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The Thanksgiving that I broke the oven!

Published on November 26, 2023November 29, 2023 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog4 Comments

We pray that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and that you didn’t go over budget with the Black Friday spending. We had a beautiful day and we were so blessed to have family and friends to enjoy it with.

The kids did a lot of work to help with our Thanksgiving dinner and preparations. We counted it as Life Skills and they were happy that it wasn’t ‘bookwork’. They have asked if we can have more lessons like this.

The weeks before Thanksgiving the kids helped to plan out the menu, check the pantry for supplies, and help order the groceries. Then they helped to organize the recipes and pull out the dishes and serving trays that would be needed. They did a pretty good job as you will see in the pictures below.

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Keto Cheesy Chicken Casserole

Published on November 25, 2023November 25, 2023 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog2 Comments

This casserole is so easy to throw together and you can customize it to make it your own by adding veggies to it or a little more cheese. It is very similar to my Chicken Bacon Ranch Casserole that we love but haven’t been making since we’ve been eating a more keto-friendly diet.

This goes great with any veggies, rice or caulirice, salad, or some garlic bread. You could even use leftover chicken (or maybe turkey) in the recipe and just cube it or shred it… it would be even easier to put together.

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Orange Congealed Salad

Published on November 23, 2023November 25, 2023 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog9 Comments

This recipe was so good and so easy to make! This will definitely be making many more appearances on the menu! You could easily substitute other fruits and flavors to make it your own as well as add in other things similar to Watergate salad... let your imagination run wild with flavor combinations!

Orange Congealed Salad

Ingredients:

2 small packages of orange-flavored Jello
1 16 oz container of cottage cheese
1 14-16 0z can of mandarin oranges, drained well (you can save the juice for something else like homemade cranberry relish)
1 16 oz container of Cool Whip, thawed

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Special Holiday Meals: Our tried and true favorite Thanksgiving recipes plus a new tradition in the making

Published on November 17, 2023September 23, 2025 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog5 Comments

It’s so hard to believe that Thanksgiving is next week! I haven’t finished all my shopping yet but plan to have it wrapped up before the end of the week. We will probably have a lot of our usual dishes plus a couple of new ones ‘keto-friendly’ versions. We won’t be ‘restricting’ ourselves to keto foods for Thanksgiving as we want to have the freedom to enjoy, but not overindulge, the dishes that everyone brings to dinner.

I love using Canva to make up pretty menus and such! Please excuse my typos… oops!

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A Christ-Centered Thanksgiving and other Thanksgiving homeschool resources

Published on November 15, 2023November 17, 2023 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog4 Comments

This week we have been focusing on Thanksgiving with our homeschool studies. I had purchased ‘A Christ-Centered Thanksgiving‘** several years ago but just never got around to using it. This season I am trying to be a bit more intentional and I have included different seasonal activity slots into our school schedule to help me remember to look through what I have.