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This weeks menu is no different than any other week....Dang it!!! One night she had soy noodles.  I hadn't given them to her in awhile.  They have this slimy texture to them.  She doesn't love them, but it's a way around the "pasta" issue.  They are called Tofu Shirataki noodles.  They come in spaghetti size and fettucine size.  She likes the spaghetti size better.  You have to drain all the liquid and rinse the noodles thoroughly.  After that, you can microwave them or boil them.  The important thing to remember to do is to try to dry them as completely as possible.  This helps eliminate the slime factor.  When smothered with marinara sauce, it's a little more edible.  When it's only served with butter, it's a little tougher to eat.  She's gagged once or twice.  Bless her though for eating them.  I honestly don't know how she does it.  I just know myself, and there is no way in hell I'd be eating half the stuff she's eating.  I just couldn't do it.  I know I'm the one that has control over her eating.  I just don't have control over myself.  Yes, I'm the one that controls the food I buy and the food I eat, but I just don't have it in me to police myself.  Maybe I have a yeast problem too.  Maybe that's why I can't stop eating sugary foods!  If I had to, could I detox myself?

One night when I made her shake, we had a little incident.  I think she was coming to the end of her rope with these shakes.  Sometimes when I make the shake, I put in the chlorella.  I don't always put it in because it turns the shake a funky brownish/green color.  It's very unappealing.  Well, she complained that she couldn't drink it because of the color.  I'm not sure if it even tasted different.  Honestly, I haven't even tried these shakes.  I'm too chicken to try them.  I'm afraid I might throw up!  Anyway, while she was supposedly drinking this shake, I ran upstairs to do a chore.  When I left the kitchen she had drunken 1/4 of the shake.  While upstairs I heard the water running in the kitchen, which is unusual.  I knew right then and there what Jeannette was doing.  She was dumping that shake down the kitchen sink.  When I got back downstairs, the shake was almost gone.  Now I was only gone for 5 minutes.  In all the days and weeks that that girl has drunken these shakes, she has NEVER finished it in 5 minutes.  If she expected me to think she drank that thing, she was sorely mistaken.  When I asked her about it she said, "I don't know what you're talking about."  When I asked her again and told her I heard the water running, she just stared down into her remaining shake.  She wouldn't even look at me.  I asked her to finish her shake and then go to her room.  Can I prove it? No.  Is mother's intuition usually right? Yes!  But you know what? I would have done the same thing if I had to drink those horrible things.