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The Ultimate Carrot Cake
The 3 layer carrot cake with prailine filling and cream cheese frosting from Ann Hodgman's Beat This cookbook is by far the best I have ever had. If you cut into 12 pieces (each is 31 WW points).
A Good Set of Knives
My favorite is my Wusthof trident 10" chef's knife. I use it for almost everything despite having several other quality knives. Check out cookingforengineers.com for a good review of different knives.
Splenda Skirmish After Sugar Lobbyists Fund Study
As a neuropsychologist, I conducted a single case ABAB design over the past year with myself as the subject.
A=a lot of splenda
B=no splenda
I had been a voracious consumer of splenda until about January (A). I had been having trouble controlling my weight and I was having frequent migraines. I stopped consuming all sweeteners (B). Sweet cravings went away and so did the migraines (and all headaches for that matter). In August, I thought, I've got this licked, I can do it, so I started with Splenda again (A). Within a couple of weeks, the sugar cravings really kicked in and I gained about 25 pounds. The headaches also started again. I gave it up and have now lost those pounds and I am not having migraines (B).
For me, I won't be repeating the "experiment." Real butter, real sugar, and otherwise real ingredients. BTW, even milk tastes sweet when you don't oversweeten everything. I never understood in the past when people said things were too sweet. I get it now.
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How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
Sorry, but if you've got a D-cup and a naughty nurse costume making all of the 10 year old boys wonder what that funny feeling in their tummy is, you are too old. I saw that last night and commented to my wife.
The Ultimate Carrot Cake
The 3 layer carrot cake with prailine filling and cream cheese frosting from Ann Hodgman's Beat This cookbook is by far the best I have ever had. If you cut into 12 pieces (each is 31 WW points).
A Good Set of Knives
My favorite is my Wusthof trident 10" chef's knife. I use it for almost everything despite having several other quality knives. Check out cookingforengineers.com for a good review of different knives.
Splenda Skirmish After Sugar Lobbyists Fund Study
As a neuropsychologist, I conducted a single case ABAB design over the past year with myself as the subject.
A=a lot of splenda
B=no splenda
I had been a voracious consumer of splenda until about January (A). I had been having trouble controlling my weight and I was having frequent migraines. I stopped consuming all sweeteners (B). Sweet cravings went away and so did the migraines (and all headaches for that matter). In August, I thought, I've got this licked, I can do it, so I started with Splenda again (A). Within a couple of weeks, the sugar cravings really kicked in and I gained about 25 pounds. The headaches also started again. I gave it up and have now lost those pounds and I am not having migraines (B).
For me, I won't be repeating the "experiment." Real butter, real sugar, and otherwise real ingredients. BTW, even milk tastes sweet when you don't oversweeten everything. I never understood in the past when people said things were too sweet. I get it now.
One Trick Pony Restaurants
OK, I actually went to bed thinking about this last night (sad, I know). I would open a grilled cheese restaurant. Just think of the possibilities. You could have the sample Mild Cheddar or Colby on White bread, but you could also do much more whimsical and creative sandwiches as well. For the vegans you could have Grilled Soycheese. If any of you start this, please cite me in the liner notes of your menu.
One Trick Pony Restaurants
How about a restaurant with just pizza! (oh wait, that's been done).
How about a restaurant that features butter in every recipe--you could call it "Lady & Sons"
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I am surprised someone beat me to Marathon Candybars.
What about BetchaLife candy bars?
Quisp Cereal?
If you could only have 3 cookbooks...
The best of Cooking Light
Joy of Cooking (which I sadly don't yet own)
Baking with Julia
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
Oh, man, I thought I had blocked out my Gatorade Gum cravings!
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I miss bbq munchos, planters cheeseballs (there is another brand available now in a large container that are good but...) and morton raspberry filled powdered donuts. Oh, those were the days.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
does anyone else remember "Milkshake" candy bars. Tasted like a chocolate malt.Also a Japanese hard candy in a round red tin. We used to call it umeboshi candy.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I think it was Keebler used to make these fudge sandwich cookies in a box. They were like a coco flavor with a fudge creme center. the were just called fudge sandwich cookies. Haven't been able to find them since the early nineties. The were great.Also miss the cheez balls in a can.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I loved lemon coolers too, and also pecan sandies. I also miss rice honeys cereal - they also had a really cool cowboy bee mascot on the package and in the commercials.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
OK, Marathon Bars were the bomb, especially frozen. Does anyone remember a chocolate bar called Chocolite. It was alll chocolate, but had a lot of air bubbles on the inside. How about actual Gatorade Gum? I do remember the bacon chips, they were small bacon shaped crisps. Does anybody remember Doritos Sour Cream and Onion?
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
What about Celeste's Pizza with the big pepperoni's not the little one's. Haha
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
I think there should be no age limit, I think even grannies should show up, we could give them baby food for their dentures, you know? It's only one day out of the entire 365 days that we get to meet our neighbors? Why some people are rude about giving out candy to others is beyond me. But like someone mentioned, definitely come dressed as something, not just your regular clothes/uniform, at least put some effort into it. :)
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
I think it's hard to decide when its the right time to tell your child their to old especially if they are still acting as a child should act at the age of 10 and 11, and believe me I am very thankful for that. I didn't think my daughter was too old to go trick or treating seeing some of the other kids in the neighborhoods trick or treating until this past Halloween. We had so much fun I took both my daughter and little sister out trick or treating it was the last house that we decided to stop at considering it was getting late. The young woman answered the door and took a good look at my girls and stated "No, you guys are too old to be trick or treating." then she shut the door in their faces. I was in total shock. Of course it's her right to decline to give her candy away, it just really made my girls feel bad, they didn't understand and it left them feeling a bit angry. I sat and talked with them about maybe having that halloween night be the last time they did trick or treating, and that they could do parties instead. They were happy in the end and it didn't seem to matter much, even though they still talk about it.
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
My Mom made my siblings and I stop when at 12.
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
I went trick-or-treating this year, and I'm 20. I put a fair amount of effort into my costume, and we drove 45 minutes to get to the nearest town that wasn't my college. Trick-or-treating is more fun than illegal boozing, and we're not really in it for the candy, just for entertainment. After three neighborhoods, no one said no to us. We might have gotten less candy than the little ones, but that's fine with us.
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
I last trick or treated for myself when I was 15. I knew I was too old for it and I didn't give a damn, I was at a party and we all decided it would be a brilliant idea to run around the neighborhood for one last hurrah. We got denied at a few homes for being too old though, heh.
Honestly, after 8th grade you're too old. If you really want to trick or treat, take your younger siblings out or something (that's what I did!).
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
No age limit but put some effort into the costume. If I think you are a little too old to be out, I might insist on a little entertainment before I hand out a treat, sing me a song, dance a couple of steps, tell me a joke. The first of the group usually balks, but by the time the 2nd or 3rd starts they are all into and laughing. And if they don't want to play - go home.
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
The age limit for trick-or-treating? Umm..
32 or 33 i guess...?
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
My brother and his girlfriend are 20 and 21, respectively, and went out last night and I gave them hell for it, though when I play the "Guess how old my brother is" game with people who haven't met my brother, many people answer within the 13-16 age range. When I asked how their night was, they surprisingly didn't get anyone saying they were too old, but compliments on how great their costumes were!
I think if you have the economic power to buy candy (around high school and beyond) then you shouldn't go around and get a garbage bag full.
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
I was 12 in grade 9, and that's the last time I went. Once you have boobs, it's just not the same.
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
13 is a good age, once you hit high school you're too old. That or once you go from the "cute witch" costumes to "slutty witch" costumes, whichever comes first. I knew someone who went trick or treating until he was 18, he was an odd fellow.
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
I don't think you're ever too old. I just hate it when I see older kids skulking around with no costumes going door to door for candy when they're not even dressed up. Or when older kids dart out in front of little kids to get to the doors first for candy. I trick or treated until I was 27, but mostly, it was to walk around the neighborhood and see everyone else's costumes. I rarely took any candy after I was like 12, I'd just go along in my costume with my friends. We always all dressed up and went all out on the costumes, so the neighbors always liked seeing what we'd come up with.
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
i was about 12 when i stopped. but our senior year of high school a couple of my friends and i got dressed up and drove around town trick-or-treating at our friend's houses. all of their parents loved us and were amused. we were very ironic about it. nowadays i'm more of a party person, but i still love wearing costumes!
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
mmm i'm with the contingent that says as long as you put effort into a costume, there's no real age limit.
i'm not gonna lie, i went out with friends through sophomore year of college! but we always had pretty awesome costumes. plus, our dorm was in boston's beacon hill neighborhood, and in 2004 theresa heinz-kerry was sitting outside the kerry brownstone with security guards handing out candy. i got a bag of m&ms! so we thought that was too cool to pass up. these days i'm more into halloween parties, though.
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
12 years of age.
I don't mind the younger teens taking part, but 12 is the honest cut off point.
My last trick or treat experience ended at 11. When I was 12, my mother presented me with Van Halen tickets. The show was Halloween night in Hampton, Va. 1982.
That was better than all the candy in the world at the time.
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
The last time I went I was 12 or 13. I didn't have a proper costume and just wore my pajamas. I felt pretty lame and too old by then so decided that night that that was the last time I trick or treated. Last year I was handing out candy and some 17 year old with facial hair and no costume was came by. If you have facial hair and no costume, that's not trick or treating, that's just begging for food. Loser.
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
I went once in high school. And we weren't lame about it. We actually had decent costumes. Not just putting on a mask or something.
I think that was about the limit though. After that, it's probably only acceptable if you are chaperoning. But then I guess you wouldn't be holding out a bucket for candy in that case.
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
This thread reminds me of helping my mom dole out candy when I was home one Halloween from university. It was getting later in the evening and the hoards had reduced to a trickle. Door bell rings and my mom opens it and looks at the young man on the step, dressed as a hobo. My mom is a teacher and as such, knows a lot of the kids in her town. She says "Jimmy, don't you think you are a bit old for trick or treating!" in her best school teacher voice. The lad, who was probably about 17, reverts right back into little Jimmy and says "But Madame (all female French teachers in my town went by Madame), my niece!" He points down to a darling little 2 year old dressed up as a bunny. His single older sister's child. Mom and I both burst out laughing and loaded them up with loot.
I think 15 or 16 is old enough to quit trick or treating.....
How Old Is Too Old To Trick-or-Treat?
It was 16 for me, but I remember definitely getting some glares from people. I'd say 14 is probably reasonable.
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Website: http://www.docsdining.blogspot.com
Location: Eau Claire WI
About: I am a neuropsychologist by trade, but I love food. I am formerly obese (365 pounds) but lost a lot of weight. I still love food though!
Favorite foods: Pasta, pork, dark chocolate
Last bite on earth: My cousin's cake
Sorry, but if you've got a D-cup and a naughty nurse costume making all of the 10 year old boys wonder what that funny feeling in their tummy is, you are too old. I saw that last night and commented to my wife.