“The RoseBouquet”

We’re eating more soft foods and drinking delicious meal-in-a-mug meal substitute drinks.

Dad had his second batch of teeth extracted yesterday. The first four came out two and a half weeks ago. He has two more appointments to go, and then he’ll let the gums heal thoroughly before he goes to have dentures made.

Naturally, since Dad doesn’t have good chewing teeth any more, I’ve taken to serving more soups, mashed potatoes, and things I can prepare in the Vita-Mixer. When Dad complains that something is too hard for him to eat, I get up from the table, pour it into the vita-mixer and buzz it. Presto. Baby food.

Since we both could spare a few pounds of weight, when we are not exactly hungry, I even give us some meals-in-a-mug with this milk shake replacement. It doesn’t seem like a full meal to Dad, so I will add crackers or buns and peanut butter on the side.

Seems we’ll have to add more exercise to the plan - ’cause so far I have one teasing pound that hides and pops back up again.