Hopefully this isn’t triggering to anyone but I just want to say thank you so much to Abbey. I’ve put on weight since I started watching this channel and I am so happy and grateful. I realized the only way I was maintaining my lower weight before was by honestly starving myself. This channel has helped me enjoy eating and add a lot of “fear foods” back into my diet.
Hi if you don’t mind me asking, were you under weight? I’m afraid of putting weight on, I’m a a healthy weight right now, but very scared of gaining weight.😌😅
What you do is literally amazing. You have taught me so much, just from these videos. I wish you know how helpful and amazing these are to me. You are changing the way a lot of people see food. Thank you so much for everything you do.
I think it’s important to note that you don’t have to make everything a hcc! Sometimes it may be healthier to normalize eating habits by eating the food the way everyone else is (especially in social settings). While these ideas are fun, some of them seem like they could be a form of orthorexia (i.e. making everything “healthy”).
I think this is a good point, and I think you’re voicing a part of Abbey’s approach to food in general, based on what I’ve seen 😁 That explanation might not have made it into this video; I imagine that it’s tough as a RU-vidr to include every disclaimer every time!
I think these are mostly geared towards when there’s no one else around, but the foods are still hanging about. I’d recommend watching more of Abbey’s videos since she is all about an intuitive eating style. I’m super excited about this since I can never leave the sugar cookies alone, but having a dip to go with it is an awesome way to make it an actually decent snack. Wouldn’t have thought of that!
Totally agree, the cheese on the pie and whatever she did with the Ferrero rocher was weird. And in general this video gives me weird ED vibes somehow...
You are doing such a service in modeling joyful eating and portions that folks are actually going to eat. Thank you! I need to see it both for myself and so that I can be a better model for the littles in my life. And darn it, now I need to get some eggnog. Your HCC series is such a breath of fresh air.
Abbey gives me so many amazing food freedom vibes and is SUCH a role model for me! This video was super cute and fun and helpful and just made me excited for the holiday foods and not afraid!
Thank you sooo much for making this!!!! I was feeling nervous about holiday foods before this but I feel a lot more excited instead of scared now. I feel more relaxed. I had no idea it was possible to do stuff like this. To make actual meals and snacks with even stuff like chocolates. You’re very creative and I’m very appreciative that you share these videos with all of us! Thank you! Happy holidays!
You’ve literally saved my mental health this year and I have enjoyed food more in the past few months than really ever. Because of you, I have chocolate every day and bread and I cannot believe I lived a life without them, so thank you!
Just diagnosed with gestational diabetes and really struggling to do what I need to while also protecting my relationship with food! Would love a video on this with meal ideas that don't feel restrictive in nature!
I just discovered this series and absolutely love it! I consider myself recovered from my eating disorder but I really didn’t realize how much fear some of these foods still hold in my life and I love the idea of incorporating them into everyday meals and snacks. I’ll echo what I saw in the comments about a vegan version of this and a fast food one and also suggest adding in breakfast pastries/donuts and juice- those still make me nervous and guilty even after all this time. Thanks Abbey for all that you do to help us heal our relationship with food!
I love this video bc 1) it challenges my food rules. I like to eat in themes and struggle to eat at all if I don’t have the “right” combination. and 2) you show the plate being cleared as you eat. when I was hospitalized at one point, they would give me double portions in an effort to trick me into eating more and now I’m stuck in the habit of leaving a bunch of my food on the plate. thanks for modeling healthy eating ! so so helpful !
**Stops video to go make egg nog chia pudding literally right now** Oh my word that sounds amazing!! Gonna try 1/4 part eggnog and 3/4 parts almond milk in the chia pudding!
So, I made it the way Abbey did and while it was absolutely delicious, I couldn’t really taste the egg nog. Are some nogs more “potent” to get that flavor through?
@@ruthwrubleski8911 I used the Trader Joe's Oat Nog and then added a touch of extra cinnamon and it is gentle in the egg nog flavor but definitely there!
Thank you for thisssssss Abbey, needed this! Today I challenged myself to order big plate of pad thai for lunch followed by choco mousse with my friend ;) feeling guilty but still eating proper big dinner rn as I watch this, might have dessert too...
Hey Abby, I’ve been watching your videos while losing weight. You constantly remind me to put my mental health 1st and weight loss 2nd, and that makes losing weight surprisingly easy! I’m counting calories, which works well for me, I don’t obsess over it and I just eat a normal healthy diet :). Thank you so much!
I really appreciate the effort you put into this & those all look so yummy!! Realistically though to keep it balanced I’ll probably just snack on some nuts & veggies in addition to the sweets lol less assembly required that way 😜
Best way to assemble a ginger bread house is with sugar glue! Very easy to make and recommended! Careful and if you have heat protective gloves they will also make things easier
This really helped me get over some anxiety I have been experiencing. It's caused me to binge on triggering junk foods. Now I feel that I have some tools to overcome my emotional eating behaviors.
I seriously love this series so much!! Every episode you post I get so many great ideas. One of my favourite Christmas (but really all year) snacks is charcuterie, and your pie situation was totally giving me dessert charcuterie vibes. I’m pretty sure I would love that. (I’m also a graham cracker/chocolate cookie crust girl. Have you ever had flapper pie? So good!) This series has also helped me feel a bit more confident in facing my fear foods and just being about to enjoy foods that are healthy and fun, nourishing and emotionally satisfying without feeling guilty. Whether or not I just enjoy them as is, or make them into a “Hunger Crushing Combo”. Thanks for your creativity and commitment to putting out such positive content.
I loved this, Abbey! I can tell it's gonna become one of my comfort videos for when I'm not in the best mood, because it's just so wholesome and fun and you seem so happy and excited 😊 thank you so much for all this amazing content, greetings from Mexico!
I love that you used your bowl for the candy cane squares. When you were making the yogurt one, I may have paused the video and may have gone and made some (without chia because I don't have any) and also may have eaten it while I was watching the rest. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to the Sharp family!
Hey Abbey, you might not see my comment but if you do I just want to let you know that your content helped shaped my eating habits for the better! I’m recovering from an ED and rebuilding my relationship with food has been tough, but watching your content has helped me be kinder to myself. I’d say more but I don’t want to leave a novel - just thank you so much for all that you do and happy holidays!
At Thanksgiving, I put leftover apple pie on top of my morning yogurt chia pudding with protein powder instead of my normal slices of apple and it was amazing! A great way to eat the delicious pie I was craving without sending me into a sugar coma at 8am. My family thought I was crazy, but it really balanced out the sweetness - I might always eat my pie like this now 😆
I am loving this fear foods series! It gives me so many great ideas and inspires me to try my own hunger crushing combos. I tried the egg nog chia pudding today and because I was enjoying it as a dessert I mixed in a crushed Candy Cane Joe Joe from Trader Joes, it was DELICIOUS. And a few days ago I made the vegan Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe from your website. Those are also delicious! Now, I just need to decide what I'm going to try from this video tomorrow! Leaning towards the wrap with nut butter, pear, and chocolate!
Thanks Abbey! I was inspired to turn raw cookie dough into a HCC for breakfast by putting little chunks of it on peanut butter toast (Ezekiel bread). Cookie dough is definitely one of those things I still feel like I lose control with after coming a long way with my disordered eating habits. I paired this with my usual black coffee and the sweet/bitter balance was delightful
I have/ am suffering with the same eating disorder you had. I am currently doing great, I have some relapse days but overall I am happy with the outlook I have on food. These types of videos warms my heart! I am currently in my 4th year of nonaccredited PDEP BSc Food and Nutrition Course and hopefully take the Master's route to become a dietitian. I love this content and the way food is portrayed on this channel
I really wish you had these written into recipes! I would very much enjoy trying these, but I've never worked with many of these ingredients and wouldn't feel comfortable winging it to start. Love the channel!!
Love these creative suggestions for incorporating holiday flavors into balanced meals. If this is not how you prefer to enjoy these foods, please: Eat the gingerbread cookie. Eat the candy cane(s). Drink the egg nog. It’s okay to have the thing in any context, balanced meal or not. I know this is the challenging part, hence the video. I just don’t want anyone experiencing guilt/shame for not creating a balanced meal around the fear food, too. Your smart, efficient, beautiful body will still extract energy and nutrition from these foods by themselves, like it does any food, and it’s okay. 💛
Absolutely! These are just suggestions for making some of those foods into more satiating options, but of course they are great to eat on their own too! 😊
I made the sheet pan pancakes for my children today. They had so much fun crushing candy canes and adding them with chocolate to a meal. Thanks for giving us these fun & delicious holiday recipes!
Quick pro-tip about pomegranate- if you break it into smaller sections and then put those sections in a bowl of water, it's easier to separate the arils from the rind and you're less likely to make a mess. :) Gonna have to try the eggnog chia pudding this week!
I love this series so much - so many great ideas and I love that you remind us in the beginning that many holiday foods are inherently hunger-crushing combos!
Lol - your gingerbread debacle was funny. For the last few years, we've done gingerbread houses and it is hands-down the most stressful holiday activity we do. We have to do this elaborate propping system for the roof panels while the royal icing hardens. Between making the templates, cutting out the pieces, baking and assembly and then FINALLY decoration, it takes all day and sometimes extends into another day...
I am about to graduate from biology degree, but i have been thinking to study nutrition. Every time i watch you i have the encouragement to study nutrition major. I just need to be like you.
Oh hello. Mine is Mince pies so I made the mincemeat with homemade mincemeat with less sugar and pecans and gf pastry with flour, butter and eggs. They were really good.
I have a ridiculous fondness for adding cherry candy canes to my coffee around the holidays. The pumpkin dip looked good. My favorite thing to do with stale gingerbread is grinding it up and mixing it with cream cheese to make like the oreo no bake cookies.
A little life hack: You should try peeling the pomegranate in a bowl of water next time!! The fruit sinks while the white part around the fruit floats which makes for easy separation. (It’s also mess free ;) Happy holidays everyone!!
Is there a better way to help me deal with anxiety around holiday season AND improve my relationship with food ? No abbey there is not, YOU NAILED this 🤌🏼🥰
you're awesome, abbey. i appreciate you even more after that last episode where you shared some of what you're dealing with because i.feel.that. these dishes all look delish! do you have the recipe somewhere for the candy cane bake? i would love to try it!
Thank you! I have a recipe for a candy cane skillet cookie: www.abbeyskitchen.com/vegan-candy-cane-skillet-cookie/ and peppermint chocolate cookies with candy canes: www.abbeyskitchen.com/vegan-candy-cane-double-chocolate-chip-oatmeal-cookies/
about the ginger bread house! I thought it would be a fun activity for my daughter and her two good friends that we can di together indoors in a rainy day. que choas and meltdowns from the kids because the houses kept crumbling. honestly I had a great time I was laughing the whole time and eating half of the roof😆
Merry Christmas Abby!💕 Here in Texas my family makes Rolls, turkey, Ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, white wine gravy, smothered green beans , sweet potato pie, Apple pie and oatmeal filled raisin cookies! After that I roll over to the couch and crash! I get up on Christmas morning and I make Homemade butter milk biscuits, fried eggs, bacon, sausage gravy and lots of coffee! We make a lot of food at our house! This probably isn't what I would call balanced but, hey it's Christmas!
I don't have an issue with food during the holidays. I eat what I want. Funny story though. I ended up on my mom's stationary bike on Christmas, and rode it, burning 600 calories just for the hell of it, and also because my brother-in-law dared me, while everyone else was playing pool. It's in the same room. LOL I did it and it felt great. Then I was like, hey, let's eat again! Ha ha ha! Kidding. I love your input.
Love this series, lots of great ideas! Could you do a RU-vidr what I eat in a day review of someone that is in a ‘bulk’ phase? Lots of your reviews are on people trying to lose weight so would be interesting to hear your advice on things like gaining muscle and people trying to do a ‘lean bulk’ 😊
I get the idea but I think is more important to workout the idea of enjoying fear foods instead of making them over.... i think this triggers anorexia instead of fighting against it. This isn’t a hater comment, it’s just an opinion of someone recovering. Thank you anyway for all your support, ideas and content of your channel. Happy holidays!
Yep when I started the series I explained that in previous videos. That it's totally great to just eat these foods as is (and I would for the holidays and else times as well). The concept of building them into meals is to show that you can and should enjoy these foods regularly, however you want, even after the holidays and they don't need to be a "special occasion" food that you need to binge on during the holidays to "get rid of".
I just tried to pair one of my Christmas cookies with cottage cheese and cloudberry jam, and it was absolutely delicious! 😋 thank you so much abbey for inspiring me
You need a pomegranate deseeder. And an apron. Plus, that gingerbread house? It's not food, it's edible decoration. Therefore, it is perfectly acceptable to assemble it using that Wintergreen scented school paste some kids used to eat. I don't recommend eating the house or the paste, but they are both made of non-toxic materials. I think the best thing I have learned from this is that foods need to be eaten as part of a larger setting- candy canes as flavoring, not by the box. Egg nog with a meal, not alone. And, I must say, I appreciate there is no more Egg Nog Latte. If they would just dispose of Pumpkin Spice Everything, I might enjoy Starbucks coffee. But I'm just the lady with a grandbaby on one hip, a coffee in one hand, while singing hymns and dancing in the kitchen in my hand knit socks, trying to explain to my grown son that I don't need him to return the empty pie crust, because I won't refill it. He has discovered it makes excellent baby treats, so someone is eating it Merry Christmas. I'm sorry your son has discovered candy canes. You might have to turn them into pudding, or to decorate hot chocolate.
This is super helpful abbey! reflecting on this past holiday season though, I think the biggest hurdle I face when it comes to maintaining relatively healthy nutrition at this time of year is social pressure. Even if I take what I feel is a mindful and personally satisfying portion of whatever everyone else is eating, I feel pushed to take more when everyone else seems to be over-eating for the heck of it. Like everyone is still at the table and I've finished my plate... it's just awkward. And then the snacks just keep getting passed around and I can only refuse so many times before that also just becomes weird. I end up eating way past the point of fullness and then feel sick for days, and it isn't even enjoyable. Have you ever faced this, or have any tips on how to deal with it?
These look super yummy and fun. One thing I would be worried about is how many more calories I would be adding to something by turning a snack into a mini meal - any tips? Thank you and Happy Holidays.
I want to send a big virtual hug to any of you that Christmas isn't a joyful time for whatever reason in your season of life, l see you, l hear you and l feel you having been there before. Please just be kind to yourself over the Holidays and that my friends is GOOD ENOUGH 💞
Merry Xmas, green-eyed girl! Wish you lots of peace in your heart. Some happiness. True joy. (We are off to eat a proper Xmas lunch with turkey, trimmings and real Xmas pudding with brandy butter on top). 🎄
Good timing. I found myself with the pregnant munchies today (just entered 2nd trimester and started feeling better, so I want to eat all the things) and lots of holiday sweets in my snack cabinet. Nice to remind myself to HCC it.
I found this almond milk nog that I use in my pumpkin pancakes. I stock up during the holidays because it keeps in the fridge forever! I’d recommend Califa Farms Almond Nog because of its long refrigerator life
