You might find inspiration in this thread: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/631520-can-we-share-holiday-cookie-favorites/

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Oh, these are not really Christmas cookies but they go well with most Christmas cookies and are super easy. https://hungrynovelist.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/old-school-butterscotch-brownies/ All the recipes I see have a higher proportion of flour which I find unnecessary.

you interested in past holiday meal plans as well if you just want inspiration? last christmas for christmas eve we had sausage stuffed mushrooms, roasted brussels sprouts/root vegetables with olive oil/butter, and eggnog. lots of eggnog. christmas day we had a rib roast, bacon and sage yorkshire pudding, spinach with cheese sauce, mincemeat pie.

Freezer is not optimal usually because it gets a bit too cold but popping the parchment paper back into the fridge halfway through rolling out if it gets too warm can definitely make it a lot easier.

Also if you can chill the place you're going to roll them out or roll them in a cold room it really helps. I do fancy rolled cookies on a nice big slab of marble that's been in the freezer for a while but even a cold cutting board would probably help.

Rugelach. Really more of a Jewish treat than a Christmas treat but we always made them at Christmastime. Dough is equal parts by weight cream cheese/butter/flour, chilled, rolled out in circles, sliced like a pizza, spread with jam, fruit/nuts, and cinnamon sugar, then rolled up and baked. Norwegian butter cookies -- recipe from an old Fannie Farmer cookbook, but they are a rather delicate cookie-press cookie.

Water retention can often mess with scale dropping even while you're dropping fat. http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/of-whooshes-and-squishy-fat.html/

Personally yes but I would definitely cook them through and not use them for (say) a medium-rare burger, but more cottage pie or unstuffed cabbage or something.

Try it and see, it sounds delicious. This looks similar http://pastaville.johnsonville.com/recipe.php?id=1282

Yep. I used to be amused by this website that records people who apparently (I say apparently because I could see posting those to be funny, sometimes, but I've argued with some of these people who really weren't just trolling) believe fake news stories, but now I'm just mostly sadden. Still gonna share: http://literallyunbelievable.org/

Great idea to preserve options. The thing that I'd be careful about is not planning on having a class that colleges often want to see only taught in the 8/9 grade. For example, if you do US history there and that's the only exposure, it could look like they never had it, and that's an iffy class to bring up from middle school. Be cognizant of that and aware that to make sure that something is included in the 4yrs prior to HS graduation, this may necessitate certain classes being taken during the second senior year if you go with the earlier placement -- for example, taking a DE US history class if the only one was done in what's now the 8th grade.

25th percentile means that they scored better than 25% of the people who took the test. Basically it is requiring them to score in the bottom 1/4 of test takers.

Even the USDA says you don't need to toss that -- "Most shelf-stable foods are safe indefinitely. In fact, canned goods will last for years, as long as the can itself is in good condition (no rust, dents, or swelling). " http://blogs.usda.gov/2013/06/27/before-you-toss-food-wait-check-it-out/

If you read sale flyers religiously, you may be able to find some good deals. Look for frozen veg on sale and buy as much as you can fit. Eat more chicken, less beef. Chicken leg quarters are much cheaper than other cuts and frequently a good bargain even if not on sale. And potatoes. All the potatoes. They're usually on sale at this time of year too.

I didn't have my math facts down until after pre-algebra. My mother kept moving on conceptually until she hit problems where it really mattered that I needed to stop and think about multiplication facts and I learned them through repeated computation. As long as you don't allow a calculator and there are no learning disorders, that type of mastery will come, but imo it doesn't make sense to stop and wait on concepts until facts are learned.

Not really in favor per se, but more engaging in an academic argument about pure, abstract ethics/logic. Which is, of course, why logicians don't and shouldn't craft laws. If you're interested, here's a link to an open letter in response to the outcry after their first paper. http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2012/03/02/an-open-letter-from-giubilini-and-minerva/

If Hillary had won and the dude were saying extremely offensive and blatant lies about what "conservatives believe", quoting things that may have been said by a few public figures who are wingnuts but are really things that 99.99% of conservatives don't believe, yes, I would still be upset and wanting to complain.

A lot of times when you're dieting for a while, your body will start to retain water. This has probably been what's been causing your plateau. Then when you have the eat all the foods day, the water weight that you've been retaining for a while suddenly drops off all at once. http://leanmuscleproject.com/how-whooshes-impact-your-weight-loss/

And food like this has teams of scientists designing it specifically to make it so that most people can't stop eating them.

Yes. In addition to what you said, there's also the adaptation period where you've cut out all of your old stuff and haven't quite figured out what is 'permissible' and what is not, so you're eating less by default. Or you've switched to lchf and it's filling you up so much that you are eating a lot less. But as you continue and become more adapted, it's really easy to increase intake again.

Excerpts are all that get tested on the bloody standardized tests, and we know that the only worthwhile outcome of education is that which can be measured on a standardized test, right? .........

You know, I never understand this. There are a few things that I'm super picky about (mostly sweets/snack foods) and people always feel the need to try "but you haven't had it MY way". No. No. I am perfectly happy to skip dessert. I do not want it your way. I do not like it any way.

I'm with creekland. At least she's easy to cater for. Burgers aren't that bad. Get preformed patties and thaw one or two out when she's over. If you wanna make it more meal-like I bet she'd eat tater tots or french fries and you can do those in a small dish on the side of the oven or in a toaster oven.

It sounds like an introduction to the beginning concept of functions defined in tabular form and that fits her description of input-output problems. Edit: googling "patterns in a table of values" brought me some links. http://www2.sd35.bc.ca/teachers/dponak/Ponaks_Math/8_Chapter_9_files/9_2_Patterns_in_a_Table_of_Values.pdf http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/math/support_gr6/patterns.pdf