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On fatphobia, thin privilege, and “eat a sandwich!”

Scroll down on the comments on a fat acceptance/size acceptance post that mentions thin privilege, and odds are excellent you’ll find something to the effect of “But I’m thin, and I get crap too! I don’t have ’size privilege’!”1 Those of us who have been around the fat-o-sphere any length of time have heard this [...]

Dear Health Care Provider

Dear Health Care Provider,

No, I am not “willing to reconsider” intuitive eating and Health At Every Size. And by your asking me that, I’m going to guess you don’t have much idea of what they are, so let’s start with a review.

Health At Every Size says that there is so much we can do to [...]

Eat or die

That, of course, is the first rule of nutrition. And there are no other rules.

I just read this fabulous post over at Spilt Milk: Let us eat cake, and in the comments, in my own rambling, I had something of a revelation, immediately followed by a reality check:

I said that the Boychick never “doesn’t like” [...]

But how do they all fit?

Around here, we do — or aim for — intuitive eating for the whole family. We started with breastfeeding on cue; we did self-feeding (also called baby-led weaning, with the British definition for “wean”: to introduce anything other than milk) with the Boychick since he first had solids at 7mo, eating the same food we [...]

Lesson learned

1 sick child + last of birthday carrot cake + 3/4 very large orange + 1 lemon fish pill = first ever non-spitup vomiting.

Lesson learned.

Please chime in with your life lessons (especially as pertains to toddlers and/or food and/or illness) so others (eg me) may gain from your experience! Or so we [...]

Mmmm, caaaake…

Just for posterity, I thought I’d post the recipe for the Boychick’s birthday carrot cake. I never manage to make quite the same cake twice (I always seem to forget which starting recipe I use), but I always make similar alterations, and according to some rather discriminating tasters, it always turns out well. [...]

Is there an award for this?

I feel like I’ve passed some kind of threshold. There should be prizes, or possibly medication.

Today, we made sourdough cinnamon rolls. 100% organic, 100% from scratch. Although, to be fair, we didn’t grind the flour ourselves. Or the cinnamon. Oh, the corners we cut around here!

I’m not saying they’re pretty, [...]

Is domesticity anti-feminist?

In an effort to get our eating out and Starbucks bills under control, The Man and I are participating on a no spend challenge this month. I’ve also been experimenting with traditional foods, especially soaking grains. We even created a meal plan for the week, and I have no knead bread rising as I type. [...]

Speaking of copied posts…

This is a post from MDC I thought worth saving. It was in a thread discussing an article titled “Even a little caffeine could harm fetus”, based on the finding (based on the always-accurate self-reporting) that “as little as” 100mg caffeine — a cup of coffee a day — was correlated with an average [...]

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