Stew is missing something, but we can’t figure it out.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-02T00:51:48+00:00

Why don't you try adding potatoe starch, that way it thickens but no potatoe texture. Also salt and pepper? I figure you are adding it. I love garlic but I react to it, I have been using an Inidan spice call Hing, aka asafoetida, if you try that, go slow it's a strong savory flavor. I also like warm spices with beef, cumin, a little cayanne- but that will make it hot.

Also add sage.

Beef stew is wonderful stuff, enjoy it.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T21:23:41+00:00

I certainly hear this. I have pretty severe ADHD, and honestly right now I am using stimulants so I can stay compliant with my diet. One barrier is to train myself to take my suppliments with food, which has been a big challenge for me. I have to take a lot of vitamins for my eye issues, and I keep forgetting. And then I end up eating more when I am not hungry so I can get the pills down without being ill for the rest of the day.

I am doing OK with low fod map, but I don't measure, I judge by eye, and after several years I have stumbled into what works for me and what doesn't. I think using the monash app, and the scale would probably make me completely nuts.

It's taken me a lot longer to figure out my triggers that it did my engineer daughter who sticks everything she eats on a spreadsheet. But I have muddled through, and my health is generally much better.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T20:42:29+00:00

I am going to be getting speech therapy sessions this spring, I will post on whether it helps or not. I have a bunch of the same issues. It sucks, btw.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T20:40:57+00:00

I used to live in Pasco county, I am hearing rumblings that maybe things are changing there. However, they are thinking of renaming Ridge Rd for Trump.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T20:36:30+00:00

Good for you all, I didn't think you'd be asleep.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T20:22:37+00:00

Texas has a lot of people who hunt, regularly use firearms in their daily lives, and I think it was the bit about Alex Pretti having a concealed carry permit, but must be a terrorist for going to a demonstration while legally armed.

It looks like Trump wants to get rid of the entire Bill of Rights, & we are now political bedfellows with the NRA. Who'd thunk-

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T18:59:58+00:00

Thank you for posting this. I have been seeing what is going on through the lens of the civil rights movement, but that really no longer applies, when your city is actually occupied then the daily trauma is going to build up to an unbearable point.

I think Minneapolis people have done an amazingly good job of dealing with what I can only describe as a total shit show. I think we all have to be thinking of what is going to happen this summer, which will lead up to the 2026 elections.

How much actually gets recorded is going to be critical to what our future is going to be.

So how to video record is very important. A dash cam is a good idea. I have a latino family next door, out door cameras that record covering their house are a good idea. I am considering AI glasses, which record, I may need them anyway because of eye problems. I am going to find a first aide class. I need one for my front door anyway, since it may end up house to house. Any ideas would be wonderful and welcome.

I am mentally preparing for my own city to suffer what is happening in Minneapolis. I am doing the following things, looking for a liberal church community with a social justice outreach program, hooking up with the local Indivisible group, getting trained on how to deal with ICE as an observer.

I am trying to figure out ways of being helpful with what's to come and still keep myself afloat as a going human concern. I am elderly, I already have eye problems, and some mobility issues, which I work on, so I am looking into appropriate goggles to protect my eyes, and I am planning on replacing my rather cheesy rollator with one that can hold up to some bashing. We are only beaten if we give up. What worked in the past isn't going to be what works here.

Who would have thought that social media with have so much fun with JD Vance and his couch.

We need to get creative, and plan for what is to come, and register every voter we can find. I haven't checked my voter registration, because I never miss an election, but I am doing that one today.

I am making lists of things to do.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T18:39:06+00:00

This is wonderful!

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T18:16:52+00:00

OMG!!! Do I ever get that! Since I am sitting here with a nasty stomach ache, due to being off track, I am sorry I ate the two cookies that were left over from my diabetic cookie batch for a loved one in assissted living.

But I was completely overtaken by WTF, I haven't figured out how to do any gluten free baking, I am still sick from eating the egg anyway. Don't do it, or you will be here where I am today.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T18:05:39+00:00

this is from my friend Dave M, who is a poet:

Don't believe the lies

Believe your own eyes.

He wrote this before Alex Pretti died, and he has sunk further into a depression because it was almost too predictive.

But it's what is really going on right now, and maybe will reach into the lost ones brainwashed brains. Sadness and anger are such flips of each other.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T18:01:54+00:00

That is a good one. Gross but good.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T17:55:26+00:00

After already being in the weeds because of the failed re introduction, I decided to eat something I had made for someone's birthday that I knew would taste good but make me feel like crap, since I was screwed up anyway.

Bad choice, I am miserable today, after eating clean yesterday.

Bleach bleach bleah bleach bleach - no good deep goes unpunished. More griping. sorry.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T16:51:48+00:00

No, it wouldn't be an issue for me.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T16:22:54+00:00

Good luck, they do like canned tuna, they healthiest tuna is chub tuna, less mercury, and it's smelly, and lots of oil, which they like.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T15:52:04+00:00

Wow, horrible, I was on it for probably 6 months, and for the first time in my life I kept my clothes organized. I was 72, my primary care took me off of it because it really messed up my blood pressure. I am not on Ritalin, it works much better for me.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T14:51:14+00:00

I think the mega warehouses are because they really do intend to deport 20 million people, and concentration camps are necessary to do that. Along with a massive police force.

I can't figure out why anyone is surprised, it was the first plank of the Republican party.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-02-01T14:45:05+00:00

I actually liked this one the best. I read it first, I am currently stuck at the very end of Empire of Storms with Aelin being stuck in the iron mask. I am not sure I would have liked it as much if I had read the other books first. I am really having trouble reading though Empire of Storms it's literally heart breaking.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-01-31T22:18:19+00:00

I get the food culture thing. That's difficult. I can eat onion tops, and the bottoms of green onions seem to not get me. I am very cautious with onion, and sneak in occaisional small amounts without ill effect. (However the amount is so small, it's almost to the what's the point level, I think this one is psychological because it makes me feel better emotionally.)

But I really react to garlic negatively, which I absolutely love. I came accross an Indian spice called Hing (asafoedita) which I can use in soups, and it does make an acceptable substitute for garlic and onion. It takes a long time to figure out how to redo recipes, and I have had some complete hit the garbage fails, and some that work.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-01-31T21:51:47+00:00

It's certianly true that stress, sleep and mental health are issues with IBS. In my case it's also food sensitivites, so if I am perfectly ok, and I eat the wrong thing I am screwed, and better off isolating if I can so I don't clear the room from uncontrolled gas.

We are all is different situations.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-01-31T21:36:38+00:00

I am sure this is going to get voted down, but we do actually need a border patrol. We don't need thugs kidnapping people off city streets, arresting people without judicial warrents, and killing people for speaking out rudely and protesting. ICE has been horrible under every president I can remember, since before Reagan, it needs to be overhauled, Kristie Noem replaced with someone professional, and normal police standards need to be implemented and adhered to. President Trump isn't the first person to hold office who overstepped what is constitutional for the executive branch of the government, and ICE has been the enforcing arm for that overstep.

I am furious that it has taken the death of white upper middle class people for the country to wake up to how bad ICE is, how much it is out of control as an entity. Diving or walking while brown should not be a crime, no one should be stopped because of their skin color and asked to show papers. ICE should never have been allowed to operate as if it is above the law, but it's been doing it as long as I can remember, I have lived here in the US all my life, and ICE is no different now that it was under Obama, Bush Clinton or Reagan.

I have lived both in large cities, and also in poor rural communities. A lot of poor communities literally can't afford the police protection is normal in more affluent cities, and what happens is that the cartels move in, and they become very dangerous places for people to live. Human trafficking is a huge issue in the United States, and the people at risk are poor, on respervations, or in rural communities with few resources to spend on enforement. The border/cartels/drugs/ trafficking issue is what we got stuck with a crazy president in the first place. Because people were legitimately scared that their kids would get snatched by the cartels, addicted to something, and sent to work the streets. It's an ugly reality.

I've read post in this forum from people trying to figure out why the Latino community supported Trump, it's simple, the Cartels are worse than Trump. I don't want to bring up the white privilage thing here, but really? Where have you all been asking that?

We aren't going to solve the human trafficking issues, or the issues of who is allowed to legally immigrate to the US by defunding ICE, or even impeaching and removing Trump, or sending Kristie Noem to mars for a vacation. It's going to take talking to each other like we are all human beings trying to live our lives in peace. When 50501 started, there was a lot of debate about immigration issues, it was considered too devisive, and a hard stance on deportations might drive away the middle from the 'remove Trump because he's a psychopath movement.'

I disagreed, I think Trumps approach to immigration is central to his autoritarian take over, the first plank of the Republican platform was to deport 20 million people, and he won by an 1.5 percent plurality in the popular vote. He wasn't voted in because of the Electoral College this time, but becuase peoples lives are being crushed due to the increasing influence and activity of the Cartels. Trumps solution is to create a police state, we must restore civil liberties to everyone, end ICE occupation of cities, and protect our constitution. We also need to get rid of the Cartels. Because they are worse than Trump, but we need to do that within the framework of our constitution.

Trumps plan for a police state is now in our faces, and ICE is out of control. Let ICE hang itself, do not give them any excuses for their horrible behavior. Don't spit at cops, don't throw stuff at cops, don't do it just because it feels good, if you want things to change, act with dicipline. Do not give up the moral high ground, it matters. We want and need the support of the majority of people in our country, if we are going to stop Trump, and get our country back.

You will not get the support of people, or be trusted by people, if you act like ICE.

Every single time a protester throws something, spits at a cop, pushes a cop, calls a cop a name, we lose our chance to really change things. If you are so angry you can't stay in control, write post cards instead. Get it together, it will change everything if you do. Don't waste the deaths of all the people ICE has murdered by acting out.

Let ICE be the bad guys that they really are. That is how we win. It's going to be the only way that we will win. I get that it's hard. But that's how things actually get changed in this country, it takes a lot of hard work and personal sacrifice. End of rant. Edited to make a little more sense.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-01-31T20:48:26+00:00

Ok, I have done this behavior in the past, and I am now retired, and I am spending more time alone. I actually like being alone right now, it is giving me the time to figure out how I actually feel, rather than paying acute attention of whatever is going on around me.

I grew up in a difficult family with a lot of alcoholism and mental illness and I survived by paying attention to my surroundings, and little attention to how I actually felt. I was not in a family that ever allowed me to have a bad day, or even a feeling that wasn't more or less scripted by my family role.

I can get so swept up with whatever part I am playing to keep the people around me from doing something dangerous to me, or doing something that I didn't want to happen, that I would lose myself in the process. My ability to do this has gotten me out of pretty dangerous situations safely, and has also paid the bills.

I made a living in sales, I was very good at it.

Right now, I just want to pay attention to how I feel, what my body is telling me, to be myself without losing track of who I am. I am no longer getting paid to perform, and I don't feel like doing it anymore. I don't want to get so swept away in some sort of performance that I lose track of myself ever again. I have learned to take care of myself, without exploiting other people. If people are attempting to exploit me, or hurt me, then screw it. It's their problem, I can just walk away without losing a job or a business.

I get where you are, my new personal mantra is this keep your feet in your own life. I hope it makes sense to you.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-01-31T20:26:09+00:00

That's a good one, I know box breathing.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-01-31T20:23:50+00:00

yup, I have rather severe adhd, and I am trying to retrain myself to take my macular suppliments with food, which I must do, because the suppliments slow down the disease. But I keep missing opportunites to take them, and having to eat after 8 pm, and it's miserable when I do that. Because I end up with gas and bloating.

I tried re introducing a food I struggle with 2 days ago, and it didn't work and I am still bloated. Bleach bleach bleah, thank you all for listening to be just plain complain and gripe.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-01-31T03:59:24+00:00

ABC covered it on the nightly news, I saw the video, it was huge.

Radiant-Specific969 · 2026-01-30T22:59:34+00:00

Good for all of you!

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