Possum, actually, I've lost 59 pounds in the last 2 years! (2 years ago I weighed 235 pounds; today I weighed in at 176 after last night's feast- I cooked the feast yesterday so I'd have something to feel thankful for today- NO COOKING! lol) And I guess you missed the part about freezing half the turkey for later use. I wasn't suggesting absolute gluttony, I was suggesting saving time and hassle by cooking in quantity and reheating it for days, if not weeks into the future. The reason Americans are fat is all the McDonalds type crap that they eat the other 364 days of the year and the fact that they live on the couch or in the computer chair! A couple of days of feasting a year doesn't make you fat, kid. It's the constant stream of junk foods. Mfgr, you are right that I should have broken it up into paragraphs- Sorry about that! I've been mildly hyper later and I forget details like that.