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Anonymous
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Christmas dinner. Almost everybody coming to my home for dinner is taking Semaglutide for weight loss. Nobody is obese, but they are just trying to maintain a healthy and slim lifestyle. (this drug is very hot in Bethesda right now even in the mainstream.)
Should I just prepare food as usual? Or would it be more respectful to have fewer sweets? Is there anything specific that is appealing to those on semaglutide? |
Anonymous
| What is this board’s obsession with semiglutides? Serve the menu you want to serve. People can choose to eat what they’d like. Wtf? |
Anonymous
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I am always very careful about my diet (but I'm not on semaglutide). So I make a regular dinner, and add in a few things I can eat on my diet. That tends to work well for others watching calories, etc., as well. My Thanksgiving menu, with things I considered friendly to my diet noted with an asterisk, was:
*Turkey Stuffing Mashed potatoes Gravy Wedge salads w/ homemade blue cheese dressing Sweet potato casserole *kale salad (kale, red onion, clementine wedges, lite soy sauce vinaigrette) *roasted green beans pumpkin pie *fruit salad apps put out before dinner were: *hand cut veggie platter *deviled eggs cheese and crackers The hit of the night? The kale salad. Everyone loved it, many had seconds, and two people, including DH's 26 year old nephew, asked for the recipe. |
Anonymous
Sweet potato casserole sounds delicious. I love sweet potatoes. |
Anonymous
| What’s in the kale salad? |
Anonymous
| Yes what is this amazing kale salad? |
Anonymous
So first things first, this involves regular curly kale, not the baby kale you buy in the section with the tubbed salad greens. So you wash 2 bunches of kale well (it can be gritty) and pull or cut the leaves off the stems (discard stems or save for stock or something). Chop up leaves. Put into salad bowl. Prep dressing by whisking together about 1/3 c olive oil; the juice two lemons; 2-3 cloves of garlic, crushed (this is probably why people like it); 1 TB soy sauce or tamari; 1 or 2 TB honey; and salt & pepper to taste. Pour dressing over the kale. Now it is time to "massage" it. This is necessary because kale is super fibrous. It will break down the fibers and make it easier to eat. With your hands, massage and crush the salad, working in the dressing. Yes, it is a bit messy, lol. Do this until the volume is about cut in half. I add red onion rings (for company I bother to put them in cold water to take the bite out) and sectioned citrus (clementine, grapefruit, orange, whatever you have around -- even canned is fine). But you can add whatever else you want. Because this isn't delicate lettuce that wilts you don't need to worry about dressing it too far in advance -- it will be fine for a couple of hours dressed. It is easy enough to swap out the asian flavor for caesar -- just replace the soy sauce and honey with a mashed anchovy (or anchovy paste) and parmesan (you can't skip the anchovy with a kale salad the way I'd be tempted to do with romaine lettuce). |
Anonymous
| Doesn't matter OP. Cook what you want and they will eat as little or as much as they want. |
Anonymous
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This has the stamp of the troll all over it.
I live in Bethesda and don't know anyone who take such drugs for weight loss. If you were real, I really don't think you'd be mentioning that it's "Bethesda" specifically. You just want to throw out a few controversial keywords at the wall to see if you get a nice fight going. "Oh no, wealthy people take Semaglutide even when they're not obese and this is one more thing to worry about at Christmas!" Yeah, right. |
Anonymous
| Spoiler: People on a semiglutide can still eat your food. They will probably just eat less of it. |