I cook with it constantly - - it can substitute for pretty much anything white and creamy but with no fat and lots of protein. Some things I put it in: fettucine alfredo Ranch salad dressing mashed potatoes naan creamy soups pancakes cake/muffins I just wish it were not so expensive!

Last year, I lost 40# by: --walking 5x week (3.5 miles/hour, so no speed records) --eating 1550 calories/day So based on my experience, I'd say that for the amount of exercise you are getting, you aren't eating nearly enough calories. (I'd also add a psychological element: for me, at least, I'd _never_ be able to eat as strictly as you do long term, so I'd give up. But 1550/day means that you can have the occasional handful of candy corn without going over your calorie limit . . .)

I was a toddler, in RI, and I remember (or remember being told about later?) my dad taking me in the sled to the corner store for milk. :)

I imagine that that is a scam of some sort.

Not sure how it works where you are, but when we volunteered at a food pantry, almost everything there was there because it was donated. So there was a TON of unhealthy baked goods (muffins, cake, etc.) because those things can only be on the store shelves for a few days and then they donate them. It made me sick to be helping people fill their carts with these totally junky carbs and virtually no protein or nothing fresh/unpprocessed . . . until I realized that if it weren't for the junk carbs, we'd have pretty much nothing at all to give them.

Another thought we be to bag the debate and do a reality show: make each one of them work an 8-hour shift in a day care, fast food restaurant, cleaning hotels, etc. and air the results. That would be must-see-TV!

Congrats. May I recommend something like this for mashed potatoes: a small amount of mashed potato mixed with mashed cauliflower and Greek yogurt and whatever seasoning you like?

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks the mic should shut off after time (+ 10 second grace period to finish the sentence). I think both candidates feel obligated to go over time to show how tough they are and I hate it. It is rude. I like the idea of a foreign moderator. I also think that the question that was asked should be on the screen--that would make it easier for people to recognize when the candidate is avoiding the question. I'm not sure how to avoid the yes it is/no it isn't dynamic that has come to dominate, but I hate that.

The advice most professionals will give you is to maintain your birth order, which means only adopt/foster children younger than your youngest. We were, briefly, foster parents and the advice *I* would give you is to only foster/adopt children 5 years younger than your youngest. Nothing horrid happened to us, but I realized after a few placements that the potential was definitely there for something horrible to happen and it wasn't fair to my own children to take in children even close to their ages. So please consider waiting a few years.

I think the reason it got me was that I totally didn't see it coming--I thought for sure that the person who had been ignored was going to step in and save the day. And then everyone just stands there and watches it happen . . .

I actually cried. I never do that.

This is the only kind I would buy. I would be SOOO grateful if one existed!

For a decade, we've done math first, all of the book-ish subjects, and then done science experiments, history projects, and reading. Well, as the kids have gotten older and their work takes longer, it has become more and more rare for us to finish everything. And we have commitments outside of the house almost every afternoon, and I just could never round everyone (er, mostly me!) up to continue school when we got home. I felt guilty. And homeschooling is much less fun when you never get to history and science and literature. So I decided to go backwards this year: we start at 9am with reading and projects and work on those until 9:45. Then the kids do their individual stuff. We almost always finish everything before we have to leave and, if they do have something left to do, it tends to be typing or reading or something else that doesn't involve me. I can't believe how much more pleasant this has made homeschooling. Just thought I would share in case it is useful for anyone else.

I always thought it would be awesome if they did "SOTW chapter packages" that you could request. So you would say "I need SOTW I ch 8" and they's have a box of books for you--maybe the ones recommended in SOTW but also others on the same topic. But perhaps I am just dreaming . . .

I'm LDS and this would not offend me. The question was asked and this is a fair answer. (Although I wouldn't call coffee, etc. "evil" myself.) Now it would be different if you said, "And people who believe it is immoral are idiots." That would be offensive. But you didn't do that.

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I'm feeling like my neighbor underpaid my son, but maybe I expected too much. (Nothing was agreed on beforehand.) So I am curious to know what you would pay. Also, if you thought she had seriously underpaid, would you do anything? (I am considering an email saying that we won't allow our son to work for her again and if she plans on hiring anyone in the future and paying way-below-market rates, she should let them know that upfront.) Or should I just let it go?

Haha--I came here to ask the same thing! Please? Anyone?

I've seen some where you put frozen fruit in a food processor. That's it. We have done this with strawberries and another time with bananas. I thought it needed a tiny bit of sweetener.

One more thing--the series Critical Thinking in US History is AWESOME. I have used it in multiple small-coop settings as well as one-on-one with my kids. I'd recommend it for 6th-12th grade. It isn't a complete history curriculum, but it takes debatable issues in US history, gives you a bunch of snippets of primary sources as well as snippets of historians who disagree with each other in interpreting those sources. (You could dig all of this up yourself, but they have saved you a LOT of work.)

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I think you should start be recognizing that every history curriculum has a bias. There is no such thing as "accurate" history (although some are more factually accurate than others). With that in mind, I'd eliminate ones that have a bias that you find unreasonable. Then, I would be sure to study history yourself--particularly viewpoints to which you may not have yet been exposed--in order to be able to discuss these issues with your kids. (I always thought it would be awesome to have a high school group read _A Patriot's History_ and _A People's History_ and compare them.)

I have collections. Here's how they work: BOOKSTORE: free samples NIGHTSTAND: things I am currently reading SHELF: books I have purchased that I haven't read yet ARCHIVE: books I have read CHURCH BAG: scriptures, manuals, etc. for church and scripture study FREEBIES: free books I probably won't ever read HEBREW/GREEK: a bunch of PDFs I use for studying the languages

I thought y'all might find the dealer's response entertaining: " Im sorry that you feel that way about nissan but Im not sure what you want me to do considering that I don't make the product??"

We have a Nissan minivan. I've hated their customer service from the get-go because they delivered the van with a piece of equipment missing (the trunk cover thingie) and it took me 8 million phone calls to straighten it out. Well, a few weeks ago we got a flat. No big deal--we start to change the tire. Except that the crummy tire iron they included was so cheap that it bent out of shape on the second bolt and was unusable. We were in a rural area. Grrrr. Anyway, I sent an email to their customer service. No response and it has been several weeks. What would you do? Who else can I complain to? Or should I just let it go?