[Htt-recipes] checking in - help needed

[Cheryl Peeples]

Dear Friends, Anne's and April's ideas sound great. Thank you so much for sending them. I am in the midst of something that I need help with and know I can count on you. As I said a couple of weeks ago, I live very near Virginia Tech and am very grateful that our children are all right though am grieving in response to it. After the tragedy, my husband is spending 12 hour minimum days at the office working out details of how to help in the aftermath. I am also very busy and stressed now with what's going on here and the responabilities this has placed on me. I have cooked food and thrown it away as we could not bear to eat late at night or were simply too stressed to bother. We are eating out more than usual just to get away from the office and couldn't care less what we are eating. I know this situation is unique but I also know that everyone at some time or another goes through grief or times of incredible stress. I haven't eaten anything I shouldn't (I've been eating this way for way too long to really get off track) but have gained weight anyway since I have no time to exercise. It occurred to me in the middle of the night I could get Lean Cuisines or something like that to have in the freezer for when my husband does make it home for him to eat and I could just drink Atkins shakes or something like that and not put any more stress on myself. I've never tried them though so anyone like any in particular? I tried baking some chicken breasts and some boiled eggs so I could just eat that but they looked so awful once they had cooled, I just tossed them. Do y'all have any good words of wisdom of how to cope with the having to cook/eat portion of this? Seems to me in each of our places we're going to need this at some point and it would be nice to have some strategies in place. Thanks and Blessings - Cheryl in VA
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