Some Quasi-Random Thanksgiving Carb Counts

Here, for your perusal, are the carb counts of some Thanksgiving favorites. I confess to going with some commercial stuff, just because the nutrition facts were easily available:

Green bean casserole: 1/8th recipe, 11 g carb. Fiber figure not listed.

Cranberry jelly: about 2 tablespoons, 12 g carb, 0 fiber

Stovetop Stuffing, prepared according to package directions: 1/2 cup, 20 g carb, 1 g fiber

Pumpkin pie, made from Libby's recipe: 1/8 pie, 38.7 g, 2.7 g fiber

Mashed potatoes: 1 cup, 35 g carb, 3 g fiber

Sweet potato casserole, the kind with marshmallows: 1/8 recipe, 60.4 g carb, 2.6 g fiber.

Crescent roll, 1 roll: 11 g. (Interestingly, the websites I checked list the serving size for these as "2 rolls." Uh-huh.)

Eat all of that, and you'll get 188 grams of carbohydrate in one meal. That's more than my carb count for the average week. And we haven't thrown in a drink or two, yet. Dry wine runs 1-4 grams per glass.

Govern yourself accordingly.