Posts by nicolek6

Yummy recipes to try with the chocolate cake and brownies! I'm gonna try the sprite with the yellow cake and see how it works, thanks! :-)

One year for Christmas I got a card from my brother and his wife that said a heifer was purchased in my name, and that was my Christmas present from them. :-s I was a bit confused, and wondering where my actual gift was! ;-) Haha maybe I'm a bit ungrateful, but I like the idea of purchasing a gift for someone where some of the proceeds go to help someone else. Its a win win situation in my book.

Haha well he is a good-looking guy, it just sort of creeped me out to know that I thought he was attractive yet he's part of my family. ;-)

I heard the best way you can tell if you have the flu is if its completely sudden, like you feel like you've just been hit by a semi. And high fever, which is rare with a cold.

By the way, has anyone heard of this swine flu "parties" people are having? You know the idea that some parents have that when a child has chicken pox they get all their kids together so they can all share the germs and get the pox together and get it over with? Yeah well apparently people are doing that with the swine flu too. :-s Crazy.

I had brussel sprouts for like the second time ever in my life tonight, and found out they were pretty darn awful. First bite wasn't so bad--I sprayed it with I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spray--and it sort of reminded of old brocolli stems? And then I took a big bite and it made me gag horribly. :-s I made my dad try them too, and he spit it out. Strangly enough my mom eats them right up! Gross. :-s They taste like an old dirty sponge!

I don't know if this is really considered "cleansing" but whenever I feel like I need to uh hem clean out my system, I wake up in the morning and on an empty stomach drink a big tall glass of juice with mostly water added, and that flushes me right out. Now if I REALLY want to clear out my insides, I do that a couple of more times during the day and not eat anything that day. Flushes everything right out.

Original Post by umneydurak:

Why not just buy a regular bag and portion them out? You will get the same thing, but at a much lower cost.

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Because I'm lazy and the bags are cute and convenient? :-p Haha. Alrighty, I GUESS I'll do that if I have to.

I would if I could afford it. No insurance means spending up to $100 an hour for someone to talk to.

I have friends who don't like Thanksgiving food, and man I really think they're missing out! ;-) I personally cook all the food for my family, I've been doing it since I was like 16. I have many fans. :-) I'm excited to cook tons of food and eat it all up yum!

Original Post by nicolek6:

I seriously love all food, well except maybe okra and cucumbers. I wanna like cucumbers, but they taste too much like grass to me. :-( But its okay, when me and my boyfriend eat salads we trade our veggies we don't like. Cucumbers go to him, and his tomatoes go to me! Yum! :-)

Oh, and as much as I love Kiwis, apparently they don't love me anymore. :-( Sadness. I just ate one the other day and my mouth started burning and then eventually went numb. It was a brand new thing too, as I used to eat kiwis all the time as a kid. It was a sad day for me.

Oh, and can I add that I am NOT a fan of tofu no matter how much I try? Another thing I WISHED I liked because hey, its a good idea. I like soybeans, I like fake meat products that TASTE like meat, heck I think I even like soymilk to a certain point! But tofu tastes like slimy rubber to me. It reminds me of the gelatin that pools up on fatty meat when it cools down. Go figure.

Original Post by cptbunny:

Which moisturizer would be best for oily super acne prone skin that can't handle acne medicine (it gets itchy and irritated)?

Even though I use a facial moisturizer that is meant for sensitive skin, my skin around my jawline and chin always get itchy and irritated still. Sucks. :-( But I use Aveeno 1% Hydrocortisone Anti-itch cream and that helps the itching and irritation go away pretty quickly.

With my fat-free cottage cheese, I drain out a lot of the water everytime I open it up. I like it mixed with pineapple chunks and a little of its juice, cherry tomatoes with a little salt and pepper and some olive oil, and then with mashed up canned apricots with cinnamon. Very tasty. :-)

As a kid my mom used to mix up full fat cottage cheese and sour cream and we used it as dip with homemade french fries. It's still delicious today with everything reduced to low-fat or fat free, and with baked french fries or potatoes!

Original Post by chrissy1988:

Sandwiches for lunch are always great

Instant rice or the microwaveable single serving bowls. Paired with steamable veggies and rotisserie chicken from the deli if you eat meat

Purchase a rotisserie chicken because its already cooked. Use it for salads, sandwiches, pastas or soups. Add bbq sauce or dressing to switch it up.

You can make pasta and buy jarred sauce...there's tortellini, ravioli, and fettucine buitoni brand that are refrigerated and supert fast to make. If you get an assortment of sauces like alfredo, marinara, and pesto and add in different things like broccoli, peas, corn, or carrots along with chicken or tofu or something then you're really just heating and not "cooking"

You can always open a can of beans and top em with cheese and have a salad with it

You can have a baked potato with low fat cheese, veggies, and some lean protein.

How about a pita stuffed with veggies and hummus

You can make couscous or quinoa and add in some frozen mixed veggies and cook it in broth. Add in either a can of tuna or chicken for a complete meal.

Hope these ideas helped :)

Mmmm tasty ideas! :-D

Original Post by zebulancherry:

Okay, so I know from experience that there are a lot of protein powders out there that pretty much taste like chalk, and that those that don't are typically WAY too sweet from the addition of sugar substitutes and whatnot.

I had tried...

• Jay Robb whey - whey too sweet and the stevia left a strong aftertaste.
• Perfect Protein whey - wierd artifical taste and almost flakey texture.
• GeniSoy soy protein - really, really chalky and tasted like dust.
• Biochem whey - good, but kinda off-tasting. Liked that there were no added sugars though.
• NutriBiotic brown rice protein - again, really chalky and gross looking. I don't know if that's just how most non-whey powders are, but it was nasty.
• Living Harvest hemp protein - well, it was green for one thing. Hahah. It had a very strong flavor and didn't really mix well into anything. The texture was very coarse and almost dirt-like.

I finally found a brand that I like in almost all areas considered, and that would be Solgar's Whey To Go vanilla bean whey protein. It tastes really good, has no sugars or sugar substitutes (or stevia), and it has only 100 calories and 24 grams of protein per 30g.

What brand do you guys like?

My favorite too. :-) I've turned quite a few people on to it as well! Very tasty and natural tasting as well.

Excuses excuses. There's plenty of young people out there and they don't "have" to drink just because they're 22 or however old you are. If you are REALLY concerned about losing weight and having a healthy lifestyle (which you don't seem like you are) then you should cut back on the drinking (5 drinks a night 2x a week IS a lot hello? You yourself even called it BINGE DRINKING. Not healthy.) and actually EAT healthy clean foods, and enough of them because you're acting like an unintelligent young person, who is giving all of us young people a bad name. So stop please.

Bottom line, EAT REAL FOOD and limit the drinking to special occassions! Done and done.