Sorry about the delay in posting about the company Christmas Party. I tried to up load my pics, but I have an ancient CPU (it processes in megabytes, OY!!!), and it has a problem talking to my Droid (new CPU on the horizon...). Anyhoo...
The party was held at Feather Falls Casino, in a banquet room. It was a lovely set up with fine linen, white table clothes and burgundy cloth napkins. There was a beautiful Christmas tree set up in the corner, all white lights and glowing.
The food was nothing to rave about, served buffet style. On the menu:
The salad bar: ice burg lettuce (with red cabbage and carrots, the bagged stuff), plenty of dressings (ranch, Italian, and thousand island), some salad goodies (beets, crackers, croutons), and some colorful pasta salad.
The bread bar: rolls with pseudo butter pats
The main courses: Turkey (the white meat rolled, weird), ham slices hidden in a brown gravy with raisins (weird), stuffing, sweet potatoes with gobs of marshmallows, green beans with almond slices, mashed taters and gravy.
The desserts: Coconut Cream Pie, Blueberry Pie, Chocolate cake.
Drinks: Coffee, iced tea, soda pop, water, and a no-host bar just outside.
My plate: I had the ice burg salad with beets, skipped the dressing, about 5 slices of turkey, some green beans and iced tea.
My hubby's boss, being a bit of an oddball about food, had made sandwiches with the dinner rolls, so he asked the wait staff for mayo and mustard, so I took about 1/2 his mayo (the turkey was dry and fairly tasteless).
All in all, my plate didn't look much different from anyone elses.
The bosses MIL eats relatively low carb, so we had a bit to chat about. Mainly, everyone was impressed with my losses (stroking my ego!), including one of the husbands who remembered the super fat chick from last year, and didn't recognize me.
It was a fine party, with good company and conversation.
This actually proves that even with Paleo/Primal eating, you can fit into most situations without having to explain yourself. It just takes a bit of planning on what you will and will not eat. It is easy to be tempted (that coconut cream pie was calling), but not impossible to resist.
There was one disagreement about tequila. My husband's boss insisted that it wasn't made from agave (stupid, I know), but it was to goad me into drinking, which I didn't.
Once I get a new CPU, I will re post, or just edit this post with pictures.
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