Monday, May 4, 2009

Call 911

HELP!!! we have 1/2 a container of playdough...and NO ingrediants to make any!!! When you are home sick from school and bored out of your gourd....playdough comes in handy. I guess I am off to the store tomorrow for some ingredients.....gotta replenish our playdough stash!!!

Nature's Playdough
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 cup water
2 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons cream of tartarbeet, spinach, and carrot juice
Mix flour, salt and oil, and slowly add the water. Cook over medium heat, stirring until dough becomes stiff. Turn out onto wax paper and let cool. Knead the playdough with your hands until of proper consistency. Use as is, or divide into balls and add a few drops of the vegetable juices to make green, pink, and orange.

Playdough
4 cups flour
1/4 cup powdered tempera
1/4 cup salt
1 1/2 cups water
1 tablespoon oil
Mix together flour, powdered paint and salt. Mix water and oil, and food coloring if desired. Gradually stir the water and oil mix into the flour mix. Knead the playdough as you add the liquid. Add more water if too stiff, more flour if sticky.

Alum Playdough
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
2 tablespoons alum
1 cup water
2 tablespoons oil
liquid food coloring
Pour dry ingredients into large pan. Stir together to mix. Stir oil and food coloring into the water. Pour liquid into the dry ingredients while mixing, squeezing and kneading the playdough. If too sticky, add more flour. Keeps best in the fridge.

Just Like the Real Playdough (so they say)
1 cup flour
1 cup water
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon powdered alum
1/2 cup salt
2 tablespoons vanillafood coloring
Mix all dry ingredients. Add oil and water. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until reaching the consistency of mashed potatoes. Remove from heat and add vanilla and food coloring. Divide into balls and work in color by kneading the playdough.

Oatmeal Playdough
1 cup flour
2 cups oatmeal
1 cup water
Gradually add water to flour and oatmeal in bowl. Knead until mixed (this playdough is sticky, but unique in texture.) Model as with clay.
Tip: Add cornmeal or coffee grounds in small quantity for texture.

Nutty Butter Playdough
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup powdered milk
1 cup honey
1 cup oatmeal
Mix together and play.

Kool-Aid Playdough
2 1/2 to 3 cups flour
2 cups boiling water with
1 package Kool-aid (any flavor)
3 tablespoons corn oil
1/2 cup salt
1 tablespoon alum



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Saturday, May 2, 2009

Refined Flour


Ok...I have been having....uumm...let's just say gastro problems and I am having a breath test done {testing for lactose, fructose and laculose allergies} Well....the day before I am to perform the test, I have a restrictive diet that is VERY restrictive. I am allowed to eat REFINED Flour, COOKED veggies, MEAT, EGGS and down ALL the water I can swim in!


Now - I have been searching on the world wide web of google....and have come to find that REFINED flour is NOT the healthiest. So off I go to my cabinet in search of something to eat for breakfast.


I first grab the sourdough bread I bought yesterday {makes the best toast!!!} and flip to the label....NOPE - it is made with UNBLEACHED flour {darn those health nuts}


Off to the regular white bread....NOPE - same thing.


OK...let us try the saltine crackers.....MAYBE - it has ENRICHED flour....getting a lil closer.


I can eat CORN FLAKES - but guess what...I DO NOT HAVE ANY!!!


Sooooo - I reach for the grits and guess what - I CAN HAVE THIS...only 1 cup. YIPPIE!!!!!


I guess I will have to OD on grits, bacon, eggs {minus the cheese and milk} and STEAK!!! All in the hope to find the reason I am having "ISSUES" in my gastro system.


Wish me LUCK!!!



photo credit: gabo

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Friday, May 1, 2009

Blah!

Everyone has those days when they feel BLAH. For me, it is when the sun hides and the weather is yucky. All you feel like doing is curling up on the sofa, snuggled under a blanket, watching or reading.

As adults, we have so much going on in our lives with family, work, and friends. Children, are smaller images of ourselves, and I think we sometimes forget that they too can have issues. When Bailey was a toddler and I noticed she was sad, I would tickle her or make goofy faces. Now, at age 11 1/2, that does not really work.

Bailey has been having issues with her knees lately {previous post} and it seems the Spring allergies are getting to her. She woke up today BLAH. It breaks my heart to see her mope around.....and all I want to do is make her LAUGH!!!! I keep forgetting that she is human, and is ALOUD to have BLAH days too. . . . but as a parent....you just want to wiggle your nose and make it all better!

So....I am spending the day worrying about my lil boo, trying to think of ways to break her out of this BLAHNESS. Maybe a snuggle on the sofa in front of the tv will do the trick.



photo credit: sirkus


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