This was not the way I planned to go on a diet.
I can have potatoes, both sorts. If baked well. But outside of that—yogurt, ice cream, shakes, and soup with nothing in it.
Waaa!
Deal is, I’m apt to pop the new ones if they put any in, so I just have to protect the artificial membrane atop the graft and keep it from floating or getting nudged. It’s starting to grow in—that’s the graft—but for the success of this whole project, I have to protect it.
Sigh.
The immersion blender (a.k.a. the hand whizzer), your new best friend.
Vegetarian split pea soup made in a slow cooker and then made even more mushy?
Green monster smoothees?
Ack! Sending you a big neck hugging, back-patting E-hug.
Yeah, I like the blender idea. That little hand-held doodah is what you need. Blend your food, then blend a glass of hot soapy water, rinse and put it in the rack. No muss, no fuss.
Smoothies! Fruit and yogurt and almond milk LIQUIFIED!
Oh yuck, that’s a really aggravating development. Hopefully wine is on the “ok” list.
I just received a robocall with a synthesized voice claiming she was from the “Microsoft Refunds Department”. What’s immediately wrong with this picture? Didn’t wait around for the “Give us your bank account number and we’ll deposit your refund.”
Besides that I can’t see them calling up people offering refunds, or calling up people at all?
(I got one this evening claiming to be from the “Dept of Utility Services” – which isn’t a real department in this area. Hung up on the recording.)
Hey, I got one this morning in Chinese! That’s a first.
(BTW, I don’t speak Chinese…)
I would ask the dentist if you can have smoothies or purée the heck out of things, baby food or smoother. If you could have vegetables or meats purée, add mild spice amounts, dairy or bouillon or veg. / meat stock, you’d have dietary nutritional variety and enough taste to do you. You’ll be longing for crunch and texture by the end of the 2 to 3 weeks, but it’s doable. (If and when I get work done, I’ll be in for the same or longer, so this is of interest.) Hmm. Seafood, maybe? Fish or shrimp or whatever you like? Whoa! Idea: My local Krogers has a tomato bisque in their deli case that is good. Purée their “fully loaded baked potato soap” down (or make your own) et voilà, bon appétit! They _might_ have a lobster bisque or some other seafood? Something like that would work.
If you can do puddings with this, I would think these fine purées and bisques and so on would work OK. Pork chop white gravy, roux and other things with meats and veggies blended down might work, and might keep you from having too rapid a loss of weight or nutrition, while giving you some much needed taste and variety.
Just a hopeful, helpful suggestion. I think I’ll want to run this idea by my local dentist to see what he’d say. — I’m not ready to try a local dental college; (budget’s not yet up to it) but I am keeping that idea in mind.
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I signed up for Netflix over the weekend. Hah, a free month trail, but I think it’s a good deal for $8 or $10 a month. (I don’t see a need for the Premium on my budget.)
I thought I’d watch one ep of Stranger Things, maybe once a week or once a night. Wasn’t sure if I’d like it too much going in, but the trailers I’d seen looked really interesting. — Well, I binge-watched season 1 and I will be watching season 2 this week. — This is more science fiction mystery. It’s billed as sci-fi / horror, but I’m not a big horror fan, and I thought it was really good, so don’t let that deter you. I’d strongly recommend this show.
I’d go into a review, but I keep wanting to write down everything, too spoilery, so — Oh, just watch the show already. 🙂 — You get actual science with your fiction and mystery and spooky threatening forces. You get true-to-life relationships. You get things piece by piece, not all at once, and not telegraphed beforehand. You get believable skepticism and missteps, strained relationships , messy realistic interpersonal things. You get heroic boys and men, but you also get heroic girls and women. You get a weird mystery girl with powers, but instead of a trope, you get a kick-butt girl who is also hiding and scared, and a boy who is missing and hiding and scared, while his buddies are all best friends, but strained to the breaking point at times. You get a mom who is so torn by grief to find her missing son, that she’s seeing supernatural things happen, and she believes they are real, but she also wonders if she’s losing it; and she keeps herself strong and together while clearly not, because she’s a single mom and also has an older son to support, and a bad ex who is only trouble when he shows up. The older son is torn between worry for his mom, supporting her even when she’s this messed up, and he is also not sure and very driven in his own way to find his kid brother and find out what happened.
That only gives you some of the first episode or two. — Oh, and the younger boys are D&D fans and science geeks, but they are very much also typical middle school kids. At one point, they phone their science teacher, and interrupt his date, haha. At another point, he gives a short, simple explanation of one of the premises of the show. Other things are sprinkled throughout that may be clues, or at least show an awareness of real science, of homages to 80’s movies and life, and go to make the show solid.
I think they’ve created a really strong show, a classic. — So if you haven’t yet watched it, it’s a good excuse to watch a fun SF&F show, get some thrills and chills, maybe hug a friend or sweetheart.
Yes! to the high-end soups you get in the cooler at Kroger’s or Safeway. Our family fave is the loaded baked potato, which is rich enough that you won’t mind a lack of chunks, and really the potato has been cooked well enough you can mash it in your mouth.
BCS, we binged on Stranger Things, both season 1 and 2. All the main characters will grow on you, even the ones that start out somewhat nutty. Since you have access through Netflix, I recommend the Marvel series: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Defenders. Iron Fist is in the same crop, but isn’t as well done as the others, so watch it with caveats. Haven’t watched Punisher yet (he makes a cameo in Daredevil), but reviews are good. Season 2 of Jessica Jones and Daredevil just dropped. I especially like the way that these are people who happen to have special abilities but the same day to day problems normals have, like addictions, a need to pay the rent, bad temper, family issues, etc. Jessica Jones concentrates more heavily on being a PI with a drinking problem than the fact that she is incredibly strong, which is refreshing for a superhero.
Hm. As a child, I figured, “You chew it up and swallow it together anyway, so….” But creamed chipped beef on toast (aka s*** on a shingle) does not taste the same after being pureed. Worth the experiment, but not to be repeated.
I think the key ingredients are Jane, with the incantation, “And make it a double!”
😉
Magic!
Baby food? Some of those are well-and-truly pureed, and they also have flavor. At least the fruit ones do – banana, banana/apple, banana/berry, that kind. The banana ones tend to have a little more lemon than I like, but I could add applesauce to fix that.
For my taste, mashing everything up together does not lead to anything palatable.
But separate fruit or vegetable tastes are OK in smooth pourable puree texture, like (sugarfree) applesauce or the babyfood fruit combinations like apple and apricot.
Some vegetables are near-liquid already, like spinach à la crème, or vegetarian split-pea soup that’s smoothed with a blender; well cooked carrots can be blended smooth and are a babyfood favorite.
For carbs I personally like the small crackers I can let slowly melt in my mouth, without any chewing: that takes a long time, so it’s not for dinnertime, but as a slow snack betweentimes a few little crackers can calm my stomach down very well.
My daughter drinks one of her meals everyday as a smoothie. I asked her to email me her recipe.
1 cup almond milk
1/2 c yogurt or cottage cheese
1/3 c dry quick oats
1 scoop vanilla protein powder
1 small banana
1/2 c frozen chopped carrots
1 cup frozen chopped spinach or kale
Put in a blender and blend until smooth.
I don’t know if you can have all of these ingredients in your diet, I think you can play with it – the Protein Powder is a constant. I have tasted her smoothies and they are very good, I hope you can find a way to enjoy eating – I am so sorry you have to go through this. I get to see my daughter next week in Seattle, I am so excited, she lives in Champaign, IL and I haven’t seen her for a year! Take care!
Sorry to hear about the dental problems. I don’t know if it is to your taste, but “Ensure” is liquid and contains everything needed to support life. Your grocery store should stock it.
Ensure is probably available where CJ and Jane are. Krogers, Randalls, Walmart, any place in town I’ve shopped for groceries, all carry it. IIRC, there’s vanilla and chocolate and possibly other flavors. I’d tried it a couple of times when it was prescribed for my grandmother. I wasn’t sure what to make of it either time, but it was not bad, either. People say they like it better chilled, and I hear some people blend it with chipped ice for a smoothie, or they may add flavors via liquids or spices. So it’s an option to seriously consider. (The grammarian in me long ago decided there was nothing inherently wrong with “to boldly go” type split infinitives, heheh.)
The smoothie recipe above puzzles me between the veggies (carrots, spinach, etc.) and the oats and dairy, but hmm, that sounds like it could work. I’ll have to copy it down and try it. — The only thing there would be to get the oats into a powder or cook them down so fine that they go completely soft. (I like oatmeal a lot, though sometimes the microwave doesn’t get it fully soft the way stovetop cooking does. It would just need more time in the microwave.)
Malt-o-Meal? Cream of Wheat?
I wonder what good stuff your local Asian market or aisle would have that would lend itself to soft or liquid foods? Heck, Naruto’s preferred ramen with veggies and a couple of poached eggs, maybe? (I am sure I’ve seen how-to recipes for the kind of ramen Naruto likes, and many others, on YouTube.) Maybe a fellow customer or clerk who speaks (and reads) Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (or Vietnamese or Thai or others) could help you find ingredients or could suggest recipes?
Oh. Duh! Egg drop soup! That, you should probably be able to do. It’s mostly broth, just a quick buzz to blend the non-liquid additions, and you have a winter comfort food there.
That Kroger deli “loaded baked potato soup” is a go-to comfort food for me, a weakness that I claim is OK because the ingredients are good. I don’t get it all the time, but occasionally, that really hits the spot.
CJ, I think for the duration, don’t be so concerned about carbs or other dietary ideals, in favor of getting enough taste and nutritional value from your soft-foods diet. — Allergy avoidance, sure; ideals re weight, no; necessities to avoid inflammation or other unhappy (malheureuse) symptoms, ah, of course. — But you and Jane are always both very practical-minded and willing to experiment to discover what does and does not work for you, so I am perhaps talking through my hat there. 🙂
Hanneke’s suggestions, including the crackers, make good sense. Saltines or soda crackers or club crackers, some other sorts of crackers, wafers, or biscuits for tea or coffee sides, or for soups, could work fine. The old home remedy of milk or soup and crumbled up crackers should be doable for the soft diet. Heck, soak tortilla chips in soup, let ’em soften in it in the fridge overnight, smash the chips beforehand, that would do too. Toasted pita bread, do the same? Her suggestion of creamed spinach might work. What about a spinach soufflé? The little Stouffers frozen ones that my local Krogers now either hides or does not always stock, would do. I would guess that if one has a recipe and a bit of determination, dicing the spinach very fine is likely the hardest part of doing a soufflé. I’ve never made one from scratch. I think I had seen one demonstrated, maybe Alton Brown’s Good Eats, I don’t recall, too long ago.
Much appreciation and sympathy, CJ, and wishes for tasty food to get you through this.
Hahaha, the suggested magical ingredients and incantation involving Jane and “make it a double” have a certain great charm too. 😀 One could claim any alcohol content has medicinal antiseptic qualities, and one would be correct. Any additional qualities in moderation would be fine. One suspects the Jane-ness to be the best ingredient in this wizardly magical way, however.
One could also wish for one’s own special someone, but Mr. Right and I seem to have this frustrating problem of either never meeting or never knowing it if we do.
Strawberry Ensure is quite good if chilled with a little milk added to make it less thick. My husband lived on this for the better part of a year. We tried all the flavours and we found strawberry the best. We drank it with a straw.
Very finely chopped spinach, with and without cream (and sometimes luxury variations with Boursin herbed fresh cream cheese or fresh goat cheese), is a standard frozen staple around here: no need to do any chopping yourself, just warm up as many little cubes as you feel like eating (with a spoon).
Oh, that sounds good. I haven’t seen a similar product here. Small cubes? That’s a handy solution for a side dish from the frozen foods. Huh, why hasn’t some American food company done that? Or am I just missing it in the store? LOL. Here, we can get small microwave / TV dinner type trays of creamed spinach or spinach soufflé, and there are fresh salad kits for spinach with nuts and berries (often cranberries, maybe currants) sometimes bacon bits, and a rather dry cheese, such as feta or parmigiana. I would think a product like you’re describing would be a hit here too.
My local Krogers seems to have moved where they keep the frozen quiches. I wonder if a quiche filling or a frittata, something similar, would be permissible. Heck, I’d want to review a recipe, but a quiche filling isn’t difficult to fix at home, just a little time in the kitchen and a chopper or blender. Egg custard, maybe? Other custards?
Why is my mind going to high calorie comfort foods? Hahaha.
Huh, I wonder what you’d get if you diced a ratatouille super fine? Probably a mess! But a tasty mess! 😀 — I see I should put the ingredients on the grocery list, that’s the second or third time I’ve thought of fixing ratatouille lately. The first time, the recipe I had been given worked out to enough ingredients for two large, deep casserole dishes instead of one. We had _plenty_ of ratatouille, enough to give some to a neighbor also, but it was very good.
Most American brands of frozen spinach seem to chop the spinach less finely, but this looks like the Iglo version that is popular all over Europe: Bartlett Farm.
It doesn’t need to boil, just warmed up, so if low-fat is not your goal you can add any kind of creamy improvement you like: cream cheese (plain or herbed), or cooking cream, or fresh goat’s cheese (adds a slightly sour note, so some people add a little bit of honey), sour cream, or even dairy-free cooking/sour cream or soymilk for those who are lactose- and gluten intolerant (Iglo sells an Alpro Soy creamed spinach as one of their variations).
Let the cream cheese melt along with the frozen nuggets of finely chopped spinach and stir in until it’s one semiliquid puree, and nice and hot.
The usual accompaniments are a boiled egg (quartered or sliced) and either potatoes or toast-fingers that you dip/soak in the spinach so they go soft (“little soldiers”, deployed around the green to guard the egg in the center, to entice fussy young eaters to vanquish & eat them all).
An easy to fix comfort food, kind to sore throats and quite nutritious.
It’s also lovely in savoury pastries, e.g. with goat’s cheese, honey and pinenuts, or with salmon (Iglo also sells frozen salmon and spinach pastries to bake in the oven, yum!).
Do not combine it with rhubarb in one meal, or your teeth will feel funny (a bit rough): both absorb calcium and together that can be a bit much at once.
Adding the dairy enrichment means the spinach will get its calcium from that instead of from you, which for women over 50 seems like a good idea.
Maybe it’s the lingering impression from early marketing campaigns, but iron-rich spinach and calcium-rich milky goodness combined in one comfort food feel as if they should help build up strength, blood and bone and teeth.
When I was a little kid the Dutch milk board had posters up in primary schools and supermarkets featuring little George Threepints performing feats of strength, promoting that kids should drink 3 glasses of milk per day.
Though I know both Joris Driepinter and Popeye the spinach-fueled sailor are marketing gimmicks and not factually true, that sense of those foods being good for you lingers.
I’ve tried the house brand lower-carb versions from Walgreen’s and Target. They’re okay – I think the Walgreen’s vanilla is a little better in flavor – and adequate for making sure you get some nourishment when more normal food isn’t possible.
Also, for electrolytes, you can get Pedialyte powder in packages of eight packets – two each in four flavors. I recommend using one packet per 16 ounces of water; it’s fairly strongly flavored. It’s also not bad with half tap and half boiling water (for a hot drink).
I have a microwave oatmeal recipe that doubles the time but at half power. I also let it soak in the liquid (usually water) for several minutes. Between the two, it won’t boil over as often.
Yesterday I got so shaky from want of something — protein, instinct kept saying—or from an overage of carbs in that shake at noon—that I literally was so shaky I could hardly function. I made scrambled eggs with a giant dollop of Greek yogurt and felt better. I think I am going to have to get less carb and more protein, and scrambled eggs may be one of my better choices. Baked potatoes with butter and sour cream—last thing I need right now is low fat. Whew! yesterday was nasty.
How ’bout hummus? — It was the Greek yogurt that suggested this.
Hmm, if you can do an omelet, then you have enough leeway for a few things. Purée the bell peppers, maybe tomatoes, whatever other veggies, if you like those in an omelet, whatever meat you like along with the filling, and whisk into the eggs along with grated cheese, and you get…I’m not sure what it would do to the browning of the eggs, blended like that, but it would be a way to get in other protein and veggies along with soothing eggs. Heh, I’m trying to get creative with this in a way that would make a nice dish, palatable and presentable. I may have to experiment with that idea, I think a bit of milk and butter/margarine and you wouldn’t have a too-serious problem with the egg mixture cooking too fast, scorching or sticking.
Waffles or pancakes? — And, purely for wacky entertainment value, JacksonBird on YouTube has “Will It Waffle?” in which he tries random food items in a waffle iron, with usually dubious yet humorous results, amid much enthusiasm. Also, Jackson is a big Harry Potter and other SF&F fan, and is a trans guy; he began transitioning maybe two years ago, name change and all. A very likable and positive person. There are Harry Potter Alliance and some trans and LGBT themed videos on his channel, organized by topic. The “Will It Waffle?” stuff is great fun in an, “I can’t believe we’re doing this, and yet it’s so cool, I’ve got to watch.” Most of it is how Jackson goes about things. He’s sensible but doing this just for the heck of it.
Dunno if you have a waffle iron or just use a frying pan and make pancakes, but hey, if you could do pancakes or waffles, it’s an option. Maple syrup, boysenberry, or butter-flavor?
Lemon blintzes or crèpes? Why do I not fix these? I love lemon blintzes.
Mashed potatoes — I would presume these would be OK on your diet. The spill of parsley flakes a few weeks back resulted in some very parsley-ed mashed potatoes, but this was really good. A little sour cream and grated cheese too, and it made for a very nice dish. Just, you know, about twice the parsley it needed. Funny, though, it did not overpower things. So the beef I’d cooked separately, that was the source of the lid popping off and the carpet of parsley flakes, then scraped off mostly and added to mashed potatoes, resulted in two dishes that did better than I would’ve thought. Cutting down on that amount of parsley, adding other herbs and usual potato toppings, would give a very nice, palatable dish, and the veggie herb content should boost it.
Tomatoes and rice, cook and mash the rice down to a dough, add in the tomato paste and whatever else you’d like, basil, maybe oregano? Not straying too far from the old standby.
Oh, heck — mochi! I have seen recipes which have a ton of sugar, and others that have only some. (I’d looked after I’d gotten curious and tried mochi via Amazon, cheap imports from Japan.) I came to the conclusion that people fix mochi in as many ways as there are ancestors (haha), but that it looked easier than I would’ve thought. Apparently, people at home do not go in for the ritual pound the heck out of it that is done for public festivals, gatherings, and commercial sales. Unless your teeth in this situation make the idea of pounding cooked rice into a dough, sound like a very attractive way to vent your frustrations! In which case, hey, go for it! (Hmm, could in fact be a recommended stress-reliever after watching the nightly news these days. Heh.)
A good veggie and beef stew / soup was one of my grandmother’s go-to fixes, if someone was under the weather or down. This, rather than chicken soup, though she could do that too.
Banana pudding with Nilla wafers. — Pumpkin pie or sweet potato pie (you like sweet potatoes, so that might be preferred?)
Mirepoix — cook it down enough, you’d get a soft, thick, savory, healthy veggie mix. Oh, shoot…no onions, though. OK, a dash of diced, pounded ginger? Whatever you use instead of onions? — How would bok choy do?
Do you like turnips, or is that a turn-off? They cook down soft if not overcooked. Done right, they don’t go to the overcooked flavor I don’t like. (I like turnips, though. Some people can’t stand them. I grew up with parents who’d eat them sliced raw, or cooked, with or without the greens.) Your mileage may vary.
Squash of any kind. Zucchini. — Cucumbers? Hmm, no to the cukes until you can get back to slightly more solid food. But any kinds of cooked squash or gourds ought to be OK. Butternut squash with cinnamon and nutmeg, and very little sugar, a bit of butter, nandi. Baked quite well.
Pad thai or peanut sauce…hmm…omit the crushed peanuts, keep the peanut butter-like component, the veggies, do something to incorporate the noodles…. Seems like it could work.
Tortialla soup? Chicken corn chowder? Ham and potato soup? — Blended down, they’d be tasty. Not too much work if you get a store-bought can. Not much more if you want to cook it yourself.
Yes, yes, nand’ CJ, we are determined to feed you properly.
One has a most excellent recipe for butter mochi, but it is a trifle on the gummy side; one does not recommend it unless you have the patience to let it slowly dissolve in your mouth, or wait until you are permitted food with a bit more substance. It is rich and sweet and gooey, including coconut milk and rice flour, and gets brownie-like crusts on the edges.
We are just starting to get into the early garden season, so if you can find a selection of new veggies, blended gazpacho (sans onions, of course, but those chilies!) might be worth investigating.
The mochi recipe sounds interesting! 82Eridani’s butternut squash soup recipe sounds tasty.
Blended gazpacho — now there’s a good idea. Lots of taste and healthy ingredients, mild or spicy on the chili peppers of what variety one likes. A substitution or omission of the onion would still give lots of flavor.
Guacamole or anything avocado-based should work too.
Butternut squash soup that’s been whizzed up with a stick blender is good. Can be made with Italian seasonings and a bit of finely crushed fennel seed, if you like that flavor. I prefer a curry/garam masala/tumeric version. I still have garden squash from last fall — if you were closer I’d deliver it!
Ensure does make a high protein variety. What may have made you shaky was that the carbs you had were “fast release” (simple carbs that go straight into the blood) and first jacked up, then fell out from under your blood sugar and gave you a blood sugar crash. That “could hardly function” is a clear symptom that your blood sugar is dangerously low. You might try Glucerna as it is supposed to have carbs that are slow-release (complex carbs that require some digestion). It’s specifically designed for diabetics to keep their blood sugar levels from fluctuating wildly during the day, and in more of a “steady state”.
Off-Topic: I watched eps 1 and 2 of the revival of Roseanne; 7 more eps to go for this season, and I don’t know if they’re planning another season.
Right out of the gate, the first ep touched on several topics with much snark and wit, and I liked what they did in only a 20-something minute show. I found myself thinking of MASH, of all things, for comedic tackling of real topics with heart and wit behind it. They take an opposite tack on one issue that I thought was a clever way to deal with it. Others are simply there: Their very presence as background not much dealt with yet, says more than not having them.
We get an inclusion of DJ’s daughter; DJ’s wife is black and stationed overseas in the army. Their daughter could have been lighter skinned, but they went with a very dark skinned girl for the role. She’s included with the dysfunctional yet oddly functional Conner family, and her mom may be a girl DJ knew in school from the old show. We get an affirmation of girl power for her, during a scene about another topic altogether, but her inclusion there is also a silent commentary against the racial prejudices that have lifted their ugly head again in American life. So there’s likely going to be more there, addressing what multiracial families and kids and spouses go through.
We also get a topic dealt with in both eps that I didn’t expect to see. (Possibly because I’m not too familiar with the old show.) The grandson, Mark, is in elementary school, and likes to wear very colorful and/or girly clothes. This gets a mixed reception in the family, but instead of going ballistic, they support him, even though there are reservations. Instead of seeing it only one-sided, they have everyone with mixed views on it. Mark goes right on with it, brave and naive and not sure why other kids don’t like him for it…and finds his own way of dealing with it. There’s also a funny zinger at one point. And the boy playing the part: You know, it takes some guts for a boy to play a part like that and carry it off. They’re not playing him as one-dimensional. I was amazed to see this handled at all. To see it handled as a real issue with depth and some understanding of multiple sides and real difficulties on those sides, and to seee a character like him portrayed at all, speaks volumes to me.
Er, I would’ve been a different character type dealing with similar issues, though. Even in elementary school, I got bullied, called names, barassed physically, for the girly / sissy / gay thing. So even in elementary, picking out my own clothes, I consciously avoided (nearly always) anything that I thought might look too girly or (I didn’t know it yet) too gay. Ah, but some things did slip by, because my internal definitions on things didn’t entirely match other boys’ definitions. Heh. — I also avoided a very nice Miami Vice jacket and outfit at college age, because by then, I was a very pale, skinny, geeky young guy, still a little more lilt and higher speaking voice than some guys. I hadn’t yet filled out at all, too skinny, and that outfit looked great on the men and boys on TV and in movies at the time, medium build and tan and fit, but inside, I thought it would only call into sharp attention, that, well, I was not as masculine-appearing (I thought) as most guys, or the fact that I was struggling with my sexual feelings and orientation, and not dealing with it well. Rejecting the jacket and outfit my mom had wanted to get me, running me by the young men’s dept. in the store before Christmas, just goes to show how much I was not dealing with it. … And several times since then, I’ve wondered, what if I’d gotten one or the other of those styles, which did look good and were wildly popular back then. — That only gives a tiny, lopsided view of how complicated it felt for me growing up. But it also means, I can really appreciate that the show (Roseanne, season 10, revival) has the guts to take on the topic of a boy with some gender-role / sexual orientation issues that some kids today do go through. I’m also impressed that they’d deal with it for a boy that young in the show, and deal with it head-on, unapologetically, but realistically, nuanced.
There was plenty in the two episodes so far to keep me hooked, laughing at the snark and the smarts and the thought and caring behind what they were doing in the episodes. So if that’s what I’m getting for 2 out of 9 episodes for the season, wow, I’m impressed and want more.
Also, I loved the scene that deals with healthcare, where Roseanne and Dan can’t afford their medications, and so they are shuffling pills between each other, from what they could afford to get. Directly relevant, even for those with insurance, as addressed in the scene.
Highly recommended. Your mileage may vary. — Just ’cause I like it doesn’t mean other foks here will. But give it a try and see for yourself.
Any hot breakfast cereal may be cooked in milk or cream with good results. I also rather adore Mrs. Beeton’s recipe for ‘invalid coffee or tea’. 1 tbsp. coffee or 1 tsp tea per cup of milk, boil for 5 minutes and strain. One may then temper in an egg and drink. I find it excellent, no matter how it sounds.
My deep empathy for your plight. I too have lost weight when having dental problems – also lost wallet amounts.
Have you become svelte? Wearing those junior high clothes way in the back of the closet? You have to have some laugh with all these problems.
Remember how the kif have to have liquid diets. Life imitating art.
Jonathan up in New Hampshire