Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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We're going to cook although there will just be us and our "bubble bubbies." I'll send left-overs home with them and we will enjoy them too. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I still do several recipes that were served at our extended family dinners when I was a child. I will get out the china and silver and table cloth. I don't do that very often any more. For the last two years, Debbie and Larry were with family so we roasted a chicken but we did do a couple sides and pumpkin pie. I was grateful to find a reasonably sized turkey today when we were buying turkeys for the food bank. The FB expects to provide food for 6000 families M-W. It will be crazy over there.
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We are planning for the two of us for Thanksgiving. We said no to DS1 and DS2 and their families (a total of 10 to 12 depending on which college kids are at home) in the hope that it might be safer for Christmas. So hard to say no but with rising covid rates, just does not feel safe or wise to mix households.
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Sorry to hear about Ruthbru. I hope she recovers without lingering health issues.
DH and I will be home alone for Thanksgiving. His nephew who lives south of Chicago promised to call and Facetime with us. He is having a small Thanksgiving gathering. I'm thankful we had no invitation to a large family gathering to be declined.
Our Covid numbers are rising, too. I'm afraid the gyms will need to be closed again.
Dermatologist appointment today.
I'm loving the wonderful cooler weather. Cold nights with temperatures warming up during the day with sunshine.
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Good morning, ladies. Warmer today 63 this morning and going to 73. I have a follow up for labs and visit with MO today.
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I have my first post-lumpectomy 12 month mammogram tomorrow. I feel oddly calm about the whole thing. I am a bit concerned about pain in my surgical breast but I know it is fleeting.
We are joining our DD & DS and their families for Thanksgiving. We have maintained our 'bubble' safely these last 9 months so we feel comfortable together. My assignment is desserts which is pretty easy for me. I do have to find some gluten free recipes for my eldest grandson though.
Jane
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Jane, what kind of gluten free recipes do you need? I am sensitive to gluten so I have been looking into such recipes. There are some excellent websites. I'd be happy to chime in if you are looking for something in particular.
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Thank you for your offer. My grandson is six so he has the peculiar tastes of children. He also has biopsy confirmed celiac disease so I am very careful to only bake on days I will not be baking non-GF foods. So, I need to have it be a make-ahead dessert (like the day before so I can be sure my oven is clean). Like all six year olds, he likes chocolate & peanut butter. He really avoids things that are too sweet though. For example, he likes the taste of hot chocolate but can't finish it because it is too sweet (his words). He might like pumpkin but he's never had much because he would say his tummy hurt before he was diagnosed.
So, do you have any recipes that are GF with a chocolate/peanut butter &/or pumpkin profile that is not too sweet for a child?
Thank you so very much. This is only the second Thanksgiving I am embracing GF cooking & I want him to feel included, not excluded.
Jane
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Jane - what about almond flour - I've used in recipes and substituted almond flour for regular flout. Chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies. Costco has almond flour at a decent price for a large bag.
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Karen,
I admit to not being familiar with how to change a regular recipe to a GF one by substituting flours. If I can learn how to do that I can adjust my regular recipes to GF.
Jane
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Birch Benders makes 2 kinds of keto, GF pancake mixes--regular and chocolate chip. High Key makes GF keto choc. chip mini-cookies. Bob's Red Mill makes a paleo baking blend (no grains).
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup peanut butter
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup brown sugar
6 ounces chocolate chips
1 egg
pre heat oven at 350 degrees
beat peanut butter, brown sugar, baking soda and egg. Stir in chips.
Bake on ungreased cookie sheets for 10 minutes - cool
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The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
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Jane, if you can find a frozen gluten free crust you could make a pumpkin pie. To suit my father's taste I learned to make the filling with less sugar, more spice and a bit more milk (clearly he liked pie but was not enamored with the taste of pumpkin!). When I have been able to find the GF crusts they worked out well. When I have extra pumpkin pie filling I bake the filling in a small Pyrex dish, who says you have to have crust?😃
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Beaverntx, I have made the pumpkin pie filling and poured it into the individual size baking dishes. Makes a nice single portion and cuts out the extra carbs of the crust. And I am prone to using double the spices.
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Petite, the cookies sound yummy. I don't have any diet restrictions -- but if it sounds good, try it, I say.
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Jane, At Passover I use my regular recipes (from year round) and use Almond flour instead of potato starch and matzo meal). That is the only time I use Almond flour.
Wishing everyone a safe, healthy relaxing week-end.
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I'll be making 3 or 4 pies for the holidays. So far we're lucky no dietary restrictions. I made a mistake 30+ years go and used sweetened condensed milk in my pumpkin pie. I like it much better and still use it to this day!
We got up to 58 today. Got the walk in, yard work done, even set the Ring door bell up outside. We had it situated in the front porch, but knowing we plan to leave and with warm weather, it was time to move it out.
Latest home improvement, we're getting a new roof. We could get a spot or two repaired but it's close to 23-25 years old, and brittle. Winters have taken a toll. Probably start on it the week after Thanksgiving.
Enjoy the weekend!
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Keywestfan, Sandy was on Jeopardy? Really?
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pingpong:
That slid right past my eye. Good catch.
Nov 18, 2020 04:52AM keywestfan wrote:
Sandy,
On a different note, of course you were on Jeopardy- you know tons about tons of everything
Sandy, it is up to you to confirm or deny.
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Pingpong1953.Really
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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. For me this began with the discovery of the meaninglessness of possessions beyond my actual and immediate needs. -Peace Pilgrim
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It was in 1996--for years, my mom had been nagging me to try out and every time we visited L.A. I made excuses why I hadn't. But we were there for Northwestern's appearance in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, so to get her off my back I promised to call for the test, knowing of course it would take far more notice than that. I called a couple of days before leaving, but to my surprise the production assistant said the last test of the season was the very next morning and there was room for one more. I went the next day and got only one out of 50 questions wrong. Only five out of 40 qualified based on the test, and we all passed the audition as well. We were told that we'd be called in June. Well, 2 weeks later I got the call--to tape on Valentine's Day. I practiced like crazy with a penlight, boned up on a billion things.
Unfortunately, I was matched with the guy who at the time was the all-time single-day money winner, and another guy who'd won 3 games and lost his fourth in Final Jeopardy. He appealed (on the basis of semantics) and that day became his 5th try (but he lost again too). I was doomed. (And it was years before I could hear Weird Al's "I Lost on Jeopardy" without cringing). I got a satellite dish system (with USSB & DIrecTV subscriptions) and "lovely parting gifts." Turns out the system was worth $1100 back then, I had planned to ditch cable & buy a dish anyway, and the L.A. Pen Show was the next day--so I had a little "mad money" to indulge my fountain pen collecting habit.
I did appeal, though--the returning champ was 7 ft. tall, folded his arms, and hid the buzzer in his opposite armpit. The rules expressly stated that you had to hold the buzzer in one hand and use only the thumb or fingers of that hand to hit the button--not the desk or any other body part. The other guy & I were sure he was working the button by flapping his arm, so we both appealed...our appeals were denied because camera angles couldn't tell whether he was using his armpit to contact the button or simply his thumb (albeit hidden). I was told I could re-audition in five years...but by then they changed the rules to ban former contestants from re-testing. They did say I should test for "Wheel of Fortune," however. (Never did).
Other rule changes since then: in 1996, dollar values per question were much less, any winnings over $75,000 (even cumulative) had to go to one's charity of choice, and after winning 5 games one had to retire as an "undefeated champion" eligible to return for tournaments. (Way, way before Ken Jennings & James Holzhauer).
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Goodness Sandy. That is truly a story for the ages.
Who knew we had a real celebrity with us?
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Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and the person who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then that person can be trusted. -Plato
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Sandy - How great that you were on Jeopardy! Especially poignant with the recent passing of Alex Trebek. DH and I are faithful followers of Jeopardy & depending on the topics, some days we get more answers than others. We always challenge one another on the Final Jeopardy question. Thought about taking the test, but a friend from work is an absolute trivia whiz stated she took it and did not pass. Wonder what will happen to Jeopardy when they run out of the currently taped shows.
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Dunno if I mentioned it here, but the first money I ever earned was on the original Art Fleming-hosted "Jeopardy." I was 14 and a high school sophomore. In NYC public high schools (which for all except parochial school grads started with 10th grade), we had a 2-week "intersession" between semesters. One day my friends & I took the subway into Manhattan and went to see as many game show tapings as we could (they were freebies, and there were "barkers" on the sidewalk outside the studios looking for audience members). The announcer for "Jeopardy" did the warmup, asking individual audience members to "question the answers." I won a crisp new $2 bill, which I still have...packed away somewhere. After the shows, we went to the Automat before heading home.
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A garden that never died eventually would weary. Robbed of springtime, unacquainted with the extraordinary perfume that rises from the soil after it's had its rest, the garden that winter doesn't visit is a dull place. The return every spring of earth's first freshness would never be kept if not for the frosts and rot and ripe deaths of fall. So when I go out from the garden for the last time in autumn, I leave the gate open behind me.
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DH is a long time Jeopardy watcher. We still watch it every night at 6 pm followed by Wheel of Fortune at 6:30. It's sad watching the last shows with Alex Trebec. DH had a head full of useless facts and answers lots of the questions. We both have big gaps in knowledge of more current culture, movies, music, books, tv shows.
Sandy, you are a very knowledgeable person in many categories.
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Scary day today. I have an appt to have my teeth cleaned. That will be the closest I've been to anyone except DH since the pandemic began. I'm overdue and really need it or wouldn't have signed up. I'm somewhat reassured because the dentist has always been spotless and they have always worn masks while working on me. Still, it's a little scary.
This Thanksgiving we've given up on the turkey. DH found a turky-less roll with dressing. Close enough for me. We'll have some green sides along with potatoes and gravy. The potatoes and gravy are my love anyway. Turkey is usually pretty dry, anyway.
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I've had two dental cleanings since the pandemic began. My dentist's office is about as safe as anything outside the home can be. Even the elevators are limited to two passengers (the security guards make sure of that). It's in the Loop (downtown Chicago), but nowadays instead of taking the train or a rideshare, I drive and self-park in a nearby "contactless" garage. SpotHero knocks a few bucks off the tab. All kinds of nasty stuff can happen as a result of gum disease, so I urge you to go for it.
I'm wondering, though, if NorthShore considers mammograms among the "elective procedures" being put on hold. On the one hand, as a bc survivor I consider it "essential;" but at 5+ years out they're now classified as "routine screening" just as they were before my diagnosis. My 3D tomosynthesis mammo is a week from this Wed. at Evanston Hospital. No message in my patient portal inbox that it's been cancelled (yet). But since Glenbrook Hospital (where my allergy challenge test was to have taken place) is now once again a COVID-only hospital.
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