okay go ahead what are you gonna fix for Christmas dinner
you know i i think the simpler the better
i think so too yes
too often we spend all day
cooking and uh it's like Erma Bombeck's cartoon said it
you spend eighteen hours fixing your dinner and it takes twelve minutes to eat it
that's right
less than twelve minutes
well we're gonna fix a turkey and a ham we're gonna have about fifteen people for dinner and we're gonna have all the fixings with that the dressing and also you know everything with the ham so
we're gonna have a real nice dinner
well the i think that sounds like fun
the thing that i think that's missing at the uh little Christmas parties though is uh
fruits you fix you put out grapes people eat those up first and
yes
you put out strawberries they grab for those first
right and we kind of get uh overdosed on the sweets don't we
i think it
right i think that's what the problem may maybe that's i think that way because i can't have those sweets so
well they usually don't do a whole lot good for us and uh
that's right
uh i'm been trying to think of something uh nifty to make for neighbors
and uh
for neighbors i used to just bake cakes and there's there you go more sweet stuff
yes
uh right
i thought people kind of get so overloaded and most people are trying to lose weight anyway
that's right
and uh
so it's kind of hard to get away from that isn't it
hard to kind of deviate a little bit uh
yeah
yeah
so have you got any good recipes that don't have uh
well i i do but they're at home i don't have i'm at work right now and i don't have them with me
yes that's true that's right
i have some sugarless recipes
that's right
are you diabetic or
no i'm hypoglycemic
okay
so i have um recipes to make cookies without sugar we put uh fresh
applesauce you know fresh fruit in it applesauce and
raisins and things like that in it
no you probably that's the kind of direction you wanna go with food anyway
that's right
and uh nowadays food it's uh almost everybody eats out of these boxes don't they the TV dinners or the
they what
i think food it's really changing to not spending so much time everybody's such in a hurry
uh you
yeah they don't wanna spend time cooking and baking and
well and i don't think they have the time as much maybe
well when you buy those prepared foods in a store like that they're all they either have too much salt in it in them or too much sugar in them
oh yes
i'm uh i just haven't you know acquired a taste for them have you
no because they're too salty most of those
yes
dinners like that
most of them are
uh-huh
in fact turkey uh would be my choice of meal anytime i
i'm a turkey lover and
oh yes
i could eat turkey
mine too
unfortunately it's not the easiest uh or it takes a while to prepare it
that's right
but uh it's not necessarily hard it just you got to plan on five or six hours to cook the thing so
well that's why people usually have them on holidays because you're usually home visiting and
you're home and you've got the time to cook them
and it doesn't it smell good in the oven out as it's cooking
i said doesn't it smell good
yeah in the it just sets the
baking in the oven
the mood i don't know what uh Thanksgiving or Christmas would be without
especially Thanksgiving without the turkey
that's right
wouldn't quite taste right would it
huh-uh
it wouldn't be Thanksgiving dinner without the turkey
well even going out to eat we had discussed going out to eat
and uh
i don't even care at your best restaurant it's just not
the same on a holiday to
yeah when i go out to eat on Thanksgiving i still have a turkey dinner
yes yes
you'd still have to choose that wouldn't you
uh-huh i've gone out on Thanksgiving like that and had other foods and then i'd leave and i'd say well that doesn't it doesn't seem like it's Thanksgiving to me
no
it seems like another day it's because you didn't we didn't have any turkey
you right right
you kind of get used to that um well i think i hope that the trend is to change to more health conscious foods and not have so many additives and uh preservatives and
you know you it's hard to even to get a cold cereal that you don't feel like it's sugar
that's right
that's right well
and uh the women just don't have time to cook anymore like they used to because most of them work
no well
and i don't mind cooking it's just that you know after you think of the hours it takes you if you get very elaborate sometimes it doesn't seem very rewarding to
cook that many hours and then you usually have a a mess
