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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, September 07, 2007 - 5:21 am
Mocha, try adding a little olive oil to your water. Also, salt the water well. I have also found that if I cook it exactly to the time on the directions, it turns out well. we love it, even my kids.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, September 07, 2007 - 5:34 am
I have Annie and I still don't like it. It's the taste of the pasta itself. Nasty.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Friday, September 07, 2007 - 5:41 am
i with Mocha on that one. the taste can't be hidden with sauce either. it's just yucky. blech.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, September 07, 2007 - 5:47 am
Oh yeah and the tomato sauce I had was delish on it's own but that and the pasta, ick.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Friday, September 07, 2007 - 6:53 am
I use Hodgson Mill whole wheat pasta also, and it is really very good!
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Friday, September 07, 2007 - 6:55 am
that's the brand we tried at our house, karuuna and we couldn't stand it. there wasn't enough sauce in the house to drown out the horrible flavor. i wish we liked it though.
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, September 07, 2007 - 7:19 am
same problem here, same pasta, yech!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Friday, September 07, 2007 - 11:33 am
I think maybe because I've had to change my diet so drastically that I just convince myself that I'm going to like whatever new thing I try. Maybe its working on me. LOL
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Friday, September 07, 2007 - 6:17 pm
LOL Twinkie I think I am the same way, there are some things I would have never eaten or drank in the past, such as Soy milk, now it isn't so bad.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, September 07, 2007 - 8:04 pm
I switched the pastas w/o telling my DS --and was sure he'd say something. He's a good eater, not too picky, but some things he just digs his heals in on. Surprisingly, he never even noticed! I honestly never noticed a taste difference -- just a slight texture difference. However, since the WW is a bit firmer, I like the texture better. Now, when I "have" to use regular pasta (fettuccine is next to impossible to find in our area on WW), it tastes "mushy" to me, no matter how "under cooked" I make it! LOL
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 8:39 am
Hey all. I am probably worrying about nothing but thought I might as well share my fretting. LOL I have posted before that I am hypoglycemic in the poster family for diabetes. Type 2 going back at least 5 generations (my GGgrandfather was one of the original test subjects for Dr. Banting and insulin in 1921). Actually its not really type 2, it starts out that way and then converts to type 1 (where the body is not just unable to use insulin but stops making it). They used to call this third type... brittle diabetes.. not sure what they call it now. Anyway!!!! I have an 18 year old daughter who is losing weight rather quickly. This time last year she was a slim 124 pounds (5'7"). A few months ago I noticed she looked thinner so I weighed her and she was done to 114lbs. She eats like a truck driver but its been a really stressfull year so I didn't worry about it too much. But this morning I did another double-take and after weighing she is at 108lbs. I know what the immediate suggestion will be but I have been hypervigilant since I first noticed the weight loss. She eats more than I do and it's all crap. She drinks regular soda, hides cookies and chips in her room (I don't buy it and will toss it if I see it). Her diet is so massively high carb (can eat an entire box of cereal in one day, averages two) and lives for pasta meals and ceasar salad. I just had a horrible thought that she is diabetic. Too young for type 2 or brittle which leaves type 1. Losing weight, craving sugar/carbs (sigh). So after all that rambling my question is does anyone know what the genetic odds are that the offspring of a type 2 would be type 1? I am going to get her to a doctor in the next week or so but I am obsessing about it now.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 9:00 am
have you had her thyroid checked? do you think she is purging?
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 9:33 am
Texannie, that's a good thought. I have had a thyroid issue in the past (mild and quickly resolved.. was stress-induced) and my grandmother also had more serious thyroid issues. That would definately be preferable to diabetes especially with this child. The last time she had to get an innoculation we had to make special arrangments to bring her in before the clinic opened, she was given valium and it was still a nightmare. I am as sure as I can be that she is not purging. Like I said I have been very vigilant about that since I first noticed the weight loss. She's never been concerned about her weight either direction, is relatively active but not overly so. She also had no idea what her weight was/is.. we don't keep a scale out in the open and she hasn't shown any interest in the numbers. I could always be wrong but nothing in her behavior sets off warning bells in that regard.
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 10:29 am
If you have a blood glucose meter, check it NOW! Don't wait until "next week". Even if the BG is normal, that is a significant weight loss and not healthy. She is at risk for hypotension (low blood pressure) and bradycardia (low heart rate) with that much weight loss. Type 2 is always a Type 2, and often end up on insulin because they cannot make insulin after years of Type 2. The insulin resistence part will always exist. Brittle diabetics are those for whom they are over sensitive to the injected insulin, have a hard time balancing food intake with insulin delivery.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 6:28 pm
Kona, I can't. Anything I tell you about the needle phobia this child has would be an understatement. I go near her with my testing equipment and she will flee the house in hysterics. LOL She goes and stands in the back yard when I test myself and won't even bring me the case holding the tester. When she gets a needle now, I go the day before and get three doses of valium from the doctor. She gets one the night before and two in the morning. She's the only person I know to have gone into surgery more sedated then when they come out. LOL
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 11:15 pm
Rissa, I suggest you tell her to grow up. Her life could depend on it. Test her ASAP.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 5:33 am
Either she wants the tiny pin prick or a kick in the ass.
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 7:04 am
You can't see the needle in the finger poking device. Sit her down, tell her to cover her eyes, and just do it. And if you are in the market for a new finger poking device, get the Accucheck Multiclix. There are 6 lancet needles in each drum. You never see the needles, even when reloading the drum. And they are the thinnest lancets (like the BD Ultrafine II 33 guage). I love this finger poking device. Doesn't hurt!

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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 7:32 am
There was a time when she needed oral surgery to remove an impacted tooth. I went in to the surgeon before-hand and told him about my daughter's phobia. I spent a long time impressing upon him the seriousness of the problem. We made arrangements to have her put under with a gas mask and THEN have the IV, etc put in. She cannot even hear the *word* needle without freaking so he was to speak to everyone who was going to be in the room. If she woke up with an IV it's ok but she cannot be anticipating a needle. Well, she is on the bed and the mask is literally being dropped onto her face and she asked in a noncholant manner "so no needle, right" and the nurse says "Oh ya, more than one but not until you are asleep". My daughter transformed into a whirling dervish. At first she just tried to flee the room but the nurse tried to restrain her while talking about how she wouldnt feel the needles (sigh). Ten minutes later that operating room was trashed, equipment was broken, blood (my daughters) was on the walls (her blood pressure goes up so fast and high that her nose bleeds A LOT). The nurse was crying, two male orderlies were in the rom and the surgeon who had come back in had been injured (claws and a few well-placed kicks). She was 9 at the time. We are looking into hypnosis or other therapy for her as she doesn't want this to continue either. She is completely embarrassed by it. She wants to be able to do stupid, simple things like get her ears pierced. Otherwise she is perfectly normal, well-adjusted young adult. I did ask her this morning if she would let me test her BG and to consider that my doing it would be less intrusive then going to a lab. She was shaking like a leaf but said she would let me do it tomorrow if I could let her prepare today. She asked that I come do it in the early morning while she is still sleeping. When I came downstairs an hour later she was eating breakfast and bawling about how stupid she feels. So I am feeling like a real sh%^ right now. LOL She is at work now but I am going to tell her that I have changed my mind, we will worry about it next weekend so that she sleeps tonight and I will sneak it and do it while she is still asleep in the A.M.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 8:33 am
A few weeks ago they used one of those meter-thingies on my finger to test my blood sugar, and man did it sting! I do NOT have diabetes although my dad did, so it's always in the back of my mind. Anyhow, my hat is off to (((((everyone))))) who has to use those bloodtest thingies often throughout the day! Don't know how you do it, except that I guess ya gotta do, what ya gotta do. And I suppose you eventually get used to it...
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 9:03 am
Mameblanche, not sure about all lancets but I know with mine and my dad's that you can adjust the depth that the lancet goes in. You just need it barely deep enough to get a drop of blood out. Honestly, I wouldn't even describe it as a pain most times. Perhaps whoever tested you had it set deeper than it needed to be. But I get your point.. thank you. LOLOL
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 11:38 am
If there is any wet alcohol on the skin when you do a finger poke, it will sting. Don't use alcohol, just wash your hands with soap & water, and dry before the poke. It's not about being "sterile" - that isn't needed. It's to make sure there is no possible contaminant that can give a false reading on the BG meter. And, yes, the reuseable devices (that come with the meters) are adjustable. The one-time pokers that hospitals & med offices use, no adjustment and they are deep (and thick).

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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 12:54 pm
Truly bizarre, Rissa. With a long history of diabetes in the family, this phobia truly is life threatening, and she is going to have to do everything she can to get over it. Sounds like you are both headed in the right direction looking into hypnosis or ANY other therapy that might help. My sympathies to you both. {{{Rissa and daughter}}}
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 2:27 pm
She better get used to needles now or she's going to have a very hard life. Like natural childbirth, oral surgery, etc. Its all mind over matter. PS. Have you tried bribes? Money talks, BS walks. LOL
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Monday, September 10, 2007 - 5:24 am
Thanks Juju, the irony has not escaped me. RFLOL Twinkie, we offered her two weeks in Brazil at one point (long story) before our doctor set us straight with how ineffective that would be. With a true phobia its got nothing to do with mind over matter. I wish it did because I would just yell/guilt it out of her. LOL Anyway, I went in this morning and got her with the lancet while she was still asleep. She woke up as soon as I pricked her but as it was already over, that was no issue. Her BG was 5.9 which is middle-high but still well within normal. Ideal would have been closer to 5. But I am not sure how valid the results are because she said she couldn't sleep more than an hour at a stretch last night, she was wandering around the house and had a couple massive nose bleeds. So I am just making her a doctors appt for (hopefully) this week. PS I tried to find a conversion formula to the Cdn values but this was as close as I could find: Blood Glucose
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