Hello There Addicts Asylum Patients!
Having a fun day? Lots of stuff on your mind? Just want to ramble on about anything and everything? WELL TOO BAD!!!
Errr, I mean… Here is the place where you can do it. Have something cool you want to share with your fellow readers/Addicts? Have something on your mind that you just want to get off it? Have a million dollars? Having a mental breakdown like me? Lol.
This post is for open conversation. Pretty much anything and everything goes (as long as it still follows the Addicts Site Guidelines). Feel free to chat it up all you want.
If you are not sure of what to talk about, here are a few subjects to get you started.
How was your week? Do anything fun?
Any suggested recipes for “soft foods” that are easy to make so I can try and eat again? Lol
Any good jokes to make me laugh and see if I pop a stitch? Lol
Send me a Postcard from where you live??!! You know we LOVE to hear from YOU!
Remember this post is for FUN!! If you wanna gripe or complain or rant or …well, be mad about something…take it to our WHAT THE DEUCE posts and get it out your system there. 🙂
There you go. Get your typing fingers fired up and yap yap yap away.
Family Guy Addicts 
Are you guys gonna do an addicts for tinyco’s marvel game?
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Have to see how we feel about the game first…
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Alright. Let me know. I’d be very happy to help but don’t have the framework you do. Took loads of screenshots and stuff of it so far.
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yea just started it myself. Trying to decide if it lends itself to our type of blogging.
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Feel free to email if ya want a hand long term 🙂
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Incidentally with regards to “my week”, it’s not been too bad. Was a bit ill and slept a lot but slowly recovering. Been doing some studying on futurelearn about galaxies and stars which has been very interesting!
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A couple years ago I had to go on a soft diet following surgery and turned every meat product known to man into pate! *grin* I do not do cow milk, but banana and mango smoothies with soy milk or almond milk are pretty yummy, and I just toss in a few spoons of protein powder, I prefer whey protein, into the smoothie. New found love of jello and pudding. As Jwoolman said above, a good blender is your friend! Also, mashed taters, sweet and regular were my go to dish.
Hoping the healing process is going smoothly for you, and that you are feeling much better sooner than you dare to hope! *smile*
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Lol. Potatoes are my fav. I’d eat them all day if I could. (Farm life again.)
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Potatoes are sooo good. You could also try root veg mash to get some extra vitamins in you maybe? Tonight I’m gonna do sweet potato, carrot and maybe parsnip mash with garlic. Will see how it turns out!! Trying sweet jacket potato with goats cheese for my lunch in a few mins too. 🙂
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I did a sweet potato, carrot, & butternut squash mash up that I adored last year. Added in some regular mashed potatoes too the 2nd time. Was yummy. Lil butter and garlic… dash of salt and good to go.
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Recipes for soft foods: I’ve too often needed a soft diet myself for various reasons… I don’t really use recipes (my idea of cooking is to toss stuff onto a disposable pie pan in the toaster oven), but the best advice is to get a Vitamix! Or any truly high power blender (Blendtec, for instance). My ancient Vitamix 3600 Plus from the 1980s is still ticking but just got the more convenient/more powerful smaller one (40 oz and 20 oz travel containers included) for $259 refurbished (in five “easy installments”). It pulverizes everything. I can toss any edible parts of fruit and veg (can freeze anything for it, too, including lettuce, celery, cucumbers, carrots, etc.) into it, add protein powder and/or nuts or seeds if desired and let ‘er rip for a minute or so. (Ear protectors recommended.) Pulverizes the seeds in berries etc., too, even raspberries. Can make things milkshake consistency or more juice consistency by adding different amounts of water. Can also easily make things like fresh applesauce – if you like it cooked, just let it run longer and it will heat up. Also makes nut/seed/peanut/coconut butters (soft foods!) as well as nondairy milks (coconut milk from shredded unsweetened dried coconut). Can use other fruits also to make fruit sauces of the same consistency as applesauce. I like to mix chopped carrots and onions with peanut butter, but the Vitamix makes it all a very smooth spread. People also add oats to their concoctions, I’m planning to toss in some granola some time. Apples and peanuts make a kind of liquid peanut butter on apples effect, for instance. The Vitamix lets me eat a lot of stuff otherwise off limits due to currently wonky digestion, I’ve been having trouble with skins and seeds and lettuce especially. I’ve also used a regular blender to make a commercial soup completely puréed, although the Vitamix can also make such soup directly from any veg. It also can make soft-serve ice cream from frozen ingredients, including from nondairy sources like bananas or mangoes or any fruit. I figure it will pay for itself within a few months if I keep playing with it.
If you don’t want to DIY with a blender on steroids, nut/seed/legume butters are commercially available and give high nutrition without absolute need for chewing. I’ll eat a spoonful straight from the jar. Those applesauce snack cups are very handy. Baby foods are also very useful, either out of the jar or microwaved in a bowl with some fat as a simple soup or mixed with mashed potatoes etc. I keep the fruit and veg ones handy in case of difficulties or illness. There are also decent granola-based baby foods. Baked sweet potatoes might be good mashed with a little fat. Retried beans would be soft, they can be puréed further in any blender. Try coconut oil for cooking and eating – it’s very digestible and actually used in hospitals for post-surgery for that reason. Pudding cups can be boosted with protein powder if needed, likewise with yoghurt. I do this with non-dairy ones since they usually don’t have much or any protein. If you’re up to a little chewing, good white bread should be easiest to handle, or even pita bread eaten by itself or with a soft spread can work (I like them with mashed avocado). You might find peanut powder useful for adding to things, especially if you have any fat restrictions post-surgery (they’re defatted).
Fruits are the easiest to digest (should be through the stomach in about half an hour), although blended things of any type are a close second. Fats are harder to digest, hence using coconut oil (easy to digest) can help and also not going overboard with other fat in an eating session helps. If you have fiber restrictions, you’ll need to watch that. You might actually find it useful to get one of those free food trackers they peddle to people wanting to lose weight – I did that when recovering from yet another stomach flu just to figure out if I was getting enough nutrition from mini-meals. I still use it for the same purpose (I’m happy with LoseIt on my iPhone, but there are plenty of others). The tracker will keep running totals for you about protein, fat, carbohydrate, and fiber by the day and weekly averages. I need to know when I’ve eaten as well as what and how much (allergies etc.), so I defined Timer as a food and use the number of servings as a clock (24 hour clock in my case since my schedule is so odd). I actually also use it to track medication and supplements so I 1) take all I’m supposed to take and 2) don’t overdose.
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Lots of good information, thanks so much. 🙂
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I second the good blender bit. I have a Blendtec that practically kept me fed for a corrective double jaw surgery. I blended everything from fruits/vegetables to chili dogs to pizza so that I could pour them into condiment bottles and squeeze them down my throat.
(It sounds bad, but my surgeon was intrigued by my rapid recovery with no weight loss…she even took one of my bottles so that she could tell future patients)
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Bunny🐰 or Alissa could i possibly email one of you of jus somethin i jus noticed and don’t want to air it ALL out there&& don’t wanna start drama and fights lol
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Feel free to anytime. 🙂
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okay awesome so jus to be sure is it familyguyaddicts@gmail.com ???
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ahh sh!+ wait if you didn’t want me to post that public go head delete and jus say yes or no if that’s the correct one or not LOL
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Lol. It’s fine. Our email is public and on our site 😉
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Does anyone know if anything happens once the scoreboard finishes counting down? I was curious, but didnt feel like staring at my screen for 15 minutes.
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Never seemed to show anything unusual for me. 🙂
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Actually, i don’t think it ever changes the minutes… The seconds count down to 0, then roll to 59, but i’ve never seen the minutes at anything but 14.
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Soft foods, oh now you’ve made me feel guilty for wolfing down a bowl of my mums homemade soup. How about starting with some homemade smoothies or soups? Full of goodness. I lived on mash potatoes for a month once, they never go wrong. And a good old Scottish dish to build you up after illness is porridge.
It’s been a cold, wet week here in Scotland but a strangely mild winter so far, we deserve it as we didnt have a summer, ha.
Having a clear out, love finding things I forgot I had.
Anyway Bunny, keep taking the tablets. Talking of which have you ever tried Scottish tablet, it’s lovely but best not too eat a lot of it since it’s almost pure sugar. Mmm, now I’m making myself hungry again.
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Scottish Tablet?
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Scottish tablet looks a lot like fudge, but apparently it’s not as soft. There are recipes for it on the web.
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Ooh I love Scottish tablet. I guess I would describe it like
.. do you ever make a cake and you mix the butter and sugar together first and dip your finger in it and it tastes right nice?? Imagine a solid block of that 😛
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I do that when I make chocolate chip cookies. I’ve also made home made fudge every Christmas since… forever so it’s an interesting looking recipe. Like a grainy fudge it seems. Sugar crystal grainy.
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I’ve got more than 17 millions coins, which are useless. I’d like to see the option to buy 100 clams for 1 million coins.
In the alternative, I’d like to see some mystery box options for coins. Or some chance to terminate actions early for coins. Anything!
I don’t have any room to buy any more buildings with my coins, so they are truly useless.
Heck, they don’t even really have enough display room to show all of the digits for anything over 9,999,999 coins. I’ve rolled the odometer. That seems like an easy fix for TinyCo.
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Your comment seems more like something for a What the Deuce post. 😉
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Hey bunny!! I like to sometimes have a fruit smoothie for easy lunch or breakfast. Half a can of drained tinned fruit, 200ml milk and 15g oats. I warm the oats a little in a pan before blending it all together. Sometimes this is quite a lot so you could have less.I save the other half a tin of fruit in the juice in the container in the fridge for another meal x
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Sounds yummy, just have to be careful with the milk. I was raised on a farm and drank fresh milk, so store bought milk and me do not do well together. I do something similar with rice or almond milk (sometimes coconut).
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If it’s going to be blended anyway, instead of milk you can just add shredded coconut plus water. Coconut milk is just made in a blender using dry unsweetened shredded coconut, so eliminate the middleman and skip the milk. Finely shredded coconut works especially well, particularly if you don’t have a high power blender, but medium shred is fine. Tossing some almonds or cashews or whatever would substitute for almond milk, cashew milk, etc.
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