PHPOLL RESULTS: The New Thanksgiving

PHWEEK asked and you answered, sharing your Thanksgiving dinner menus and those not-so-healthy traditions. One response, sort of a best-of-both-worlds, stood out.

Joan Plythress, Administrative Operations Coordinator II, with the Emanuel County Health Department in Swainsboro, Ga., shared her “Modern Family” thoughts.

Living alone with a daughter who married into a large family, Plythress says she encourages her daughter to spend Thanksgiving Day with her husband’s family, at least at first.

“This gives cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents the opportunity to all reconnect,” Plythress says. “Later, since they are all so full of traditional Thanksgiving food, I do vegetable soup with sandwiches for Thanksgiving supper. The only ‘dessert’ done is a Jell-O type salad called Pineapple Fluff--very light.”

Plythress says the arrangement makes “Thanksgiving very peaceful and gives me time to enjoy the day and eliminates the problem of where to spend the holiday for my daughter.”

To all the Joan Plythress’ out there, PHWEEK says, “Happy Thanksgiving!”

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