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[jenreinke]

Of corse water. My kids do drink a lot of water they just get tired of it some times.
Well I would like it to be more like preserves, so would I just use your sugar syrup stuff and the berries?
That is great I will try this. Thank you!

Any other ideas would be great too.

You could also make iced teas and juice mixes. I have done a hibiscus tea and lemonade mix or black tea with lemons. I prefer the lemon vanilla panettone te for that one or a particular earl grey. I buy the loose leaf tea and add boiling water in a glass pitcher to steep (with sugar as well) top it off with cold water and add sliced lemons and chill. It is phenominal!

 

[Breshcandra]

Just a thought, but if she's a mean broody or if she's the one killing the chicks, couldn't you break her this time? Just wondering why you want to give her eggs if she's a meanie head. LOL

I have never tried to break a hen of being broody. And she is not nearly as mean as some one that I know hens. those hens would draw blood. She does a light peck and if I go from the side or back she will let me pick her up. =) I have a barred rock that I suspect is the culprit for killing the chicks. The last hatch she had blood on her beak and the chick was scalped. I have been putting the hens in there own cage about 7 to 5 days before the eggs hatch.

 

[jenreinke]

Why does every vegan cookbook have to contain a long-winded diatribe of their extreme viewpoints?

I just want to find a book with egg-free and nut-free recipes because of my allergies. If anyone knows of such a thing, please post it.

I have discovered that you can often substitute an egg sized amount of yogurt or sour cream in recipes calling for eggs. Nuts can generally be omitted or exchanged for dried fruits and such. Generally eggs are just used as a protein binder so I would just take a regular cookbook and experiment. PB cookies are fantastic with sour cream instead of eggs BTW!

 

[FirewifeJess]

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Oh OK, that makes sense! Good idea putting them in their own cage. If you look at the top of the page I posted some pics. I'm going to close that hutch so they stop laying in there and instead lay in the coop boxes. Then, if I get a broody gal I will put her in the hutch safely with her eggs. I hope that works well!

 

[FirewifeJess]

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Agreed. Costco has about a 3lb bag of flaxseed too, and I think about 2-3Tbsp of flaxseed makes an excellent substitute for and egg in most recipes!

 

[Hinotori]

I have a question. Back oh so many posts ago ya'll were talking about your diets and things you can or can't, do or don't eat. I would really like to get my family to the point of not having prossesed foods which will be a huge struggle for me with 5 kids. But right now I am wondering what in the world do ya'll drink? I have a son that has ADHD and other behaviral things we are helping him battle and I have found that all those dies in the drinks and food really affect him (as well as the other 4 kids). I have tried taking out all drinks that contain those dies but I can't find much to substitue. So I am really looking for ideas if ya'll have any.

Today I plan on trying to make my first batch of black berry jam. My cousin made some the other day and told me I need (besides the berries) sugar and stuff called Pectin. Those of you that make jams, do you use this Pectin stuff or no?
So I guess that was two questions lol.

I drink water, tea, milk, or plain juices. I can't take aspertame very well. Makes me feel like I have to go to the restroom constantly and gets painful.

It's very hard, and expensive, to find plain juices. Grape juice I make myself. I really don't like the taste of the ones in the stores. They taste wrong to me because I grew up with homemade grape juice made from concord and muscat grapes. We always cut it with water because it is just to strong.

Normally, I drink just water. Every now and then I'll have a pop, just because I get a craving (they never taste as good as I remember from childhood), but it is not a normal drink.

Tea is good to hide the taste of bad tasting water when we eat out. Most places have unsweetened, but we lived down south long enough that I like sweet tea, but not that horrid syrup that some places try and pass off as tea. It should just have enough sugar to taste sweet.

I cannot drink coffee, it gives me migraines. I believe the issue is the flavorings they add to it and the "creamers" because when I was in my military A school, I drank a lot of plain coffee with plain milk or real cream.

Crab apple jam/jelly shouldn't need pectin, but most jams and jellies do. I use the low/no sugar pectin so I don't have to add very much sugar. I like my jams to taste like the fruit, so I only add one cup of sugar per 4 cups of fruit usually. 2 teaspoons of lemon juice will make sure the acid is high enough and preserve color. It doesn't change the flavor of the jams at all.

 

[Chickielady]

Checking in & saying HI !!!!!!!!!!!

Been busy, mostly with paperwork.
The current issue is getting Home Owner's Insurance, then the building permit has to be upgraded from a Barn/Office to a House.
That requires another $1000.
In the mean time, 2 weeks have gone by & knee is still badly swollen so I went to see my GP, who is agreeing that the mesial quadracepts is badly torn & has ordered an MRI of both knee joint AND the quadracepts.
First time (out of 3) that any doc has listened to my complaint that the mesial quad is torn & flopping on my femur like a pot roast.
I like this new doc !

 

[Chickielady]

Take care of yourself and don't over do it. Listen to the doctor, you paid for his advise, take it. That said you probably won't.

OK, I missed what the initial finding were.....so someone PM what is up with CR ???????????
Hopefully no more surgery ?????????

 

[Chickielady]

Also, for 3 weeks now, I have gotten NO daily digest of any of my subscription, despite my re setting it to daily digest, it goes back to no e-mail notifications, all by itself.
What to do ????????????

 

[Chickielady]

It is so smoky here it is scarey !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!