I'm glad you had a good day with her, Matt. How is she doing overall?
Woot, underwear!
One of DH's aunts died this morning. They were really close including him living with her and his uncle for a time when he was in his teens. She was quite ready to go, so mostly I feel relief for her. Also still a bit mad at her because she took care of everyone, her mother until she was 99, her husband, their child, his wife and their 4 children, extended family. She was the caretaker, but she took terrible care of herself. She had severe diabetes but ate crap all the time and just really neglected her own health. The last 25 years she spent much of her time sick and in pain and she deserved better. She and our uncle were married 51 years. RIP Aunt Nancy.
I woke up this morning, fed the cats, ate some breakfast, decided to go back to bed for a bit and slept until 3 pm. Oops.
Laura, that could have described my mother. She took care of everyone else, but not of her own health, and she paid the price the last 15 to 20 years of her life.
My heart goes out to you and Brandon.
I love my Instant Pot. That we can make amazing ribs in a total of about 45 minutes (and all the yogurt) would sell me on it alone.
Gronk. Going on vacation tomorrow. Not ready. Mostly packed, but not ready.
Cereal: so sorry about Aunt Nancy, Laura. It's rough when a person deserved a better life than they got.
Thanks, it is a hard loss for us, but she chose to not continue treatment because she was ready, and we understood her choice. She never complained about anything so the family respected her wishes.
Laura, my sympathies to you and Brandon.
A new gadget won't make you start cooking if you are not already doing it.
Wise advice. I do love new gadgets though.
Remind me are you on a restricted diet?
Nope.
Zen, if you are low carbing it I can send you the month plan with recipes that I sent to Sophia. If you are doing carbs then just have real rice where it calls for cauliflower rice and so forth.
I would be happy to get this! I'm doing carbs. I've learned there's no point in me doing lowER carbs; either I eat bread/sugar or I don't.
Meal planning is absolutely impossible for me. Maybe I'll get better at things that require, idk, *planning*, but for now, I need to be able to feed myself whenever I remember to wander into the kitchen. I've been eating a lot of fruit and PB&J sandwiches, and instant oatmeal and microwaveable Rice-A-Roni.
I would recommend InstantPot for: 1)People who want a rice cooker, but don't want a uni-tasker 2)People who eat a lot of yogurt 3)People who have foods they would make more often if it didn't take so dang long.
Maybe that's me. 1) I'd probably eat more rice if cooking rice was easy. 2) I love yogurt and being able to make it myself would be cheaper than buying 20 little pots of yogurt a week. 3) Half of my reluctance to cook is how long it takes. My attention span is shorter right now than it has ever been in my life. And my impulse control is not working at 100% either. I'm using you guys as a safeguard on buying an expensive new gadget I may not need.
I woke up this morning, fed the cats, ate some breakfast, decided to go back to bed for a bit and slept until 3 pm. Oops.
I did the same thing! Except 5pm. Woke up to a friend pounding on my door. I missed a movie date, which never happens, and she was halfway afraid I was dead. She's a good friend.
The Instant Pot has almost certainly saved us its price in takeout at this point.
Laura, I'm sorryfor your loss.
