The REO Lounge - Part III

[FeistyAlice]

Yeah, the label thing is annoying. I've had the quinoa flour stored in sealed bag in freezer and last night was first time using it. I've been using cornstarch for thickening but now anxious to try out the quinoa for lots of things. Roast coated with q flour browned beautifully, in butter, cooktop, in iron dutch oven. I originally got it to do GF cornbread but stumbled on two different mixes we like. Our Albertson's grocery even has one of them. Seeing more and more GF items in regular grocery stores. BTW... I was up all night with IBS, not gluten related. Some rich sauces set me off; combination of ingredients where those individually usually don't. Anxious to hear about your experiences cooking with quinoa flour.

 

[nerak]

I haven't really figured out how to comfortably use the iPad for ECF, I can read and post a simple reply. I need a real keyboard. Siri entertained DH this morning since he went to bed before I did a lot of setup (I had to update the Os and it took a while) of the apps and figured out some bells and whistles.

I haven't tried quinoa flour yet, but am sure I will be. My last stew wasn't as good as it was with flour, so hearing this is great news. BTW, tests for anti-gliadin antibodies came back elevated, so while before I was merely on a GF diet because it made me feel better, now I am actually as diagnosed as I am going to get without them hacking at my innards for a biopsy. I truly am at the point in my life where I don't need a label and a bunch more tests to tell me what I already know. If you got the antibodies, you are reacting to a protein; I am reacting to gluten. Hopefully this will help with the sensitive skin issues as well, or rather already has.

I am gonna steal your quinoa flour!!!

I found it at Vitacost. Also Nuts.com is a good place to buy quinoa. Puritan's Pride is a good place to look also.

For now those three places are my "go to" for quinoa, dates, and other staples in my house.

 

[FeistyAlice]

Correction.... roast I did was chuck, shoulder and neck, but rump, probably a little more expensive, would work great. Both cuts need slow moist cooking versus the cuts like a tenderloin that can be roasted without moisture. But it did great on 325F for three hours. (DH always cooked his very low heat for 8 hrs.) It melted in mouth. Used GF dried onion soup, GF cream of mushroom soup, very dry white wine (recipe called for vermouth but beef hides the subtleties of vermouth) and extra cup n half water with Beef Better than Bullion GF. I didn't check the canned mushroom soup for lactose. Probably what flared up my IBS was combination of beef fat, dehydrated onions, white wine, and maybe some lactose in canned soup. (I haven't had a gall bladder since I was 21.) But as I was close to home bathroom the resulting "issues" were so worth consuming the feast. Right now beef chuck/rump has won my affection over pork loin.

{edit} Val, I'm going to have to play with pork shoulder. Most probably don't recall or saw that I've started cooking again, after DH doing most cooking for 30 years. Having a ball BUT!!!!!!!! (Kaypers, I'm still not cooking for DH. I'm just letting him have some of mine. )

 

[FeistyAlice]

I found it at Vitacost. Also Nuts.com is a good place to buy quinoa. Puritan's Pride is a good place to look also.

For now those three places are my "go to" for quinoa, dates, and other staples in my house.

I feel extremely fortunate to have local store, in town, Sprouts, just a few miles away, that has a lot of GF products. Closest Whole Foods and like are about 25 miles away.

Next quest is to find fresh, shipped cooled with dry ice, but not frozen sea fish, and not 50-60 miles round trip drive. Think I'll have to find my way back to David's Seafood grill to see if chef can give me some hints on where to pick some up. Mybe, hint, hint, hint, he'll take pity on this granny and slip her some every once in a while. Restaurant is Chef owned so chances of catching him there are good.

 

[nerak]

Just a reminder or thought I want to pass on.

This morning I was working, doing usual stuff and reached up to adjust my glasses. I have the rimless kind. I felt my lens move and it was touching my cheek. Reached up and took the glasses off. Well, I can't see good at all without glasses! So ran to where I have my glasses for computer and close up work. Put them on and started looking for the screw hole. These rims are held in the frames by a thin piece of plastic. It surrounds the lens and is glued into the top of the frame. That little strap of plastic was broken and letting the lens come loose.

Now, for years I have kept a extra pair of glasses in my bag for work or travel. So I pulled them out. They were old! Probably had two or three pairs since them! But they did allow me to see! I was lucky to be able to drive the short distance home before our morning errands. I found my previous pair and switched.

Moral of the story...... If you NEED glasses to SEE, then keep a spare pair around if away from home. Even a shopping trip could be trouble if you don't have glasses for the drive home! I usually don't keep a spare pair with me when out on short trips. But this has me thinking that I need to be prepared for them also. I am far sighted and might be able to pick up a pair of low power reading glasses in a pinch that would allow me to see enough to drive.

 

[FeistyAlice]

Just a reminder or thought I want to pass on.

This morning I was working, doing usual stuff and reached up to adjust my glasses. I have the rimless kind. I felt my lens move and it was touching my cheek. Reached up and took the glasses off. Well, I can't see good at all without glasses! So ran to where I have my glasses for computer and close up work. Put them on and started looking for the screw hole. These rims are held in the frames by a thin piece of plastic. It surrounds the lens and is glued into the top of the frame. That little strap of plastic was broken and letting the lens come loose.

Now, for years I have kept a extra pair of glasses in my bag for work or travel. So I pulled them out. They were old! Probably had two or three pairs since them! But they did allow me to see! I was lucky to be able to drive the short distance home before our morning errands. I found my previous pair and switched.

Moral of the story...... If you NEED glasses to SEE, then keep a spare pair around if away from home. Even a shopping trip could be trouble if you don't have glasses for the drive home! I usually don't keep a spare pair with me when out on short trips. But this has me thinking that I need to be prepared for them also. I am far sighted and might be able to pick up a pair of low power reading glasses in a pinch that would allow me to see enough to drive.

Great Advice!!!! I keep two extra pairs of somewhat cheapies, little tiny things, in my purse. Probably wouldn't hurt to have a pair in glove box, too. Glad you had backup.

 

[mwdenko]

After I get my official pair from the eye doc. I go and get two pair from the cheapie online glasses store. That way I have one in my car. One at work. And the one I use the rest of the time.

Contacts are the same. ...

 

[nerak]

Great Advice!!!! I keep two extra pairs of somewhat cheapies, little tiny things, in my purse. Probably wouldn't hurt to have a pair in glove box, too. Glad you had backup.

Thanks Alice. It was a little nerve wracking till I had my hands on the old pair!

 

[nerak]

After I get my official pair from the eye doc. I go and get two pair from the cheapie online glasses store. That way I have one in my car. One at work. And the one I use the rest of the time.

Contacts are the same. ...

That's a good idea. I guess I could get a single lens with my distance Rx only from one of those places. So far it is only my bifocal script that has changed. I can get by with old script glasses for distance.

I wore contacts for many years. Stopped when I needed bifocals.

 

[FeistyAlice]

That's a good idea. I guess I could get a single lens with my distance Rx only from one of those places. So far it is only my bifocal script that has changed. I can get by with old script glasses for distance.

I wore contacts for many years. Stopped when I needed bifocals.

I had 20/10 20/15, with too slight astigmatism to bother correcting all my life till woke up one day, early 40's, when in nursing school, loads of reading, and thought I was going blind. Almost over night needed readers. Astigmatism has slowly progressed so need some correction.

Lucky you who can wear contacts. Now that they do have them for correction I need all Docs advise that combination to my sensitivities to so many things including silicone and slight allergy to titanium (it is so low allerginic it's used for internal nuts, bolts, plates, joints...) combined with my environments being too dusty and gritty, well, I'll never be able to wear them.

Guess I'll have to wait for cateracts to get lens replacements. Hope I'm not allergic to those.

Latex I can do, thank doG. But no boob jobs for this girlie. My body rejected some silicone with nose reconstruction back in 60's.

 

[MamaTried]

Just a reminder or thought I want to pass on.

This morning I was working, doing usual stuff and reached up to adjust my glasses. I have the rimless kind. I felt my lens move and it was touching my cheek. Reached up and took the glasses off. Well, I can't see good at all without glasses! So ran to where I have my glasses for computer and close up work. Put them on and started looking for the screw hole. These rims are held in the frames by a thin piece of plastic. It surrounds the lens and is glued into the top of the frame. That little strap of plastic was broken and letting the lens come loose.

Now, for years I have kept a extra pair of glasses in my bag for work or travel. So I pulled them out. They were old! Probably had two or three pairs since them! But they did allow me to see! I was lucky to be able to drive the short distance home before our morning errands. I found my previous pair and switched.

Moral of the story...... If you NEED glasses to SEE, then keep a spare pair around if away from home. Even a shopping trip could be trouble if you don't have glasses for the drive home! I usually don't keep a spare pair with me when out on short trips. But this has me thinking that I need to be prepared for them also. I am far sighted and might be able to pick up a pair of low power reading glasses in a pinch that would allow me to see enough to drive.

+1

i still haven't found the glasses that flew off during my little falling episode 2 weeks or so ago. i believe they scored the game-winning goal in the trashcan that night, and were carried off in victory to the dumpster the next morning...

thank god for backups. (Reoville taught me that

 

[MamaTried]

i'm such a putz...

Good afternoon, fine Reoville folk!

 

[element77]

But no boob jobs for this girlie. My body rejected some silicone with nose reconstruction back in 60's.

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[element77]

i'm such a putz...

Good afternoon, fine Reoville folk!

Good day to you DenDen!

 

[vsummer1]

+1

i still haven't found the glasses that flew off during my little falling episode 2 weeks or so ago. i believe they scored the game-winning goal in the trashcan that night, and were carried off in victory to the dumpster the next morning...

thank god for backups. (Reoville taught me that

Little falling episode? You left the lounge with a bloody trail behind you. We thought a zombie got you or something! Kept us all worried over night

 

[nerak]

+1

i still haven't found the glasses that flew off during my little falling episode 2 weeks or so ago. i believe they scored the game-winning goal in the trashcan that night, and were carried off in victory to the dumpster the next morning...

thank god for backups. (Reoville taught me that

That would have been an expensive load of trash!

My OCD would have made me keep looking till I tore everything apart. Unless of course I was in no shape to do so.

Hope they turn up for you somewhere.

 

[Della Cirque]

I had been wearing the same pair of disposable contacts for over a year...not wanting to spend the money on the eye doctor. Finally decided to try ordering from 1-800-CONTACTS with my old prescription, had new contacts the next week. I had ordered from them before so I don't know if they even tried to contact the eye doctor.

 

[lostknitter]

Evening REOville! I ment to post this morning, but I ran out of time. Hope all are doing well, it's been a rainy day here, but I'm fine with that, I like rainy fall days, as long as there aren't 20 of them in a row, it get kind of depressing then. I couldn't find my phone yesterday the few times I thought about it, so this morning I went out to the car and checked, no phone, dumped my purse, nada, checked the pockets of my hoodie, nothing. Sat here and thought about the last time I knew for sure I had it, and remembered I had it at mom's so I could update my grocery list of things she needed, checked in the tote I bring her laundry home in and there it was. I was starting to panic at the thought of spending money on a new phone.
Only 4 more days till we can go back to real time, my favorite weekend of the year!! Have a good evening all!

 

[MamaTried]

That would have been an expensive load of trash!

My OCD would have made me keep looking till I tore everything apart. Unless of course I was in no shape to do so.

Hope they turn up for you somewhere.

actually, the lost ones are a fancy photo-chromatic pair that i bought online, after buying a pair here just to get the PD. they cost much less than the domestic basic pair i'm wearing now...

but that reminds me....

is it just me or does anyone else find you have to clean your glasses WAY more often since starting vaping???

i swear, when i was smoking, the only time they got cleaned was when someone ripped them from my face and cleaned them themselves out of disgust. now, i clean the dang things nearly every day...

 

[nerak]

I had been wearing the same pair of disposable contacts for over a year...not wanting to spend the money on the eye doctor. Finally decided to try ordering from 1-800-CONTACTS with my old prescription, had new contacts the next week. I had ordered from them before so I don't know if they even tried to contact the eye doctor.

I thought for glasses and contacts they had to have a Rx that was less than 1 year old. Surprised you got them.

It is tough to order online with bifocals. They can't see how far up to put the line. The size of the bifocal changes with different lens.

I went and checked the price for Vision insurance from work. It would save me some if it was the year to get a exam and new glasses. Think I will pass this time. Maybe next year!