Posted on 04/24/2015 1:22:35 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Good for you. I like your attitude.
Don’t tell me the foot cat is one you kick. Would love to see a pic of your kitties on your home page. I’ll see if I can figure out how to put something up on mine, haven’t touched it in quite awhile. I used a book for counting calories and also used labels. After awhile I remembered the numbers and just had to write them down. I ate a lot of the same measured stuff when I am trying to lose.
I'm not sure that with a book I would actually be counting calories.
Right now, I swipe with the bar-code reader, it fills out automatically, or semi-automatically the UPC of whatever and automatically totals everything up. I can make some changes to serving size and I do. I don't do pencil-paper math any more. ;)
I make a lot of my own recipes and create my own upc code to go in the spreadsheet for those.
Good thing I don't have to read it. It's not just for calories. It's my memory if I or anyone needs the information. BORING....LOL!
/johnny
too techno for me!
I may as well use those skills for me.
Only, this time, I'm not charging a king's ransom for a management tool.
/johnny
Don't you just love volunteers?
/johnny
I had 4 or 5 with my dinner. Just boiled in their skins and salt, pepper and butter. GOOD EATS ~
It,s 12:30am, Monday,and I think my tomatoes have probably drowned. This is a gullywasher for sure.
Yikes, I just looked at the radar. This gullywasher stretches from Del Rio to up in Oklahoma. It looks like it hasn’t quite reached you yet. Stay dry.
Wasn’t too bad, a lot of wind and only .51 but that adds up to 3.21 in the last 4 days and 5.27 for the month. Very nice compared to past years.
Anyone have any ideas on what type(s) of pears store best?
I'll see if I can find it...
/johnny
We always can bosc pears, they seem to be the firmest.
Really nice potatoes. I always have a few volunteers but never that many. Is the grate to keep pests out? Nice raised bed. Ours is on a slight curve lengthwise so we never enclosed it.
It was the black worcester pear. It is/was also known by the name "Warden" pear.
Wiki has a good write up on it, but I don't quote wiki here on FR, per the boss.
It's a cooking pear. I don't know about eating out of hand, but I almost never do that with pears.
Let me know if that helps.
/johnny
Not if you pay attention to what you're picking. Verpa and Gyromitra are somewhat similar visually, but different enough that there's really no reason to mistake them for morels.
Mrs. Augie and I found these and a bunch more just like em yesterday.
I don’t think those are morels. Especially if the tops are attached up inside rather then down around the base they for sure are not.
Morchella esculenta 100% positive ID.
I just finished cooking 18 servings of my home-made mac and cheese. About 250 calories per serving. I guess that is for lunch today. ;)
That's a lot like work, especially the calories per recipe. Lots of tracking and math going on.
/johnny
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