Text 20718, 84 rader
Skriven 2009-02-11 20:31:21 av Carol Shenkenberger (27260.cooks)
  Kommentar till text 20681 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
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 >  >  > We did a "hold us thru" trip on Saturday.  This week will be the big
 > 
 >  CS> Hehe i *still* havent.  Kinda shows ya the sort of stocks i got used
 >  CS> to keeping handy.  Just no fresh fruit or veggies (canned and frozen
 >  CS> both).
 > 
 > Those long months at sea where you would stock up the family before
 > leaving still holding an influence?  We did the main trip Friday
 > afternoon and went back Saturday afternoon for some more fresh produce.

Yup, I actually have food probably for another month if we wanna go all
canned and frozen.  I need fresh stuff though.

 >  > made for a long day at school so they decided to put him in the half day
 >  > program this semester. It means Rachel has to take him & pick him up but
 >  > he's doing better for it. She is able to work out at a nearby gym (with
 > 
 >  CS> Thats good.  He's a bit young to be gone still that long if it can be
 >  CS> avoided.
 > 
 > That's how we felt.  We're also appreciating the fact that Rachel is
 > being a stay at home mom this school year.  She's making noises about
 > going back to teaching next year but Sarah will have almost a full year
 > of mom time if she does.

Things are a bit harder now so sometimes that's not all that much of an
option.  Be easy on her if so.

 >  CS> Hehehe everyone has a pig-out day now and again!
 > 
 > I know but from what she described, I thought they had friends over to
 > watch the game. No, all the stuff she made was just for them.  But,
 > they're working it off at the gym. (G)

LOL!  Don and i do that at times.  Tonight was a simple meal but based on
that chicken you hear me and Janis talking about.  I added about cup cooked
chicken to an 'arroz pollo' (rice mix, mexican style) box.

 >  > months old on Saturday.  Rachel is still total nursing but thinking of
 >  > starting a bit of cereal at night. She will talk with the doctor about
 >  > it next week; Sarah still likes to eat at least a couple of times per
 >  > night.
 > 
 >  CS> Well, a few safe cereals wont hurt her at this age.  As long as it's a
 >  CS> sideline to the momma-milk for another month or so.  I was letting
 >  CS> Charlotte investigate a bit of solids by that age with no problems.
 > 
 > Rachel was too but Deborah wasn't interested at all until about 9
 > months.

At 9 months, Charlotte was chasing the cats (running, not walking).  She
didnt really take to solids much til about 9 months.  They were 'interesting
mouth bits' til then.

All kids are different and Charlotte was slow to roll over (by a few weeks,
not radical), crawled maybe 1 week, then stood up and ran.  She was slow to
crawl having instead adapted to 'rolling in one direction to catch the cats'
very very well.  Once that didnt work, I guess crawling didnt give that much
advantage so she stood up and within a week was running them ragged all over
the house.

 >  > out an appeal a couple of weeks ago to help replenish the church's food
 >  > pantry.  Instead of the usual list of items that could be donated, they
 >  > asked just for soup--to be brought in on Super Bowl Sunday.  Cute, and
 >  > effective.  That's what part of our commissary trip was for, so we could
 >  > buy some soup.
 > 
 >  CS> Snicker, I just make it.
 > 
 > I do too but can't do that for a food pantry.  It has to be commercially
 > canned (or boxed).  We used up the last can of Campbell's tomato soup
 > that we'll ever buy the other day. They have a new line out now,
 > Campbell's V-8, in aseptic boxes & no HFCS.  We've tried the tomato and
 > golden butternut squash, both pretty good.  We haven't tried the cream
 > of broccoli yet but there's a box on our shelf, waiting to be tried.

Well, we have a church we fix food for fairly oten and they do not require 
that but they are probably simpler. No state support, just local stuff.

              xxcarol

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