Re: Grocery Shopping

May 31, 2002

As an alternative, many supermarket chains offer an on-line shopping service

at a very nominal cost. Here in Florida, Publix, calls it Publix Direct and

for something like $7.00, they do all your shopping, deliver your groceries

at a convenient time for YOU, deliver cold stuff, cold; hot stuff, hot, they

even wear booties into your house so that they won't be tracking dirt in and

making a mess on your floors. Heck, I can't get my husband, kids, dog or

cats to do that!

That is the way I am going to go very soon. The only way that I can grocery

shop is in a wheelchair. So that means that husband carries the list and

retrieves groceries, one child pushes the go cart for the old lady, one child

pushes the go cart for groceries. So now we have a real family outing. When

my youngest were babies (they are 8 months apart); we would have one cart for

each of us. One for kids and one for groceries. I guess that everything

does come full circle! LOL. It also never fails that they find something

that they want you to see after you have passed the item and they want Mom to

use those eyes in the back of her head to say yes or no! Yeah, grocery

shopping is a LOT of fun! LOL.

All kidding aside, Publix Direct has received very high marks from the huge

senior citizen population that resides here in southern Florida and they are

the toughest test! Don't know how they handle those coupons though. I guess

I will have to ask my daughter who works for them.

Happy shopping!

Debs in FL

May 31, 2002

Debs,

Publix direct seems really great---I went to check it out. I can't wait

until they expand to Central Florida.

Hope you're feeling better today!

Hugs,

Carol

Re: [ ] Grocery Shopping

As an alternative, many supermarket chains offer an on-line shopping service

at a very nominal cost. Here in Florida, Publix, calls it Publix Direct and

for something like $7.00, they do all your shopping, deliver your groceries

at a convenient time for YOU, deliver cold stuff, cold; hot stuff, hot, they

even wear booties into your house so that they won't be tracking dirt in and

making a mess on your floors. Heck, I can't get my husband, kids, dog or

cats to do that!

That is the way I am going to go very soon. The only way that I can grocery

shop is in a wheelchair. So that means that husband carries the list and

retrieves groceries, one child pushes the go cart for the old lady, one

child

pushes the go cart for groceries. So now we have a real family outing.

When

my youngest were babies (they are 8 months apart); we would have one cart

for

each of us. One for kids and one for groceries. I guess that everything

does come full circle! LOL. It also never fails that they find something

that they want you to see after you have passed the item and they want Mom

to

use those eyes in the back of her head to say yes or no! Yeah, grocery

shopping is a LOT of fun! LOL.

All kidding aside, Publix Direct has received very high marks from the huge

senior citizen population that resides here in southern Florida and they are

the toughest test! Don't know how they handle those coupons though. I

guess

I will have to ask my daughter who works for them.

Happy shopping!

Debs in FL

July 6, 2003

Chicken, potatoes, water and pork: you had us beat! We had several

more foods than than that left before enzymes, but still entering a

frightening stage of feeling like we were running out of options.

Obviously, much more than just gluten and casein caused my son and

your son problems. I suspect many other kids are the same way,

whether the parents have addressed it or not.

My son has been off the diet with enzymes for over two years and is

much healthier now. I'm still disappointed this option is not given

by many autism bio-medical " experts " because it appears to be a

BETTER option than removing long lists of foods for certain kids like

mine and yours.

> Hello everyone. An update to those that can appreciate this

situation. Being GFCF and then GFCFSF and then down to chicken,

potatoes, water and pork only, we are expanding! At first with

enzymes ( post adjustment period) we got back so many fruits,

vegetables, soy, cocoa, it was great. Then we started the challenges.

First it was oats. A couple of months later it was cheerios and most

recently honey nut cheerios. We went grocery shopping yesterday and

we bought, crackers, honey nut cheerios and regular pasta. It was

liberating. We still had to read the labels to avoid BHT, dextrose,

and various other preservatives, but it was great. Wheat is back. The

pasta was semolina (which is a grass grain and a no no on the GFCF

diet). We had the pasta last night. No reaction. Today, no reaction.

We'll go a few weeks before we introduce anything else new. Scary but

exciting stuff for us. I've learned too much to ever just blindly

pick up a product in the store without reading the label, but I'm so

excited! We were GFCF for almost three years. To say that I am

grateful for the Houston enzymes would be an understatement.

>

January 29, 2006

Hi All....

I know I don't post much, but I do read a lot. I do 98% of the grocery

shopping by myself for my wife and I. I actually prefer it that way, because we

usually go to a Super Walmart or Super Target, and my wife likes to " shop " when

we are in the store. So I prefer going when she is either at work or

scrapbooking with friends...that way I can get what's on the list as fast as I

can and get out quickly. Its hard to describe to her that while I am standing

there waiting for her to look at the 40 different types of cereals, I am in one

heck of a lot of pain.

I use to play 4 or more rounds of golf a week and I walked all of them, I

hated to ride carts. Now...a walk across WalMart from the food section to the

other sections of the store is almost torture. When I am walking my dogs, I pray

for them to go potty quickly so I don't have to walk so far, as the further I

have to walk them, the further I have to go back to the apartment. For a person

who use to walk as much as I use to, the inability to walk like I use to is

extremely frustrating. I have found that it is impossible for me to descibe the

amount of pain I am in all the time, so I have just stopped trying. I do what I

can when I can, and she gets use to me not getting everything on the list. I

just tell her I forgot, or they were out at the store. I get it the next day

when I go back and its the only thing I get and she is then satisfied.

I have gone back to work Substitute Teaching here in the Houston area, and it

is a challenge. Especially all the standing and walking around that is required

of me. I have been managing the pain okay, but I am totally exhausted at the end

of the day and some nights I am asleep before 8pm. Working up on my feet

everyday is tough, but I am managing. I guess its the old football player in me

that just tells me to ignore the pain and do what I have to do...but as all of

y'all know...it gets really old dealing with the pain all the time. Add what we

have gone through since August and Hurricane Katrina, and I wonder sometimes how

I still am sane.

Well...I guess that's about all.

Larry Holmack

Houston Texas

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January 29, 2006

Larry,

I too substitute teach. I am careful about chosing my assignments.

I do not accept travelling teacher assignments or class that demand

tons of walking around. I don't know how your school district

assigns subs...but here they use a system called STARS. I can access

it online cause I hate the phone calls. I keep a schedule of all the

teachers classes. I do high school mostly and some middle school. I

go in an schedule myself for what I can handle. some days I can do

full days...others half days...and other times I do not work at all

cause I really can't handle it.

Check and see if your school uses the same system and you can do it

online. It also allows you to chose a home school. I chose one of

the high schools. It happens to be the same one that my kids attend,

so it makes it real easy to get to and from work. Plus I get to know

the teachers, kids and there schedules. That way I know not to take

assignments from certain teachers if they have really unruly

classes. I also learned not to take multiple day assignments unless

I knew the teacher and her classes well.

I do not do elementary school..they are too demanding and frankly are

germ machines with there snotty runny noses...and hands on

everything. Even middle school for me is a challange at times. The

high schoolers are less demanding physically unless I have special ed

or some other special type class. There is rarely yard duty, bus duty

or cafeteria duty which is nice. I can leave as soon as I am

finished.

Also most of the kids carry there own Ipods or CD players..so they

can do quiet work with music at there desks or work at their

computers.

I am also in Texas, farther North than you...Hats off too you if you

are subbing in the inner city school district. We get a lot of

teachers from Houston area. They all talk about how bad the district

is there...not sure exactly where they taught as I know there are

numerous districts in and around Houston.

I do all the grocery shopping too...but my family usually goes with

me. I can not handle the 50lb bags of dogfood anymore...but I can

handle mostly everything else. With three large dogs I buy dog food

at 150lbs at a time!

I would invest in a good pair of walking shoes or see a foot

specialist for orthodics that can help. I also take advantage of

casual jeans fridays...and wear my jeans and tennis shoes...

High school of definately a challange...very LONG walks....

I am very sorry to hear about Katrina...I know that was very stressed

as well as the fallout from the two hurricaines. We have seen many

evacuated here in this community and all I can say is " its been

interesting! "

Toni

>

> Hi All....

>

> I know I don't post much, but I do read a lot. I do 98% of the

grocery shopping by myself for my wife and I. I actually prefer it

that way, because we usually go to a Super Walmart or Super Target,

and my wife likes to " shop " when we are in the store. So I prefer

going when she is either at work or scrapbooking with friends...that

way I can get what's on the list as fast as I can and get out

quickly. Its hard to describe to her that while I am standing there

waiting for her to look at the 40 different types of cereals, I am in

one heck of a lot of pain.

>

> I use to play 4 or more rounds of golf a week and I walked all of

them, I hated to ride carts. Now...a walk across WalMart from the

food section to the other sections of the store is almost torture.

When I am walking my dogs, I pray for them to go potty quickly so I

don't have to walk so far, as the further I have to walk them, the

further I have to go back to the apartment. For a person who use to

walk as much as I use to, the inability to walk like I use to is

extremely frustrating. I have found that it is impossible for me to

descibe the amount of pain I am in all the time, so I have just

stopped trying. I do what I can when I can, and she gets use to me

not getting everything on the list. I just tell her I forgot, or they

were out at the store. I get it the next day when I go back and its

the only thing I get and she is then satisfied.

>

> I have gone back to work Substitute Teaching here in the Houston

area, and it is a challenge. Especially all the standing and walking

around that is required of me. I have been managing the pain okay,

but I am totally exhausted at the end of the day and some nights I am

asleep before 8pm. Working up on my feet everyday is tough, but I am

managing. I guess its the old football player in me that just tells

me to ignore the pain and do what I have to do...but as all of y'all

know...it gets really old dealing with the pain all the time. Add

what we have gone through since August and Hurricane Katrina, and I

wonder sometimes how I still am sane.

>

> Well...I guess that's about all.

>

> Larry Holmack

> Houston Texas

>

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January 30, 2006

Larry, it is good to hear from you, although I am sad to hear that

you are feeling so poorly. Seems like every time I go to walmart for

groceries, there's something I have to hike forty acres to the other

side of the store to purchase, usually when I feel the worst.

I just want you to know that my Sunday school class prayed for you

faithfully during the aftermath of Katrina. I am so thankful that you

and your wife are getting settled in Houston. I'd be in there

scrapbooking with her!

Blessings to you, your wife, and the puppies.

Jane