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Skriven 2015-06-30 20:14:53 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 28650 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
Ärende: Peppers
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>> Lots of things have some use...  :)  Mint can take over things,
 NB> too,  NB>> if left uncontrolled...  ;)

 RH> I know, we had some in our back yard when we lived in the last place
 RH> in Swansboro. Nice smelling when run over by the lawn mower. (G)

 NB> Or when stepped on, even... or bruised while picking for cooking...
 NB> :)

I didn't use too much of it then. As I recall, it was spearmint.

 NB>  NB>> And that was the first one I ever got to...  it being the first
 NB> one  NB>> that came on my radar... thanks to Carol talking it up in
 NB> the MEMORIES  NB>> echo...  :)

 RH> I thought Janis also got you going in here.

 NB> Once I showed up in COOKING (since Carol said that one needed to be
 NB> part of the echo to come to the picnic), I did get talking to various
 NB> echo
 NB> members... I only knew of Janis at that point, though...  I did know
 NB> Dale from the BLUEWAVE echo already....

 RH> That was the picnic where I made the lasagne that Charlotte ignored
 RH> but made short work of the meat balls.

 NB> Yes, I remember...  :)  And I came mostly as an Eat, although I did
 NB> bring some of my single malt Scotch for tastings...  :)

Which Steve and I declined. Fords brought that great assortment of
cheeses for tasting, which we did enjoy.

 NB>  NB>> Some of that is that their stomachs do get smaller with age...
 NB> and the  NB>> sense of taste diminishes... and then the teeth and jaws
 NB> just don't  NB>> work as well as they used to...

 RH> Very understandable. Dad has had a partial plate for years that slowed
 RH> his eating down somewhat but I guess as he's aged, the plate doesn't
 RH> fit as well. It could make eating more of a problem.

 NB> There's that, too...

Something you don't think about as a kid but becomes more obvious as
parents age.


 NB>  NB>> It helps if it's something they really enjoy eating...  I used
 NB> to take  NB>> my neighbor out to Boston Market to get her to eat
 NB> more... it usually  NB>> worked a charm...  :)

 RH> Just to have an outing, change in setting from the usual location and
 RH> table mates can make a difference. It doesn't have to be gourmet food,
 RH> as long as the company is enjoyable.

 NB> Gourmet food isn't necessary, very true..  It does help, though, if
 NB> it's food that the person enjoys, too...  :)

Yes, but most all of those in the home are not of the McD's generation.
They were the ones that took us, on rare occasions, to such places. We
took our children more than we were taken; our children take theirs more
than we took them.

 NB>  NB>> And we always noticed that Mommy would eat more when we took
 NB> them  NB>> to Olde Country Buffet... dunno if that would work as well
 NB>  NB>> nowadays, though...

 RH> Might be worth a try, ask her if she'd like to go.

 NB> She doesn't eat nearly as much now as she did then... and it needs to
 NB> be cut down or ground with lots of sauce or gravy now, or well-cooked
 NB> soup... not as easy to do out as just doing the buffet...  And her
 NB> tastes are pickier now, too... she doesn't eat as much or as widely at
 NB> the church dinners as she used to, either...  And, at the moment,
 NB> she's going nowhere... ;/

Going nowhere but hopefully better. At least she's still eating, even if
it's small amounts. Some "authorities" say small amounts, more
frequently, are supposed to be better than 3 "big" meals a day, anyway.

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Ruth
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