the world. We are celebrating our 43 wedding anniversary by taking a honeymoon .

No work or school or bill collectors or kids or grandkids or brothers or sisters or any of the  other distractions that keep disturbing us. Hope we are successful in our attempt to build our marriage even more so. Just each other. 

If this makes you jealous,  my apologies. I made it my life goal to build our marriage up. Especially after facing my death or debilitating diseases. She is worth the efforts. 

I am almost embarrassed to share this with you,  but... I feel that I can. 

Zviutsk ! Good for you that is an accomplishment to be proud of for sure  ! Happy Anniversary to you both  ! Enjoy your time away ! 

Z---- You already have a great stepping stone-- just enjoy!!! My husband and I just celebrated our 46th last week.. still home........... Lucky wife -- u know how to do the romance..  I will look up your about me and u do the same for me.. I also, came back to life. Talk about a vacation!! That one was a Million dollar vacation-still paying. :-(  Got nice roses tho.. Tke it easy-and relax-you bot deserve it.. Best.M.

Felicity, Have a blessed Thanksgiving to your and yours!!! Get some fighting weight on you--

Keep in touch.........Keep healthy------keep being YOU !!!!!!!!!! 

the purple chair is waiting.................. :-) -------------

Zvitusk, well I'm wishing you not only the Happy Thanksgiving and all of those wishes going around, but I'm also wishing you a very happy anniversary. You are so blessed and lucky to be able to spend time with your lovely wife. Make beautiful memories.  I was widowed on December 26, 1997. So this year makes 20 years alone. We managed to make it to our 25th silver anniversary before he passed. But I don't kid around I let people know that it is a lonely thing and I do let them know that time might make it a little bit more bearable but it's still not enough. The best part is that I do have my my two sons and my daughter my oldest son reminds me so much of my husband it's sometimes makes me want to cry. But don't feel sorry for me that wasn't the purpose and telling you this.  The purpose and telling you that was to tell you that every time you have the opportunity to kiss your wife stop and do it again because you just never know when you won't be able to kiss her. Every chance you get hold her and tell her you love her. I'm so happy for you doing this little honeymoon will build happy memories.  All the best Barbara. 

People have enjoyed your Thanksgiving posts between here and the Lounge, Have a nice day ye all

Have a nice Thanksgiving Weekend my American friends 😀

Z, I hope you have a joyous and love filled anniversary.

M, my boss told me to spread the meal out some. I told her I hoped to, some on my butt and some on my thighs. Those areas have not filled in yet.

Eric, be sure to come to the lounge a little bit later on. We're having a party as you know and in your honor I got some tofurky I think you may enjoy it. Happy Thanksgiving everybody

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Eric, be sure to come to the lounge a little bit later on. We're having a party as you know and in your honor I got some tofurky I think you may enjoy it. Happy Thanksgiving everybody

hehe. Don't joke - the traffic on my Tofurky review spikes every Thanksgiving! I'm thinking of doing more food reviews ;)

Good plan. I have never been very good eating vegetables. I was raised by a meat-and-potatoes father. And it wasn't dinner if we didn't have the requisite amount of meat and mashed potatoes or baked potatoes or something like that. And now that I have medical issues I have been working on combining 3 diets to come up with something for me to eat  There's a diet for diabetes, there's a diet for rheumatoid arthritis, and there's diet for the IBS. So I went to a dietitian and we kind of came up with plan based on carb counting from my diabetes diet and then adding to it from other things. Now it's a matter of swapping things in and finding veg that won't plug me up on the way through. I understand everything has to be cooked really well and that just ruins the taste of them. So I'll be watching for some recipes from you for veg stuff that I can work into my diet who knows where it will end up. I may possibly end up following in your footsteps. So keep an eye over your shoulder if you hear that huge thumping noise it's just me.

Posted by: Barbara

So I'll be watching for some recipes from you for veg stuff that I can work into my diet who knows where it will end up. 

Truth be told, I had planned to include recipes as part of the website that would be tagged as "ostomy friendly" and things like that a little while ago. I had even invested over $100 on new software that I never ended up using because posting recipes like that will always be problematic.

For one, there is no "safe" recipe for everyone - there's always someone who has this restriction or that, and I didn't want it to be criticized for not being helpful. 

The next point is that doing recipes properly (i.e. photos, video, exact measurements) is very time-consuming and I still have more content that needs to be finished before I move to something like that. Keep in mind that these plans were from over a year ago, and I haven't stopped putting out content!

Thirdly is that I honestly don't use recipes myself - I use a general formula when I make meals and improvise for the rest of it. It's fun and you get different flavors every time :)  I may end up doing an article on something like, "the lazy man's guide to cooking"! =) 

Now I like the Lazys man guide to cooking, I can see that their are more pressing items you want to do first. Going back to your own Thanksgiving Dinner you posted the meal prepared by your Daughter, When the times right maybe you could both do meal ideas together. Vegan Cook Book not just aimed at ostomates but simply healthy eating.