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What a cute girl! Paints a nice picture! What kind of music do you both like? Servants...what part of Mexico is she from?
Enjoy her! Sounds like fun!
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Formerly known as Ruchie
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Sounds like a great experience! She seems like a sweet girl. LOL at your description of her love for HFCS and lactose rich foods. Sounds exactly like my younger sister--down to the french fries, corn, and carrots. I guess she sounds like a lot of teenage girls!
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We crank up the punk, the alternative, seventies stuff...it's really loud here! I made her some spicy unfried fries (organic potatoe and zucchini) tonight and papaya/mango salsa and shrimp kabobs with Sweet corn and SHE LIKED THEM!!! She likes either to eat with her hands, i.e. finger food or with a spoon, hence the lactose thing. Dip and dunk. Riddle me that one, Batman. We're having a movie fest every night, too. It's a regular slumber party here. Sweet with heat. I can't believe she liked my faux fries!!!
I didn't tell her they were healthy. She plays the electric guitar and is an aspiring ballerina. I think I'll be reliving my youth over the next month. I picked up some pizza crusts for her as well, so dinner should be a little more inventive. She loves noodles/pasta, I found out. This rocks. I think I'll be taking her out for Pho, more often. (Thai/Vietnamese food). I'll just toss in some shrimp (her favourite) for her. I mostly handle breakfast, though. French toast, tomorrow, with fresh strawberry sauce, mango juice, and yogurt and banana/kiwis.
She's from a small town and goes to private school. I can't think of the name off-hand. She's been studying English since kindergarten.
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I LOVEEEEE sleepovers! I'm SO there!!!
Sounds like FUN! Music, food, and guitar playing live! A concert and gourmet dinners every night...and MOVIES to boot! Awww yeah! 
Spoiled rotten she is!   Enjoy *hugs*
P.S. Have you served her any tea yet?
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Grab a broomstick and fly on over!!! Just kidding. She hates tea/coffee. She loves milk, mango juice, and SODA/POP...at least 4 or 5 cans/day. She loves that Hershey syrup in her milk or strawberry cow. She's one of those milk and cookies types. It's so weird having cow-juice in the house. It's even more bizzare trying to find these things in the store. Those are foreign aisles, to me. I'm losing my health food junky virginity!!!
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Hahaha! My parents always fed us really healthy foods, so I was a total health food virgin as a kid - all the other kids at school knew about all these weird foods with brightly coloured packaging that I'd never seen before! But then I too became a 'fallen woman' lol... and now I'm a more or less reformed health food junkie. Y'know, like that scary freaky 'revirginization' process they have now? lol
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How do you make your "unfries?" I'd looooove to try them.
In fact, can I move in with you so you can cook for me, Kate? You always have the greatest ideas.
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Elizabeth
all those years it wasn't IBS - it was celiac!
send me an email: liz@dopple.net
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It's too easy!!! I put them on a cookie sheet, oven lined with foil and sprayed with Pam. My personal favourite are zucchini. I just chop them up and sprinkle them with sea salt and herbs--really any sort of seasoning or spice that suits you. With zucchini, the sea salt helps sweat out some of the bitterness. You could use eggplant, too. Definitely salt that, etc. Any sort of potatoe/sweet potatoe works. I've even done it with turnip. Then, I crank up the oven, usually to about 400 or 425 degrees. I spritz the cookie sheet with Pam, but you could use olive or canola or grapeseed oil--whatever in a spritzer. If you want to give it some heat, use something spicey, i.e. hot pepper sauce or picante. Sometimes I get in really pungent moods and get out the wasabi or horseradish. Then I just bake it for twenty minutes or so. Sometimes thirty. I like them really crispy, so I broil them for a few minutes.
One neat thing I did the other day, was use grated beet and zucchini (a la slaw style, done in the food processor) and put followed the same oven process. I herbed it and added a little lime/balsalmic and a tad of lime rind. It was this really neat crunchy zucchini-beet slaw. Sort of more like a hash. I just added a little dijon for bite. Then, I tried it with carrot and WOW!!! Then, another night, I did a carrot/beet combo. Beet/potatoe is good. Sometimes even carrot/turnip/beet and any funk you can think of. I also did it slicing it finely in the food processor into rounds and it turned more into a crispy/crunchy scalloped salad.
I've also done it with spaghetti squash.
Afterwards you can jazz it up further, i.e. with salsa or a vinaigrette, etc. The stuff I use is pretty high sf stuff, in general. I've done it with green and yellow zucchini and potatoe as well. You just mix or layer it after.
I know you're into 250 calorie or less mini-meals/feeds and this very easily qualifies.
Edited by Wind (07/06/05 05:26 PM)
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How do you chop the zucchini? Do you do matchstick size or diced, or thicker french frie size? Do you peel them firt? Same question for potato!
Do you sprinkle them with fresh raw herbs sliced up before cooking?
Thanks, you need to write a cook book! I can't remember all these recipes and I can't find them all in all these posts! 
I should have bookmarked them as they came up! I lost track of them all.
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Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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Silly question, but do you buy canned or fresh beets? I'm assuming fresh. I've never had beets or turnips, but I'm happy to try anything.
Kate, you now have a word document on my desktop named after you! I'm copying all of your ideas so that I can refer back to them as I cook each week!
Oh, and thanks to you, Kate, I've been able to eat greens every day without bloating and pain, now that I know how to cook and puree them! You are a Godsend!
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Elizabeth
all those years it wasn't IBS - it was celiac!
send me an email: liz@dopple.net
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