What's the opposite of a crunchy mama?

Executive Member Joined: Jul 06 2009 Posts: 281

is it chewy? as in, do you like your carob chip cookies crunchy or chewy?

or maybe smooth, or creamy- think natural peanut butter?

perhaps soggy. like my granola is crunchy in the morning, but after sitting out for hours while I breastfeed my 4 kids under 3, it's kinda soggy.

(this post is not meant to insult anyone.... I was just thinking about it as I cooked for shabbos!)

Posted: Fri, Nov 06 2009, 3:54 pm Post subject:

Junk food junky
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OMG ...what's with all the people who do not ....

do as many bedikos as I do?
do as much chessed as I do?
do not keep shabbos as carefully as I do?
avoid loshon horah as I am?
who are not as humble as I am?

Diamond Member Joined: Oct 29 2006 Posts: 4213

Me - the anti crunch.

I do not believe in wearing my baby to the toilet. I do believe my bed is mine. I feed my kids based on the nutrients in the food and not on what is popular today in agenda mags like prevention. I do not like paying 3 times as much for something pulled out of the ground and not even washed as something that took a whole factory of union workers to produce. I do not have an inferiority complex if I do not keep ip with the real chumra of the month club - the crunchy crowd.

My opinion, One can avoid unhealthy foods and practices and not be crunchy at all.
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Imaonwheels, as usual you are terrific!
I never thought of crunchy mothers as belonging to the chumra of the month club but there you have it!
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Gold Member Joined: Jun 22 2008 Posts: 1946

I think I'm totally on the opposite end of the spectrum: I put chocolate flavored syrup-main ingredient is corn syrup, in my daughter's formula bottle cuz otherwise she will refuse to drink it......

I bought a pack of lollys to take along to the dr so we can weigh her weekly without needing 3 nurses and 15 minutes.....

When I was still breastfeeding her I had a stock of bottles in my mother's freezer and had no problem sending her over there and skipping a feeding.........

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No question, soggy (or smooth, think PB) papa.
No, scratch that. Soggy paterfamilias.

Gold Member Joined: Dec 18 2008 Posts: 1626

No no no the opposite of a crunchy momma is a crumby one. As in those mothers whose kids ask for cookies for breakfast are crumby mothers.
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What if they eat them even before breakfast? In between swigging chocolate milk and beer?

Wait until they are 22!

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Posted: Sun, Nov 08 2009, 11:33 am Post subject:

is the 22 reference in regard to the beer, the cookie, the poop or the 5 am? Smile

Executive Member Joined: Jul 06 2009 Posts: 281

my poor DS. all he gets at 5 AM is formula.

Posted: Sun, Nov 08 2009, 1:43 pm Post subject:

We're pretty crunchy...

DH wears our baby when we go on vacation and strollers aren't a good choice.

I co sleep (with DH) for many years now.

My kids eat "homemade" french toast made with white bread and fried in oil.

I nurse my kids till their marriage, by providing all their needs like a good nurse. (who ever associated breastfeeding with nursing, two different things IMO)

I use cloth diapers for my babies (as a burp cloth).

I use cloth pads (those are bedikah cloths,no?)

I'll think of more.
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Executive Member Joined: Jul 06 2009 Posts: 281

OK I'll add.
I believe in attachment parenting until a very late age. My 25 year old and my 23 year old are both still attached to my credit cards, somehow my 19 year old is more attached to his father's credit cards and we finally weaned the 26.5 and the 29 year olds when they got married from their attachment...

I give my children only natural drinks, natural wine, natural schnaps, natural beer.

I believe in wearing my children (s).....picutures in a locket around my neck.

I believe in giving my children a balanced diet. For each potato chip they HAVE to have a bite of premium ice cream and for each bag of highly buttered and salted popcorn they MUST balance it out by hydrating themselves with a chocolate milkshake.