Saturday Roll Call August 18, 2007

[Norfolk Mermaid]

I am putting this up a little early.
Hot, Humid and Horror of a day.... so I did what any idiot would do I got some fried chicken, steak fries and six Krispy Kreams (I ate 4. Now I am that little knome on tv- "Am I going to die", I will not do that again as I was knocked out and now my stomach feels like it is mixing cememt.
Hope to be back later.
Lainey *think of that little green face"

[Joplin38]

Lainey, the first time I bought Krispy cremes, I ate 9 out of 12 of them....never again...they are deadly. Honestly, I don't even like doughnuts...what happened to me.

PS, you have lots of stress going on....I don't know what to say except, this too will change and get better.

[mykneesareback]

Lainey, poor thing! That makes my stomach churn just reading about it. The fried chicken more than the Krispy Kremes actually. I'd be looking really hard for some Alka Seltzer and ice water.........

So you can touch the kittens now without the mother getting mad, eh what?? I forgot how many there were, and wouldn't you know they are on such a high shelf too.

Hello to you too Janie!!!

Greeting all the posters coming here sooner or later. Begete, how was that Fair?? And don't tell us you ate any of those deep fried Elvis sandwiches either!!!!!!


Doris

[Norfolk Mermaid]

A nurse told me once that if you cannot get to meds and your tummy is just awful drink water till you feel better.... so it has taken about 30 ozs but I do feel better. I will get the giant alka seltzer (makes me feel better if I am sick or not) in Sams next time.
Jany, I grew up with them and here they pull apart like cotton candy but I always just breeze right by them. Chicken is usually passed also but this store makes it like my Grandma did with lots of pepper and mid size pieces but the salt us a no/no so I avoid the stuff. I have had far worse piggy outs so I am wiser as this is by far the worst reaction I have ever had. Cast Iron stomach is now tin foil I guess.
L.

[mykneesareback]

LOL, I buy that large carton of Alka Seltzer at CostCo every so often Lainey. My Dad used to like that stuff back when we lived down in the San Joaquin Valley near Fresno and it got so hot and horrible during the summer. It seemed to help, so I keep the stuff around, old fashioned or not.
I don't know how you folks who live in that humid south/southeast/midwest stand it though, I give you ALL a HIGH FIVE !!!


Doris

[LoveMontana]

Thanks for starting this off Lainey, Sorry about that upset tummy. Lie on your left side. That's where the stomach empties into the small intestine. Helps with the nausea.

Hi Janie, when do you get to see the family and Finn? You must be chomping at the bit.

Hi Doris, hope all is well in those lovely mountains.

[Begete]

Hi everyone - The county fair was great fun.....and Doris the only thing I ate was half an iced coffee and half a raspberry scone (split both with DH).

Just loved the animals, especially the alpacas. I am still sorry the house we bought is in a community that doesn't permit farm animals. We are actually considering buying a pair and boarding them at a nearby farm....they are so cute and their waste is the very best garden fertilizer there is.

I also really enjoyed the flower exhibit. I was reading the judge's rating sheets for each of the ribbon winners which turned out to be the actual system I studied when I went to judging school a few years ago, and a woman who was in charge of the exhibit was asking me about it and invited me to join the garden club....so that was nice.

Watched a log rolling contest - hilarious, and western horsemanship trials - I really need to learn to ride western - and spoke with quite a few of the 4H kids about their animals. I have to admit....being the snotty easterner - I kind of expected these kids to be "dorky", but they were really smart and funny and poised and adorable, and now I wish I had grown up in a place that had 4H....which reminds me -

Did anyone see the news yesterday about crocodiles in the creeks in Montgomery County, PA? That's where I used to live. Global warming....now we have crocs in PA!!

Lainey - I have gone on a few binges during the 4 years I have been LCing, but fortunately mine usually involve sushi......Hope your tummy is soon better...

Janie - you ate 9 donuts? not all at once? I cannot even imagine anyone as elegant as you eating 9 donuts....

and Linda - how is the packing coming? Have you decided where you will meander betw homes? You really should come out this way....

Tomorrow is farmers market and an Indian/trapper something or other fair almost across the road from where we live. Apparently its purpose is to demonstrate what life was like in the Pacific Northwest in the 1870's. We saw all these teepees and tents being put up the past few days and wondered what it was all about. Will let you know tomorrow.

There is also a big art exhibit at the lavender farm down the road....so lots to do.

Made sugar free strawberry jam this morning, and if the peaches are ripe will make chutney tomorrow....

I must say...retirement is totally exhausting.....

[jezzie]

Center Lake, Warsaw Indiana ..... (for Kay)

Guess there aren't too many of us who have never had a Krispy Kreme.
I've had more than my share of Dunkin' Donuts though.
There was one glazed number they would heat up with butter. Ahhhhh.

I was thinking yesterday as I read some recipes at the recipe board ...

Isn't it funny how people say they don't miss anything from their
pre-lowcarb days and then try to recreate the very things they don't miss.
Cake, ice cream, bread, lasagna, mashed potaoes, etc.


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[jezzie]

Back with an announcement:

The Women's Murder Club is going to be a TV series.
Premieres October 12th at 10 pm (est) on ABC ... staring Angie Harmon.


And with a chuckle:

[Joplin38]

In the heart of all of us, there must be an evil twin who could eat a pint of chocolate chip ice cream right from the box, a whole bag of fritos, a box of whoppers or 9 Krispy Cremes. My biggest temptation is crackers...I just can't have them in the house.

Babette, that sounds like a wonderful place to live. I would love doing all of those things.

I am off to the farmer's market before the heat sets in.

[jezzie]

I think I have you topped in the ice cream area Janie.

When I first stopped low carb I went nutso.
Ate a 1.75 qt container of ice cream in one sitting.
Made up for my ice cream deprivation all at once.
Didn't regret a moment. ... But wouldn't do it again.

[mykneesareback]

LOL, Jezzie. I think the recipe sections on most weight loss boards should be entititled "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"!!! I'm suprised some research teams haven't proven the food addiction theory based on these situations. It has nothing to do with "elegance" or "willpower" when we want to overindulge. Boy oh Boy...........

Our son and DIL are coming to help us out today. Grilling will be the order of the day.

I wish all of you a pleasant weekend too.


D

[oceanmama1]

Cake, ice cream, bread, lasagna, mashed potaoes-----oh yes, I LOVE and miss you all. I agree with Janie, crackers are the best and hardest to resist. How can a little cracker be so bad--- It's health food compared to ice cream, right?

I have never tasted a Krispy Kreme although I hear they were "born" in Myrtle Beach-- about 50 miles from here. I can still "taste" the filling from the marshmallow filled doughnuts from Valdsarri's bakery in Bentleyville, PA. My Dad would bring 2 dozen home every Saturday morning when we were children and had the money that week. Yummmmmmm!!!! Maybe that is why my whole family fights the battle of the bulge.

Thanks for the picture of Warsaw, IN, Jezzie. It looks beautiful so I fear that Jen will fall in love with it and really take my Bethie that far away.---- big sigh.

Kay

[mykneesareback]

Feeling for you with the whole families fighting the bulge, Kay. My Dad was a baker in Germany, and when he made his cakes for our relative's and our family Birthday's, he made a frosting with Crisco and other tasty things, and would call we "kids" over in order to squirt frosting into our waiting mouths, to see if it tasted "good"!!


It was 32 degrees here this AM, all the bird baths were frozen over, and dh turned on the heater. And so it goes.


D

[Loretta V]

Never did taste a Krispy Kreme donut. But recently I got my first taste of Dippin Dots. I was not that impressed with them and would rather real ice cream. My biggest addiction would be popcorn. Boy, I used to eat some (a huge bowl) EVERY day. Another addiction would be the Cheese Bread from Pizza Hut.

Thanks for starting us out today Lainey. Hope your dad is more settled now.
That was really an eating binge.

Enjoy your weekend and find some time for being content.

[Jewels]

I've never had a Krispy Kreme donut. Donuts are not something I like at all. I'd have to be pretty desperate to eat any of them.

Now Ice cream is a different matter. I love it, it loves me and we get along great! I can't have it in the house either.

Loretta, popcorn is another one of my addictions. I look at it this way. It's a whole grain and not junk food. I don't stay as low carb as the rest of you so I do eat it. I make the microwave kind and add spray butter, Splenda and cinnamon.

[vessel of prayer]

I CAN EAT A DOZEN WITH MY EYES CLOSED. Which really is quite pathetic.

French fries, POTATO CHIPS, crackers, ICE cream. Anything chocolate. PIES any flavor. Cakes too. These are my missing objects of affection. Milkshakes, over indulgence of fruit. Spagetti, Lasangna. (sp) the list could go on and on.

[jezzie]

OK ... I'll play the torture game

cherry, apple, pumpkin pie
strawberry shortcake
hot fudge sundae

french fries w/salt and malt vinegar

baked ziti, manicotti, lasagna (not made with turkey. lol.)
eggplant parmigiana on Italian bread

General Tsos chicken, dim sum, cold sesame noodles

creamed chipped beef on toast
beef paprikash on real noodles
beef stroganoff with real noodles

petzels, popcorn, vinegar & salt potato chips

and last but not least .....
KFC original recipe chicken breasts w/coleslaw

Okay ... time to come back to earth and have my brown rice and beans.
.

[vessel of prayer]

Jezzie. Lets do lunch!!

I am eating tuna salad at the moment with vin. and evoo

[birdlady]

Most of the above.

[oceanmama1]

I still use Crisco in my frosting when I make one of my famous cakes, Doris. I make maybe two a year now. Everyone just loves my frosting until I give them the recipe and then they want to upchuck. LOL.

All my siblings are heavy or heavy-ish. We did not eat heathily as children and have the genes to be large people---not tall but large. My mom mom (maternal Grandmother) was only 4' 11'' and weighed over 300 pounds before WWII. Dad always said she could not walk through a doorway without turning sideways. She did not eat anything during the 2 years that my uncle was in the Pacific with the Navy that she was not sure that he had access to eat. She lost over half her body weight. I only knew her at about 140 pounds with the biggest blubber arms you can imagine. I used to sit on her lap for hours and play with the flab on her arms. It sounds gross but I remember it as comforting. I was a sickly kid and that grandma thought I was "perfect". The other one for whom I was named had no use for me or any other "girl". Sad situation. Maybe this accounts for some of my weird personality traits--- something had to cause it, right?

Kay

[Joplin38]

I am so glad that I ate lunch before I read all these lists.

I do make hamburger stroganoff a lot and also cream chipped beef...just put it on cabbage noodles. Sometimes I use Dreamfields but consider that a splurge.

Would you believe that cream chipped beef was my first company meal as a newlywed and I served it to a woman Marine. What was I thinking?

[Jewels]

Janie, it was like me. I served my parents meatloaf for my first dinner party!

[jezzie]

Sheila you're on for lunch. lol.

Kay no one except my Mom was ever heavy in my whole family ... even extended.
Even both my daughter's MIL's are size four's. I stick out like a sore thumb now.

Janie: I used to go to a truck stop in Maybrook for my creamed chipped beef.
Truck drivers know where to get good hearty meals cheap.

Oh, I forgot to put brownies and warm chocolate chip cookies on my list.
(Once they cool off someone else can eat them.)

[Jewels]

Originally Posted by jezzie

Oh, I forgot to put brownies and warm chocolate chip cookies on my list.
(Once they cool off someone else can eat them.)

I love soft homemade cookies.

This thread is soooooooooooo bad on this BB. Aren't we awful?

[LoveMontana]

ROFLMAO at the addictions all of us had. My big one was M & M's. Actually anything chocolate, my grandmother's dark, moist chocolate cake with butter cream frosting, brownies, home made chocolate chip cookies, chocolate covered pretzels, fudge and Godiva Chocolate Truffles.

I'm so glad I broke that addiction but I fear one little taste would be the death of me.

I have never taste a Krispy Cream and never heard of them until I visited this board.
Donuts have never tempted me.

Pop corn with lots of real butter and salt is another hard to resist. I admit I have a cup of the stuff every once in a while.


Babette, sorry you can't have alpacas. They are adorable. We have several alpaca farms with in a couple of miles of here and right up the road from our new place.

We have no idea where we will spend our "homeless' weeks.

Kay and Doris, Crisco makes wonderful butter cream frosting. My German Grandmother used that often and alternated with real butter.

Julie, microwave pop corn? Blah!! If you are going to eat it, do it right and pop your own with palm oil in a pan on top of the stove.Cover and shake till done.

Jezzie, Woman's Murder Club, eh? I'll need to write that on the calendar.

Waving everyone else. We are going to the Multi Ethnic GARLIC Festival

[oceanmama1]

Julie, it is not bad to talk about the foods we loved but no longer eat--- except when it makes us cave in and go eat some of them. Wonder how many of us will remain cheat free today? I am so far but my mouth is watering for something forbidden.

Kay

[Norfolk Mermaid]

All ethnic foods- evert single country in the world that I have tasted- start with the spicy places like India, Mexico and just keep going around the world. Love Shusi. N.Y. really taught me to eat ethnic and I was never fat. I ate all those countries sweets too. Greek and Italian ewww yum.
ENOUGH.
L.
OH, and after 24 donuts they lose their taste. I always take the brownie that is in the corner of the pan. STOP IT

[oceanmama1]

Yes, Lainey, they all start to taste like soap after the first two dozen. LOL
Kay

[Jewels]

Linda, I mean the kind of micro popcorn I make with in a micro maker. No oil, just popcorn. So it's from scratch..
The micro bags you buy is what you mean right? OH Gawd, those are so bad for us. All kinds of bad stuff in those to clog our arteries.