• Home
  • About
  • Connect
  • Press/Media

The Pinke Post

  • Life in North Dakota
  • Recipes
  • Small Town Living
  • Women In Ag

Posted By Katie On November 28, 2010 2 Comments

Our Family Fun Method To Burn Off Comfort Food Calories

Filed Under: Family Values Tagged With: family, family fun, holidays 2 Comments

 After feasting at Auntie Lori’s house in Minnesota, we are stuffed to the brim.
 Baked Corn with Bacon is one of my mom’s classic holiday recipes that I scribbled down on Post-It notes a few years ago and make annually. It is holiday comfort food.
 Lori’s homemade stuffing with chicken apple sausage is a new holiday comfort food that we discovered.
 Between all of our eating and drinking (it’s sparkling apple juice…Grandma…don’t worry yourself silly) we are filled to the gills.

 Even Hunter’s hollow leg is full of food.
 I will blog more about the fabulous discovery via Twitter of the Pioneer Woman’s Whiskey Maple Cream Sauce. But let’s just say that drenching it over Grandma’s recipe for Pecan Pie has added plenty to my hips this weekend but every bite has been joyfully enjoyed.
So what is our method to burn off these extra Thanksgiving feasting calories?
The family fun, calorie-burning method started with Nathan making a key purchase of a purple plastic sled on Thanksgiving Day morning.
  For three straight afternoons we haven’t been fighting the shopping lines or watching football.
Instead we have been flying down the hill in Lori’s backyard amidst the Minnesota woods.
 Then to burn off all those comfort calories, we have running up the hill,
 only to take turns on who gets to go down again on the purple plastic sled.
 Hunter has pulled Miss E, raced Nathan and me and bear crawled up the hill.
 I am not sure I have fully burned off all the baked corn with bacon, chicken apple stuffing or pecan pie with cream sauce but…
 I certainly have had loads of fun.
 To prevent from sledding onto the thin layer of ice on the lake, our legs are the sled brakes.
 Not everyone has needed to use their legs to brake.
 Hunter mastered gracefully falling.
Regardless, family fun and plenty of calorie burning has been done.
We are certainly better for it.
It is a time to be thankful for family, for fun…calorie burning and all.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
  • Print
Previous Post: « #FoodThanks For Scalloped Potatoes & Family Farmers
Next Post: In Another 30 Years… »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. The Wife of a Dairyman says

    November 28, 2010 at 3:24 am

    Looks like you burned off all the calories to me! That’s WAY more activity than I got around to this weekend:) Your pie…..worth every calorie! Have a great Saturday night!
    P.S. your kids are so darn cute!

    Reply
  2. Sarah says

    November 28, 2010 at 9:18 pm

    Cute! Looks like lots of fun!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Welcome to the Prairie…

I am a mom of three kids and a wife to Nathan. Together we live on the North Dakota prairie, 97 miles from a Starbuck's. I share about family, food, farming and the prairie that I love. I used to commute 98 miles one-way to work but it required too much coffee. So now I am home, consulting, speaking, writing and primarily, juggling family life.
See more of our life on the prairie... Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

Stay in Touch…

Get the news from the prairie delivered directly to your inbox when it's hot off the press!

from my kitchen. . .

My Challenges Of Learning To Pickle

Marshall Field’s Chicken Wild Rice Soup Recipe

Ginger Garlic and Buffalo Chicken Wings for Super Bowl Recipes

farm life

Favorite Farm Girls

  • Beyer Beware
  • GOODEness Gracious
  • The Wife of a Dairyman
  • Fresh from the Farm

Griggs Dakota

Visit our 5th generation family farm...

Latest Recipes

How To Make Snowman Sundaes

Real Farmwives & Friends: My Favorite Christmas Entertaining Recipes

Rhubarb Sauce Recipe

More Posts from this Category

Life on the Prairie…

More Posts from this Category

Women in Agriculture

Ladies Night on a North Dakota farm

Sarah Nasello’s Party on the Prairie Giveaway

Debbie Lyons-Blythe of Kids, Cows and Grass & The Need For Organ Donors

More Posts from this Category

Footer

Archives

Categories

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

Copyright © 2025 ·Captivating Theme ·Custom Designed by Design Chicky· Log in

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.