The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

One of the last recipes I got my mom to recite to me before her memory for such things was gone was for her sour cream chocolate cake. Top it with fudge buttercream frosting then shave semi sweet chocolate over the top of it.

dang!

sounds good!

I got cake from the grocery store! my kind of clean up!

but they didn't have German chocolate. ..so I got a container with 4 kinds of cake in it. I keep reminding myself...eating 1 cake in an evening is bad. Haven't tasted it yet... waiting for the kids to run off so that I can eat it without feeling guilty for not sharing.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Yes Micro, i suffer from IBS and there is a diet you can follow but after a while i just couldn't do it any more. I would also like to lose weight, but then tasty food is one of the few pleasures i get these days.

 

[drumstick diva]

Alaskan, just lock yourself in your bedroom and eat the cake. Who says eating a whole cake is bad? You NEVER heard that from me. I just felt a strong impulse to make the Pillsbury cheesecake brownies - it's my sons favorite. But, somehow I had picked up two boxes and since I don't want to overwhelm him, I will eat all of this batch myself. It's a tough job but, parents have to protect kids(he's 32) .

 

[drumstick diva]

Alaskan , now and then our grocery store has good sized square pieces of cake for like 4 for$ 5 or rarely 5for $ 5, several kinds. I love German chocolate too but, the marble cake is great, red velvet, snickers, etc. Once I ate all 5 at one sitting. It was good but more filling than ice cream, that just melts and slides down.

 

[NotAFarm]

Anyone want a small Scrappy snowman? I didn't put a hanger on it but it was for my office door last year and I traded it for the deer this year.

Obviously my favorite color is blue...

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I just saw this and I'm glad Penny snatched it up.
I have one from this same pattern that scg sent to me a couple of years ago and it is currently hanging on my bedroom wall.
I love snowmen. They can stay around for a couple of months after the Christmas decor has been sent to the attic.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Any minute now i am going to grab up my fabric and start something! Just as soon as i get rested!

 

[microchick]

I sewed on my quilt project for about an hour and a half tonight. I kept getting distracted by the 'destroy LA' movie that was on SyFy tonight. Pictures of work in progress tomorrow.

I always remember the story I read that was told by an ER doctor who was relating stories about the 'return customers' they always had. One was an insulin dependent diabetic who for 364 days of the year toed the line with his diet and had good control of his diabetes. Until that one day hit when he went out, got a whole gallon of the best ice cream he could find and proceeded to eat the whole gallon and wind up in the ER in a coma from high blood sugar. They would pump him full of insulin, get things back to normal for him and he would go home to once again behave himself for the next 364 days.

The moral of the story?

Sometimes ya just gotta have whatever it is that you are craving and get it out of your system.

I read somewhere that it is better to indulge big time all at once over indulging than to over indulge day after day after day.

Oh, @CapricornFarm, I have no choice but to stay on my IBS diet. Not so much a diet but I know what foods to avoid unless I want to be miserable for a week or two. Sometimes though I just got to have that fried chicken dinner when we go out to eat. Some things are just worth the misery.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Oh my, i have eaten ice cream out of a carton but never a whole carton at once. It is terrible and wonderful at Christmas because hubby buys me the stuff i love/ body hates. Eating is always a battle. Hubby cooks and i eat it but i really wish he would cook more veggies. I even buy them when i go on trips to Walmart. He buys most of the groceries. Maybe i need to push it more. Life is such a struggle sometimes. Maybe i should just be thankful i have enough food.

 

[drumstick diva]

Wonder if I could be hypnotized to eat smaller portions or something. A few times I have gone without ice cream and my other temptations and eventually lost 17 lbs. But, the family refuses to notice any change. I don't usually care what someone else thinks but am very fragile when I have given up so many goodies and get no attention. It's the men in the family that don't notice. Ladies on the senior bus notice even before I do.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I get the hanging oh my I am so excited my machines sew Stitch's that is so pretty, funny but very pretty