Tasty
--I want it! from chez-sucre-chez
--FREE Printable chore chart from ModEco Kids
--Lots of Bean Recipes from Cheap Healthy Good
Tedious
--Christmas music playing at Target. I actually quite like Christmas music--at Christmastime, but I'm afraid I really must draw the line at "Silver Bells" before Halloween.
--Gallstones. Yup, I've got 'em, and a lovely surgeon is going to take out my gallbladder in a few weeks. Aside from the fact that I have to have surgery, the most alarming thing is that I cannot eat ANY fat at all until then! I'm trying to imagine how I will get through Halloween without even one little tiny Reese's Peanut Butter Cup...
If you have any beloved non-fat recipes of any kind, please send them along, and let me know what's tasty or tedious for you this week!
Sorry to hear about the gallstones. Yikes.
Good luck on the no fat. You can do it. It's better than the pain and is only a short time.
Posted by: Natalie | October 24, 2009 at 01:10 AM
Ooo, Alexis, I feel your gallbladder pain. When I was pregnant with my first I developed gallstones and had it removed six weeks postpartum. I told the nurse before she put me under for the procedure to take that damn thing and throw it in the garbage!
Tasty for me is also that awesome chore chart - tedious will be trying to make my kids stick to it.
Take care...!
Posted by: Paige | October 24, 2009 at 02:03 AM
So sorry about the gallstones. Hope you're feeling much better after the surgery. And oh dear to the no fat diet! Make sure someone saves you a peanut butter cup! K x
Posted by: kristina | October 24, 2009 at 06:28 AM
Aaaaaaaarghhhhhh! No fat the weeks before Halloween? Oh, Alexis....I'm with you. T.D.us!
Tasty this week? Making a poppy seed cake for us, just us, tonight. Yummers! Hmmmm. Have I shared that recipe on the blog? Aaack! I have not. It will go up this weekend.
Posted by: Andrea | October 24, 2009 at 02:11 PM
I'm so sorry to hear that you'll be having surgery. Please let me know when you're going under so that I can be neighborly. Get well soon!
Posted by: Amy | October 24, 2009 at 02:39 PM
Sorry about the surgery! Even routine surgery still feels like a big deal to me...
I'm with you about Christmas music -- I love it in December. Target also has had Christmas decorations up for the past two weeks, gradually filling in the aisles as Halloween stuff sells out. It's my favorite big store, but that does make me nuts.
Posted by: Laura Matheny | October 25, 2009 at 05:54 PM
Oh how awful, you poor thing!
I had pancreatitis two years ago and it was a lot of the same lowlowlow fat-ness. I ate a lot of soup.
And I saw a recipe that you can puree a can of black beans, mix it with a brownie mix and it'll come out fine as fat-free ( or almost?) brownies.
Also, popsicles. When I couldn't eat a lot, at least I could crunch on those and feel like I was eating.
Good luck!
Posted by: elizabeth of course | October 26, 2009 at 08:11 AM
Apparently it's gall bladder day, this is so weird, I missed the gall bladder part in my last visit over here, but wrote about it over at my blog earlier today!
You know, I had mine taken out 2004 but nobody told my to go easy on the fat. It went well anyhow! But be careful with alcohol - since after the operation I've been terribly sick the day after - and I've never been drinking much. Good luck!
Posted by: Anna of Helylle | October 28, 2009 at 04:33 PM
i'm sorry about your gallbladder! :( & i'm sorry i'm just now seeing this or i would've said something earlier. :(
my fave site for fat free is the fat free vegan blog. lots of good stuff there...
http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/
Posted by: maya | springtree road | November 05, 2009 at 10:10 PM