faithnj's Comments (70)

“I love both cooked, whole cranberry sauce and raw cranberry "relish," so I don't think I'm helping you much with your poll, LOL. I'm not really fond of the canned jelly that I grew up eating, but I'll put a slice of it on a sandwich in a pinch. All the same Maria, your recipe sounds easy and tasty. I think I'll give it a try.”

“scrooge mc duck here. we are cheap, cheap, cheap. we don't use credit cards. we paid for used cars in cash- so no car notes. we have a relatively low mortgage, so renting wouldn't save us much, if anything. (although home maintenance and utilities do add up.) we don't pay for cable. and all of this was from BEFORE my DH lost his job. we are on the run quite a bit, so probably the only area we could cut costs in would be in what we spend eating out. however, since we are a vegetarian family, even eating out doesn't cost us what it might cost some other families of 4. However, if I could get my tots to eat sandwiches, we'd be set, LOL!”

“Great article. Totally had to post it on facebook.”

“you say you wondered what Quorn was made of??? The ingredients are listed on the box. You could have done an internet search for mycoprotein or mycofungus, and learned a lot about it when you first purchased it. I did that the very first time quorn came out, because I had never heard of a mycoprotein. I found enough info to satisfy my curiosity. true, the info on allergies came out later. However, the info has been out there, and none of it is hidden. JMO, as a consumer.”

“yup...another quorn fan. and i'm just a regular stay-at-home mom who posts on huffpo a lot, so I don't know why you think everybody who's posting is a part of some company conspiracy. The stuff has been sold at health food stores for years, so I guess millions have tasted it by now. dnietz, do you think we'd all be silent on this issue?

but anyway... i'm not sure what to make of this article. my husband is allergic to some nuts & coconuts. my daughter is allergic to tree nuts & peanuts. I'm allergic to shell fish. if some people are allergic to quorn, then what's shocking about that? and as for the "frankenfood" aspect: as long as I've ever seen quorn, on the side of the box it said it was a type of mycofungus. I remember looking up mycofungus, and deciding even though it was some kind of engineered food, I was gonna give it a try. (sorry, but I've also tried nutrasweet , splenda, & some new medicines like vioxx. call me "stupid," but it's not illegal to try things cooked up in a scientist's lab.) The quorn allergy issue is old news to people who pay attention to these things. I'm just not sure why some people being allergic to anything is a reason for all people to worry. People have allergies to trees. That doesn't mean we should stop planting them.”

“People with these types of political beliefs have been voting against their own self-interests for decades. I don't know why they are so confused. So many of these people are white and poor or working class, yet they side with "Big Business" every time. Chris Rock said it best-- if given the choice between being a black millionaire like himself, or being poor and white with one leg, they'd say they would choose to ride this one-legged thing out.”

“It's 2009, and yet the amount of racism one can still find in this country is....simply unbelievable. Thanks for shedding some light on this issue.”

“love it! I'm getting happier, just thinking about...being happy. now I'm going to go do something good for myself. keep up the good work!”

“i think you have to take this in the right spirit. certainly, there are people who don't care about what they do as it effects others. they step on your toes and keep going. that's not the secret to happiness; that's the secret to meanness, and the people who do things like this always seem fairly unhappy, if you ask me. all the same, i don't think the author meant not to care about hurting others. i think she means give up the attachment to all the little hobgoblins going around in your mind that don't make a real difference. for example: someone asked me why my neighbor's fancy car was no longer around. did they default on their lease? i replied, i don't know and i don't care. i never pay attention to my neighbors car, what it is, or whether it is here or there, nevertheless speculate on why it is there or not there. and you know what? i know that i'm happier because i don't care about what "The Jones" have, lol.”

“apple pies are 2 for $1 at McDonalds. I don't know how many cals they are, but 4 of them have to be about 1,200 cals or more.....now who will eat 4 McDonald's apple pies in a day? I don't have the answer to that.”

“robbyj, I'm envious.”

“whew! you get 'em, Alex!!!!”

“......and she could have been one heartbeat away from the presidency.”

“thanks for saying this. I had to share it with my friends. it's really time for all of us to declare some food independence- even me. I've been a vegetarian for 25 years, but even I need to step away from the corn syrup and fast food selections. "Not having enough time to make a healthy meal" just ran out of time as an excuse, in my book.”

“....nah. you don't owe anyone "simple courtesy" when another man has been murdered. you owe it to the dead man and his family to tell the truth, as best you can.”

“great article....it really serves to remind us what depravity we human beings are capable of. it's sad to think that Thailand has really given itself over to making money off women and children this way. thanks for making it clear that people need to continue to speak out against this.”

“Oh, come on.......porn is not some type of "good, clean fun." Teaching kids that sex is healthy, wholesome and normal is not the answer to demystifying the freak show that is the porn industry. If adults want to wile away their lives sitting glued to the internet searching for this stuff, then so be it. But let's not pretend that porn ought to be the stuff of childhood, and that it wouldn't have a negative effect on kids if kids realized sex is healthy and natural. Kids imitate this garbage, and the stuff that is seen in most porn is simply not comprised of any helpful information children ought to have about sex.”

“I was prepared not to like (or agree with) this article. Oh well. After a day of reading about Michael Jackson and Sanford, I have to agree with you-- I'm ready for a man who can put that d@mn laptop down, and shut Perez Hilton's trap for once and for all.”

“Excellent post, Rabbai. You really expressed a lot of what I had been thinking about Michael's untimely demise. No one can live the way he lived, and be expected to live long, or to end well. If anyone is surprised that MJ is dead at 50, they really need to rethink what a happy, healthy and successful life looks like.”

“thank you for writing this.”

“I sooooo agree with you HP. This man is almost 50 years old. What he did was self-indulgent. I don't see any reason for him to get a pass on the family responsibilities in any way. He needs to resign and go take care of the kids he made.”

“....ack. I'm disappoointed because it IS still here. We stopped buying cable. We gave the converter boxes away. We were so excited to see the snow on the television! But somehow, the signal is still bleeding into our house?!?!? I don't know what we'll have to do. We may have to simply unplug the t.v.s We want to keep them so that we can still watch videos. But I don't appreciate the fact that we are still getting television in our house. Sigh. Buck up, Mr. Harber. We mostly ditched all television months ago for our kid's sake. Now we read, use the internet and talk to each other instead of watching t.v. Give it a try-- you'll like it!”

“.........Get real (Or get honest.) If you think Wright was saying these types of things from the pulpit every Sunday, don't you think Fox News would have had more clips to show???? Churches like his tape the sermon's every Sunday and sell the tapes. Audio tapes, video tapes, dvds.....the evidence would be out there if there was any evidence that he was tearing Jews apart in public every Sunday morning.”

“".......and symbolic of the long history of blacks and Jews fighting against racial bigotry and anti-Semitism. The good Reverend Wright's pithy, loose tongued crack won't change that."

Hear, hear!!!”

“.......and those legs! Her legs and her indomitable spirit made Eartha Kitt a wonderful model of how to age well.”