Posts by kayola

I do not want to upset anyone, but I have read all the original posts and all of these and I just want to point out a few things.

Some people have tourette's.

Some people have diseases.

Neither tourette's nor diseases make you less of a person.

Cosidering these three facts, I really don't know why everyone has gotten so heated.

You're going to have to do some serious adopting, but I think making meals yourself is the only way to go.  When I was in school I ate almost solely out of my toaster oven (the school didn't allow toaster ovens, but it also never bothered to look inside the box I hid it under).  Even without a full sized oven you can make a lot of meals for yourself with a few small appliances.  The toaster oven can do fish or chicken breasts or toast, stuff you want to cook with dry heat.  Lots of other stuff you can make in a rice cooker: steam veggies, rice (obviously), oatmeal, soup, pretty much anything that uses wet heat instead of dry (just make sure you get one with a steamer rack so you don't have to boil your veggies).

Honestly, with just a toaster oven and a rice cooker you can make TONS of meals and probably save more money than with a meal plan.

You are a very pretty woman who looks like she takes pride in her appearance.  It seems like what you need more than for other people to find you attractive is for you to find yourself attractive.  I think the best way to get there is to feel like you are doing the best you can for your health.   You have a beautiful baby and you should make sure you are the healthiest you can be so that you can enjoy life with her!  So, my suggestion is this: despite your social anxiety you should really get out as much as you can.  Take your little one for walks in the park, play, enjoy the outdoors and spending time being active.  Not all exercise has to be formal and in this way you will start feeling stronger and better about yourself while teaching your child how great it is to be out and running around instead of inside watching TV or playing video games.  These things may be harder to do depending on what your schedule is, but everyone makes time for the things they find the most important.  You just have to prioritize.

Good luck, and congrats on momdom!

It may not matter for your weight, but it certainly matters for your health AND your mentality.  If you ate your calorie allowance in chocolate you would end up being without a lot of vitamins and nutrients AND, I'm guessing, very, very hungry.  Obviously we can all make the choice to factor in our favorite foods in moderation, but you still need to make sure you are providing your body with the materials it needs if you want to stay healthy.

I don't have any problem with ads.  I like free sites.  The issue is the TYPE of ads.  Just seems to me that any ad other than a "get thin quick!" ad would be fine.

Yes, this happens.  People ask me why I am eating tuna salad out of a green pepper "do you have something against carbs??" No, I just think green peppers are tasty! Other people want to know why I would go to the trouble of making oatmeal from oats, nuts, and honey when they obviously have prepackaged envelopes for that.  I think packaged oatmeal is WAY too sweet and even the "low sugar" kinds only have less sugar because it was replaced with some sugar tasting chemical.  I just want it a little less SWEET! Even my husband will get upset from time to time because I will make a delicious dinner, albeit heavy on the veggies, and he will just stare at it "How can you eat this?  Where is the meat?"

I have to work this shift from time to time too.  It is definitely tough!  I find that opposed to regular 9-5, where people have more time at night, when I am on the 6pm-6am I tend to have more free time in "the morning" (which ends up being the afternoon.  This is when I cook as much as possible so I don't have to cook again for a while.  I liked to make omelettes for breakfast, and if I can, I make two so I can have one for the next day (they are really fine microwaved!).  Another thing I would do is cook up a bunch of Italian sausages with peppers and onions and saute it all in veggie broth to lessen the fat a bit.  You can break this up into portions and serve over some rice or with a sanwich roll.  It is easy to bring to work and heat up.  Same for stir fries.  I also recommend keeping "emergency" foods in your work if you can.  I would have some sandwich wraps and a can of refried beans for a 1 min easy burrito, or you can buy some veggies to keep in the freezer at work and bring in some packaged noodle soups.  You can use less of the sodium packets and dump a bunch of veggies in before you microwave it.

Hope this helps a bit.

I was just telling my friend the same thing about Mondays.

I came out to my car this morning to find someone parked next to me, over the line, so close that I could just barely get in my drivers side door.  Of course there is a huge scratch where they opened their door into mine.  So I did it.  I left a note on their car asking them to "Please show some responsibility."

We will see how this ends. 

Is it wrong...

that having to deal with people everyday makes me want to walk into the woods somewhere and never come out?

that I would like to have a national reporting service so that I can "tattletale" on people for not using blinkers, sitting in the right hand lane when I want to turn, or smoking in the hallway of a building that is non-smoking?

Mondays are the suck...

I started a thread similar to this a while back.  Check it out here to see other people's suggestions.

Neanderthin, I think you must have missed the part where the OP said they didn't LIKE the yolks.  There are lots of healthy things in the world that certain people just don't like to eat.  Would you condemn a person for eating broccoli crowns but avoiding the stalks?  People do it all the time!  Yeah it would be better if everyone liked the whole egg, more nutrition, less waste, yadda yadda, but that's just not the case here.

I still say the yolk shouldn't be thrown out, poor chickens spend their whole lives making eggs just to have the part that takes the most effort to make thrown out.  Very sad.  So I maintain, make something yummy with your yolks!  If you don't want it?  Give it away!  If you are scared you will eat it?  Make a cake or a bread or a pie with it, something that you can't have just a little of (I know I always steal a cookie from a batch I am giving away, but a pie with a slice missing?  that's just not done!).

If you don't want to eat egg yolks in the morning maybe you could save them in tupperware or a ziplock bag in the fridge.  I have done this before and used them later in the day to make desserts like creme brulee or some richer cakes or cookies that require more yolk than whole eggs.

Also here is a website that tells you how to store them more long term and also gives you ideas of some recipes that you can make to use egg yolks up. 

www.gourmetsleuth.com/leftovereggyolks.htm

It really is a shame to waste so many good calories.  But that's just my opinion.

I have no idea why you might need a celebrity endorsement on meat, but I HAVE tried bison burger and bison tips and I think both are enormously delicious.  They are better for you than most red meats and even better than some poultry (like dark meat turkey).  They taste beefy and satisfyingly delicious in my opinion, but I would see if you can buy it from a local butcher or at least the local supermarket.  I don't see what Tony Little adds to the package except maybe a bigger price tag.

You could:

Dip them in super dark, no sugar chocolate.

Cook them down with some other juicy fruit (like peaches), without any sugar, add a little cornstarch to thicken the juice and top them with a rolled oats mixed with a small amount of brown sugar and butter, and bake.

Ok, so that one is not exactly HEALTHY, but you can do tasty baked goods in moderation, just try to keep the bad stuff in check.  I got this great book called Perfect Light Desserts that has a lot of yummy stuff (a ton of it made with fresh fruit) made with real ingredients, but mindful of not overloading the fat and sugar factor.  You should check it out.  So far everything I've made from there has been TASTEEEE!

I'm glad Future said something.  I think one reason people act like jerks to others is that they think no one will call them on it.  I've actually had someone tell me stories of how awful their friends treat women and when I say they don't sound like very good people he responded "No, they are, they're great people, they just never think of other people's feelings"  Hmmm....

You can't take responsibility for what people do to hurt each other, but you sure as heck have the right to call them out on it.  Even in situations when someone isn't being purposefully malicious others can get hurt and I don't think there is anything wrong with letting someone know that.  Even if he doesn't intend to cheat he should know how his association appears.  That way if he really is innocent he could either stop talking to his ex, or he could talk to his wife and reassure her somehow.  It's the things that go unsaid that drive people mad.  Imagine he's not cheating and won't but his wife goes crazy thinking he is, looking at his cell phone logs, reading his emails, accusing him of stuff, it could ruin the marriage either way.  Now that he knows other people see what could be going on, the ball's in his court.

Mmmmsss..... Blueberries

I just baked a peach and blueberry pie last night but it was too late at night to eat all that sugar!  I can't wait to get home and have a slice.