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| Freefloridagirl Registered user Username: Freefloridagirl Post Number: 30 Registered: 10-2008 |
We served fried turkey not ham. Although that idea was a great one. Two of my family members ended up not coming. The other two aren't that strict about all meat but do not eat pork or seafood. My cousin asked about us going to church on sabbath and I told her I did not want to but that I could give her directions to the church if she wanted to attend. She declined. We talked a little about the sabbath and I told her about Sabbath rest in Christ. I think she chooses to hold to the beliefs that are convenient for her. She keeps the sabbath but not strictly. She also drank coffee at my house and seemed to really enjoy it. We also went shopping on Saturday. I have never been able to pick and choose which rules to apply because I could never get around the idea that I had to be perfect. I think the seed is planted and I hope it grows. My father on the other hand is a strong sabbath keeper. I will be seeing him later this month. He rearranged his travel date so he won't have to drive on the sabbath (give me a break). I recently learned that my uncle left the SDA church 2 years ago because he had problems with EGW and the doctrine of the investigative judgement. He has a ministry for women and teenagers and said his ministry has grown a lot more since he left. I am amazed at the difference in perspective that comes from leaving. My mom has been reading some of the books that I have ordered from Life Assurance ministries and now no longer wants to be an adventist. I am so happy that she sees the truth. Praise God for all of this! Teresa | ||
| Bskillet Registered user Username: Bskillet Post Number: 58 Registered: 8-2008 |
I'm having Thanksgiving with YOU next year. My SDA family served Worthington Dinner Roast. That's okay. I didn't mind. I hope the other formers here will have the grace to forgive me for actually liking Dinner Roast.
As someone who just left a few months ago, I can tell you that pretty much all SDAs under the age of 35 drink coffee, even the devoted ones. As for me, I believe there are three basic food groups: Sugar, Chicken, and Coffee. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 9121 Registered: 12-2003  |
Teresa, great news! Praise God for your mom's openness and for the rest of the family that is beginning to see. Bskillet, your three food groups could keep me going for a long time! (Well, I guess I'll forgive you for the Dinner Roast...actually, I still cook stuff with Fri Chik for our younger, still-vegetarian son. Colleen | ||
| Wolfgang Registered user Username: Wolfgang Post Number: 253 Registered: 10-2005 |
Bskillet Im still in love with speacial K-loaf,and fri-chicks and choplets,somethings you just dont give up. Was happy to give up post-um though blah  you know what really used to irk me I know this is off topic,but at pot luck I would make really nice passing dishes,and then there were your "vegans" that would just grab what ever was in thier fridge that didnt have mold on it,that I couldnt stand,and bring it,guess who's dish they gobbled up 1st?? yep,MINE! and they took thier sorry dish back home with them!! I just stopped going to pot luck because of the lack of care ppl would put into cooking,come to think of it maybe that was my 1st break from the church.? Glad my family had real turkey at thanksgiving,and we will have real meat at christmas,I might even get some shrimp. Gosh its exciting not to have to worry about what I put on the table! God has blessed it all. | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 6126 Registered: 3-2004  |
Wolfgang, I agree that it is so good not to worry about food. I just ask God to bless what I eat and eat it. Diana L | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 3854 Registered: 9-2006  |
Tereas, It looks like God is doing some amazing things in your family, Praise God for it. I believe he is doing a lot of amazing things in each of our families, things maybe we can,t see, but he is still in the prayer answering business. River | ||
| Bskillet Registered user Username: Bskillet Post Number: 61 Registered: 8-2008 |
Fri-chik was good, but they changed the recipe recently and now I don't like it as much. I still think haystacks are the best SDA food. But all non-SDAs just call it taco salad. Squeeze a fresh lime over your haystack. Wow! Weird thing about food: I know I'm free to eat all the pigs and shrimps and lobsters I want now. But when I think about getting pepperoni pizza, my mind goes back to all those scare tactics about trichonosis they tried to drill into me. Weird thing is I can eat meatloaf and chicken parm without any worries. As for shrimp, I don't eat anything if I can still see its intestines. And I just don't like the taste of seafood. | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 3858 Registered: 9-2006 |
I like deep fried and battered shrimp with each bite dipped in a half and half horse radish and catchup. I don't like oysters, crab, I do like clam dip and tater chips, I can eat a whole bowl in one sitting. I like canned salmon better than fresh. I like perch battered in corn meal and I like catfish like they serve in the south. If it gets to smelling or tasting too fishy I can't eat it. I ain't never et Adventist food so I don't know whether I would like that or not, probably not. But then you didn't care anyhow now did you? I can just say it if I wanna. I wanna and I did.  River P.S I like Animal food too, which is popcorn! Oh... and we are having a prime rib dinner this Christmas instead of the standard turkey and ham. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 9124 Registered: 12-2003 |
Yum! Isn't Christmas great? All the food--and now we can eat more than the sweets and buttery desserts that are all over the office workrooms and parties! We were invited to dinner last week--the husband was raised in his very early life SDA, and the wife was raised Mormon. (Praise God they are both alive in Jesus and raising Christian children...!) Anyway, they served us steak: tender, delicious steak—and it was on the reddish/pink side in the center. You know what was wonderful? Even Richard, the cradle vegetarian (you've all heard his story!) was able to eat it! God is good! Colleen | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 6130 Registered: 3-2004 |
I had venison last Saturday evening at a friend's house. It was just slightly pink in the center and was DELICIOUS!!!! I have been a meat eater a good portion of my life, but it had to be cooked thoroughly with no pink. I looked at it, and popped it in my mouth and did not think about the pink after that. Diana L | ||
| Honestwitness Registered user Username: Honestwitness Post Number: 748 Registered: 7-2005  |
River, I glanced at the first line of your post above and thought it said, "I like deep fried bat!" I laughed, because you're always telling us about the weird things you eat. Then I looked closer and saw it was battered shrimp. Now, I'm laughing at that, too! I'm thinking about those poor, little battered creatures. You ought to be nicer to helpless little animals. Hee hee! Honestwitness (in a giggly mood) | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 3862 Registered: 9-2006 |
I did say that didn't I? Now you put me in a giggly mood, it did sound funny. River | ||
| Angelcat Registered user Username: Angelcat Post Number: 17 Registered: 11-2008 |
I remember seeing battered wings in the menu when I went to the bar, and wondering why they'd beat up the chicken wings. Hey, I was 4th generation Adventist,I didn't know what anything to do with meat meant. | ||
| Lifeanew Registered user Username: Lifeanew Post Number: 174 Registered: 10-2007 |
After taking a road trip this last September across Montana, the Dakotas and Wyoming we discovered how wonderful buffalo meat is. On our trip we tried buffalo roast, hamburgers and stew....yummy! Today at local restaurant I had buffalo chili and my husband had buffalo meatloaf with Marion berry BBQ sauce. delicious! | ||
| Bskillet Registered user Username: Bskillet Post Number: 71 Registered: 8-2008 |
Even when I was SDA, I still ate meat. I saw no sense in assuming vegetarianism was more holy if Jesus ate meat. I loved slipping in that point to vegetarian SDAs when meat-eating came up. I had buffalo once. I got a particularly fatty cut that I didn't much enjoy. But I've had elk on several occasions, and I consider it by far the most delicious of all the red meats I've had. I've also eaten reindeer sausage. Not recommended. Haha! Don't knock it unless you've tried it. | ||
| Loneviking Registered user Username: Loneviking Post Number: 647 Registered: 7-2000 |
Elk and Buffalo are delicious. What I have a hankering for this Christmas is roasted Goose. Fatty meat, but very rich, tender and great tasting. The drippings make a great gravy. Of course, you can just about feel your arteries slamming shut from all of the cholesterol, but hey! You only live once... And fried turkey? Really good, but every year it seems like somebody screws up and drops a frozen turkey into the hot peanut oil. The result is a spectacular explosion and an emergency 911 call for the fire department. | ||
| Stevendi Registered user Username: Stevendi Post Number: 411 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yeah Lone, Elk and buffalo burgers with gargonzola or bleu cheese grilled. That's what I'm talkin' about! Steve | ||
| Gcfrankie Registered user Username: Gcfrankie Post Number: 273 Registered: 1-2007 |
Last year our daughter and family sent for us a turducken with cornbread stuffing.Mmmmmmmm good! For those who do not know what it is, it is a deboned turkey with a deboned chicken stuffed inside and inside of that is a deboned duck and the stuffing. Gail | ||
| Stevendi Registered user Username: Stevendi Post Number: 412 Registered: 10-2006 |
Let it not be said "ain't no meat on debone". Just for the record, that's the name of an old blues song by Champion Jack Dupree. It's about the old speak easy days, where a musician would perform for food. When he got to the kitchen afterwards, he got a bone with no meat on it. Why does this remind me of Adventism? Steve | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 9157 Registered: 12-2003 |
Hey, Loneviking, could you please email me at proclamation@gmail.com? I can't seem to locate your email address...Richard and I were looking for it recently! Thanks! Colleen |
