Parents.

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Brianne-Ashley on April 10, 2010 at 3:43pm

That is an amazing idea. My parents have never offered me an allowance, and I only clean up after myself, but if I offered to clean up after them too maybe they would give me money for food.

I'll print out a "will work for food" paper and get on that! Maybe if I do that and get a job they'll stop making me feel so guilty.

Thank you!

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Brianne-Ashley on April 11, 2010 at 9:27am

Ooo, that is a good idea. :D I tried making them banana "icecream" once, but they wouldn't try it. Maybe I can force feed them. :P

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Brianne-Ashley on April 11, 2010 at 9:29am

Ah, it's going to be difficult to get them to allow this. I'm ordering 811 from amazon, and once I get it maybe I can just hand them the book and tell them to read it, and then try to explain. I dunno.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Rosemary on April 11, 2010 at 3:55am

Raw food, even before 811, was/is how I control disordered eating, as well. I did drain my bank account on food though, at first. Now I keep bananas as a staple and eat whatever my bf buys. There are quite a few people who control their eating disorders with raw food, so if you search, there may be enough anecdotal information around to at least partially convince them. Good luck!

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Brianne-Ashley on April 11, 2010 at 9:30am

Thank you :D I think it is a positive wat to control it. I actually wish I could spread the word around that this helps, because it really does!

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Cherry Bomb on April 11, 2010 at 4:05am

have you checked looking for fruit trees in your neighborhood? i used to think i just had 3 orange trees near me, turns out theres about 9, im sure people would not mind but actually appreciate it if you took some because then they wouldnt have to pick it up :] haha good luck!

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by D on April 11, 2010 at 4:25am

Was gonna say the same thing. Maybe there will be more to forage later on in the year

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jared Six on April 11, 2010 at 4:41am

Yeah, last week I was on a walk and I discovered 3 walnut trees pretty close to my house as well as more pine trees than I could count. Sure, it's not fruit and they're high in fat, but it's cool to know that I can get walnuts and pinenuts that are 100% free, local, and truly raw!

And if you're willing to work for food, the best thing of all would be to grow a garden. If you don't have the land maybe you know someone who does. (I live in an apartment without any real land, so I go to my brother's house to grow tomatoes and other foods.)

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Brianne-Ashley on April 11, 2010 at 9:32am

I thought about that, and had a look around, but I couldn't find anything. I live in the desert, so there isn't much growing here. When I go to my grandmother's I'll probably be ably to find a bunch of food!

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by hannah on April 11, 2010 at 5:09am

get a job
grow a garden (melons would be good if you can since they will give you fruit soon!)
talk to your parents!

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Brianne-Ashley on April 11, 2010 at 9:33am

I was thinking about growing a garden, but after doing research on it I realized there isn't a lot of things that grow up here in the desert. I attempted to grow strawberries, but they would just shrivel up and die. :(

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Deezel on April 12, 2010 at 12:59pm

What i was thinking about is searching for lower priced/sale items in your store. You mentioned pineapple, well you know here in Seattle my store had them buy one/get one free, and they have a huge amount of apples for 99 cents a pound, and I still eat salsa so I check every week for who has tomatoes on sale, and my point is that you can probably get everything you need and impress your parents if you hunt for sales and make a pointed effort of trying to save them money. All adults think that children don't understand how hard they work for money, and it offends them, so perhaps if you could try and hunt for deals your father would be more willing to pay for what you need. Getting a job would be great, but finding good produce deals is something that you can do right now, you can get online at the grocery store websites and read their weekly ads and plan!

Good luck =]

• ▶ Reply

• ‹ Previous
• 1
• 2
• Next ›
• Page