happy holidays...

What is it with us and our pig out holidays? Having just come through Halloween I wonder what the heck anything has to do with chocolate and yet every holiday that comes along seems to require chocolate or it hasn’t been properly observed and celebrated. After taking my lovely daughter and her charming husband to the Spokane airport I did some respectable grocery shopping at Costco – no junk food or anything chocolate related (OK so I ate the free Costco samples and some of them were less than virtuous!). I abstained from purchasing junk food until I was almost home then the panic hit – what if my friend brings her five children trick or treating to my house tonight and I don’t have anything to give them except a carrot—not that there’s anything wrong with a carrot! So I pulled over to the gas station and convenience store to buy junk food to hand out. Of course no one came trick or treating and guess who ate the treats. I’m not even going to go there! And all because of some pagan ridiculous holiday that never had anything to do with food until the capitalistic pigs decided there was money to be made! And I along with millions of others chose to buy (no pun intended) into it. I wonder if I could swing the trends and start cabbage soup for all holidays. Doesn’t that sound like something worth celebrating!