What about eating issues?
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What about eating issues?
| 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.

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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.
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.
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
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