I have been working on my homemade bread stuffing recipe for well over 10 years. Way back then in a previous life I was a cook at a local family restaurant for several years. During that time I learned a lot of good recipes. Some of them I have held on to and made better over the years. Others have kind of faded into oblivion. One of the recipes I have held onto is homemade bread stuffing. I make this once, maybe twice a year which is probably good considering the high number of calories it contains. I figured I would share the recipe. If you are looking for a low calorie, low fat Thanksgiving. I would not suggest trying this recipe.

This recipe makes a very large batch of stuffing. You might want to alter it to fit your needs. This will give you enough to stuff a 20 pound turkey to the point where it is spilling out (the only way to stuff a turkey) and then have some leftover to bake separately.

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Well Thanksgiving has come and gone. We tried to keep things on the smaller side this year. My Wife’s daughter was with her dad for the week so it was just the three of us and we invited my mom for dinner. We had a traditional turkey packed full of homemade stuffing (A recipe I have been perfecting for well over 10 years. Each year it seems to get even better.) and all the good stuff you would expect for a tasty thanksgiving dinner. Things like mashed potatoes, homemade cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, kielbasa and a few other things. I won’t say that I didn’t eat a lot, because I pigged out. But, I did eat less than in previous years which was good.
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With my recent weight gain and my realization that I need to get myself more focused on at least eating better food, if for now not losing more weight. I decided to get things moving forward today with much better choices. I started the day off with some grape nuts cereal. I love that stuff.. and it is packed with 6 grams of fiber per serving. Unfortunately it also has a high amount of calories coming in at 200 calories per serving. I had about 2.5 servings for breakfast and then a mid morning snack of a pear and banana. Now, im having a bit of a late lunch. I decided to have something good for me, yet great tasting.
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Lately I have had an interest in discovering new wines. With weekly trips to the liquor store resulting in 3 or 4 new bottles. I have been finding my increased alcohol consumption a real big factor in my lack of focus and ability to say no to other things. I have been trying to leave the wine for weekend dinners. Splitting a bottle on Saturday and Sunday with my wife and maybe another throughout the week. Some small bottles, some not so small bottles. An open bottle usually results in my drinking 3/4 of it, something that I need to put an end to. At least on a weekly basis. I have fond myself looking forward to the weekends, which can be a good thing. But, I have also found myself eating more and more on the weekends as well. Looking for a nice dinner to make and enjoy with the wine. Not a bad thing in itself, but when I make a nice dinner, I tend to go overboard. Making more and more stuff for the 4 of us each time.
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Seems to be the theme with me lately as far as my weight loss efforts go. Drop a few pounds. Gain a few pounds back. In the end, I am staying around the same weight. But, it is frustrating to go down one week and back up the next. I have only myself to blame. But some weeks it is just so damn hard to lose weight. You get hungry, you eat. You get really hungry, you eat ALOT! Instead of losing weight, you gain weight back and offset your previous week or two of weight loss. I haven’t even come close to going back to where I started and never plan on losing control that much. But, having the ups and downs in weight loss to weight gain from week to week starts to suck after a few weeks of it. My last weigh in I posted was from October 12. I was at 361.8 pounds on that day. True to form, I had some ups and downs since then. The following week I weighed in at 366.2 pounds on October 19 and then followed that up with an almost 8 pound loss weighing in at 358.6 on October 26. Enter the week of Halloween and see how quickly things turn around. The week between Oct. 26 and November 2 I gained it all back weighing in at 369.6 last Friday. Candy sucks and so does the lack of will power i showed during that week! I spent the past week trying to get myself focused again and I maintained the weight, weighing in today at the same thing. It’s hard to just stop, once you start down that road into chocolaty decadence! One piece leads to another and another and another.. and before you know it.. you end up a Fat Bastard!
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It has been awhile since I last wrote in my journal. I have been busy and facing my continual lack of motivation as well as serious issues dealing with old habits and temptation. Halloween this year was a horrifying experience. Not because of the ghost and ghouls, but because of the candy! I dove right in and didn’t stop for a week. To top it off, my food choices for the past few weeks haven’t been very good either. They are coming to know me on a first name basis at the Chinese buffet and I might as well have a parking place with my name on it at the liquor store. More about that later. We decided on getting less candy this year so there would be non leftover after trick or treat night.
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