Lori Alexander 33: Counting Everyone's Calories

[Lea]

The irony of the "Feminism: Not One Biblical Accomplishment" blog post is astonishing. It always astonishes me when conservative women are posting on blogs/facebook how terrible feminism is. It's like....do you have your name on a checking account or any of your family's property documents? Are you posting your own personal opinion on your website right now? Did you receive a level of education that allowed you to be literate in reading and math? Much of that is due to advances fought for by feminists.

Also, her using the "Rosie the Riveter" icon in that post makes my blood boil. WWII was WON on the backs of women's labor. Women supplied that war and kept this country running while men were gone. I am thrilled to live in a post-WWII society in which the Allies were the victors. Know your history, Ms. Lori. You would not have wanted all those women in the forties to have sat at home knitting saying "well, my hormones just won't allow me to learn to weld or rivet. Too bad!"

[Florita]

The Einkorn flour (32 oz) from Thrive costs $5.69 (2 bags = $11.38). That's $2.85/pound.

For comparison I have Gold Medal Unbleached All-Purpose in my pantry that runs $2 for 5 pounds from Walmart. That's 40 cents a pound.

The Happy Hens eggs are $6.50/dozen according to their website.

I don't remember what I paid for eggs, but Albertson's has eggs on sale this week $1.49 for 18. 

[EowynW]

I currently get free eggs from my inlaws. When I have to buy I buy at Aldi's. It's 16cents a dozen there. I do despise the factory farming practices though and hate supporting them, and free range eggs taste and look so much better. But it is what it is right now. I'll have my own chickens again one day. 

[SilverBeach]

It's almost like Lori is giving her poor struggling leghumpers the finger. Look at this expensive shit I can buy! I'm special! You're not! She is an insensitive prick.

[Curious]

13 minutes ago, Florita said:

The Einkorn flour (32 oz) from Thrive costs $5.69 (2 bags = $11.38). That's $2.85/pound.

For comparison I have Gold Medal Unbleached All-Purpose in my pantry that runs $2 for 5 pounds from Walmart. That's 40 cents a pound.

The Happy Hens eggs are $6.50/dozen according to their website.

I don't remember what I paid for eggs, but Albertson's has eggs on sale this week $1.49 for 18. 

How the heck could she not realize there were 2 different kinds of that flour? They are quite clearly marked.  Her, what I can only assume is self-imposed, stupidity is truly mind-boggling.  I would be embarrassed to be a college educated woman and act so freaking dumb all the time.  I'm sure she thinks it's godly or submissive or something, but I can't believe it doesn't drive Ken crazy.

1 minute ago, EowynW said:

I currently get free eggs from my inlaws. When I have to buy I buy at Aldi's. It's 16cents a dozen there. I do despise the factory farming practices though and hate supporting them, and free range eggs taste and look so much better. But it is what it is right now. I'll have my own chickens again one day. 

This is sort of off topic.  I have wanted to check out Aldi for ages due to the Duggars shopping there.   We discovered there is one here, but hadn't been there.  I needed to go to the Family Dollar there to see if they had makeup sponges for my art stuff and it was right next to Aldi so we decided to just go walk through.

Their meat, which is good quality, is like 1/2 the price we have been paying at Safeway.  Since we feed our dogs raw/homecooked and go through a massive amount of chicken wings, chicken breasts and hamburger we have started going there for those items.  It will save us so much money in the long run.

Our Aldi is pretty small for a grocery store (though bigger than the Trader Joe's in our area, I think) and we didn't find a lot of other stuff we use, but the savings on meat alone makes a separate trip worth it.

[AlwaysDiscerning]

Jeff is in a tissy that Lori is putting a damper on his porn habit..

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Where in scripture does it say masturbating or Porn is adultery? Men do it for a turn on, not specifically lusting over a woman. If anything with holding is marrital abandonment. Concentrating on a husband who has remained in the marriage despite being abandoned is victim blaming, which falls into exactly what feminists want and do. Is porn unhealthy? Absolutely, but calling it being unfaithful is similar to saying that a wife who submits to her boss is having an affair. Or being irritated is murder.

All you are doing with this article is empowering wives to further say, ” look this is written by a man, porn is adultery.” It’s not.

 

Lori responds by linking to a ken post on porn and adultery.

[EowynW]

8 minutes ago, Curious said:

How the heck could she not realize there were 2 different kinds of that flour? They are quite clearly marked.  Her, what I can only assume is self-imposed, stupidity is truly mind-boggling.  I would be embarrassed to be a college educated woman and act so freaking dumb all the time.  I'm sure she thinks it's godly or submissive or something, but I can't believe it doesn't drive Ken crazy.

This is sort of off topic.  I have wanted to check out Aldi for ages due to the Duggars shopping there.   We discovered there is one here, but hadn't been there.  I needed to go to the Family Dollar there to see if they had makeup sponges for my art stuff and it was right next to Aldi so we decided to just go walk through.

Their meat, which is good quality, is like 1/2 the price we have been paying at Safeway.  Since we feed our dogs raw/homecooked and go through a massive amount of chicken wings, chicken breasts and hamburger we have started going there for those items.  It will save us so much money in the long run.

Our Aldi is pretty small for a grocery store (though bigger than the Trader Joe's in our area, I think) and we didn't find a lot of other stuff we use, but the savings on meat alone makes a separate trip worth it.

The dairy and meat is cheaper at ours. But ours is an hour away so I don't get out there as much as I'd like 

[Curious]

I really wonder how many women "withhold" sex vs how many are exhausted from chasing around a passel of kids, being pregnant, nursing constantly and having a husband that does absolutely nothing to help them.  Not to mention being treated like a real doll vs an actual human being with feelings and all the things that go along with that.

If all you are getting married for is to have sex on demand get a real doll.  It's cheaper and doesn't complain that it's exhausted.  Then you don't have to deal with a human that has feelings and emotions or pesky kids that you are expected to "babysit" once in a while.

These people make me weep for humanity

[SilverBeach]

I love Aldi. 

[Curious]

3 minutes ago, EowynW said:

The dairy and meat is cheaper at ours. But ours is an hour away so I don't get out there as much as I'd like 

Our is out of the way compared to safeway which is literally just a few blocks away, but not so much that it's inconvenient.  My husband goes a couple times a week.  Usually once is a Saturday when he's running other errands so that trip is not really out of the way at all.

[Florita]

I was a devout Aldi shopper when we lived in the Midwest. Now we l live out west and I really miss it! 

[fundamentallyfearless]

Aldi is awesome! Dollar Tree as well! Frozen berries and veggies for $1 is amazing 

[dairyfreelife]

As said, she is clueless on history and reality of most of the world stuck in her privileged bubble. I've said before and I say again, I grew up in one of the poorest states in the US. I would love to take her into the mountains here and show her serious poverty that exists in the US. People who live in little shacks without running water, still having outhouses and wood-burning stoves to cook their food. They have little education. She can meet them, barely literate, left school at 16, some earlier before the laws said you had to be in school until age 16. People who cannot afford to buy warm coats for the winter and have shoes worn through the soles. People who truly need and rely on help to keep food in their stomachs, shoes on their feet and clothes on their backs. 

I come from a family of farmers in my ancestry until my grandparents generation. Believe me, based on my great-grandmother's own words, always worked from a young age. She also got very little education because early 1900s and in a rural area meant hard to access schools. She was one of 10 living children (13 total born, but 3 didn't survive infancy or childhood). Women, girls, unless they were wealthy, they didn't sit inside tidying home, cooking and sitting around knitting. They were keeping tidy, cooking, and doing manual labor. Poor or average farming families were all working from sun up to sun down. Lower class families of old were tough and hard-working all around. Lori could NEVER do what they did to keep their families alive and safe. Hell, Ken couldn't do half what the women did back then. They were a hell of a lot tougher than he could ever dream to be, mentally, emotionally and definitely physically. 

[Sarah92]

I love Aldis! And I really appreciate their simply nature line that they've been coming out with since I've been trying to eat cleaner. Sometimes their produce doesn't stay as fresh but I've just learned to buy what I actually need for the week. They also say that the produce is locally grown.  And I can't justify spending so much on things like organic eggs and milk. At my Walmart, you can get like six dozen eggs for less than two dollars, which is cheaper than a dozen organic eggs. Now, of course, as a single person, I  don't buy six dozen but 18 eggs are about 36 cents. Organic milk is probably four times as much as regular milk. My wants and desires to have fresher, more sustainable products don't always match up with a limited income. 

 

And her sex posts are blah. I don't really have a problem talking about it. I'm single and believe in saving sex for marriage but I have married friends and counseling classes have kind of taken away a lot of the embarrassment.  I figure its a natural part of life. I find it interesting that many Christians talk about it so much but actually spend very little time educating their children. Maybe these women who don't want to have sex have been taught its dirty. Maybe they've been told they need to suppress their desires because its wrong and only men have strong desires. Heck, they might not have even been educated about their own anatomy. Maybe they are exhausted from chasing kids around all day and spending six hours making bread. And maybe just maybe their husbands are awful at sex and only think about themselves. The ones that say, if you don't give me sex I find it really hard not to stray are assholes. They should be figuring out what's wrong. See a counselor, check for medical issues, check for trauma. Lori has all the sympathy in the world for men but none for her own gender. 

[Carol]

I would like to nominate, "Monitoring Your Husband's Penis" as the next thread title.

[Sarah92]

1 minute ago, Carol said:

I would like to nominate, "Monitoring Your Husband's Penis" as the next thread title.

I think I can second that!

[Koala]

Reader:

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 Sex really is the glue that binds us together. 

How very sad.  They are one accident/illness from having nothing holding them together.

 

[AuntKrazy]

I slipped the other night at home and have a severely strained/sprained muscle on the left side of my back.  I was ordered to rest "more than usual".  Thankfully, I have a desk job, and sitting is only moderately uncomfortable.

The doctor said it will be 2 to 4 weeks before I can do everything again.  (the only thing that is truly comfortable right now is lying in bed, but I'm supposed to go about my day as normal as much as possible. 

My husband will not be getting lucky until my back is better.  

You know what, though, I bet that thought hasn't even crossed his mind.  He looked at me last night and said, "I can tell you are in pain.  I wish there were something I could do to help you."  

I think it is just plain warped to be so dogmatic about who does what in a loving relationship.  I mean, I cannot see Jesus standing in front of me and saying, "I am disappointed in you because you didn't have sex often enough to satisfy your husband".  

 

[Koala]

As a married woman, I find it absolutely shocking how freely Lori talks about sex with other men on the internet.  I would be absolutely mortified.

She won't floss in front of Ken, but she's fine talking to strange men about the intimate details of what goes on in their bedrooms?  

2016

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the Lord commands that I teach young women to be discreet

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A woman shouldn't go to the bathroom in front of her husband. She shouldn't do anything where she can't sit in a feminine way in front of him. If you have to pump your breasts, do it in private. Floss your teeth without him having to watch.

Today's post?

The word masturbation/masturbating is used: 8 times

The word porn/pornography is used: 9 times

I lost track of how many times the word "sex" was used.  

To recap:

Flossing in front of your husband = not discreet

Talking to two strange men on the internet about their masturbation habits = godly

[Celtic Rose]

Someone has referred to a post on FB for Jason Lee Cooley public page. He is talking about women and social media.  He mentions women becoming busybodies tattlers and feet that do not abide in their own house.  Lori are you getting this 

[Sarah92]

Doesn't Lori tell wives to sacrifice their happiness and pleasure because that's "Christ-like"? Shouldn't guys also be doing that as well? Where's Ken riding in to scold these guys about dying to selves? And yes Lori really shouldn't be talking about these things with guys based on her teachings. She is almost mentoring them. Mentors listen and then try to help you fix the problem right? This is what she's doing for these men. Shame on her for not redirecting them to her husband for godly guidance. Not very submissive in my opinion. 

[EowynW]

52 minutes ago, Koala said:

Reader:

How very sad.  They are one accident/illness from having nothing holding them together.

 

This is a very common fundie/Christian teaching. I've always wondered what they'd do if something happened to make sex impossible. 

I love sex but that's not even in the top 5 reasons of why I married Mr. or he married me. My marriage is so much more than sex. 

[littlemommy]

Before my hysterectomy sex was painful at worst and “not at all pleasurable” at best for about a year. I still offered to have sex with my husband, though, mostly because my OBGYN kept insisting the pain was because I was tense because I was trying to avoid sex. So offering and continuing to do it proved him wrong...haha, it made sense in my head at the time. Anyway, my husband did take me up on my offer, but only because I would get more upset at being turned out, if that made sense. It was a weird time. But for most of that year he was fine with taking care of things on his own, because he hated seeing me in pain. Apparently that’s the opposite of sexy.

I know for a fact that if my husband and I could never have sex again he would stay married to me. It wouldn’t break us. It’s a fun part of our life, but pales in comparison to the rest of it. I am positive Lori doesn’t have that same assurance. 

[AlwaysDiscerning]

Here is something for Lori. She likes studies , right?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5070707/Spanking-children-increases-risk-depression.html

[SueEllenMishke]

5 hours ago, Curious said:

How the heck could she not realize there were 2 different kinds of that flour? They are quite clearly marked.  Her, what I can only assume is self-imposed, stupidity is truly mind-boggling.  I would be embarrassed to be a college educated woman and act so freaking dumb all the time.  I'm sure she thinks it's godly or submissive or something, but I can't believe it doesn't drive Ken crazy.

This is sort of off topic.  I have wanted to check out Aldi for ages due to the Duggars shopping there.   We discovered there is one here, but hadn't been there.  I needed to go to the Family Dollar there to see if they had makeup sponges for my art stuff and it was right next to Aldi so we decided to just go walk through.

Their meat, which is good quality, is like 1/2 the price we have been paying at Safeway.  Since we feed our dogs raw/homecooked and go through a massive amount of chicken wings, chicken breasts and hamburger we have started going there for those items.  It will save us so much money in the long run.

Our Aldi is pretty small for a grocery store (though bigger than the Trader Joe's in our area, I think) and we didn't find a lot of other stuff we use, but the savings on meat alone makes a separate trip worth it.

I keep coming back to the bread thing. I bake a lot of bread, and even if you had two bags and grabbed the wrong one, how do you not realize you have whole wheat instead of all purpose? And the fact that she said she didn't know there was a difference...how how how? I'm just increasingly baffled and astounded by her willful stupidity 

And to be BEC, that bread had to be freaking dry and dense as all get out if she made it completely with whole wheat flour.