notsmokinjo

Due to our lovely Rec's extended leave I will be playing the role of our favourite Canadian pig... 1. Why my daughter married my words to her hubby were...she's your expense now. 2. I once had a pizza button on the phone in my house. 3. I used to umpire domestic ice hockey.

Hi Saz..can't play the next one...just wanted to say hi. Hi @G67...

True...hasn't everyone, an if ya say no I'll say liar, liar pants on fire. TNP has left the house with their shoes on the wrong feet.

Upma

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True ..an usually I forget which shoulder it's supposed to be so chick so over both just incase. (I think the toast is only for breakfast is a wanker thing...like my mum and my ex and his family. Toast should be for whenever.) TNP...would never walk under a ladder.

False, ain't got no time for that. TNP thinks toast should not be restricted to breakfast only.

NOPE....defo not on international Women's Day.

Hi @Tinkerbell you were awol from the board's when I joined but when I first quit your old posts helped my on my way...nice to be able to say thanks.

Nothin wrong with some orange juice on ya rice bubbles, corn flakes or wheatbix even enjoy it on cocopops. Works on museli too...but porridge and all other cereals need milk...except fruit loops or Nutri-Grain which should be eaten dry.

Saw him play Hammer Hall when he was down here years ago...lived on 2minute noodles (ramen) for a month to pay for it.....such a loss...

Got a coupla years to go yet ...

Sticking with the age theme...

Yep thought so...but you word way better than me

I know there are a few threads already about the unexpected gains we got from quitting BUT I'm too lazy to go hunting, besides when ya do you tend to fall down a rabbit hole of rereading some bloody good posts...well I do..anywho ..was reading an old post and it got me thinking (no it did not hurt)... Did quitting change who I am? Has it opened life opportunities that weren't there previously? Yes quitting made me different I'm now a nonsmoker. But it also made me different in other ways...and I think to some extent that evolution is still happening. I mean we spend our whole existence changing and evolving but I defo reckon that quitting spun me into a completely different trajectory...and ya know wot?, It ain't half bad. I see lots of peeps post between months 3-7 of their quit...it's made me different...it's changed who I am...yep...it does...and looking back over all the characters I've met here on the train it's true for all of us...some it's softened the hard edges of, some it's toughened up...some it's allowed to grow up..and some it has allowed us let go. Noone has escaped. Ok so I'm 2+ years in and in some ways im still settling into my new skin...but I am different and I'm better for it, my life is better for it, in many, many ways...ways that had I still been smoking it certainly wouldn't be. I kinda reckon the triggers you go through in ya quit are the lessons you need to master...for me it was all the emotional stuff from growing up that when it'd touch the surface I'd chase away with a durry...that was gone so I had to deal...and it may be takingbme a fair wack of time to do so but I have learnt I am worthwhile just the way I am and if someone else doesn't think so it's no skin off my nose an it's their loss. I've quit suppressing me and all my crazy...nerdy...oddness cos let me tell you, you don't like it then keep on movin mate cos your opinion of me doesn't define me. Quitting smoking gave me that. So the point is newbies an inbetweenies...don't be scared of the changes ..embrace them...grow...because you will still be you..just different..and that is good.

You ever wonder if quitting was the key that unlocked a whole new you/life?

Yeah-nah...it's a NOPE for me.

Confession: King Boo best not be thinking of my island for the location of his exiled assholes...could suggest a few others that would be much more suitable...besides the Brits already did that down here and look how that worked out...one countries assholes became the greatest peeps on earth

I cried...I think good fresh mangos is what I miss most about living in Darwin....an NOTHIN says Christmas like fresh mango. Thanks for the grilled goats cheese suggestion. Used to make mango n strawberry jam and a spicy mango chutney when I lived up north. Peach n Basil jam was because a fluke, had a bunch of fresh basil that was sitting there from making a salad and decided to pop some in with some peach jam. I know dad used it to glaze some pork chops and has been having it with his ham sandwiches. Dads nectarine tree was not much chop this year...the smoke seems to have affected the fruit but the peach tree that sits next to it escaped any taint.

In the meat section of our supermarkets we have a plant based minced meat available. I have been using this for a while now to make all my mince dishes (meat balls, burgers, Sauvage rolls, pies, spag Bol, lasagne, pastitse, cobblers, cottage pie, savoury mince, chevaps, chowmin, San choy bow, spring rolls, larb salad). .none of the anti veggie carnivores in my house have picked the switch. Texturally it is the same so there is correction needed for your recipes. Oh...have an awesome birthday...Thai is one of my faves.

I can give or take meat...although love me lamb roasts...I couldn't give up fish and seafood though..I love me veg and fruit and legumes but it's hard when your the only one in the house. Have to say I agree with @Sazerac...black rice is sh1t hot and makes all other rices seem bland and tasteless and lacking in texture. Love salads. Tempeh is a good meat substitute, I tend to prefer it over tofu and some of the Quorn products are not too bad. Love chickpeas....love Black beans. I have a simple chickpea salad a few days a week...all I do is change the herbs and seasoning to switch it up....it's just chickpeas, cubed cucumber, cubed tomato, fresh basil or coriander leaves and then taco seasoning, or Thai spices, or Greek spices or so dukah .... And then a squeeze of lemon juice... bangin'. I have switched out the chickpeas for black beans when doing Mexican flavours.