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It's cute when you ask your boyfriend what he's doing at work and he says,

"Just thinking about the future a lot actually! XD"

I reply, "Whatcha thinking bout?!"

He says, "Everything! What I wanna go back to school for, where and when we will go when we leave MN, how many kids I want, the timing of the kids, etc! So much to think about!"

Awww.

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I feel guilty when I eat cereal. Cause like, I KNOW I shouldn't be consuming so much grain. Bread too. But right now, cereal is the easiest way to not spend so much money while being able to get enough for both of us before we move. And Steve has already promised me that he's basically switching to a cereal diet when we move, because that's how he likes it. So I might have to plan for food for just me, other than bentos and the occasional meal. I want that book on nutrition, dammit! I'm pretty much obsessed with food, and Steve takes any chance he gets to point out that I sound just like my parents, and that I'm kind of a "food elitist" now. Which... is likely true, but I didn't realize how important food was before!

As a result of his trying to make me feel guilty for stopping drinking energy drinks, I was teasing him the other day that in drinking his energy drinks, he's basically consuming pure cancer. XD He's cut way back though - I haven't seen him drink any at home in awhile. He's actually down to one a day. Tea is like my lifesaver. It helps me consume a lot more water than I normally would have (and I currently only drink out of a travel mug, so it's 16oz - and hey, I just noticed it's a Starbucks mug... weird! I don't drink Starbucks), AND keeps me from drinking soda.

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I hated eating really poor when we were at my mom's house. It was basically spaghetti, sauce, and a caesar salad (as in lettuce with dressing) every night, because that was all we could afford. Surprisingly, I did begin to lose weight on this. BUT. I felt increasingly sluggish, and had more and more trouble with how my body FELT. So...really, in the end, the weightloss wasn't important.

Have you thought about looking into Muesli? It's a different type of cereal, and you can even make it yourself if you have the right ingredients. Brian does Raw Oatmeal (with water, but not milk) for breakfasts when we can't get a smoothie together. Though, this is more for when you're deciding to make cereal part of the Daily Diet, rather than just cheapest eats.

I've SEEN muesli, but never really knew what it was except a Jewish food? It's mentioned on TV and such sometimes, and it's been in some books I've read. Does it taste good? Tbh, I really like cereals like Special K and Honey Bunches of Oats :P Cereal is cheap, but Steve just really, really prefers it over a lot of other meals, especially when he's feeling lazy.

I've only made oatmeal a handful of times with milk - what about soy milk? I just noticed it seems to make you feel full longer versus with water.

It's not a Jewish food. Jews may have adopted it at some point into their cuisine, but it definitely didn't start there (I know this for fact mostly because I didn't know what muesli WAS, and I know pretty much every quintessential Jewish food--that is, I've never been surprised to learn any new food, since I just accepted foods for fact as a child, and I haven't encountered any new ones since--being half Jewish myself). I DO know that it IS European in origin--not French, English, or German though. I'm not sure where it's from, actually.

It's essentially a cereal of oats (or nuts in many raw recipes), fruit (dried or fresh), nuts, lemon juice, seeds, spices, and a milk product (or a nut milk, like almond or coconut milk). Unlike most cereals, it's not made by processing a bunch of grains into something, and it's possible to acquire raw oats, so you can really get healthy DENSE food. The big claim to fame of raw foods is how dense and nutritious it is, so it keeps you feeling full much longer than it's equivalent.

I have no idea about soy milk--we don't have soy milk as the milk alternative, as soy has some dubious aspects about it, especially when eaten in too great of quantities. We enjoy tofu sometimes, and soy products like soy sauce and miso, so soy milk would be pushing it. We DO have almond milk, which also a nice creamy consistency, and this does very well in oatmeal. It also gives a feeling of fullness for longer than the milk, and much longer than plain water.

Ah, I stand corrected! ///

It sounds yummy! I'm going to start going to more health food stores once we move vs just Cub (a week away!), so I can get ahold of better food stuffs. I saw a packaged cereal version of muesli at the store the other day, in the main cereal aisle, and wondered if it truly was what it said it was.

The only reason we haven't begun buying almond milk yet is because it comes in smaller packaging and is gone in like a day :/ But my parents have also been encouraging to purchasing of such, so I'm sure I'll move toward it in the future!

Haha--you should have seen me trying to figure out why my Word was saying that certain things aren't words...because they were YIDDISH and I didn't even KNOW. Then I realized that I'd never seen it spelt out, and I finally realized that they couldn't be English. Things like "tchotchkes," "kvetch," "bobkes," "khutspe," "nosh," "shlep" and "shtik." XD It's amazing what you pick up as a child that you don't realize until later you're the only person who understands these words. And that you know what challah is, and how to say it right. XD

But, yes. Muesli, especially made-yourself muesli, is really good. There are as many different types of packaged muesli as there are different types of bread in the bread aisle. I would suggest looking for one that sounds yummy and giving it a shot. If you try like, two or three, with little success, consider making your own. You can buy the ingredients in the bulk item aisle, which is cheaper than the packaged versions.

We found almond milk sold by the same volume as milk in the aisle with the milk (rather than the dry goods aisle where you can find the small boxes). It's next to soy, and sometimes coconut, milk. This gets us through a good while, even using it for the base of many of our smoothies.

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