Member PWDOhioRaptureReady
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I spend much more time in the kitchen than I desire to at age 74. I am so done cooking and wish I could hire a cook! Eating out is yuck after so long, I want homemade!
I try to make simple meals now. I can no longer have a lot of comfort foods high in fats, creamy sauces, etc. needing to increase veggie and fiber intake, fresh veggies taste best.
Finding I can buy about 2 meat protein sources and eat from them all week and maybe throw in fish one night and/or eat carry out another night….or not.
I but a rotisserie chicken from Costco or an organic 5# chicken from Aldi and air fry it and we can get 5 meals out of one chicken…..just two seniors here. We may eat 2-3 meals on it fixed different ways and then vacuum seal and freeze the rest. I will take the carcass and pressure cook for 1-1/2 to 2 hours and can the broth or can the broth and some of the chicken in it for a fast soup or white chicken chili later.
I will buy a pork butt and slow cook it, shred and eat that night, vacuum seal some of it and freeze for a fast meal later, and later in the week we will add BBQ sauce and put on Naan bread with sautéed onions, peppers, we even threw on some cooked shredded carrots and fresh pineapple last night, add cheese and air fry and you have a homemade pizza.
Started cooking glass noodles, added some cooked chicken breast, cucumbers, shredded carrots, a bit of kimchee, broccoli, whatever you have and add a sesame ginger or Teriyaki sauce. Instead of noodles could use rice. Any meat or fish in place of chicken.
Trying to make meals that take under 20 minutes to throw together. Learning to cut up veggies the morning of for later.
Having frozen, already cooked meats makes for a quick meal, as does canned meats and veggies.
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I am so done with notifications! I cleaned up about 25 last night and I hate having to open each one and then go down to the bottom of my iPad to trash each one….it is a royal pain. This morning I got on to find someone sent me probably at least 100 scam messages. I am not going to open and trash each one individually, not doing it. There needs to be a way to select some or all and trash in one push of the finger. Simply will not click on notifications again because it is futile and a waste of time. I will go to certain forums and that’s it. If someone leaves a messages for me, I may see it, I may not……
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We have this one also but haven’t used it yet. I also bought a Komo, haven’t used it yet either. Also have a Vita-Mix and it does a great job grinding flour, I have used it for that. You do have to have the special pitcher for grinding hard things.
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I have canned cabbage and it is wonderful. Not kraut, not sour. Just cut into maybe 1” squares, boiled till it turns translucent and packed into a hot pint jar. Pour hot water over in jar and de-bubble well.
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I think the bad stuff was north of them…..
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👍🏼 Can’t wait!
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👍🏼 Mullein is wonderful for lungs.
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I thought Family Grain Mill makes a flaker…..??? I thought I had one.
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Westin makes great meat grinders, they are pricey but well worth it if you have a lot of grinding to do.
Wow, this is the one I have and I have never seen it for this price before! A steal at that price. It is normal $750+
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Your little boy is adorable! I am so sorry for the terrible experiences that you and he have gone through. 😢
I started using holistic vets back in 1995 after losing my first Portuguese Water Dog, at age 8, to what was likely Addison’s disease. I titer my dogs for rabies instead of giving boosters. Thankfully my vet will still do dentals for us w/o being UTD on the shots. I never give boosters of the other shots. Puppy shots, and then one booster at age 15 months and then titers from that point on. My dogs are watched like a hawk, so I don’t much worry about exposure, especially at this point since all we have is one little one that is never out of our site because of Hawks that might think they are Superman. We also have quite the set-up for her nighttime/after dark potty times.
Sounds like you and I are two peas in a pod when it comes to our pet’s care.
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I had a 2 year old POrtuguese Water Dog with mast cell cancer, a pea-sized tumor found on the left rib cage, we removed it and found another 6-months later on the right rib cage. You couldn’t see them, they were under the skin but I could feel them.
After removal of the second one (both stage 1), I put him on Coriolus Versicolor/Turkey Tail with instructions from his Chinese Medicine vet. He was on it the rest of his life, his cancer never returned, he lived to age 12. He was the longest lived puppy in his litter, all the others died young of cancer.
Interestingly he got this cancer within 9 months of getting his first rabies booster. He got staph within a week of getting the rabies booster and we battled that the rest of his life. We never gave him another rabies booster, and he carried an excellent titer till he was 7, at which point I quit tittering him.
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I wish I had invested in a freeze dryer two years ago, now I fear we might be too close to a grid down situation to get much use out of it.
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Wow, you really do burn the candle at both ends! I can’t do that anymore. I will be 74 in 3 months and have A-fib and other health problems that leave me tired a lot. I just came off two days of feeling well and getting some stuff done. Today I am making bone broth and will be canning it. I started canning when I was 21, we had bought 8 acres and raised hay, a few meat animals and lot of chickens and rabbits, as well as had a couple of horses and dairy goats. We now live on just a 3/4 acre lot in the city limits of a small town, and not even allowed a couple of chickens. I quit canning about 8 years ago, but then found out about digital canners last year and decided to start canning again with the smaller batch digitals. It’s just hubby and I and a small dog now.
I used to feed my previous dogs a raw diet, bones and all. With other dogs I used to cook, I pressure cooked chickens for 2 hours and the bones were mush and could be smashed between your fingers, they got that in their diet as a source of calcium. I never thought to put my chicken stock bones in the garden! Although that would likely draw vermin and predators, we are in heavy coyote territory and we had trouble with skins and coons last summer from bird seed that fell on the ground!
I can meats, have done bacon in the past and sausages. Now I mainly do chicken, beef, pork, and turkey, as well as our garden produce. Our garden did excellent last summer and we were giving away so many zucchini and cucumbers away! Our neighbors are thrilled to get it. I dehydrated a lot of zucchini and made plenty of pickles. I write on my meat jars whether or not I added any salt or seasoning because I figure I have some w/o that stuff for the dog. Have a ton of rice and black-eyed peas set aside for the dog also.
Here are pics of our Poodles that are no longer with us. The silver girl was almost 16 and died of a tumor in her heart. The black boy died at age four of a rare blood disorder in dogs.