Are You Hungry, Man?

Getting ready for the big Thanksgiving holiday.

Turkey. Check.
Appropriate side dishes. Check.
Pumpkin pie for me. Check.
Cherry pie for Hubby. Check.

Everything is in the freezer, ready for preparation. Fortunately prep work will only include the microwave and oven. This is the easiest, fastest Thanksgiving meal I've ever prepared. No chopping, roasting or agonizing how to make an edible gravy. Better yet, no guests beside me, Hubby and the cat.

To what do I owe my express meal? Swanson and Sara Lee, of course.

You see, dinner will be served thanks to Swanson's Hungry-Man dinners. Yep, one pound of food per person should cover any hunger pangs. Sara Lee is providing the pies. Just throw those puppies in the oven and, presto, dessert for days. All I need is a can of that whip cream to put the finishing touch on my masterpiece.

Before you think I am void of any cooking abilities, Hubby and I are returning from Maui on Thanksgiving afternoon via the red eye. If I can manage to heat up the super size frozen dinners and not burn down the house making pies, I believe we will have a feast. We'll be so jet lagged I didn't think it would matter if we ate that or a shoe box. There will not be full consciousness in this house until at least Saturday.

The Hungry-Man turkey dinner weighs in at 600+ calories and thousands of grams of sodium. I bet if I counted the calories of Thanksgiving meals past, even the homemade variety, it would be less than what we plan to chow down this year. So I consider 2009 the year of the diet Thanksgiving. Yum.