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I am actually fairly hungry right now. It'll be a couple of hours yet before dinner, and about all we've got that I can easily munch on is granola bars and applesauce. I can't make myself dinner early because there isn't anything I can fix that Cordelia will be willing to eat, and she will be quite upset if I make myself dinner and don't feed her. There is a pretty hefty slab of pork left, but I can't actually cut it without hurting myself. I managed to saw off a piece for Cordelia last night, but it was pretty unpleasant, unpleasant enough that I ate baked beans (I like them, at least) rather than try to cut a second piece.

In terms of what I can make for myself, we've got some cheddar chicken sausages (Cordelia won't eat them), some instant oatmeal, some English muffins, a heck of a lot of ramen, and some canned potato soup (which Cordelia also won't eat). Oh, and I can certainly microwave some frozen peas or frozen green beans. That's pretty easy to do.

Cordelia probably could cut herself a piece of pork, but I'm not sure I can get her to try that. She's pretty conservative about that sort of thing.

In terms of what I've eaten today, I've had three granola bars, a small bag of microwave popcorn, four or five slices of cheese, and a cup of applesauce. I'm not sure I'm doing really well by myself with that.

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I think I shall have to ask for help. Fall is the absolute busiest time for Scott at work, the time when he's most likely to get ambushed with unexpected (and completely unwanted) overtime. They told him at 3 p.m. yesterday that he had to stay four hours over. He's working both days this weekend and can't expect a break until next weekend. (He more or less volunteered for that one on the theory that he needs to build up a lot of goodwill before I start radiation, but it's still hard when he's the only one who can drive.)

I also have to get it through my head that Cordelia is twelve-- All blueberries and strawberries and such no longer have to be hoarded and fed to her. When she was three, yes. When she was six, probably. Not so much any more.

I think the main thing I like about apples is that, if I don't eat them immediately, they'll still be edible a week or two later. I can even store them in a bowl on the counter. Very few types of fruit are like that, and it's very common for us to buy fruit and then discover, when we actually want to eat it, that it's well past being edible. Frozen fruit might be the better way to go.

I don't often drink fruit juice as I haven't found anything I like since Oceanspray changed the formula of all of the ones I did like. I have trouble with apple juice and cider and purple grape juice, so the standbys aren't really great for me. Maybe I should go for prune juice-- It doesn't taste at all bad. It just looks kind of nasty. Mostly, I drink water and carbonated water.

I need to stay low fat and low spice due to digestive issues. Ginger and a moderate amount of garlic are fine, but I can't deal with anything stronger than that. Anything pepper related is right out. I can't even handle paprika which is embarrassing since nobody I know considers that even remotely spicy.

I will keep this list for when I'm making the next grocery list. I might actually be along for that trip, so it'll be more likely that I can find things that interest me. Picking things out when I don't know what there is is fairly difficult. It generally means selecting from the things we've had in the house recently enough that I remember them. Scott generally buys exactly what's on the list and pretty much always the cheapest kind of that that's available.