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I tried to weigh myself this am and the scale said 'Batt' . LOL. Guess the universe sent us both a message

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I realised the other day I have a couple of mods that I decided to just accept because they aren't excesses but normal everydayness for me. For quite some time, hot chocolate has been my 'normal' breakfast drink. I heat whole milk on the stove and mix it with good cocoa powder, whole milk and about ...

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How cool

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Do you really manage to stay away from the scale all month?

It's so nice that people are noticing - hope the scale agrees for you

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I don't have comments on the question - just noticed your name. Would that be Hilly with the IQ of 6000? Well, for two minutes anyway.

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Was in a classroom this morning where by 9.15 the teacher was already passing out the tootsie rolls...

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Thank you! Yes I can - I just know it :) Today I don't feel that pull to eat something like I did yesterday, so that is good. It's FRIDAY , we're going out to eat tonight (either Indian or Fish and Chips - no decision yet on which) and aside from bad weather forecast, I"m looking forward to the week...

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Success though I really wanted to eat......something...when i got home from work today. I didn't though. Too determined to get that 21 days this time

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Looks like breakfast by Geico

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Exactly. The sweets at parties are not the problem - it's the day to day overconsumption that is

Oh..wait...that sounds like an ad for NoS

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Let me know how you like it

It's chilly here and they're using another 'S' word - Zuppa Toscana is on our menu for the weekend

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I'm also not an all or nothing person and I also don't strive for perfection. I don't believe that Reinhard (or anyone else) can create something that's right for me. However, I can take parts of this and parts of something else and create something that is just right for me. This happens to be clo...

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Yes, UP does last longer. It's unfortunate how much about food is about profit rather than quality. I keep asking for it where I buy my food and hope they get the message. I'm lucky to be able to go to a farm where I buy my milk and cream.

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Good for you! I ended up buying some clothes today. I haven't lost much weight, but I feel enough better that I feel like something new

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Success

And to anyone reading this..have you ever had a pluot? I've had two today - amazingly good.

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I tend to check your entries, too, since we started about the same time

. I am determined to get to 21 days this time! Nine more to go

I'm so glad tomorrow is Thursday. I'm already planning the weekend's baking!

I agree - we *are* doing great

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I don't find it the least tempting. It's usually just something in a plastic container someone picked up at the grocery store bakery. I do, however, find it...'sad' maybe? - to see how even though many schools are eliminating sweets at parties, the teachers 'reward' kids with candy on a daily basis.

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Just for decoration. Vending machines fall into that category - lots of pretty colors, nothing there to eat. Reminds me of the first time we went to a grocery store after we moved to the US. Lots of nice packages, catchy slogans and pretty colours - but not a lot of actual food. We walked out witho...

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They don't even wait til afternoon - it's all day long

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I can sympathise. I had a rotten day as well and thoughts of food flitted through my mind briefly. then I thought there was no way they were gonna get me to mess up my 21 days

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Is it really only Tuesday? I had a really rotten day at work - but I didn't add to it by eating

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Sounds comforting. I could use some after the day I had today. Chili will have to do.

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I think that people who don't/have never dieted (but maintain a "healthy" weight) aren't perfect in how they eat. Their habits have been developed over a lifetime -- or longer. I mean, it's how their parents and grandparents ate and it's what they learned at their knees. It's just what they do and ...

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There is a *lot* of evidence that diet food and diets in general (you know the kind) contribute to obesity. I agree with you Christmas Cheer - I could make a whole list - but last night I was so happy just to be able to eat a grown-up sized plate of one of my favourite meals I had to share. TunaFish...

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I make a couple of soups with cream in them - and a great alfredo sauce. Lemme know if you'd like details on the alfredo

One soup I'm making this week is 'Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana'

http://www.tuscanrecipes.com/recipes/ol ... scana.html

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I work in a school as well. Junk abounds and it seems like everyone is always eating something.

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Thanks for the encouragement. I find I am actually eating things I don't even want right now. It's strange, because during the week I don't touch anything outside meals. As someone else said 'it's not an option'. But S&S ..yikes!

I'll be so glad when that is over.

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I think my fav thing about NoS so far is being able to eat all I want. I don't mean 'allowed' - I truly mean 'able'. I have been IE for many, many years (after giving up the world of diets of all description) and I did well with it for quite some time. Using that I got over most of my disordered eat...

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Success

I never thought Monday could feel so great

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I have never been able to find anything that only called itself 'heavy cream' at least not since I've lived here. I only find (heavy) whipping cream. We go through quite a lot of it - make ice cream or chocolate mousse with it, pour over fruit or desserts, in mashed potatoes, scrambled eggs or frenc...

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I'm another of those - I started at 16 when I was a 'fat' cheerleader (5'5" 127 pounds). I'm not happy with my 'S' Days so far. Not because of what I eat, but of how I feel. I do believe as I do this longer, they will become more like the N days and I won't feel so lousy when the weekend is over. I ...

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Congrats on your 21!

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I'll be so glad when 'S' days aren't so 'wild'!

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LOL! I thought it might be familiar to someone else

Thanks for letting me know I'm not alone

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I think it may be difficult, but as you say, not impossible. As someone who did not have this foundation for the majority of my life - decades I don't even like to talk about filled with diet pills, uncontrolled binges and weeks of near starvation, I know first hand it is possible. I choose this way...

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I don't find this difficult at all - but this fits *me* rather than the other way around. I have long been a believer in 'real, traditional food' and learning from the evidence of human history is important to me. The modern practice of sweets is one example. It's not 'normal' throughout human histo...

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Friday That was actually a bit of a trick. Not quite a struggle - but my brain started trying to make bargains with me. You are probably familiar with the Friday afternoon 'Well, it's ALMOST the weekend...why not start the 'S' day a few hours earlier.....it won't matter'. But I successfully ignored...

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I find it's a bit of a toss-up with fast food. Sometimes if it is what I *really* want, it does satisfy me. But then again, we eat 'real', whole, traditional high quality, cooked from scratch food 90% of the time, so the occasional meal out has a different niche to fill. It's not going to leave a nu...

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Oh dear. I just started using Safari - and it's got the 'top sites' feature - all my most visited sites gathered together. An Anti-anti-bookmark system.

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There is evidence that the body does know the difference. It's not just about how we feel, but about very complicated hormonal and chemical processes, light and dark, seasons - cycles that have evolved over millennia. When I was ill a few years ago, one of the first things my doctor suggested I chan...

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Thusrday I'm two and a half weeks into this and I think this week I'm finally settling in. The first two weeks I struggled with hunger between meals and ate much more than usual at meals, but now I'm not so hungry between meals and I don't need nearly as much food when I do eat. I also realised I w...

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I'm still kinda new here - but I'd like to get through 21 days successfully for the first time, and get through the month with no more than one red day. 1 Success 2 Success 3 exempt 4 exempt 5 success 6 success 7 success 8 success 9 success 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 (this should be day 21 - or should I s...

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Deb, I was thinking of using the HabitCal, too. I have never been able to figure out why, but doing well is sometimes worse for me than doing badly.

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Another green and weird day I ended up working all day when I didn't expect to. This was fine, except I did not have anything for lunch. I'm not ready to just not eat all day. I dashed out and bought something that I didn't really enjoy - and didn't have time to even if I did. I'm looking forward t...

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Thanks for posting this. I'm hypothyroid among other things - so it's good to know it *is* possible.

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I just joined this group two weeks ago - and I'm thinking already thinking I need to be here less. I got the basics down - not like it was that complicated

- and I just need to 'live it' and especially not 'overthink' it.

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Thanks so much for posting this. It's just what I needed.

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Sept 28

It's been too long a day to post much - other than it was green. Weird...but green

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Hi Kevin, thanks for stopping by. I don't feel angry though, and not 'sitting and fuming' so no worries about that. I am not thrilled to have gained weight. Other than a few months on steroids five years ago, my weight has been stable for years, so it was totally unexpected that within two weeks of ...

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Good advice. Thanks for keeping an eye on this newbie. I do feel frustrated - but also something else I'm not quite sure about. I was thinking I didn't 'deserve' an S day tomorrow - but I'll follow your advice, plan something nice and not go crazy.

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So much for my 'determination'. This week I passed up snacks on offer, said 'no, thanks' to my favourite pie, didn't eat after lunch yesterday even though I had no idea when dinner would be (turned out to be 10 hours later) and was generally a model NoSer. Yet my previously (two weeks ago) well fit...

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9/24 I think I must be getting the hang of this no snacking thing. Last week I was hungry after three hours, but today I sailed through 10 hours between lunch and dinner without a problem. Of course, it meant I was eating dinner at 10 pm..and it was something I wouldn't normally like to eat, but it...

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Not at all. In fact I haven't dieted or gained or lost weight in close to 15 years - except the few months five years ago when I was on steroids. My weight was perfectly stable before that, climbed 30 pounds with the steroids, then stabilized there for the last five years.

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Welcome! I'm fairly new myself so not much experience to go on. I do know that this is one of the most welcoming and helpful groups I've come across :) Oh..and I'd stick with the biscuits :). I love them myself, but don't usually have time (or the inclination to deal with all the mess) to make them ...

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I've been NoSing for 11 days. Yesterday I wore my jeans that I hadn't worn since before starting NoS. When I last wore them about two weeks ago, they fit fine. I had hoped they might be a teeny bit looser - but in fact they were tight and uncomfortable. I didn't expect them to be falling off - but I...

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The battery on my scale died last week - just days after I started NoS. I decided to leave it dead. I don't know how long I'll stick it out, but I am going to try to avoid it for a few weeks.

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9/23 It's hours til bedtime, but I know this is going to remain a green day. I don't have the slightest interest in eating anything, though this afternoon I thought about all kinds of foods - even stuff I don't really like, and even though I wasn't hungry. I didn't eat anything though - but I did e...

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9/22

It was a long day for me - but a green one. It was an easy green, too. Last week I was so hungry between meals, but today I was just not. It surprised me. I hope it means I'm adjusting.

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That's good to hear stories from so many of you - both long-termers and newbies like me.

Thanks for letting me know about the podcast. I'm going to go look it up now

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Sounds good - I'm all in favour of treating ourselves at mealtime

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9/21 Feeling much more 'normal' today. Reasonable breakfast, lunch, a hot chocolate when I got home from work instead of a cup of tea on this chilly rainy day, and a reasonable dinner. I cleaned up and packed lunches after dinner without picking at the leftovers - why can I do that so easily today?

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Sorry, I was referring more to the '30 minute meals' titles of cookbooks and tv cooking shows and as a comment on attitudes- I did not mean it to be taken literally. I'm sure many people spend that much time 'cooking' over several days - after all, how long does it take to remove a package from the ...

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I've just had my first NoS weekend, so of course I'm reviewing how I feel I did. I am not feeling all that great about it - so also thinking about what I'd like to change - or whether I'm expecting to much or being too hard on myself, etc. I thought it would be helpful if some of you with more exper...

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Hi there, I'm a newbie, too. This is actually my first full week.

Best wishes

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I had a similar conversation with my MIL a while back when explaining to her how we eat and why. I remember well when I was a small child 'convenience' foods seemed like the best thing ever to my mother and grandmother. The luxury of not having to do *everything* themselves - the novelty of it all. ...

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9/20 I had a busy weekend. I planned as much of my baking for the weekend, since I knew I wouldn't be able to bake without tasting some of it. I made the pumpkin muffins yesterday and a chocolate chip pie today. Both freeze well, so they'll last quite a while. For breakfast we had croissants and te...

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9/19 My first 'S' day was quite a learning experience. I made pumpkin muffins and we had them for tea, and ice cream after dinner. There was far too much nibbling going on though. Not a lot at one time, a few walnuts as I getting them out of the dehydrator and packing them in jars, a half a peach a...

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My son has a Dr Who lunchbox and pajamas.

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918 Although it feels strange to declare the day a success when I ate so darn much. I'm just not used to how this feels at all.

B: biscuits* and gravy*
L: Lunch out with a friend. I had Chipotle posole
D: Chinese - and lots of it, Kombucha*

I'm looking forward to my first S

*homemade

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My husband always makes the burgers. There are three of us, which means out of a pound of meat, there is always one extra - that one goes into a container in the freezer for another day. Sometimes it gets cooked as a ' lunch for one' and sometimes we wait til it has enough friends for a meal

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I am in the 'just meat' camp. It has never even occurred to me to make burgers with eggs or other things - if that's the flavour I'm going for, I'll make a meatloaf. :) The best thing I ever did for my burgers was ditch unhealthy and tasteless low-fat eating ideas. I go with 80/20 (which isn't that ...

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You mentioned in a couple of posts how much easier it is when the kids are not around. I have noticed that the afternoons are the most difficult time for me. I know part of it is I'm tired from work, but part of it is also that I pick my son up on the way home and he's justifiably hungry - so I fix ...

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Oh dear. Feeling so lousy this morning and it's my day off

This is the third weekend in a row that my stomach has done this to me. Wish I could figure out why and then stop it.

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I jokingly refer to myself as a 'recovering perfectionist'. It was only after my perfectionism impaired my life and my health did I finally actively start to work on accepting 'good enough'.

It's a lesson I wish I could have learned so very much sooner.

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Oh, Yeah. Not tempted at all. I was trying to be polite about it, but I really thought it was just awful :) I don't think it was such a big indiscretion, obviously it was just a little thing - but it was the falling into a habit without thinking that I thought was key. But I'm a lot less likely to d...

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I don't have the book yet. I just discovered this a few days ago, then read through the website a couple of times. I knew the first time I read it this was something I wanted to do. It fits so well with what I know and how we live in general, but has that extra bit of structure and community that ma...

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9/17 Today has been another good day. B: Super scramble again (whole egg with extra yolk and cream), muffin and orange juice L: leftover chili from dinner the other night and kombucha D: Chicken noodle soup and biscuits (both homemade), organic local peaches with cream I may have gone a bit overboa...

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Sorry to hear you're not well. My son is 9 and I'm glad he seems to be 'over' Chuck e Cheese!

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Okay, more than one person. I see it comes up quite frequently. I don't know if this has been posted before, but it's interesting, notheless:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0 ... 19,00.html

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This is my first time dropping in on your check-in and I've gotta agree with you on the crash potatoes. *sigh*

How long have you been a NoSer?

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OOOoo..a fellow Kombucha drinker! I ate more at lunch today, and feel quite comfortable now at 4 pm. Not hungry - not full. I'm going to check to see if I'm eating enough for my activity level, etc, make sure I eat a decent lunch - and if I really need something, do some more tweaking. Good post abo...

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That would be sooo great. Something else to look forward to

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We're a British/American family, so I do a lot of cooking by weight. If given a choice, I much prefer cooking by weight and convert some of my American recipes to use weight.

Makes it tough when one of my American friends asks for a recipe.

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9/16 Breakfast: Super scramble (whole egg with egg yolk and cream), toast with butter and marmalade, tea with milk Lunch - club sandwich, kombucha Dinner - Fat burger, fries and water My sandwich didn't last til dinner, and I started to not feel well with another four hours to dinner. I ended up ha...

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I didn't have the problem of being hungry all the time - it was the opposite. I was always too full so I started eating less and less so that I would actually get hungry. Now I'm so used to eating almost nothing. I've been thinking I actually eat too little, and when I plugged it all into fitday - I...

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You're more right than you know, Janie. I'm coming from the 'eat when hungry, stop when full' thing - which worked for me beautifully for many years, but not so much lately. Not sure why, but it's time to try something else. Besides, I'm tired of having to eat all the time. So, I am very well 'train...

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Milk sounds like just what I need :) I also think you're right about my not eating enough at lunch. At the time, I felt like I had enough food - but it just didn't last the afternoon. Maybe a later lunch would help, too, since I don't seem to have the same problem with hunger in the morning. Thanks ...

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What do you do when you're really hungry and it's hours until the next meal. I don't mean maybe hungry - or stomach growling a bit - I mean truly, feeling a bit ill hunger - in those early days of adjusting to the system?

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That's exactly why I decided to do it. We are 'in' to traditional foods, traditional cooking methods and customs. This fits in with our basic philosophy - but with a more defined framework. What is really interesting is that my husband - who is a lifelong 'normal eater' and has never been overweight...

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First day - and not exactly a success. Breakfast - Croissant with butter and tea with whole milk Lunch: Two slices of pepperoni pizza, iced tea (and this is where things fall apart a bit) a mini Nestle crunch bar that someone gave me - which, I might add, tasted so awful, next time I won't have a bi...

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I have a different lunchbox - lunchsense.com. I really like it and even though I have the small one, it's been enough for me so far.

I've never taken photos though

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I think this is an interesting thread. I just started and one of things I have to work out is my 'emergency' food to keep at work. Most days I come home and cook a proper meal, but once in a while I get stuck there - and I never know when that will be. I don't eat stuff out of packages - and I don't...

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Thanks for the welcome - it's so nice!

I'm afraid I goofed today. So much for day one. Old habits, I suppose.

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I just learned about No S today. I don't know much yet - but enough to start with.

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