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KikisGirls said:
Rain rain go away. Do not come back for a few more days.
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Send the rain here! We haven't had rain since early May -- which is typical for California. I'm ready for the rain. It's so dry and dusty here now.

RosieR said:
Deep fried pickles are my absolute favourite!
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We did those once! Dipped in home-made ranch dressing. Generally we don't fry much. Aside from not being the greatest thing for you, it's such a mess, and then you have the left-over oil to deal with. Every now and then, however, my husband will set up the cast iron pot and fry some chicken or potato chips. Potato chips are one of my guilty pleasures and home fried potatoes chips? :th
KDOGG331 said:
Prime example of my sugar/junk addiction
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You can re-adjust your sugar palate over time. We've been steadily decreasing the amount of sugar we put in things like jams, pancakes, and desserts. We also virtually eliminated sodas, including diet sodas. Now using 25% to 50% less sugar in recipes, things still taste wonderful and plenty sweet. "Normal" desserts and even things like store-bought catsup taste too sweet to me now. The trick is to not do it all at once. Steadily start whittling down the amount you add. Also, to the greatest extent practicable, try to avoid processed food and make your own. It tastes better, and will have less sugar and other questionable things in it. Again, this is something best done in small steps, finding things that you enjoy making and fit within your time constraints, etc.

OK, I'll get off my soap-box now. :rolleyes:
 
KDOGG331 said:
Wow that's awesome!



Yeah, I'm definitely not usually into diets or bouncing around between them but I do at least want to try this one temporarily or at least do the cleanse because I do have most of the symptoms and want to see if killing off the Candida would help. Not really into it for weight loss or long term or anything like that. Because I do think most of them are the same and just basically about eating better and cutting the processed crap. Like you said. Which is why after this, I'm just going to go back to eating healthy but still keeping the bread and processed stuff away.



We ate terribly most of the time :/

I mean, they did cook but we also ate microwave meals and junk food a lot too, all the typical snacks :/

With my kids if/when I have any I don't think I'm going to do that but I also don't want to be the mean or crazy strict one that lets them have nothing and no fun ever or anything.

But my cousin lets their toddler and little kids drink Coke and my friend eats like ONLY processed crap and white bread.. At least my parents were better than that at least lol but still processed
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People definitely crave what they were raised on. It's damn hard to change those ingrained habits. My mom was nuts. She gardened like crazy, ground her own wheat, made all her own bread, pizza crust, etc. We canned every year, raised meat rabbits and had chickens for eggs. I still love teriyaki rabbit.
My rule of thumb is that if I want it, I have to make it from scratch. If I want it bad enough, then I'll do it. If I don't, well, then no pull apart pumpkin bread!
On a side note, please do look up further "None-Pro" info on the whole Candida thing. There's lots of information out there on it. Sorry, not trying to be a bossy Betty here, I just really don't buy into any of the "cleanse" or "diet" things.
I remember I tried to do a cleanse once. I lasted three days then I ate half a pizza! It was the best pizza I had ever tasted ;) Never again.
 
KDOGG331 said:
Prime example of my sugar/junk addiction: same exit as a Wendy's. Stopped to get a Frosty and 4 piece nugget. :( only a small chocolate but still. Shouldn't have stopped at all. But it was also only 50 cents. Though I didn't know that till I got here. I just wanted one. It actually prevented me from getting a bigger one. I have quit other stuff before so tell me why quitting my other thing was easier than quitting SUGAR of all things? And okay, maybe it wasn't easier, I'm probably not remembering right. But still. Feels like sugar is harder or at least I have less will power and aren't trying as hard? Idk
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It's totally true! Sugar addiction is a real thing. Just look at the differences at the sugar content in say, breakfast cereal, in Europe compared to here in the States. It's crazy! Canada too. Different sugar levels in sodas, snacks, cereal, it's pretty wild. I went down that rabbit hole once and I was amazed/horrified.
 
Morrigan said:
You can re-adjust your sugar palate over time. We've been steadily decreasing the amount of sugar we put in things like jams, pancakes, and desserts. We also virtually eliminated sodas, including diet sodas. Now using 25% to 50% less sugar in recipes, things still taste wonderful and plenty sweet. "Normal" desserts and even things like store-bought catsup taste too sweet to me now. The trick is to not do it all at once. Steadily start whittling down the amount you add. Also, to the greatest extent practicable, try to avoid processed food and make your own. It tastes better, and will have less sugar and other questionable things in it. Again, this is something best done in small steps, finding things that you enjoy making and fit within your time constraints, etc.

OK, I'll get off my soap-box now. :rolleyes:
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Agreed. It's a hard thing to do so doing it slowly is best.
I think one of the main things that most folks don't think about is their beverage intake. I only drink water (and coffee, I'm not a monster!). I love water. Again I'm grateful to my parents for never letting me have soda. I can't handle it at all. It burns my throat and hurts my teeth.
My cousin and I were just looking at the sugar amounts in all Starbucks drinks, sodas, Snapple, etc. I'm horrified. No wonder people are completely addicted to sugar. It's freaking everywhere! I think people would feel a lot better if they just stopped drinking anything but water. Again though, that's much easier said than done.
 
Morrigan said:
Send the rain here! We haven't had rain since early May -- which is typical for California. I'm ready for the rain. It's so dry and dusty here now.



We did those once! Dipped in home-made ranch dressing. Generally we don't fry much. Aside from not being the greatest thing for you, it's such a mess, and then you have the left-over oil to deal with. Every now and then, however, my husband will set up the cast iron pot and fry some chicken or potato chips. Potato chips are one of my guilty pleasures and home fried potatoes chips? :th


You can re-adjust your sugar palate over time. We've been steadily decreasing the amount of sugar we put in things like jams, pancakes, and desserts. We also virtually eliminated sodas, including diet sodas. Now using 25% to 50% less sugar in recipes, things still taste wonderful and plenty sweet. "Normal" desserts and even things like store-bought catsup taste too sweet to me now. The trick is to not do it all at once. Steadily start whittling down the amount you add. Also, to the greatest extent practicable, try to avoid processed food and make your own. It tastes better, and will have less sugar and other questionable things in it. Again, this is something best done in small steps, finding things that you enjoy making and fit within your time constraints, etc.

OK, I'll get off my soap-box now. :rolleyes:
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It's not a soap box! It's very helpful! I feel like slow would probably be better but idk.

honanbm said:
People definitely crave what they were raised on. It's damn hard to change those ingrained habits. My mom was nuts. She gardened like crazy, ground her own wheat, made all her own bread, pizza crust, etc. We canned every year, raised meat rabbits and had chickens for eggs. I still love teriyaki rabbit.
My rule of thumb is that if I want it, I have to make it from scratch. If I want it bad enough, then I'll do it. If I don't, well, then no pull apart pumpkin bread!
On a side note, please do look up further "None-Pro" info on the whole Candida thing. There's lots of information out there on it. Sorry, not trying to be a bossy Betty here, I just really don't buy into any of the "cleanse" or "diet" things.
I remember I tried to do a cleanse once. I lasted three days then I ate half a pizza! It was the best pizza I had ever tasted ;) Never again.
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Wow that's awesome but sounds like a lot of work! We never grew anything until last year when I started growing veggies haha although the year before or two years before my brother and I tried to grow stuff but we didn't put it in a good spot at all (on a sandy hill) and didn't do anything to it or protect it so deer ate it all. So I don't count that. We really seriously started growing veggies last year but even then, last year is nothing in comparison to this year ha way too many tomatoes though and too close together. Anyway, we didn't get the chickens until I decided to either. 3 years ago in October. I would love to eventually get goats and possibly quail and/or rabbits and/or meat chickens but idk if I can here cause my mom probably won't let me kill anything and idk if i could anyway. I also want horses but they're expensive lol

That's a good rule though. Would definitely prevent me from eating a lot of stuff haha

And thanks. I guess I should probably look into it more before jumping into it.

Morrigan said:
That is great rule!
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Agreed.

honanbm said:
It's totally true! Sugar addiction is a real thing. Just look at the differences at the sugar content in say, breakfast cereal, in Europe compared to here in the States. It's crazy! Canada too. Different sugar levels in sodas, snacks, cereal, it's pretty wild. I went down that rabbit hole once and I was amazed/horrified.
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I think I definitely have it then ha also every time i try to eat healthy it lssts at most a few days lol

But i bet the differences are crazy! Sugar is in everything here.

I think for a while though I was like it's not a real addiction but it is. Same with phones i think. I'm constantly on mine.

honanbm said:
Agreed. It's a hard thing to do so doing it slowly is best.
I think one of the main things that most folks don't think about is their beverage intake. I only drink water (and coffee, I'm not a monster!). I love water. Again I'm grateful to my parents for never letting me have soda. I can't handle it at all. It burns my throat and hurts my teeth.
My cousin and I were just looking at the sugar amounts in all Starbucks drinks, sodas, Snapple, etc. I'm horrified. No wonder people are completely addicted to sugar. It's freaking everywhere! I think people would feel a lot better if they just stopped drinking anything but water. Again though, that's much easier said than done.
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I love water and cut out soda a while ago although recently I've been drinking it some again. Root beer floats and such :/

I gotta cut it out again.

I do drink milk though too but mostly only for cookies and cereal which I want to cut out anyway.

I definitely don't drink enough water though I don't think.

honanbm said:
That is just ... I dunno know to say. X2 - people drink it!!!
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Nasty lol
 

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