Indeed. It especially irks me when I see people comparing shopping at a discount superstore with a membership fee for produce to shopping for fast food meals. For most people access to a fast food joint is a lot easier to come by than access to the discount superstores. Even if you do have the available time and knowledge to cook at home, if your only choice is a dollar store where all the fruit and vegetables are canned (this would be me if I didn't have a car), it gets incredibly expensive to include plants other than legumes. I've costed out diets before from my local dollar store (proving a point on the internet -- xkcd.com/386 is relevant) and at the amount of cash I was looking to spend there was just no way to get in sufficient calories and include five a day fruit and veg unless a large portion of the rest of your diet was baked goods composed of solely flour and water (tortillas, biscuits, bread), which is also not at all nutritious. I'm leaving out the specific numbers I was using because my point is not so much the numbers, but that it raises the cost disproportionately more to add fruit/veg if you are living in a food desert.

My mother chops up just enough for her zucchini bread (it's excellent), adds the sugar necessary for the recipe, and then cans it. So we can have zucchini bread year-round.

Are you sure that's correct?An ounce of raw tomato is about 1g carbohydrates (checked usda and canadian database just for thoroughness) so that would be more than a 2 pound tomato. Is it possible that whatever entry you're using accidentally entered the calories where the carbohydrates should be? MFP has some very suspect entries. Look for the USDA ones. I'd like to throw a plug in here for cronometer as a tracking tool -- it doesn't have the barcode scanner etc like myfitnesspal but if you make your own food the databases are far more accurate. There's a paid version but the free version is incredibly functional.

I have, yes. For me it was a way to get treatment I couldn't otherwise afford (It was comparing two treatments), and the cash ($200) was a bonus.

I think a lot of times the people who write diets are making blanket rules. For example, I see carrots excluded frequently due to the sugar content, but I have a terribly hard time imagining most people gaining weight from eating too many carrots. I used them as snacks while driving, because the crunch helped substitute for my preferred snacking foods (potato chips and peanuts). Beans do have a fair amount of starch, but for most people they will be self-limiting as the after-effects of eating too many are rather unpleasant. I think that you should be guided by how your body responds in general. If a food makes you hungry soon after eating it, leads you to consume large quantities, or has very little nutrient content, it is probably something you should limit. If it is something where you can eat a nutritious meal in reasonable portions and not be hungry for hours, it probably doesn't need to be limited. I like to make stew with chicken broth, lentils, tomatoes, spinach, and loads of spices. I find it's a great lunch or supper, especially since I make multiple portions at once and then don't have to think about what I'm going to eat on the next day.

Haha yeah. Every time I visit my mother I find something horrible she's forgotten in the crisper. It totally put me off fresh vegetables for ages. Even now I'm still incredibly reluctant to buy anything fresh unless I have immediate plans for it, or it's something that can last a long time like root vegetables or celery. ETA: Man, I wish I could casually drop by a fresh fruit and veg place, the only places really in walking distance are dollar stores which have a few overpriced canned vegetables. It's 15 minutes each way driving with many traffic lights to get to the nearest places that sell fresh. Unfortunately my job is not very mobile.

Heh ok I just searched this as well. The only things I eat off that list are the vegetables (learned to like them as an adult, still loathe them if cooked more than a little bit) and the mushrooms. Also have never liked chocolate because I couldn't get over the bitter. As a child, had a strong sweet tooth and a strong preference for very bland foods.

Without cutting out the beans (I ate plenty of lentils), this is very close to what I did to lose weight; it worked beautifully and I was rarely hungry.

Sample diet for some people I've visited who eat low veg (for the "how do they not?" people) Breakfast: grilled cheese sandwich, fried egg. Lunch: bologna and cheese sandwich Supper: burgers, pasta with cheese, vegetable

I think that in order to find someone who will inform you in detail about brain function and healthy gut function you will really have to seek local recommendations. I've spoken with a couple (funded by my work) and when I had similar questions they really weren't sure. My friends who went said they were fine with questions like "how can I integrate more fruits and vegetables into my life" or "where are places I can cut out calories" or "how can I get myself to eat breakfast instead of ending up at the vending machines by ten" or similar ones.

I do find eating veggies more expensive than eating just meat and grains, but I think this is because the meat I get tends to be cheap cuts of chicken, which in my area are half the price per pound of the cheapest veggies, and a lot more calories. If I were eating beef it definitely wouldn't be. I end up eating 1-2 lbs a day most days (the lower days are usually a lentil day for protein) and it's seriously at least 1/4 of my food budget. For anyone who's looking to increase their vegetable consumption, you might consider frozen vegetables. They are frequently among the cheapest, they are already chopped and washed, they store well, and unless your vegetables are very fresh and local they are quite often more nutritious than vegetables that have been shipped across the country and stored. You can roast them with a little olive oil and salt/spice to taste by just dumping the bag into a baking pan, and they are quite good that way.

It should. And if it takes her all year, then it would be obvious that she wasn't really ready for algebra. Foundation in algebra is absolutely critical for future success in high school and college, and will stand her in better stead than by being sent ahead when she's not ready.

I would go with your gut feeling. Remember that you're teaching the child that you have and not the child that other people have. If you choose a topically oriented pre-algebra, you can compact and find gaps in learning by administering each chapter's test. If she gets an A on the test, reteach and correct any missed problems and move on. If she gets a B/C, I'd recommend reteaching, correcting, and working the chapter review as well. If she scores less than that, work the whole chapter. If her knowledge of pre-algebra is actually sufficient to move on to algebra, she should be through the entire book in less than a month with this level of compacting, and you could start algebra. If her knowledge of pre-algebra is not sufficient, I'd much rather find it out by getting slowed down in pre-algebra than by jumping into algebra and having to quit and go back to pre-algebra after experiencing frustration and failure.

5 years later he was reported to have gained 5 kilos (in another article). They also said his family had sold their fish and chip shop which made it far easier for him :p I can only imagine how much I'd weigh if my family owned a fish and chip shop and every day at the end of the day I was looking at unsold delicious fish and chips.

If you really like them and the only deal-breaker is the no combination vaccines, is there something like a county health clinic or pharmacy where you could do the vaccines only?

His name was Angus Barbieri. Here's a contemporary article about his first solid food breakfast: http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1966/07/12/page/5/article/scot-eats-his-1-st-solid-food-in-392-days

Condiments and cheese will both be fine.

A lot can change between now and 12th grade. I don't think this decision needs to be finalized now -- it would seem perfectly reasonable to have 12th grade as 'biology?' in your future plans, and see what he thinks about it during 11th grade.

This is exactly why my mother didn't send me to a Waldorf school -- they banned the children from reading, even on their own time. It seems pretty common.

Oh yes! And people think you're so weird when you're hunting around because you're hopeful that those are actually blueberries and not chocolate chips. I can't even cook with chocolate for someone else because the smell is so bad. And if I go to something like a pancake house where they have chocolate pancakes I can't have pancakes because they tend to cook all the pancakes on the same griddle and the faint taste of chocolate makes them inedible to me.

I really don't like chocolate or coconut, which results in skipping dessert almost everywhere.

Indeed. And this is so frustratingly counterproductive, because going to urgent care before it turns into pneumonia is exactly what a system that is overall concerned with saving money and keeping people healthy would want to encourage people to do. Not to gamble and hope it goes away. I have a friend who's on partial disability because of complications from a bacterial infection. He was self-employed and, as you say, didn't go to the doctor until the limb was falling off. He's only barely in his 50s and cannot ever hold down more than a part-time job again, plus the cost of care to fix it has been astronomical. As he is now disabled, the continuing care he needs is paid for by the gov't, but the earlier bills were only solved by bankruptcy. Who the hell does this benefit besides health insurance companies? Not him, not the hospital, not the taxpayers, that's for sure.

I would be more inclined to consider going back to CLE. Jacobs is a solid program, but CLE will have the advantage of strongly reminding him of when math used to go swimmingly and put more emphasis on Saxon having been just a bad fit for him.

Porridge was awfully common. Eggs were seasonal -- summer yes, winter no. Bread or biscuits was pretty common too, or pancakes (but pancakes with less sugar than we would customarily see, sugar being expensive and difficult to come by). Leftovers in general weren't at all uncommon and quite often fried into something like bubble and squeak, or hash. It'd also be quite common for the women of the house to be cooking breakfast while the men would milk and care for animals, so breakfast would be taken after an hour or two of work would already have been done.

He will want to be able to quickly and easily prime factor numbers, but not enormous ones. He may be taking classes in the future where use of this function is not permitted, or use of a calculator, and not being able to do it will hurt. Furthermore, continual practice helps to review short division and the multiplication tables throughout upper-level classes.