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Twiggy930

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I hate that Crohn's keeps robbing my son of thing that other kids can take for granted. I took the kids on an impromptu camping trip for a couple of days and the first day was great but today is terrible. He has felt awful all day with bad abdominal pain. We have been waiting for the pain to pass but no such luck. Now I'm trying to decide if I should pack up the tent and go home or stick it out until the morning. My non Crohnie daughter is pissed that we might have to leave early... I HATE this disease!
 
What does he feel he can do? I am sorry your son has this. I hate that he is hurting. Does he want to go home? or is he the type of person who will stay and suffer though it so he won't ruin his sisters day? Wish I could be more helpful. I can't imagine being that young and having to deal with this.
 
:ghug:

With DS we tend to just let him set the pace.
We don't leave because like it or not this pattern is going to continue through out life and I want him to be able to have as many "Good" times as possible even if its only a few minutes.
Can he sit by a creek or bask in the sun (with sunscreen of course)??

HOpe he perks up
 
So sorry he is feeling bad. I would take cues from him. C tends to want to please others but if it gets bad enough he directs the pace. Hope he gets to feeling better.
 
Twiggy, I'm so sorry! :( That's so disappointing :ymad: I hope he's begun to feel a bit better by now :ghug:
 
UGH! Stinks not feeling well away from home and double stinks when you are not feeling well and others are counting on you to have a good time. Poor pumpkin. But stay or go the stomach pains will still be there...is this a usual symptom for him?
 
Got my hubby to pick him up this evening after work. My daughter and I have stayed for 1 more night. It makes me sad that this is now part of our lives. Who wants to join my pity party? I've got s'mores!!!
 
Oh man Twiggy...:(:(:(...I so know the feeling only too well and it sure as hell does suck! :voodoo:

I'll join the pity party! But I have no blessed idea what a s'more is!

Dusty. xxx
 
I'll join the pity party .... I sure miss family vacations. Danny really does not want to go places feeling like he does. I am glad your husband could pick him up and you had another day with your daugher. It is hard on siblings too.
 
Awww I am so sorry about that but silver lining...alone time with daughter (she could probably use some anyway) AND smores..I NEVER turn down a smores...happy or sad...in winter we make them over the flame of my gas cook top...desperate I know.

Deprived Dusty.....toasted marshmallow (over an campfire or for us city girls our cooktop range) smooshed with a Hersheys Chocolate bar between two graham crackers..ooey, gooey chocolately heavan!
 
I'll join the pity party but it's only because of my love for s'mores!:ybiggrin:
So sorry to hear about the camping trip. How is he doing now?


Dear Dusty, s'moes are as American as apple pie.:soledance:

Crohnsinct I use to do the same thing over are stove as a kid.
The bad part is when we accidentally drooped it on the burner. My dad was none to happy. Still they were worth the risk. =-):D

Farmwife
 
Do you guys realise that explanation is as clear as mud!

Aside from the marshmallow I will now ask what the hell a Hersheys Chocolate bar and graham crackers are! :rof:
 
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OMG!!!
 
lol ... any flat chocolate bar will do .... but no Graham crackers in Aus?? :) they are a flat cookie ... most popular for smores I think. We also use them crushed for Graham cracker crust (for cheesecake) .... now I wondering if you have cheesecake? (on menus cheesecake is sometimes called NY cheesecake.)
 
LOL!

Oh No Dusty! Where on earth do you live? Worse than just plain old country...

O.K. a Hershey's chocolate bar = just a milk chocolate bar...they make em in dark as well...note to self try smores with dark chocolate.

The graham cracker ( /ˈɡræm/, /ˈɡreɪm/, or /ˈɡreɪ.əm/; also graham wafer) was developed in 1829 in Bound Brook, New Jersey, by Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham. The true graham cracker is made with graham flour, a combination of finely-ground unbleached-wheat flour with the wheat bran and germ coarsely-ground and added back in providing nutrition and flavor. While graham crackers started out as a mild food, unsweetened or mildly sweetened, they are more commonly known as a sugar and/or honey sweetened baked good that approaches a cookie (or the British English term biscuit.

Next you will be telling me you don't know what Fruity Pebbles are....
 
Way to start off day 1 of my diet girls...remind me to thank you...going to eat my stupid oatmeal with fruit now:boring:
 
Where I live I gather the roots and berries and Mr Kat hunts for game and we grunt a lot!

We do have cheesecake, we have chocolate and the 'cracker' looks like a shredded wheatmeal or digestive biscuit. But who the hell came up with the combination! Ewwww! :lol:

Fruity Pebbles...sounds like something you poop when you are constipated and try to clear yourself out with fruit!
 
Yes it is cereal and their's NOTHING of nutritional value it it what so ever.
It's just another food to make us fat!!! It still taste good (not that I have any:D).

Farmwife
 
Farmwife: ROOKIE! Soon no amount of talk about poop will ruin your appetite.

Dusty: LOL! Yes and you should see the pretty color they turn your milk...like a rainbow! They gave Olivia Fruity Pebbles in the hospital...low res and all...try to take that away...the kid is hooked!
 
I am learning so much tonight! S'mores, Fruity Pebbles, whatever next! I am gobsmacked...:ywow: I never knew these things existed!

Dusty. :)
 
Twiggy - Hang in there things will get better. Try and enjoy!

DustyKat - You made my day, I am still laughing as my co-workers think I am crazy laughing by myself! I thought the whole world knew what S'mores are! Delightfully delicious!

:ybiggrin:
 
OMG, I've got to stop laughing out loud!!! I'm at work!!! :rof: :rof: :rof: Should we tell Dusty about Beavertails or is that just a Canadian thing?
 
Beavertails??? What is that???

Hey Dusty have you heard of elephant ears???

Farmwife

I'm off, as you all have made me hungry!:biggrin:
 
Are fruity pebbles the same as fruit loops?
As for Graham crackers, they sound a bit like a cross between a SAO biscuit and a shredded wheatmeal (or maybe those "golden puffs" that we're popular years ago...
Don't you love a bit of cross cultural pollination? ;)


HD
 
Mmmmmm... beaver tails! My mouth is watering now... need a sugar fix lol!

And, Twiggy, hope things are looking up for you and your family soon!! I was just talking to my daughter about what a great sister she was last summer when she said she didn't want to go to the roller coaster park if her brother wasn't feeling well enough (we didn't go)... awww, it was so sweet. Kids are amazing sometimes!
 
Beavertails Tess?!!! Quick back to the city...retreat retreat!

Elephant ears...Yes but only with tons of powdered sugar...btw Italians make them in balls shapes and we call them Zeppoles!

Fruity pebbles are a fruity version of rice krispies...a cousin of Fruit Loops.hahahaha
 
I think Elephant Ears and Beaver Tails are the same thing :) Yummmm! :lol:


They are a flat-ish dough that is deep fried and then covered with butter, sugar, sometimes cinnamon, etc. :)



For some reason, my 'leftover' lunch just doesn't seem very appetizing anymore!
 
Beavertails!!! Like you eat the tails of beavers!!! How do the poor things swim if you eat their tails!!! :yfaint:

There's only two types of elephant ears i know of! Elephant ears as in the whole trunk and tusk thing and the plant!

Oh god...my mind is boggling!!!
 
My sister lives in Australia and I've been a few times.

We also don't have caramel slice in this part of the world. Whenever I make them people are amazed and think I invented them :)
 
Beaver tails has to be one of the best thing it the world. It comes along with great events and tasty child memories!
 
Twiigy...Yay! We cheered you up.

I just looked up a Lammington and the Caramel Slice. Is that the best you girls could do...no deep frying? No artificial coloring...amateurs!

I can't wait to make that Caramel slice...has all my favorites...O was looking over my shoulder and said YUM!
 
Twiggy930, Dusty I have a friend that is living over in Australia and I recently saw a post on her FB about Australia marshmallows and how they taste nothing like American marshmallows and how she is turning her friends on to American marshmallows. I think the Australian equivalent of graham crackers would be McVities digestives?

Ummm...I'll take a s'more and some fruity pebbles...and oooh can I have some of that beaver tail? Is a beaver tail like a bear claw?
 
Nope Clash, I think they are Elephant ears in the states!

You add a bit of lemon, cinnamon and sugar and pouf a million calories! (ok, not quite)
 
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Bear claws aren't the same as beaver tails...cousins perhaps...bear claws are doughnut type things with glazed sugar...beaver tails are fried dough with powdered sugar or cinnamin on it like the things you get at carnivals...here in new england they have pizza fritte...same fried dough but with sauce and grated parmesan (not freshly grated...the chemical stuff you buy in a jar) on it.
 
O.K. and just so Dusty has nightmares tonight I discovered deep fried oreo's at a carnival recently. They take an oreo, cover it with dough, deep fry it and then cover it with powdered sugar...YUM!

BTW - I had a friend who's son was allergic to everything. I had him over and was scared to death to feed the kid. She told me just give him oreos...there is absolutely nothing natural in those things. Ewwww and Yummm
 
It's amazing how side tracked us women can get when it comes to food!

I'm glad it made you laugh Twiggy. Enjoy your time camping!!

Farmwife
 
Good lord! I am so sloooooooooow on the responses! :lol:

Anyhoo...Once upon a time long, long ago a young lass left school and toiled very hard. She slaved away emptying bedpans and saving lives, what a mixed bag of chores she had! Then one day she went to the bank and found that she had saved enough to go away for a very long time. :) So she skipped on down to the travel agents and made her long planned dreams come to life. She threw a backpack over her shoulder and boarded the flying kangaroo bound for England....

Many months passed and after tripping gayly through the UK and Europe she decided to board another plane, this time bound for Montreal! At first the natives were somewhat puzzling to her, she had a little trouble understanding the accent. :eek2: She soon found her groove though and cut a swathe from one side of the country to the other. On her return to Provence Quebec she headed south the that great body of water called Niagara Falls. After getting somewhat wet she continued on foot over a bridge to the USofA. The gentleman at the border point was anxious that once she entered the US she would not want to leave! Alas she eventually convinced him otherwise, and so her journey began...

She found many new and strange things as she ventured forth. She was met with many questions along the way...Lass: May I have a ham sandwich? Shop Assistant: Would you like that on Rye, wheat, white...would like mayo, pickles...on and on it went and she became confused! she just wanted a ham sandwich...

What is all this leading to you ask?...well one day she found herself in New York city standing outside what she called a cake shop but she didn't see one thing she recognised! Fear and panic gripped her, what were these strange morsels that lay before her! She took a tentative step over the threshold, then another and another. Soon she felt beads of sweat on her brow, her breaths quick and shallow as she searched and searched in vain for some flicker of recognition. Too much cream, everything had too much cream! The words were pounding in her head! Then her eyes rested upon what seemed to her a burning light of salvation! Hallelujah! Was that a custard tart??? Could it be??? It was the only thing in the shop that didn't have lashings of cream all over it! She asked for one of the tasty morsels and as the lady handed it to her she pushed the money into her hand and fled out into the street...

At last she caught her breath, she slowly opened the bag and peered inside. Come to me my lovely she whispered and as she drew it closer to her mouth it was all she could do not to gobble it down greedily and disgrace herself in the middle of the street. As she opened her mouth and bit down into all that loveliness her eyes grew wider and wider and her lips spread back from her teeth like that of a snarling mongrel dog...

OMG!!! I swear that thing was made completely of sugar!!! I spat and spluttered and made a complete ass of myself anyway! :rof:
 
:dance:It's DONUT time!!! :dance:



:us_flag::us_flag::us_flag::us_flag::us_flag::us_flag::us_flag::us_flag:
GOD BLESS AMERICA THE LAND THAT I LOVE!!!!!!!


Farmwife
 
OMG, you guys are hilarious! Dusty - LOVE the story! :rof: :rof:


And, not to be outdone by the American Country Girls...!!!

:canada_flag: Way to go Canada for Tiny Tim doughnuts and Poutine! :biggrin:
 
Okay Poutine definitely sounds like something I could enjoy!!!! Fries covered in gravy and cheese? Oooh can you add chili to that?
 
Oh. My. I'm practically crying. and beaver tails made me lol...as close as I am to Canada I have never heard of them. Funny that you should have this discussion on my first PALEO diet day...as I cleared out my pantry of Pop tarts, lucky charms and fruit roll ups. I am DYING for a s'more now, though...mmm!!
 
I'm considering starting a thread just so you all can hijack it!! I haven't laughed so much in quite awhile between this thread and Angie's!!
 
Oh, and just try keeping a straight face at work!!! I am soooooooooo lucky I have lots of spare time at work! :lol:


And, yes to Chili on the Poutine!
 
I'm so going to Canada!
Those Poutline sound great.
I've never been there.
Y'all make me nervus when you end a sentence with "eh".
I never know if I should say something else.
Farmwife
 
Oh and Angie by clearing out your pantry of Pop Tarts and what not I certainly hope you mean an all night eating binge because throwing that stuff away and into the landfill could pollute the environment...just saying:p

If you read my diet rants you would know that raised Italian we throw nothing out! Wasting food would get you sentenced to the third ring of h..e..double hockey sticks. We are eating our yuckies while trying only to bring good in.
 
Too funny... Dusty and I just spoke of Canada's friendly 'eh' ! :lol:

My, oh, my, 'eh' has just sooo many meanings! :) Sometimes it's used when you ask a question to a group as in 'what do you think of that poutine?' but then you sort of look to one person and add 'eh?' :wink:

Then again you could say 'That was great poutine!, eh!?' Kind of a verbal exclamation mark! :D

Can also be used TWICE in one sentence - if it's used at the beginning of a sentence, just a polite way of saying 'I don't know your name but... as in 'Eh..., great poutine, eh?' :ywow:

Can also be used instead of pardon or excuse me when you don't hear someone... 'blah, blah, blah'.... 'Eh?'

Also if someone makes you mad... 'EH!!' Also replaces the need to 'count to three' when your kids annoy you... you give them that 'look' and forcefully say 'EH!' :ymad:

Thinking about it now, Farmwife, I think etiquette would call for you to just agree whenever a Canadian says 'eh'! Which is pretty much ALL the time, eh! :ylol:

(No wonder we're all so agreeable! :thumleft:)
 
Tesscorm said:
Thinking about it now, Farmwife, I think etiquette would call for you to just agree
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Thanks for the advice about "eh" and just to agree with them.:thumright:
If I'm ever robbed by a Canadian and he ask "give me your purse, eh." I should just do it. Thanks, great advice.:shifty:


Farmwife
 
My Witty yet sarcastic comments are done for now.
Grace is having bladder, back and tummy issues.
Which is good timing since my hot water tank broke. I
have a bunch of farmers looking at the thing and braking pipes going to it!
Worried No, Terrified YES
So if I'm grumpy tomorrow you know why, no bath!!
Farmwife
 
^^^^:stinks: In more ways than one! :shifty:


Heavens to murgatroyd! What have you done to that little word eh, eh?!?!?!
 
Sounds like your Graham crackers are what we in the UK call cream crackers, dry and you spread cheese on them or just put hard cheese on them, they are made by Jacobs. as for beaver tails, i take it they are nothing to do with real beaver tails
 
Farmwife - heck no!! You loudly protest with a forceful and incredulous 'EH' and then you hit him with your rolling pin! :ybatty:

Dusty - We are people of few words - no Shakespeareans here!

Twiggy - Hoping S is feeling a bit better :heart:
 
To show my true appreciation for lifting my spirits I will post a photo of me eating a ... Beaver Tail!!!
 

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Oooooo, nice pic....

But I don't think you look overly happy with the beavertail, more like a hmmmm...:( :lol:
 
:rof::rof::rof::rof::rof::rof::rof::rof::rof::rof:

The one with the unimpressed expression is my quasi Australian sister!!!

:rof::rof::rof::rof::rof::rof::rof::rof::rof::rof:
 
crohnsinct- only 1/3 of the food made it in the trash...I left 3 packs of pop tarts out for the kids (it's the one thing Izz cried about giving up). You sound like my mother in law (who is NOT italian), but will take food from your plate "You are THROWING that AWAY <insert incredulous tone>" and complains about her extra twenty (ahem forty) pounds loL! Oh, and we had s'mores tonight (THANKS, ya'all, for putting *THAT* in my head) with GIGANTIC marshmallows!!
I am thinking about stopping at Niagara Falls this week on our way through...better brush up on my "Canadian", eh??! ;)
 
I'm sorry, I stumbled across this post and have now finally had a good laugh for the evening! Thank you ladies!

If I do recall, this post was originally about camping. Sorry the trip was cut short for your son. Hope he's feeling better soon.

Now I want a smore's. And have a need to experience a beavertail.
 
:ghug:Hi hlmurray99, I just read your story. I pray your surgery goes well.

I'm glad you got a laugh from here.
I guess we all have enough serious issues in our lives, some more that others,
it's just good to laugh with friends. :ylol:
Like my Grandma always says, if I didn't laugh I would cry.


Farmwife
 
Wow guys, that was some thread hijacking and yes, very funny!!
Think I will have to do some travelling and try some of those yummy sounding foods. I'm sure Scotland could match you in deep fryingness (making up words now) and sugar! We have deep fried pizza in batter and deep fried mars bar (chocolate bar) - have never had the guts to eat them though!!! :lol:
Twiggy, sorry about the camping trip - hope all is ok now.
 
Hey Sascot! Welcome back! How was the cruise? How are the kids? Yikes more jijacking...maybe you can post an update...maybe you already have...I will read on.
 
Sounds like there should be a foodie thread somewhere...

I personally find my apricot bake to be fabulous and it has always been the hit of potlucks along with my chocolate pecan pie.

I will have to check out beaver tails and all the other delicious foods in this thread.
 

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