Thanksgiving Day is a day to be thankful for all that we have.  It’s a day to spend with our loved ones, the people who we love and they mean a lot to us.

Thanksgiving is also a day with an abundance of food.  It’s a day filled with food and football, the Double Fs!

Even though we all try very hard to hold ourselves back from all of the delicious, tasty food, it’s so hard and most of us wind up caving into all of the temptation especially the desserts.

Growing up, we always went to our grandparents for Thanksgiving.  Both sets of grandparents would come over to our house or we’d go to one of their houses.  Either way, we all got to see and spend quality time with each other.  Plus, we always had ample food, enough to feed an Army.

At our grandparent’s house, it would start out late morning, early afternoon with a veggie tray, which is healthy.  Then my grandmother would set out a bowl of green and black olives.  Then came the chips and dip along with the bowl of mixed nuts.  By the time dinner was ready to be served, most of us were on our way to being full from all of the snacks presented to us.  As the years went by, I had learned to not fill up on these lovely snacks, to just munch here and there then leave the rest for the main course.

This year, as I live by myself, I decided to do my own thing at home.  Normally, I go to my family’s house (parents or brother’s).  I wanted to be different this year and not have turkey.  Plus, I didn’t feel like traveling for over an hour or so.  Plus, most of the retail stores (Wal-Mart, Target, etc.) were going to be opening their stores Thanksgiving evening for Black Friday.  Sort of for the early birds to go shopping.  So I was laying low and doing my own thing as I had mentioned before.

Every year, my family and I always do turkey with the whole works (stuffing, gravy, green bean cassarole, rolls, etc.).  Well, this year I decided to try something different.  I wasn’t really in the mood for turkey and preparing a turkey just for myself was a lot of work.  Anyways, I decided on grilled shrimp with grilled vegetables, which turned out to be a wonderful delicious early dinner.

Here’s what I used:

1/2 pound of Shrimp (you can use the already cooked & peeled shrimp or cook and peel them yourself)

Olive Oil Cooking Spray

1/4 Pound of Fresh Green Beans

1 Half or Whole Red Onion

1 Large Green Pepper

Pinch of Salt/Pinch of Pepper

Other Spices as You Wish

Grill all of these ingredients in a Teflon skillet cooking it as you like.  I prefer mine grilled crispy and a bit blackened.  Plus, I will add other spices as well to make it tangy and interesting.

So that was my Thanksgiving and I did not miss Mr. Turkey one bit.  Next year, I’ll catch up with him for dinner.  Hope everybody had a safe and wonderful holiday and there were plenty of Tums to go around after that last piece of pumpkin pie.