"Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>>> It's probably "you", not whatever food it is that you're criticizing.
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>> Yes! We are going through this with my dad. He seems to dislike most
>> anything now. Once in awhile we will find a food or drink that he likes.
>> Then we bring it again and he hates it.
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> You just described your whole family.

No. But pretty much, my family only really likes stuff that is not healthy
food. And I won't bring that stuff home. Not in any quantity or on a
regular basis at any rate. Am currently going round and round with Mr. Gout
who declined his plate of potato salad, boiled eggs and soy bacon. He did
eat the parfait of chocolate and vanilla sugar free pudding with "lite"
cherry pie filling. Earlier in the day he had a sandwich and a plate of
chicken and mashed potatoes. I am trying not to feed him that which could
aggravate the gout attack which I suspect was brought on by the excessive
eating of beef and noodles. With him picking out most of the beef and
eating that.

The potato salad is quite good. I would personally prefer a little more
mustard and a lot more onion but I know if I put too much onion in,
daughter will balk. She liked it and said that the soy bacon was okay. At
least she ate it. She also ate a mixed tossed salad which I didn't give to
Mr. Gout because unless he asks specifically for a salad, he will bark at me
and tell him to bring him some real food.

I am just tired of his complaints about the pain. Yes, I know he is in
pain. And I would have sympathy if I thought he was doing all that he could
to avoid it. And yes, I know that if you have gout, you can't always avoid
a flare. But he won't take his medication until things get bad. And when
they are bad, he won't modify his diet except to eat fresh cherries which
you can't get at this time of year.

So now he has shot down my plan for only buying cheap food this week. Winco
was out of cherry fruit leather so I had to get dried cherries. Those
weren't so cheap. I also got some Hytop cherry toaster pastries, a box of
cherry hand pies, 3 cans of cherry pie filling and 3 cans of tart cherries
which I am hoping he will eat but he probably won't because the other things
I bought will look more appealing and they are not things I would normally
buy. I did get him to drink cherry juice though.

On the plus side, I did get some bargains and my cupboard is even more
stocked up, so that makes me happy.