kirstykay I love Susan Voisin's recipes. I re-hydrated it according to it's instructions and then added my version of taco seasoning to it. I tasted it and threw it away. I have some left, but can't think of any reason to try it again.
Lesliec1 Like I said her weight wasn't the only reason. I think #1 Son was getting glimpses of his Mother in her 40's from his wife in her 20's. i.e. Not being able to walk the entire mall, being too exhausted from 6 hours of working to do anything when she got home. He just didn't feel like he was married to a 27 year old.
AnnaSpanna Thanks and welcome to my ramblings. Speaking of Sci-Fi I just started watching the Dr. Who series on Netflix, I love it!
wildgoose Thanks and welcome. Fruit seems to help with the sweet tooth. The other thing I have to watch out for is bread, I can really over eat on bread.
Years ago when I felt constipated I would buy a bag of maltitol sweetened candy and it would clean me right out...lol
fulenn i think the wife really misses when the kids were little and she would make dinner and everybody sat down at the same time and ate, and they would all eat her desserts, myself included. Now with only two living at home and they work different shifts, have their own money. They don't eat her food much anymore. She made a key lime pie from scratch the other day, and she's the only one eating on it. #3's diet mostly consists of fast food and frozen pizza. #4 is fast food and kid's cereal.
I don't think my wife's fear of not having enough food around is from her childhood, I think it probably has more to do with her first marriage. She does like a full supply of food. We have two refrigerator/freezers in the kitchen, and very large commercial grade freezer in the basement, a pantry and an overflow pantry. We also added a canning shelf unit this past year.
carollynne Here's the link to the Country Pantry
http://www.country-pantry.com/ It's not much of a web site but will at least give you directions, it's kind of in the middle of nowhere. A client of mine has a branch office out that way and I got lost one time, is how I found it. I buy my flaxseed meal and nutritional yeast there. I made a winter bean soup mix I got from there last weekend, made a huge amount for $2.50.
So glad your husband is on board, and seems to be staying that way. The one thing I wish I could get my wife of anybody for that matter to understand is how fantastic I feel when I'm eating this way.
The candy bar a bite at a time would have driven me crazy. One of the methods I tried with dieting years before was to always leave at least one bite of food on the plate. That was very difficult for me to do. I still don't do it. Which is one of my wife's talking points when we argue about my diet. Her claim is I still have an eating disorder. Which I do, but I've found a selection of food that works for me. She loves to preach about everything in moderation.
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Things are going very well. I'll update more this week when I get time.