@AlpacaAurelius If a man thought my bottle of canola oil is a red flag I would think he is a little bitch. Honestly. Let's be realistic here ok. Sometimes seed oils are fine
@amishescapee@lilyally98 My ex husband left to be a drug addict. We had four kids. There weren't nearly sufficient resources available and we only made it because my parents own a big enough house. Comments like yours tell me you've never come close to that type of misfortune. Good for you. Knock on wood
@AlpacaAurelius Honestly I completely agree. A bit of coffee in milk in the morning and I am ready to go, I don't even need to eat until about 4 or 5 pm.
the ottomans banned coffee because it made people too hard to control
ben franklin drank 30+ cups a day and helped ignite a revolution
before the 1600s, europeans had beer for breakfast...then coffee arrived and sparked the enlightenment & greatest rise in wealth the world has ever seen
teddy roosevelt drank a gallon of coffee a day, survived an assassination attempt and finished his speech.
coffee makes you your most creative, rebellious, authentic self
@luinalaska Yep. My kids spend the first 2 weeks of every summer at a camp where they sleep in bunkhouse sheds, no AC, no screens, just outdoors, campfires, horses, etc. The counselors are great and the kids come back reset and ready for a 90s kids style summer
The Victorian workhouse did not feed its inmates badly by accident. It fed them badly on purpose, and the purpose was written into the law.
The principle behind the New Poor Law of 1834 was 'less eligibility'. Life inside the workhouse had to be made worse than the life of the poorest labourer surviving outside, or people might actually choose it. Misery was the policy, and the food was central to it.
The diet was built around gruel, bread, and watery broth. Thin oatmeal porridge. Pease soup. A little cheese. Meat, where it appeared at all, appeared in quantities a working man would have laughed at, carefully weighed out on a handful of days a year. Strip a population of meat and feed it on cheap starch, and you get people who are weak, compliant, and grateful for very little. The men with the ledgers understood that completely. They wrote the smallness down, in ounces, and signed it.
Now read that menu back slowly.
Porridge to start the day. Wholegrain bread as the base of every plate. Beans and pulses for protein. Broth-based soups. Dairy in moderation. Red meat cut right back, if you have it at all.
That is the workhouse diet, almost line for line. The gruel that was once the punishment for being poor is now the breakfast of the health-conscious. The near-absence of meat, once an economy forced on people who had no say in it, is now sold to you as the enlightened, heart-healthy choice you are making of your own free will.
They worked out the cheapest way to keep a body upright and dependent, and wrote it down in ounces.
A century and a half later the same menu comes back with a wellness label on it, and this time people pay extra for the privilege.
@eva_kurilova It's a phase and she will need them again in a few days. Maintain the nap time routine even if there's no sleeping. Reading books in the bed is fine. I only had one kid out of five who truly abandoned naps at this age. Most likely it's a phase
@DKAstrology Leaving wet towels in a heap on the floor or, even worse, the bed. Also letting dirty dishes stack up in the sink longer than two days. Taurus moon
The reason that this ho-hum troon is getting the red carpet treatment by the media is because the idea of parading around the King's son as their new eunuch is a psychopathic tribal flex.
caffeine is incredibly healthy and there is no reason to quit
both caffeine and coffee are associated with longevity, reduce the risk of alzheimers, boost cognitive function, improve mood, increase T and DHT, increase thyroid, aid liver detox and is anti cancer
drink up