Tuesday Things.
1. Desperately needed candy canes yesterday for a shoot and even though the world starts promoting holidays months before they arrive, no candy canes could be found. We did find cool little peppermint sticks, but no candy canes. This is a far cry from when Eddie and I heard Christmas music on the radio on October 17th, 2008 as we returned from our honeymoon.
2. This also comes from the person who is stalking the aisles of Target weekly for their Christmas decor. Like, why?
3. A chocolate pretzel tart?! My salty sweet brain just exploded.
4. 25 things every book-loving kid in the 90s will remember. I LIVED for book fair day! Lived, I tell you.
5. I was so, so sad over the ending of Masters of Sex this week, even though I totally saw it coming because there was so much foreshadowing. Ugh. But I do appreciate them showing that in that decade, if that situation happened, it would be the outcome (for Betty, I mean – trying to not spoil it! haha). Totally sucks. Also! How much do I love This Is Us?! And we watched Divorce and loved that too – even Eddie loved it and laughed out loud. Ridiculous. Now I’m scarrred for the premier of the Walking Dead.
6. A huge part of me wants to start doing vlogs, but I can barely find time to snapchat so that might be a joke. But! I’m thinking of vlogging my entire Thanksgiving prep! And maybe a day in the life before.
7. I’m the worst wordy person in the universe and can’t ever keep things simple. So: how to tell a great story without rambling endlessly. Perhaps I should get this blown up into poster size and placed on my wall.
8. Have you guys ever tried the raw garlic trick for severe colds/bronchitis? I’m petrified of it, but I’m pretty sick right now and supposed to travel later this week. How do I take down a few raw garlic cloves without dying? That is the question.
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Yes yes yes to vlogging your thanksgiving prep!
Yes, please vlog your prep! I haven’t heard of ingesting garlic (hello after taste!) but have heard of taking ginger? I usually make a tea (with honey) or chicken soup with it for my kids.
chop up the garlic into a few slim pieces and swallow them down as if they were small pills. chase with orange juice or something with more flavor than water. i do this all the time, i have a 20 month old who likes to get me sick. it really works, but you burp garlic for hours.
Yes, absolutely vlog your Thanksgiving prep!!!!! Would love to see how you do it!
THANKSGIVING VLOGS PLZ. I’m a Canadian transplant and in my five years of marriage-to-a-Yank, I’ve fallen head over heels with American Thanksgiving traditions.
I swear by local honey, fresh ginger and lemon. you make a concoction in your fridge – it becomes a cough syrup consistency after a few days and viola! Best thing for a cold. But I use local honey every single day in my coffee instead of sugar. I got rid of most of my allergies this way. I had horrible asthmatic season allergies. s.w.e.a.r.b.y.i.t!!!!
oh my gosh! can you give me the measurements for this? or do you not measure?
I do the same thing when I’m sick! I don’t measure and just bowl water, with some slices of ginger and just from half a lemon for ~5 min, then add honey. I swear it works wonders.
On top of this I also eat a clove of raw garlic every morning and night. Minc it then put some on a spoon and quickly down it with a gulp of water. Normally one clove takes about 2-3 spoonfuls. You can even plug your nose if that helps! I normally reward myself with a spoonful of honey afterward. But between these 2 things my colds don’t last longer than a 3-4 days.
I take a 16oz mason jar (I know you have thousands) place raw, unprocessed, local honey in the bottom. Slice organic lemons (you’ll probably only need one), lay them on top of the honey with maybe a tablespoon of grated ginger (in a pinch I have used the ginger paste that is available in produce section or sometimes freezer in those cubey thingers). Make another layer and it should fill up the jar. You can make more it in larger quantities but I prefer to have it fresh every 2-3 weeks. Place jar in fridge and every day or so, turn the jar upside down – this way it really infuses (FYI – the lemons will float to the top). After 2-3 days, you’ll have your syrup. Mix it every time you use it – the ginger settles. I put this in my tea, warm water or take it by the spoonful. Trying to get my 13 yr olds on it but that’s a struggle. As I said, I use local honey in my coffee in place of sugar every day. I literally have no more allergies (except in the spring but it’s not as severe, asthmatic allergies that I’ve had like forever). Let me know if you have any questions. Good luck!!
PS – store in the fridge for about a month. :)
thank you so much stacy! xoxo
Ummm you NEED to tell me if the garlic trick works. I cannot shake my cold and will try just about anything at this point.
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Yes on the Thanksgiving vlog and day in the life the day before! Love love love your blog!!!!!!
Yes to the vlogs, please! Love all your recipes and hearing about the behind-the-scenes.
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I do a garlic broth. Heat up some stock (whatever kind you have on hand), and add as much chopped garlic as you can stand (usually 5-6 cloves for me). Drink the broth, then eat the garlic. Works great!
I was in the EXACT same predicament re: candy canes last week!!! I ended up turning to Amazon prime and delaying it…but they only had a 3-box pack, so Christmas here I come!
Please do a vlog!!!
Try apple cider vinegar with hot water and lemon and honey and drink it first thing in the morning!! I usually fill a tea cup with hot water and add about 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and 2 tablespoons honey and some fresh lemon. It really helps with sore throats and colds and apple cider vinegar is supposed to kill bad bacteria naturally.
Also, PLEASE do vlogs!!! They would be amazing :)
THIS! I add thinly sliced ginger to mine. I swear it helps decongest you pretty quickly.
For colds I use peppermint essential oils on my feet. And swear by Cold 911 from David’s Tea. I keep a stock in my cupboard. Works every time.
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I had this problem a few months ago! I was so sick with Strep Throat and wanted to try the garlic trick but the first time I ate the raw garlic it was like ….monster mouth for a whole 24 hours afterwards.
Dude – enter PICKLED GARLIC!!!! You can find it jarred at Whole Foods and Nugget Markets. Probably Sprouts too.
Works wonders and does not leave you with monster breath for days :)
would love if you did a thanksgiving vlog! that would be so fun to watch!
Yep. Right there with Stacey S. and Hannah Robinett. Local honey, always. Raw garlic, I grow my own, yes. Homemade holistic, yep.
Oh that was a great walk down memory lane – I loved the book fair! We had the bookmobile stop by in our neighborhood during the summers too. And am now going to dig through the attic next time I’m home to look for all of those books from my childhood! THE BEST!!
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I pretty much get stuck with a sore throat every year… what helps me is just A LOT of tea with honey and lemon and throat drops. Plus a scarf whenever I’m out and no talking. – Okay a little, but I try! (Although if I don’t get any better after 7 days and if my throat is worse, I just go to the doctor to get my blood checked to see if what I got is viral or bacterial.)
I know some people that swear by mixing some honey with grated ginger.
Whatever you do I hope it works and you feel better soon! :)
On a friend’s suggestion last year, I minced a clove of garlic, drowned it in a spoonful of honey and swallowed the whole thing. Doesn’t taste great, but I think it helped me kick the terrible cold I was fighting without giving me garlic breath.
Oh, forgot to add!
There’s this thing that a lot of people here make by themselves, but it takes a long time to make so I prefer to buy it. I wonder if you guys have it too? It’s spruce tip syrup and it really works. And it tastes good too.
http://en.medex.si/shop/spruce-tips-syrup/
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I’ve never eaten the raw garlic, but when I’m sick I’ll slice a peeled clove of garlic in half, put one half in each cheek. Kind of bite it a little so it releases it’s juices. Suck on it for 10 minutes or so, then spit out. Works great! Also, I do the ginger, honey, lemon tea like others have mentioned, and sometimes also the apple cider vinegar tea.
My daughter came home from daycare (she’s a year old) with the scholastic book fair catolog! I DIED just remembering it and LOVE that it’s still a thing!
Don’t do the garlic! Lenny tried it a couple years ago – he smelled for weeks!! And his cold was still there. I use coldcalm can buy at Whole Foods – totally like totally works for me. Did I say totally??
Yes on BOTH vlogs for Thanksgiving! Please give us a heads up when you’re going to post it and where, so I can be sure to watch it (if you do it, that is)!!!!!!!!
Jess!!! EAT THE GARLIC!!! Also take turmeric supplements, oregano oil capsules, and take a bath with 2 cups of Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar (then get right out and immediately into bed and keep sweating… very important to keep sweating) and you will wake up a new person!
I love the idea of vlogging your Thanksgiving prep! I’m going to be so nervous the first time I have to host Thanksgiving. Right now all I have to do is bring an app or a dessert. This year I’m going to make German Chocolate Pecan Pie and if it’s a flop I’ll make pumpkin crunch cake.
-Heather
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Please share the outcome of the garlic remedy! If you are looking for other options, I swear by Airborne & a big bowl of pho to ward off/treat colds.
Thumbs up to the vlogging…who needs sleeep?!? I use oil of oregano for colds and bronchitis. It smells like an old Greek man and tastes horrible, but a few drops in some orange juice 3-4 times a day gets rid of my colds asap!
Ditto the pickled garlic. It’s good too. When I was growing up my brothers and I used to fight over the garlic in my grandmothers homemade pickles!
Hi Jessica!
I haven’t heard about the trick with garlic until yet, but I know some other tricks to help you out, handed down from the women in my family.
If you just have a sore throat, take a table spoon, put some sugar on it. Drain it with some drops of lemon juice and finally level it with some common oil (like you would use for a salad or else). It works the best if you take it right before you head to bed, and in 9 out of 10 cases, you won’t have any troubles with your throat come morning. Otherwise, just repeat the next evening (and continue until the soreness is gone; but only a few days; otherwise please consult your doctor)
Another “old” treatment that really helps with any breathing problem is to put a good quarter pound of quark on a clean dishcloth (or towel). Fold it like a package, then put it on your chest (you can use some bandages to keep it in place; a simple, form-fitting undershirt will do the same trick). Stay in bed, and within some hours (or overnight), the cheese will be as dry as a stone – and you will be able to breathe more freely.
Last but not least two tricks for when you’re really coming down with a severe cold, including fever (works even with kids, though both tricks are rather high on the energy-draining side – been there, done that as a kid myself)
– take a medium horse radish, cut it up in not too thin, but also not too thick slices. Get a needle and yarn, and pile the slices onto the yarn like pearls. Fast it around the neck, cover it up with an old shirt. Come morning, you probably could consider the radish necklace a legal weapon, but the fever should be gone.
– heat some water, and put a few drop of vinegar into it. Soak it up with small, clean dishclothes or towels, then put them on your feet. Cover them up with socks (maybe even two pairs), and sleep it off.
im scared to even think of what the raw garlic thing is !
i loved the book fair. loved babysitters club, lover bearinstein bears books, etc. and Book IT ! i loved book it even though my parents were sorta anti chain pizza and i rarely got to cash in my certificates. i still love to read. i had no idea there were full house books !
I LOVED Scholastic delivery day in elementary school.
This is Us is incredible.
Drizzle some honey on your raw garlic before you eat it. It makes it more palatable, for sure.