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The Six Stages Of Your Thanksgiving Meal

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The Six Stages Of Your Thanksgiving Meal

The day of Thanksgiving is always one full of thanks, appreciativeness, family and all things food. Whether you're most looking forward to the turkey or mashed potatoes, everyone experiences these six stages regarding what the most exciting part of the day is. The Thanksgiving Feast.


1. Waking Up Knowing What Is In Store For The Day

You wake up full of excitement because of what the plans for the day are. Maybe you play a pick up game of football with your cousins or maybe you sit on the couch to watch the Thanksgiving parade. But everyone knows what moment we all look forward to the most, and what we wake up having dreamt about the night before. The meal of your dreams is only hours away.



2. The Smell Of The Food Fills The House

You're so close to the table being full of all your favorite Thanksgiving comfort foods. The house is filled with the smells of the food cooking, the roasted turkey in the oven and the stuffing on the stove. The smells make your mouth water and you're not sure if you'll be able to wait for the rest of your relatives to show up.


3. It's Time

All the relatives have been accounted for and hugged. You finally hear the magic words you've been waiting for all day. "Dinner is ready". You sit down to the food in front of you, and you are ready and prepared for the mounds of food you will attempt to fit on your plate.


4. I May Explode

You wish you could go back in time when you weren't so full so you can have even more food. However, you now feel so stuffed you're convinced that you're food baby will never go away. So happy and so sad at the exact same time because dinner was so good but now you physically cannot take one more bite. Someone may have to roll you away from the table.



5. Wait, When's Dessert?

An hour before you had convinced yourself you were never going to be hungry again. Then you see the apple pie, vanilla ice cream, pumpkin pie and cookies being put onto the table and suddenly you think you'll be able to make some room in your stomach. You know it wouldn't be fair to dessert if you didn't at least have a slice of pie, or two, or three.



6. Leftovers!!!!!

What's the most beautiful part about the mass amounts of food made on Thanksgiving? You know that you'll get to have two or three more thanksgiving meals in the upcoming days ahead. Hey, all you're doing is helping make space in the fridge. Can't let those mashed potatoes go to to waste, now can you.


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