two publications in the mail in as many days

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This came in the mail for me the day before yesterday!

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[kittybean]

WICKED! good for you!!!

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Yay! Cody was like "We need a special celebration, like DQ treats!" I was like "Uh, I'm a preggo. Ice cream is the only pleasure I have left at my disposal. It goes without saying we're going to DQ!"

[kittybean]

but DQ isn't even ice cream. :(

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I know--but I accept it as such. I like softy ice cream.

[kittybean]

i like so good ice cream. i just bought some butterscotch ripple today. it's very very close to the dairy experience, without all of the cruelty & a lot less fat.

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I haven't had soy ice cream. I used to live on so good drinks in early pregnancy because I needed the calcium but regular milk was not thick enough to coat my stomach which was always heart-burny. Soy saved my life in those days! Now organic milk is good enough for me.

[kittybean]

soy ice cream roxors. so does soy yogurt, except the so good stuff is too sweet. i want to experiment with using plain soy yogurt to make my own soy yogurt that i can add berries to. mmmm berries. :) - we're making vegan pizza. it's wicked.

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I imagine all this kind of food would be good--the trick would be eating it fresh. Once we tried vegan muffins from the grocery store and they immediately went rotten, and that was after a day of being extremely dry. I guess if you made them yourself it would help.

[kittybean]

yeah, i've learned to do a lot of stuff myself because i'm unsatisfied with a lot of store food.

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Even we're unsatisfied with a lot of pre-fabbed store stuff, and we don't have any special dietary requirements. It's a lot less hassle, so to speak, to make things yourself.

Cody went out and got the most badassed stand mixer on the market a couple weeks ago, and that makes cookie batter sooooo much easier and faster than I could do by hand.

[kittybean]

oh yeah. one of my room mates is a sous-chef who loves cooking, so we have lots of great appliances & cookware. he's got a crazy cuisinart mixer with weird paddles & stuff.

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Yes, we have the 1000 watt Cuisinart stand mixer. It has 3 extra outlets on it for accessories like a pasta maker and food processor! ha!

[kittybean]

OOOH!! yeah, morgan wants to get the separate attachments for meat grinding & such.

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Yes, there is a meat grinding attachment available for ours too. I don't think we'd ever use it, but I definitely want the pasta and food processor attachments!

[kittybean]

oh yeah, making your own pasta would be wicked.

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You know what pasta is really good and you don't need a pasta maker? Gnocchi. Oh, but it has egg. :(