Maybe I shouldn't have eaten 11 oatmeal raisin cookies today.
 

Maybe.
Maybe I have no will power.
Maybe they were good cookies.
Too good for their own good.

You're right, you shouldn't eat odd (or prime!) numbers of food. It would have been much better if you'd eaten a nice round dozen.

Or a baker's dozen.

This, coming from a girl who intentionally pulls away the signal from her TV remote, to get it to land on odd numbers. On purpose. A ƒucking travesty of proper TV volume numbering conventions--of epic proportions. Don't talk to me about nice round dozens. It sickens me.

Edit: Need help finding a good link to William Shatner saying "Don't tell me how to do it. It sickens me."

maybe you just needed some movement in your life

But I don't do it just to land on the odd numbers! I do it because there is a precise volume level necessary for each media program to result in the appropriate decibel level in my living room, and one more volume unit is too damn loud.

Why WWHHYY!!?? was there raisins in your oatmeal cookies?? I gave you very specific god damn instructions.

I didn't make them. I don't remember any specific instructions anyway. I think you said something about the box of oatmeal, but we buy ours in a 50# sack. I was going to beat up some kid and take his oatmeal box camera, but since everything's gone digital, they don't do that anymore. They have iphone apps for oatmeal pinhole cameras.

Oh man, do you have any idea how much oatmeal pinhole cameras go for on ebay?! Mad bank is what.
:yelgreedy

11 oatmeal raisin cookies
 

Cereal killer. :eek:

I made a pinhole camera out of an oatmeal box, but they were Quaker Oats, so the pictures came out all skinny.

http://www.crystalradio.net/oatbox/newquickoats.jpg

you guys are weird.

So, squirrel, did everything come out ok? :D

I always poop like a champion anyway, it's more of a potential heartburn issue. I have to be very sparing in how much flour I eat. Though since I've stopped drinking coffee and wine at opposite ends of the day, and started freebasing this honey vinegar mix, I've had very little heartburn.

Go figure.

A friend of mine was touting Honey and Cinnamon the other day. He showed me a printout explaining how the combination will prevent, and cure, all diseases. Must be true, he got it in an email. :rolleyes:

No less true than all the drug ads on tv.... probably didn't list a bunch of unpleasant side effects either.

My Honey bill has skyrocketed. You don't even want to know the copay on that.

Let's just say those bees play for keeps...

Powerful stuff, innit? We use stevia drops to sweeten it for the kids, so it doesn't add to the quantity they have to swallow. It works out to 320 doses for about $18, so it's cheaper than the honey too.

So, umm....what do you mean by freebasing the honey vinegar mix? Is it just for heartburn problems and what other problems does it help? Asking because I have digestive problems too. :blush::D

Apple cider vinegar. 1-2 Tablespoons a day. The honey is to help mask the incredibly strong taste (unless maybe nutkin is getting some other benefit from the honey, but usually it's just for taste.) It's got a very basic pH, so it's good for acidic conditions like reflux, among others.

And before any self-righteous "modern medicine" folks get all riled, it's standard operating procedure in hospitals to give c-section patients a shot of apple cider vinegar immediately before the procedure begins so they don't happen to start refluxing and vomiting in the middle of surgery.

@Tulip: I started this stuff when I had a bad sore throat and my voice teacher told me to drink it. It helped my throat a lot and then I noticed that my heartburn went away. I kept drinking it because after a week I really started liking it a lot. I stopped drinking coffee because I just lost me taste for it. I also stopped drinking wine at night for the same reason.

I feel a lot better lately generally, but I hesitate to ascribe it all to honey/vinegar. quittign caffeine and alcohol might have a tiny bit to do with feeling better.

It should be Brewed cider vinegar, not distilled. Bragg's is one very good brand, there may be others I don't know.

I drink two to three quarts of this over the course of the day.

Wait wait wait--two to three quarts of the vinegar, plus some amount of honey?! Or 2-3 quarts of honey-vinegar mixture?

Is that because it tastes so bad going down, your subconscious says, I'm not bringing THAT back up? :haha:

2-3 quarts of the mixture. so, about 2/3 C vinegar a day. I'm wondering if I should be worrying about my teeth dissolving?

What is the recipe for this stuff?

If you are drinking 2-3 quarts of a honey/vinegar mixture, and only two thirds of a cup of that mixture is vinegar, that leaves a couple quarts of honey to make up the rest. That can't be right. I'm missing something.

Sounds like squirell's also using water to dilute. For the kids, we figure it's better to rip the bandaid off and just give them a straight shot. Also, as a side note, I realized I said this wrong:

The pH of the vinegar itself is acidic. What it does is attach and remove hydrogen ions in the stomach, with the end result of raising (alkalizing) your stomach's pH. Lemons do a similar thing, though they too are acidic.

I hope that's a shot as in "I'll have a shot and a beer", not a shot as in "I got a flu shot".

Thanks, I never could figure out how drinking an acid could relieve acid indigestion.

Yeah, I dilute it as a hot beverage. It's like crack. Don't start.

I do 2 or 3 Tbs Vinegar plus 2 or 3 Tbs Honey, and about 24-36 oz hot water. Stir it up and sip at it.

It is, and the fuckers usually don't even tell you what it is. The first time they just handed me the little paper cup and said, "Drink this fast."

Can't be as bad as the stuff they make you drink for an upper-GI/small bowel series. It's like drinking chalk.



Comes out that way too.

Oh I promise, drinking straight apple cider vinegar is worse than barium. Try it out sometime. Vinegar burns (and would do it quite literally, if you were able to just hold it in your mouth for any period of time.)

My FiL was pushing vinegar for a while. I didn't get the point... I remember my forehead sweating and I believe there is alcohol in it so as Bush 1 would say "Nah gah dah."

As this has become the "kook" food thread we're now in possession of kefir culture which we hope to turn into awesome goaty hippie food ASAP.

Kefir is great hippy food.

Vinegar doesn't have alcohol in it, it is the result of acetobacter converting alcohol into acetic acid.

Ah, so I can enjoy it to my hearts content! ;)

Yeah, it gives "getting pickled" a new meaning.

There are plenty of superior methods for dealing with that extraneous decibel. Perhaps, and this is just off the top of my head, the signal could be attenuated by some type of acoustic baffle between your ears and the sound source? . . . Simply apply a little thought to your problem-solving!

Pearls before swine.

Thanks! I forgot to get back to this thread. :p: I mentioned the apple cider vinegar to my sister and she said a friend told her to drink the same, apple cider vinegar with honey, after a meal to lose weight. Hmm....not sure how. :p:

I would guess because of the acidic vinegar, the stomach doesn't produce enough acid to fully digest the food.

I'd guess it makes you barf.

Come on, you guys. It's a couple tablespoons cider vinegar in a glass of water, sweetened with honey or other sweetener to yield a sweet'n'sour beverage. So, at any rate, sayeth Bragg Live Foods.

I've been thinking about this for awhile and I am going to do it.
No, not eat 11 cookies. I could do that without thinking. Well in a manner of days anyway.

I want to do the cider/honey tonic. My stomach has been so messed up and it can't be worse than tinny antacids which don't do much anyway. I am going to make my mom drink it too. heh heh.
j/k she wants to.

Make sure you get a good-quality apple cider vinegar. It will make all the difference. The best brand is Bragg's--it should be easy to spot because it has the ugliest yellow label you've ever seen.

Maybe I shouldn't have just eaten 4 (yes four) pieces of grilled cheese on toast, when I'm supposed to be on a low cholesterol, low fat diet and I haven't worked out today -unless you count up and down the basement stairs to do the laundry....


(but it's all the Cellar's fault, talking about grilled cheese when I was hungry...)

Um, Clod's right about the label. Though frightfully old-school, at least it isn't as Commie-dreary as a Stolichnaya label.

Aw Monst, put peanut butter and relish in them too. More filling, veggie oils, bit of fiber, that sort of thing.

bleugh. you merkins and your crushed nuts.....

It does save the bother of shelling them. And they spread better that way.

Dr. Bronner's Fruit-loopy California cousin.

Good, tho'.

Trader Joe's has a sliced cheese blend of Blue and Jack, for the convenience of anyone making hamburgers or roast beef sandwiches. The Jack holds the Blue in a convenient sheet form. The taste is blue cheese, mild.