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Sweeping Declaration..

GoaliesWife123GoaliesWife123 member
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Anyone who watches "How I met your mother" will appreciate the title :)

Anyway, I'm making a sweeping declaration and I think putting it out there on this board (which is filled with "friends") will help. DW and I are really trying to get healthy. This is not happening because we are always eating out. 

I am Italian, I would rather cook. She is not and she would rather eat out. She likes the food and she likes the environment. 

Today is not the first day, but I'm hoping it is the LAST day that I am waking up so sick that I wish I never ate anything. Ever. I'm so tired of waking up sick because of the food we eat. Food is supposed to be medicine, right? Well, let me tell you that taco bell (even without meat) is NOT medicine. It is poison. 

I'm done with it. All of it. If it isn't made at home, I'm not eating it. 

End of sweeping declaration. 

TTC our first. Married to, and madly in love with, my beautiful wife. Living with our fur baby and enjoying 19 nieces and nephews. 
  • DW and I have been tracking, preparing, getting medical testing since January 2013.
  • First Cycle: Unmedicated ICI w/ Donor Sperm 08/02/13: BFN
  • Second Cycle: Unmedicated ICI w/ Donor Sperm 09/11/13, 09/13/13, 09/15/13: BFN
  • Third Cycle: Unmedicated ICI w/ Donor Sperm: 10/13/13, 10/15/13, 10/17/13, 10/21/13: BFN
  • January 2014: Sonohysterogram shows excellent lining & tubes have no blockages
  • Fourth Cycle:  Monitored clomid cycle  w/ ICI's at home: 1/24/14 and 1/25/14. Ovulation verified:  BFN
  • Fifth Cycle: 02/2014 Femara 5mg with ovidrel trigger CD14: BFN
  • Taking a few months off to evaluate if we want to keep trying


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Re: Sweeping Declaration..

  • lbugherlbugher

    Excellent!  I love to cook, and there are many dishes I make that are better than what you can get at a restaurant.  Seafood and steaks are actually much more delicious when made at home because you have control over how done your food gets.  Too often I'll get dry salmon, rubbery shrimp, overcooked steaks, and scrawny crab legs and go home with a lighter wallet and a dissatisfied tummy.  Pay the price for a quality cut of meat or some big, fat crab legs and you'll never order surf 'n turf at a restaurant again.  If I could just learn how to recreate Red Lobster's cheddar bay biscuits I'd be golden.

    Other foods that I can easily make and no restaurant can compare: lasagna, enchiladas, mashed potatoes, salad dressing, many different kinds of soup with good, crusty bread, pizza, a multitude of desserts (oh, baking is so simple but I gobble it up so quickly I rarely do it anymore)... Once you get the hang of cooking all the time, you can pretty much make whatever it is you're craving at a fraction of the price and often with fresher, higher quality ingredients.  I'm very pro-cooking.

    Dishes I have yet to master that I desperately wish I could make on my own: Chinese fried rice, butter chicken, spiced basmati rice, nacho cheese sauce, and biscuits.  I can't find a decent recipe for any of these that outshines my favorite restaurant versions.  Drives me nuts.  If anyone out there has any recipe they love from the list above I'd be eternally grateful.  There's nothing I wish I could make more than a big helping of sausage gravy (mastered!) and fresh baked from-scratch biscuits (not mastered) with a couple fried eggs on top.  Hoosier delight ;)

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  • GoaliesWife123GoaliesWife123 member
    DW and I are both vegetarians, and I love to cook. I am very good at it, we just continue to be on the go...all the time. First victory was today when DW's friend asked us out to lunch and I sent DW by herself. I'm really done this time. :)

    Also, I thought I saw the red lobster biscuit recipe on pinterest...just fyi! 

    TTC our first. Married to, and madly in love with, my beautiful wife. Living with our fur baby and enjoying 19 nieces and nephews. 
    • DW and I have been tracking, preparing, getting medical testing since January 2013.
    • First Cycle: Unmedicated ICI w/ Donor Sperm 08/02/13: BFN
    • Second Cycle: Unmedicated ICI w/ Donor Sperm 09/11/13, 09/13/13, 09/15/13: BFN
    • Third Cycle: Unmedicated ICI w/ Donor Sperm: 10/13/13, 10/15/13, 10/17/13, 10/21/13: BFN
    • January 2014: Sonohysterogram shows excellent lining & tubes have no blockages
    • Fourth Cycle:  Monitored clomid cycle  w/ ICI's at home: 1/24/14 and 1/25/14. Ovulation verified:  BFN
    • Fifth Cycle: 02/2014 Femara 5mg with ovidrel trigger CD14: BFN
    • Taking a few months off to evaluate if we want to keep trying


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  • CageyMackCageyMack member
    Ha! Those biscuits: check out the Bisquick box and here is a drop biscuit where you add grated cheddar. I made it years ago and it totally satisfied me. :) Bisquick isn't super healthy, but better than lots of junk food, and probably an okay "now & then" indulgence. Good luck!

    CageyMack
    37, married to my favorite person in the world, DW! One darling surfer-girl (12) and one darling, sweet boy born 3/16/13.

    5/2013 Started TTC #3, DW's turn: 5/2013: Diagnostics (shg) and surgery (polyp rem.) for best chances. July-Oct: IUI # 1-4, medicated, monitored, triggered.  All BFN. IVF in Jan May. Sheesh. Whoop! IVF#1 cycle started 4/2/14. 5/1: 19 eggs retrieved, 8 matured, ICSI'd.  4 fertilized.   Only 2 to transfer/freeze stage. 5/6: Two embryos transferred. 5/15: Beta #1 9dp5dt is 134! BFP! 5/19: Beta #2 13dp5dt is 672! B'erFP! 5/21: Beta #3 15dp5dt is 1853.  Yay!


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  • lbugherlbugher
    Thanks Cagey!  My close friend grew up learning southern cooking and she told me some tips about bicuits (use a food processor to keep the butter cold while it's cut into the flour)... I may give that a shot sometime soon.  I make a dangerously delicious sausage gravy that's actually rather good as a vegetarian dish too!  So @GoaliesWife123 you may like it, too!  Just substitute the ground sausage with Morning Star patties... crumble them after they're cooked and make a base of flour, milk, salt, pepper, and a bit of butter... add the sausage and BAM, heavenly gravy.  Just wish I had fresh, flaky biscuits.  UGH, again with my fat-girl talk!  Now I'm craving sausage gravy & biscuits!  Darned diet...
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  • GoaliesWife123GoaliesWife123 member
    Sounds delicious!!

    TTC our first. Married to, and madly in love with, my beautiful wife. Living with our fur baby and enjoying 19 nieces and nephews. 
    • DW and I have been tracking, preparing, getting medical testing since January 2013.
    • First Cycle: Unmedicated ICI w/ Donor Sperm 08/02/13: BFN
    • Second Cycle: Unmedicated ICI w/ Donor Sperm 09/11/13, 09/13/13, 09/15/13: BFN
    • Third Cycle: Unmedicated ICI w/ Donor Sperm: 10/13/13, 10/15/13, 10/17/13, 10/21/13: BFN
    • January 2014: Sonohysterogram shows excellent lining & tubes have no blockages
    • Fourth Cycle:  Monitored clomid cycle  w/ ICI's at home: 1/24/14 and 1/25/14. Ovulation verified:  BFN
    • Fifth Cycle: 02/2014 Femara 5mg with ovidrel trigger CD14: BFN
    • Taking a few months off to evaluate if we want to keep trying


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