AlmiraGulch
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My Instant Pot finally arrived today!!!
Kalua Pig (and cabbage) for dinner tonight, and probably several meals over the weekend. I'm so danged excited I can hardly stand it.
I've been eating basically the same breakfast every day, which is reheated sweet potato and either sausage or chicken thigh, with two eggs on top. It's really good, but I'm going to get sick of eggs here in a minute, so it'll be good to have some leftovers on hand again.
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I ended up going out to dinner after all. So much for my rock solid resolve.
It went well, though! I had a steak, cooked with no oil and salt and pepper seasoning only, a salad with veggies only, and I took my own compliant dressing with me, and a baked potato, dry, except I took a small container ghee with me for the potato.
One thing I found out tonight is that Outback rolls their potatoes in a soy-based oil before they salt the outsides, so i didn't eat the skin. Who knew?
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Yeah, chicken breasts with seasoning and veggies. Sorry. It's easy.
I guess that'll be it, if I can talk the hubs out of eating out again.
ETA: Actually, he can eat out if he wants, but I don't want and so I won't. The kids can stay home or go out. Makes no difference to me.
There. It's decided.
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Chicken is my fast go to. Aidell's chicken apple sausages are my super fast go to.
Bummer on your instant pot. :(
And now DH is saying we should go out to dinner. We went out last night. I really don't want to go out.
Ugh.
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Help! Quick!
I have a pork roast and a brisket ready to go for my instant pot that's being delivered today, except now it's not being delivered until Friday.
Which means I have nothing ready to cook for dinner tonight. It's too late in the day to start either of the above in a slow cooker even if I wanted to.
I have to have DH go to the store and pick up something for dinner. What should I have?
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Day 2 was yesterday and I already messed it up, but...whatever. I didn't eat a carton of ice cream or anything, I just had dinner at a hibachi place and wasn't 100% compliant. I skipped the rice and the miso soup, but I did have the salad with ginger dressing, and they cooked everything with butter. I skipped the terriaki. Not awful. I'm fine with it. It was a birthday dinner for DSD and we talked her out of picking the pizza place since DH and I would have been sitting there with nothing to eat, and so this was her 2nd choice.
Anyway...I'm actually getting used to the black coffee, which is a huge surprise for me. I don't usually sweeten it anyway, so it's just the creamy texture that I miss.
I haven't had breakfast yet, but when I do it'll be sweet potato and sausage hash with 2 over-medium eggs on top. YUM. It's the same thing I had yesterday and it was filling and delicious.
Lunch will be leftover beef veggie soup with sliced avocado on top.
Dinner? Not sure. I'm hoping my new Instant Pot arrives today, in which case I'm going to try a brisket. Wish me luck!
I feel less bloated, for sure, but no energy spike yet. It'll come. It always does.
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I've read about some of the additional evidence that was not presented in the series. Even with it, I still could not have convicted SA had I been on that jury. The investigative incompetence and, in my opinion, corruption, was clear and staggering. I obviously don't know if he did it or not, and I wouldn't be surprised if he did, but he was not afforded the rights and protections that are supposed to exist in our justice system. Not by a long shot.
As for Brendan Avery? That kid was absolutely railroaded. No doubt about it. I'm convinced that he actually had nothing to do with it at all.
The most compelling takeaway for me, though, is that apparently every phone conversation in Wisconsin begins with "Yeah? Yeah." haha
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I forgot to mention that I also baked a few sweet potatoes, made some mayo, and ordered the Epic Provisions Whole 30 Starter Kit. It's pricey, but I travel a lot and need some protein-based compliant bars and things for when I'm stuck in meetings and/or airports.
Now I need to make some sauces.
Anyone have any that they use regularly and love?
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I am here, although what the heck was I thinking starting my first day the same day we started back after two weeks?! :eek:
Breakfast: two fried eggs with lots of peppers and onions and sausage
Lunch: leftover hamburger with caramelized onions, grilled pineapple, half a red pepper and a few bites of pineapple-mango salsa
Dinner: will be Cobb salad
I have had about two smallish handfuls of coconut flakes, lots of bubbly water and hot tea.
I miss you coffee with half and half. I miss you so much.
This. Sigh.
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Hi, all!
Just stopping in to say I'm joining you. Today is Day 1 for me of my 2nd (or 3rd?) Whole30. It's been more than a year since the last one, though, and it's far past time.
I went shopping yesterday but didn't feel like cooking, so today I roasted a bunch of boneless, skinless chicken thighs to have on hand for the week, and I have a crock pot full of veggie beef soup cooking right now.
Wednesday I'll get my Instant Pot, and I have brisket and a pork butt just screaming to go in. Here's hoping it turns out, because the brisket is grass fed ($$$) and the pork butt also came from Whole Foods, so....not cheap.
Oh, and my food for the day.......no breakfast except black coffee, which I don't love but can live without for 30 days (I like half-and-half in my coffee). Then I had a salad of mixed greens, tomato, avocado, and roasted chicken thigh with compliant viniagrette. Dinner will be that soup that's cooking now. I'm hungry right now, too, so I'm thinking about some sort of snack. I should go boil some eggs...
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My kids report internet chatter that Rey could be related to Obi Wan -- I guess a granddaughter or something. People have been heavily analyzing the voices in the vision sequences and somehow came up with this.
I noticed Obi Wan's voice during that sequence the second time I saw it.
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I just saw it again yesterday, and I have a question.
Who is the old guy that had the map to Luke? The one in the village that Kylo Ren killed near the beginning.
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Looooooong story. Basically the wrong person picked the wrong card and everything went downhill from there.
Oh, man. That would suck.
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There are some games I want to take out back and shoot like a clay pigeon. Quelf is one of them.
The Game of Things is one we play often at the in-laws. It can turn raunchy with one of "those" crowds, but it certainly doesn't have to.
What?!?!? Why? We love that game!
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IN my family there is no difference. All are treated equally.
Now, growing up my half sisters got tons of gifts from my dad/step mom while I'd get one or none. I once got a Penquins turtle neck when I was 16.
Oh, wow. That's just....wow.
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No I have not. I did watch a video on Amazon I think of the three grandmas playing it and I know it would not be a game I would enjoy. My Sister, maybe.
Yeah....then no, definitely don't get that one.
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I have considered cards against humanity but I just don't know. Thanks for all the suggestions. I believe they have the wise and otherwise game.
Have you played it already? If not, just be sure you know the game and your audience. It could be incredibly uncomfortable with the wrong set of people.
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The idea of having the gifts go to DSD's mom's house is a great idea as well.
I think I'm just going to do this.
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They aren't blood. I would choose to ignore it. You might not like the answer if you dig.
And fwiw, I was technically the step-something of the family my mother married into when I was a teen. I don't take pictures with those people and I refused their gifts. They were doing it to be nice, but I didn't want them and didn't want to be family with them. You have your bonded situation, but that doesn't mean it's how they feel or how they have to feel about it. Long-term are your bio kids going to be there for them? Are they going to be there taking them flowers and going to the nursing home for them as adults? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe the grandparents want to water the relationships they're nurturing for the long-term. And it's not like they did NOTHING. They did perfunctory, totally nice gifts. They just didn't do bio gifts.
You don't have to take it personally, and I agree with Farrar that teens are old enough to suck it up and figure it out.
Interesting perspective, because I'm not a stepchild.
Not sure what you mean by I might not like the answer if I dig. I really think it's just that every family does things differently, and I need to get used to it. I'm just not yet.
I also don't understnd the "teens need to suck it up and figure it out" thing. I don't know how you intended that to sound, but it comes across pretty harsh. Neither of my kids has said a thing except "thank you" to the gift givers. Meaning, they haven't said anything to me, haven't made any insinuation that they deserve something more...nothing at all like that. This is all a "me" thing.
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The step-kids (as me and as my step-sibs) weren't all treated equally by all grandparents. But to be fair, I think it's different when the steps are teens and young adults when they join. I'm glad to have grown a relationship with my step-grandparents, but we weren't close or anything. I met them in my 20's. They sometimes send sweet things for my boys and they like to keep up with us on Facebook. I wouldn't expect anything else. My grandmother slowly has gotten closer to my step-sibs's kids (who are now adults themselves - so her step-great-grands) on that side... but it's clearly not the same for her. Everyone is okay with that. No one feels less loved. She's like a bonus. My father was closer with his step-grandkids, but they were little when he met them. (The first thing they ever sent him was a picture where he was labeled "Granny's Man" lol).
Basically, I think it's okay for things to evolve and different things to be right depending on the circumstances and ages of everyone. I would have felt odd as an older step-child getting treated like a "real" grandchild suddenly by these people I didn't really know. If I was an elementary schooler who was trying to figure out if I was really accepted and welcome in a new set up, that would be different.
I do understand that part, which is why I'm not quite so bothered about DD19. DD13, though, has known these people since she was 7, and DSD was 6.
I really need to let it go. They haven't done anything wrong, and, like I said, these are not unkind people. It's just so different from anything I've seen before that I can't understand it, and I can't imagine doing it myself.
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I'm trying to think what my parents would do if one of their grandkids moved into a family with other kids. I think they would treat them all the same, materially at least. I think most people would realize that the kids in the home will notice unequal treatment and feel hurt. The only reason I could see doing it would be if I knew the other kid in the home was getting special treatment too.
Yeah, that makes sense. That's not happening here, for sure.
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Do the "stepkids'" grandparents treat all the kids the same? Or are the "stepkids" getting stuff from 3 sets of grandparents while the "non stepkids" are getting stuff from 2 sets?
Is anyone asking the "stepkids'" grandparents to give the same to all the kids?
I'm actually talking about her (DSD)'s grandparents. She has two sets on her father's side of the family. She is the only bio grandchild for DH's mother, but DH's stepfather has several kids and grandkids, all grown and with kids of their own, though.
She is the only bio grandchild of DH's father, but there are one or two more on DH's father's wife's side. I don't know how they are treated, but I know that they see them a lot more and are closer to them because they live close to each other.
My own parents, with more than 20 grandchildren (albeit many of them grown and with kids of their own at this point), treat all the youngers equally.
And no, no one has asked.
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Interesting question. My brother has step-kids, and I always bought for them even before he married their mom. So this isn't about me being stingy.
But don't step-kids sometimes come out way ahead, because of having more family to dote on them? I'm thinking of one family in particular, where the "step daughters" are very much doted on by their father's extended family. Their half-brothers don't have anything comparable. If the little half-brother's auntie decided to get him a nice gift and get the step-sisters a token gift, I would not blame her.
I hear you, but when the kid lives with us at least half of the time, and all of the kids are together all of the time, I would think at least the grandparents would treat them all equally.
Then again, and the reason I posed the question to begin with, I realize that not all families function the same way. These are not unkind people, and I'm sure they have no ill-intent, but it really is bothering me because it's completely unlike anything I've ever experienced.
Whole 30: Week 1
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I woke up this morning intending to make this, but....no. I need an egg break entirely.
So I skipped breakfast and had an early lunch. We had an event and went out before it (yes, we eat out a lot), but this time was easy and delicious! It was a Superfoods Salad at Cheesecake Factory. Kale, spinach, arugula, broccoli, avocado, sunflower seeds, slivered almonds, grapes, goji berries, pears, some other good stuff I can't recall, and grilled salmon on top. Instead of the dressing I had olive oil and vinegar.
i ate that salad for a good 20 minutes and there was still about a pound and a half of it left when I called it quits.
Haven't decided on dinner yet, but I'm supposed to go hear my husband's band play tonight. In a bar. When I'm not eating bar food or drinking alcohol. Sigh.