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Post by peachymom1 on Oct 31, 2023 0:23:31 GMT -5
What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.
Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Frieda (hopefully)?
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy
And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!
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Post by peachymom1 on Oct 31, 2023 0:25:07 GMT -5
Good morning! Today of course is Halloween, definitely a secular holiday, but it’s a fun one, and I don’t know anyone who celebrates it in any kind of religious way. So let’s do two things: (1) share your preferred method for not eating all the Halloween candy in sight; and (2) enjoy some Halloween jokes.
My method is to only buy Halloween candy that I don’t care for myself. That way, when it’s over, I can just give what’s left to the kids next door. (I used to take it to the office and leave it in the kitchen, where it was gone in less than ten minutes.)
Here are my Halloween jokes:
Why shouldn't an angry witch take her broom trick or treating? She might fly off the handle!
What do birds give to trick or treaters? Tweets!
What does a ghost put on his turkey? Grave-y!
Why was all of the food gone at the end of the Halloween party? Everyone was a-goblin!
What is a vampire's favorite fruit? A neck-tarine!
What do skeletons order at restaurants? Spare ribs!
What does a panda ghost eat? Bam-BOO!
What’s a vampire’s least favorite meal? A steak!
Who won the dance contest at the Halloween ball? The boogie man!
What is a witch's favorite subject? Spelling!
What do mummies listen to on Halloween? Wrap music!
Why are ghosts terrible liars? You can see right through them!
How do you fix a damaged jack-o-lantern? With a pumpkin patch!
Why do ghosts like to hang out at bars? Because all of the Boos!
What do you call a dancing ghost? Polka-haunt-us!
What have you got to share? Candy deterrents? Jokes? Bring ‘em on!
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Post by gazelle18 on Oct 31, 2023 8:09:24 GMT -5
Don’t let Peachy fool you. It’s actually Tuesday, not Wednesday!
Here is my method for not eating Halloween candy: DH is in charge of buying candy. He buys it a couple of days before and keeps it someplace non-visible to my chocolate seeking eyes. We usually get about 5 or six groups of trick or treaters. He gives each kid a LOT of candy , especially as the evening gets later. The next day the leftover candy disappears to his office, where his nurses and co-workers chastise him for tempting them.
I saw something on the internet which was wonderful. Apparently, if you have a non-verbal child (perhaps a child with autism, for example), the child can carry a blue pumpkin candy holder instead of the traditional orange one. This signals to the candy giver that the child is perhaps not able to say “trick or treat”, or engage in social banter. Lovely.
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Post by hollygail on Oct 31, 2023 8:11:11 GMT -5
After having joined WW, I stopped buying the kinds of candy I like. It wasn't difficult to have yucky sugary things in the house that wouldn't have any interest for me. I haven't bought anything for Halloween that I like in more than a decade.
We live in a condo complex of 100 units (almost all of which are lived in by the owners) and when we first bought here, we were told most of the units were owned by senior citizens or some terminology similar to that. The message was "very few children" lived here. Well, that's not exactly true any longer (if it was true at the time), but still and all, there aren't a lot of kids around. The first few years we were here, we had either zero knocks on the door for Halloween (after I'd bought lollypops, which are not something I hate but not something I choose to waste my calories or points on) or perhaps one or two. One was the next door neighbor's grandchild (this was before dark) (she didn't live here but was staying here with her mother for a few months); we were very happy to see her and she said "thank you" when we gave her a lollypop. After a few years of using the same lollypops I'd bought the first time, and having up to three knocks on the door, we turned off the lights downstairs and just ignored it if someone did knock.
I believe the kids in the neighborhood at some point discovered our complex because (prior to the pandemic) I heard the voices of more kids (considerably older than the 3-year old grandchild from next door I mentioned above) outside one Halloween. I'm unsure whether we should go out to buy some candy for tonight or continue to be old fogeys and keep the lights off. Will discuss with DH when he wakes up.
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Post by lee058 on Oct 31, 2023 9:05:38 GMT -5
Good morning everybody. Hope you are all well and SAFE! Please pray for Israel.
Re today's topic: My solution for not eating junk candy is to not buy any! I told DH and DS: 1) I didn't want to get up and down out of a chair by the front door to hand out candy (hurts my knees), and, 2) I'd really prefer to not even have it in the house. I told DS that if he wanted to hand out candy, it was up to him, but I wouldn't do it. He decided not to bother. We're just going to leave the front door light off, and hopefully the house lights won't attract any kids (whom we will have to ignore).
TCM is having a classic horror movie marathon today and tonight. I'm planning on watching The Bride of Frankenstein, since I missed it the other night. It's on between 5-6:30PM, if anyone else is interested.
Have a peaceful Halloween, Lee
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Post by louise on Oct 31, 2023 9:45:14 GMT -5
I always loved handing out the candy and for many years bought candy I liked. I finally realized the error of my ways and started to buy the tiny bags of pretzels they make for this purpose. It's not that I don't like pretzels and I still felt I was handing out something good (not junk candy) but I wasn't setting myself up for trouble with that treat. Now my landlady has made it clear (2-family house) that she gives out the candy.
She leaves the bowl inside near the door and I have been guilty of dipping in. Didn't we all study the lists that invariably would circulate on the points or calorie value of various fun size candy bars? I hope no one from the office brings in leftovers. We have a very small office and invariably I have been a major consumer. I just started WW - maybe I will have to find one of those points lists!
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Post by louise on Oct 31, 2023 15:57:53 GMT -5
I just started back on WW. Don’t ask me how I know but 5 fun size candy bars on Noom would be about a quarter of my calories. On WW it’s my points for the entire day! I think that's why the change will be good for me! (on Noom I could have a few more...).
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