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  1. This advice here is freaking money. Also good stuff from bernorange and syndneycarton. I will simply reiterate what they said in terms of opening your eyes to other regional cuisines and flavors. About 5 years ago I flipped my animal/plant protein intake ratio around 180 deg. I refused to give up cow milk in my cereal because all the alternate milks disgust me, and eggs are a life saver when you have 3 kids and a wife that works. But other than that was vegetarian. I wasn't a nazi about it, and when I travel for work or we go out to eat, I generally get what I want, which includes vegetarian sometimes. But we don't go out to eat very often. I'm pretty much the same now, except we typically mix in seafood 1x/week, which turns into 2x with leftovers. I'll say it's not as hard as you think, and you shouldn't be concerned about not getting enough protein. There are plenty of plant-based sources, and you don't really need as much as you think you do. Here are some ideas for various meals. Breakfast: cereal, oatmeal, fruit, smoothies (I'm talking good smoothies that are nothing but berries, greens, and lemon. You can put some chia, flax or hemp seeds in there for additional nutrition. And a splash or OJ helps getting the kids to drink it). Lunch: I'm a creature of habit, and for as long I can remember I've had a sandwich, chips, and a couple of pieces of fruit for lunch. When I changed my diet, my sandwiches had to change, as I used to eat regular deli meat. I now substitute hummus for the meat. There are 20 different flavors to choose from at the store, and when you added avocado and a green of choice, it's a way better sandwich they I used to have. Dinner: It's easy to fall into using carbs like pasta and rice as filler when you go vegetarian, but there are lots of substitutes out there that leave you just as satiated. Black bean pasta, Soba noodles, cauliflower rice, wild rice (this actually isn't rice). Mix those with eggs, nuts, veggies, beans, good cheese if you want, and you have a killer meal. Curries with potatoes, beans, and veggies is also really good. Someone mentioned soups in the Instant pot and I couldn't agree more. Lentils, black eyed peas, or black beans make for good soup protein. Mung beans and white beans tend to break up when I cook them, but I'm likely doing it too long. But broken up beans make for good dip starters, which make sore good snacks or even sandwich fillings.
  2. What an absolutely stupid fucking argument from chin pubes. The Ags have beaten TX State and Lamar as their OOC opponents. Any conference win by anyone in the B12 surpasses either win they have on their OOC schedule. I love that he's holding up beating Miss St as their shining accomplishment.
  3. That's the shit you taste.
  4. Not sure when this happened, but Wild Kitchen out on Hwy 71 closed. Can't say I'm surprised as everytime we went we were totally underwhelmed by the food. We kept wanting to like it as the menu was really good, but their execution was shit. Our kids loved it though, and frankly the food on the kids was more consistently good than the regular menu.
  5. Wiler77

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    Did you sit at the Kitchen Bar? If it's just you and the bride, try that next time. It's not real conducive to parties of 3+, but it's pretty fun to watch the madness of the kitchen. And I don't think I've been yet where the chef's aren't friendly, willing to talk about how/why they cook things a certain way, as well as willing to give some freebies. I love that place. Also, for those with families, a pro move is to order pizza/wine/beer at the bar right when you walk in and carry it out to one of the picnic tables in the oak grove. It's well shaded, there's usually a breeze, and the kids can play on the big playscape while you and the wife indulge in good pizza and refreshments. One of my favorite places to go out to eat with the family.
  6. Honestly it really depends on the lines and how many games I like. Typically it's 4-5 games. But if you look at the 7 gamer above, the ML is crazy big, and it took 7 games to barely get above even money odds. The 4 gamer below that got about the same odds. I guess I could have fooled around with combinations of those 11 games to see if somehow the odds got better, but that would take more time than I'm willing to spend on something I do for shits and giggles. BTW, I use Bovada and typically the cutoff for when the ML disappears is ~23-25 point spread. There's no hard cutoff though.
  7. JFC this is a trainwreck of a sentence.
  8. I just came here to say that is the sexiest woman on the face of the planet.
  9. Alright, I'll show my dumbass bets each week. I already lost on Stanford last night. JFC, how do you lose to UCLA at home? I've been doing something I started doing with college basketball last week with is stringing together large parlays with overwhelming favorites. It pays about even money, but I've been having good luck. Parlay #1 Auburn (-1300)(391) Auburn Tigers @ (392) Arkansas Razorbacks(Match Miami Florida (-1300)(319) Georgia Tech @ (320) Miami Florida Hurricanes(Match) Iowa (-1100)(343) Purdue Boilermakers @ (344) Iowa Hawkeyes(Match) LSU (-1300)(379) Louisiana State Tigers @ (380) Mississippi State Bulldogs(Match) Missouri (-1900)(407) Missouri Tigers @ (408) Vanderbilt Commodores(Match) Georgia (-4100)(375) Kentucky Wildcats @ (376) Georgia Bulldogs(Match) Penn State (-340)(421) Michigan Wolverines @ (422) Penn ST Nittany Lions(Match) Parlay #2 Florida (-225)(373) Florida Gators @ (374) South Carolina Gamecocks(Match) Appalachian State (-670)(405) La Monroe Warhawks @ (406) Appalachian State Mountaineers(Match) Utah (-600)(359) Arizona ST Sun Devils @ (360) Utah Utes(Match) Texas (-1300)(349) Kansas Jayhawks @ (350) Texas Longhorns(Match) Parlay #3 San Francisco 49ers (-500)(465) San Francisco 49ers @ (466) Washington Redskins(Match) New England Patriots (-480)(475) New England Patriots @ (476) New York Jets(Match) Los Angeles Rams (-160)(463) Los Angeles Rams @ (464) Atlanta Falcons(Match)
  10. Florida -5.5 @ South Carolina I think beating UGA was a complete fluke. USC is bad. I may tease this with another game. Haven't decided what. Maybe Stanford vs UCLA.
  11. I can't see this picture for whatever reason, but my hope is it's something along these lines.
  12. Wait, if an employer fires you they can still enforce the non-compete? Surely not. Or I guess it depends on why they fired you.
  13. Exactly. This is what made me laugh. "All things being equal" I want the guy that works harder. Yea, no shit. But the question posed the sentence before was hard worker vs. good measureables. It's like he got confused while typing. And it's not as if those are the only 2 variables, nor are they binary.
  14. One thing I'm not clear on is what is a PQF? If I fly to Frankfurt and decide to connect through DC, is the round trip 2 flights, or 4 flights? I fly to Europe 4-5 times a year and maybe that much domestically, so I'm trying to figure out if I'm a winner, loser, or about the same in the deal. I usually have no problem hitting Gold, and really that's all I care about maintaining so I get lounge access on the intl flights. Platinum doesn't have any major benefits over gold that I would utilize, and I have no desire to fly enough to reach 1K.
  15. Yea, I missed the part where I take 220 for 10 miles. Futureman is living up to his name. I'm not detouring to Stephenville.
  16. Wenzel's Lone Star Meats in Hamilton looks like the new leader. Google says 2 hr 18 minutes, which will be perfect as I'm planing to run in the morning and can eat a light breakfast to ensure maximum hunger. And an added bonus of picking up some homemade jerky and pork rinds for the weekend.
  17. Fuck me. Gold star for you. Was coming back here to say after limited research, Storm's in Lampasas or Nita's and Glen's BBQ were the leaders in the clubhouse. The pictures of the BBQ look terrible, but the reviews are unanimously good.
  18. So I've talked myself into taking 71 to 281 to 67 into Dallas tomorrow (starting in Driftwood), and I'm looking for any recommendation on places to stop for food along the way. I'm planning to leave at 9am, and since it's just me and my dog in the car, I'll be leaving at 9am. What says Surly for good small town eats on that route?
  19. That would suck. I assume I was a top 10 customer back 1999-2001. Spent most every Friday night closing the place down, then at least one other night there. I didn't realize it became a 42 hotbed. Too bad it wasn't that way 20 years ago. Or maybe it's a good thing because I might have spent every night there wrecking shop.
  20. You're going to want to read this thread from start to finish if that's your plan.
  21. I'm trying to make sense of the statement above, which was quoted from the DART website and I just read again, with the map below. There is no mention of the special red lines on the website, yet they clearly show up on the map below. I'm going to be hoping on the red line at Walnut Hill/75, and from the text is seems like I needed to take it to EBJ Union Station and transfer to Green line direct to MLK. But the map looks like I can take red the whole way, and at some point get on the special dotted red line that goes direct to MLK. But it's not entirely obvious to me where the dotted red line originates. Going back look straightforward--Red Line at MLK north to Walnut Hill.
  22. This is like Craig getting fired on his day off. How the hell does shit get this escalated on the bye week?
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