Lol. I want to shake my fist at them and say "You need some real problems. That's your trouble! Don't recognise your own bloody privilege do you?" So I don't read them any more either. :lol: I don't tend to go far out of my way to avoid triggers. I know the trauma reaction or generally icky feeling will pass. If I run into something that wasn't on the blurb, I have no trouble tossing it, and going to rant to my WTM book buddies about how dreadful it was!

I think you ought to work on your gut health so the farm favourites aren't so much of a burden on your system. I also think broccoli soup is a perfectly fine entree and you might find vegetables soup entrees become a fashionable thing in your household if they are ready to be served to starving people while Farm Favourite is "not quite ready."

I don't know what MIC is but my first thought was reusable breast pads. :lol:

How to care for my brother's blue tongue lizards, who have just taken up residence at my place.

Make sure you give the owners your feedback. They owe you a certain level of teaching in exchange for the considerable amount of money you're spending.

The first type need some kind of CBT training and some useful teaching on the nitty gritties of *why* they need it. I happen to be the second type, and people who try to inflict CBT on me will cause damage, not cure it. That's why I think it is important to determine which kind of grumbler you have. *Please note, my thoughts come from the School of Hard Knocks and I am in no way a qualified mental health professional.

With the second, I either lay it on with a bit of humour, "oh yes, woe is you. Nothing nice will ever happen ever. You have the worst life in the whole, wide world and I'm the meanest mum." Or, if I'm lacking in humour, "yeah, enough already with the hyperbole." Negative language doesn't necessarily mean they don't have a can-do attitude. It just means they don't express it verbally.

Dd described 2017 as the worst year of her life. 2018 won't be any better, but it's one year closer to 2025.

Some people do this and it is damaging to them. Some people do this and it isn't damaging to them; it just annoys the people they live with. I'd treat each differently.

A friend of mine just sent me this link. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet: https://www.microbe.net/gutcheck/

Ferment some of the veggies. It doesn't take any longer to prepare veggies to ferment than it does to cook them.

If you use Chinese cabbage, you won't need to pound it or use water.

You don't need to use a probiotic capsule. You do need to put some caraway seeds in for flavour. Because caraway is yum. :drool5:

It's a shame they don't have a group controlling for probiotics and such.

It's not harsh to imply that a child's social life is their parents' responsibility to organise.

Have you ever tried a Chiro? My ASD son never did toilet train, but it helped dd when she was toilet training. If they take a tumble, as small people do, it can knock things around in their lower back so the signal doesn't get through.

And thank goodness for that system! Otherwise the likes of our children would not have access to tertiary education! My dd will have to pay for her own. I still have the deferred loan Sadie is talking about, and it is about $300 more than my superannuation. I expect my brother and I to help out with her living expenses because it is very, very unlikely she will choose to live at home, and I'm in a rural area so there aren't as many options. The government student payments are too low to live on and she's not the genius student who have enough hours in the day to work full time and study full time. She will have a much longer life to deal with those loans than I'll have to build my super. Or maybe she'll stick to her current plan of doing a carpentry apprenticeship, which would be much cheaper!

We are born with a predisposition for comfort eating.

'Not Just Lucky: why women do the work but don't take the credit," by Jamila Rizvi. It was about the workplace, but very accurately described the mechanisms operating in my life.

The scouts might like the scout stuff collection to display at their campsites.

In a light soup or flicked around in a frying pan.

It's your thread, Babe! If you're having fun, carry on. :hat:

Yeah. Merry Christmas you lot. *mwah* Don't let this thread see the new year, ok?

Good on him. :)

That's how my mum made our prezzies look good. She never went so far as toothbrushes, but all the pencils, sharpeners etc we needed for school were wrapped nicely and look good!