What about eating issues?

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What about eating issues?
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Fri, 06-10-2005 - 2:24pm

We have debated sleeping issues to death once again....so what about another one of the issues of childhood....eating and/or not eating?


My kids eat just about anything and have a pretty well rounded diet.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 1:19am

Atta girl! As a child, I was infamous for scarfing them raw. Dad used to catch a few hundred pounds at a time, and the whole family would sit down to clean and freeze the catch that night. By bedtime, I'd usually managed to sneak a couple of pounds of sliders.
Amazingly, I never got sick from it, though I wouldn't recommend eating them this way. (I can't eat them raw now, just turns my stomach.)

The best way to freeze shrimp to preserve the texture is in a solid block of ice. In the 60's we used paper milk cartons stapled at the top; nowadays I use double ziploc freezer bags, filled to capacity with water and shrimp with the air forced out. We always bring home 20-30 lbs when we go home to Louisiana to visit my family.

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 1:22am
Try Baumann's in Brentwood; their sausage is excellent. (They even make good Andouille; not remotely German, but they don't discriminate by origin.)
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Registered: 03-31-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 1:24am
Cajuns love their head cheese, too. The Louisiana version tends to be so hot it will scorch your tongue.
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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 1:37am
Yes. There are some Indigenous cultures near the Arctic Circle, and some desert peoples in Africa that traditionally eat almost nothing but animal products. Not a lot of plants will grow in permafrost or high desert. Of course, nowadays many of these folks have access to imported food, but a lot of them still don't have refrigeration to preserve it, so dried or canned fruits and veggies would be the only kind they have access to.
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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 2:15am

Growing up we unfailingly had taties 3 meals per day, it was habit with my parents. My mother kept a crock of peeled potatoes at hand at all times; we were all expected to peel a few anytime we had a few minutes to spare, so that they would be ready to cook when mealtime rolled around. Amazingly, I still love my spuds; in college I did the spuds-only diet quite frequently when I was broke.

When my dad was kid he spent lots of nights in the hills taking his turn with the sheep; he used to dig a hole and roast wild potatoes in it for his dinner.

Modern American potatoes are bland and mealy (white)or waxy (red), but they are big and smooth, which is what they are bred for. Old varieties are smaller and much more knobby; lots more work to peel, and mechanical peelers don't work well on them.

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Registered: 07-20-2004
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 2:55am

Do you really feel as well sleeping from 12 midnight to 8 am, as you would from 10 pm to 6 am?


And even as well as (if not better, since I woke naturally, rather than by means of an alarm clock) when I slept from 9am to 5:30p (or 10a to 6:30p...and occasionally 11a to 7:30p).


Sleep is sleep.

Karen

"A pocketknife is like a melody;
sharp in some places,
flat in others,
and really annoying when it's stuck in your head."

Karen

"A pocketknife is like a melody;
sharp in some places,
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Registered: 07-20-2004
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 2:59am
Yeah, they have movies on the Mall (Screen on the Green)

Karen

"A pocketknife is like a melody;
sharp in some places,
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 4:35am
I agree, overall. I have a mixture of a fairly strict schedule about some things (I always spend one weekend a month cooking, I run errands on a certain day and no other unless it's a DIRE emergency, etc) and go with the flow about others -- my older son was really very adaptable and easy going, so I assumed all babies were if you just got them used to it early. My second child wasn't so flexible -- we had to have much more of a routine for him in order for him to be happy. So we did, but it took me awhile to realize what was needed and to implement it.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 4:46am
Then I imagine most of them would consider fresh aspargus or strawberries a wonderful treat, right? But thanks for the tip -- if we ever have the opportunity to invite an Inuit guest to a meal, I will be sure to ask whether he or she has any preferences about vegetables. But I probably won't go hunt up a whale or go hunting for seagull eggs.
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 6:50am
Ah. So, not likely folks who would be invited to a soiree chez Felicia or Felicia's brother. I think she can put her mind at ease.

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