How Splenda saved Thanksgiving

As we all know, I hosted my first full Thanksgiving yesterday for my boyfriend and his parents.

I've been stressing for weeks trying to work out a good menu of foods they would like that wouldn't break my diet.

I did it too. While it was a lot of calories, I managed to cut pretty much everything in half, calorie-wise.

While planning, I asked Kevin if there were any dietary restrictions I needed to take into consideration. He said his dad watches his cholesterol and doesn't like red meat or cheese. Cool, wasn't planning to use any of that any way.

So, I planned the menu. For my diet and his dad's cholesterol I subbed out the eggs with substitute and used Splenda instead of sugar. I also bought I Can't Believe It's Not Butter (no cholesterol).

Menu planned, ingredients bought, I was rocking.

His parents came and suddenly, the spotlight was on me as his mom watched me prepare the meal in the kitchen all morning.

Just as a way of making conversation, I said Kevin told me there weren't any diet restrictions I needed to accommodate for the meal. Then, she told me something no new hostess ever wants to hear.

"Well, I have diabetes."

WHAT?!?

All I can say is, THANK YOU SPLENDA!!!