Bud went on a diet. This means he’s polished off everything easy to grab in the pantry so never plans to eat again. After forty-five years, I know his habits. Trying to forestall a late-day panic, I asked early in the day if he’d like me to make something light. I was thinking, fruit salad, jello with fruit, something like that. “No, I am on a diet.”
He went all day till he caved about five, Dinner was pinto beans with lean pork over brown rice, a nice salad, and cornbread. Dinner again at seven with pinto beans, pork, rice, cornbread, but to cut calories, no salad. About eight, he jumped like he’d been poked with a hot-shot, exclaiming proudly “I know what I want! Tea cakes!” You’d have thought he was an astrophysicist with a new theory,
Deep in WordPress, I’d already settled for the evening. “I asked you earlier today if you wanted me to make something and you said ‘No.’.”
“But you didn’t say anything about teacakes.” This could end peacefully only one way. He said he’d help.
He got all the stuff out. I measured and put them in the bowl as he told me about a dozen things I was doing wrong. I ignored him. I’m the best cook I know. In about ten minutes the cookies were done. There are four of them left. He will probably be on a diet till about three. If you hurry, you can get here while the coffee’s still hot.
Nutsrok 
Oiy veh. That last sentence did me in. I made some peanut-butter-chip chocolate cookies yesterday. There’s only a few left (my son told me I had to give them all to my little brother – 6’3″ – because he only wanted healthy things in this house. I hid a few for me and husband in our clothes closet…
I’m gettin’ me some coffee!
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My husband has now lost 10 lbs. with the stomach flu. I wouldn’t recommend it ! Van
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Bad diet!
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Lol! That’s the way I diet, too!
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I think his diet is called ‘fasting’, right? It must be fasting… 😜
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Fasting/Binging
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Hehehe
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Sounds like H’s diets. Lol! ~Elle
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I know that diet ;)
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Do’t we all.
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I enjoy your stories.When I am least expecting I get request for something that takes time.
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Thank you for being so kind.
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I’m glad to hear that I am not the only person who starts a healthy eating plan by consuming everything in the pantry “to get rid of it” first. This inevitably results in panic mode setting in around 8pm.
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Uh huh! Do you keep the panic to yourself or spread it around? Bud turns into a carb-seeking maniac with an IQ of about 48. He goes on a rampage, tearing through cupboards, looking for a bag of vanilla wafers, or long lost crackers and cheese. The place would look like Attilla the Hun ripped through if I didn’t help him out. Self-interest motivates me.
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I share the love…er, the insanity! I think I can picture that rampage so easily because I have been on that rampage. Maybe I need to teach my husband to bake. :)
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I hope you have better luck than I do. When Bud’s hungry.he’not up to learning much. When he’s not, he doesn’t care.
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That sounds like me sometimes.
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Do you involve other people in the madness?
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Lol! I can dig it smh. Love the way you tell stories!
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Thanks
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Yummm! Pinto beans, rice, and cornbread? That’s one of our faves–along with coleslaw.
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Didn’t think of coleslaw. Where are you from.?
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Originally from Southern Illinois (there is a difference from Chicago) ; transplanted to the Gulf Coast, eleven years ago. BTW, we cook our pinto beans with hot banana peppers for extra spiciness.
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Oh, now I understand! I’m from Shreveport, Louisiana!
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Sounds like my mom’s “diets”.
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Yep. Last till the next meal.
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Hey,
Your stories are wonderfully told, and your humour as deliciously sweet as the cookies proffered.
The line..’You’d have thought he was an astrophysicist with a new theory’ tickled me no end.
Thank you for a blog of smiles :)
Namaste
DN – 22/03/2015
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Thank you for commenting.
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I don’t think I’d catch a flight soon enough…
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I’ll make you some
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Yeah!!! But Linda, I would have come anyway… 😉
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Enticements!
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Haha! Don’t worry,Linda! Meeting you is the only enticement I need!
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Good!
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Oh, we’re gonna have so much fun 😉
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We will.
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😃
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Ha! I like Bud’s idea of a diet, Very similar to my own actually! :-)
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Certainly pays off in butt!
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45?! Wow. Make ‘m the teacakes.
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Gotta try to stay married
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