So I am in the process of making my Christmas Menu for the family since my house tends to be the central location for all our family shin - digs. First I'm am starting the countdown because I get to see hubs during this holiday yay!!! But then I won't get to see him again until Sept. booo that means my dad has offered to make the two of them meat (I guess he's going with beer can chicken I don't really get it but ok) Now for the rest of us I decided after I had to eat leftover green bean casserole and stuffing and mashed potatoes all by myself for an ENTIRE week I am going the non-traditional route this time. I'm going to look for some yummy vegan Latin fusion dishes we'll see what happens. I'm not a baker at all so that has been defaulted to my brother's girlfriend. But then I started thinking about all the calories that would be consumed. I found this gem of an article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/dec/19/christmas-foodanddrink Christmas pudding Does anyone actuallly eat this? Ok well that's 6 miles I won't have to run...
(100g) with custard and brandy butter
6.28 miles
That's 33,158ft
Turkey The vegetarians in the family won't have to run this..(90g serving)
1.6 miles
That's about as far as you'd get in half an hour (average speed 3.2 mph)
Panettone No thank you...
(1 slice, 68.6g)
2.1 miles
That's about 4,235 steps
Christmas dinner plus 2 glasses of wine Ok so I think I'll just run this distance to play it safe?
12.8 miles
Brussels sprouts I love brussel sprouts and usually roast them in the oven but we did that for TG so not this time12.8 miles
(80g serving)
1,108 feet
That's one-and-a-third times around a running track
Carrots
(80g serving)
296 yards
Roast potatoes Yum I love potatoes mashed, baked fries (especially sweet potatoes), roast so I'll probably have 2 servings of whatever potato dish we have.
(85g serving)
1.4 miles
What the average Briton eats on Christmas Day
75 miles
That's the range of a fully charged Fiat 500 electric car
Mulled wine I've been skipping wine/beer for the last month or so, whew
(glass)
2.6 miles
After Eight mints
(100g)
4.5 miles
What are some of your favorite Christmas dishes? Are any of you running over the holiday? Are any of you going to do a non- traditional meal, if so what?
6 comments:
Wow, I guess I am becoming an ultra runner on xmas, who knew
We are having a family tradition (non traditional dinner) called city chicken, its a german dish that has pork and veal
I have decided that food is way over rated...
If I stick to that idea, I might actually lose weight....
That calculator is really cool, I must do that with some things I eat! We usually do Italian food for Christmas, though it's not my favorite and none of us are Italian...but we always think another turkey is too soon after Thanksgiving.
Hi Natasha, I got your name from Team Rudolph and just wanted to say hi! This is a really interesting blog post. It makes me glad I am running 20 miles on Christmas Eve!
i would happily eat stuffing and potatoes for a week :) in fact i used too and I'm pretty sure that's how I gained weight
I love comparing what you eat to what you need to run to get rid of it. I am sure you have seen Daily Mile's hamburger and donuts widgets?
I ran a turkey trot on Thanksgiving, which burned about 300 calories. I ate about 3000 calories. Oops.
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