as I'm aging, I do not like HEAVY pots/pans

La Crueset was too heavy for me as is cast iron plus cast iron is bad for people with hepatitis problem(s) so I tend to stay away from cast iron (puts off iron in the food and hepatitis C feeds on iron) as I have a family member with this particular hepatitis. 

My hands are also very bad after transcribing for 30+ years - so I tend to want nonaluminum lighter cookware which would be something like Farberware or Revereware if they still make the latter.  *lol*

• I need new pots and pans. - sm
  • Farberware - nm
  • Pots & Pans sm - anonalso
    • good info on aluminum and other modes of cooking - sm
  • pots and pans - marilyn
    • Wolfgang Puck, fantastic! sm - jj
  • Pans - nana
    • as I'm aging, I do not like HEAVY pots/pans - sm
  • Calphalon - piglet

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Yes, go to the Dollar Store, buy all kinds, then buy a couple rolls of aluminum foil to line pans.. Bake in oven as often as possible, bread crumbs and a little non-fat oil go a long way! After using once, throw foil away, use new foil to line pan, use again. After pan falls apart, make the decision whether to buy another one for a buck!  Worried about veggies? Do the same, steam veggies in pan lined with foil, follow directions as above. Save money, clean bill of health. Who needs Cephalon?? Be good to yourself, you work, Lady! Well, just kidding but I do this sometimes when I need a break and it works, really!!! I heard Cephalon and T-Fall are good. But how do I know? I like throw away better,too busy for all that other stuff. Good luck to you. Each time I open my cupboard door, I get hit in the head. Rather it be lightweight aluminum than a great big real pan. Happy Turkey Day. Using one of those dollar store bought ones for that. It has a really cool double strength bottom and I can throw it away after. To each his/her own, depends on the situation and whether or not you might get caught!!

Whoof. This is so very hard. My mother is/was a brilliant educator, highly respected in her field.

We are walking a very thin line these days. I just hate it, and I do not use that word often.

We have found an assisted living facility that she likes, and I do as well. But, she is not liking the fact that she must decide. Oh, it is so very hard.

She was quite ill back in the summer, went to a nursing home for therapy (to recover from pneumonia), and then home. She is failing, and not going "gentle into that good night." She wants so very much to live on her own, but it is such a struggle. I am afraid for her, and I am so very tired.

Is anyone else living with this? If so, what do you do? I have read a thousand articles, talked with so many specialists, and still am lost.

my bassett is 13 years old and has arthritis in her hips and probably other joints.  the vet put her on Carprofen and the first few days she did great!  then she started having diarrhea and acting like she's hurting again (shaking, panting, a little whining).  I told vet, she said to stop meds until she is over her "sour belly".  she tested her diarrhea and it was fine, no blood or parasites.  she went without her medicine for a day and a half and it showed, as she couldn't walk as well (which before she went on this medicine she couldn't use her back legs).  so i started giving her medicine again.  vet said the carprofen was going to be temporary.  i was reading some bad side effects for this medicine.  i think this medicine is making her have the diarrhea.  she's only been on the medicine for about a week and a half at the most. 

just wondered if anyone else had pets with arthritis problems and what you used to help.  i'm not sure if i should try something alternative.  or maybe even Dr. Frank's spray. 

thanks

Every man I've ever lived with is like that with nonstick pans.  They snatch the best, most expensive one, and won't rest until its completely ruined!  If you can ever train one NOT to use metal in them (nearly impossible), then they will refuse to clean them properly (baking gunk on top of gunk over and over during midnight pigouts when you're not looking).  No matter where you hide the pans, they will bypass the old fashioned kind AND the ones they've already ruined and zero in on the new one you were trying to keep safe!  And then lie, deny and argue even when you're sticking the damage right under their nose. 

These are the same kind of guys who have to leave a wet dishrag/sponge/whatever under a pile of dishes in the sink whenever they get near a kitchen no matter how many times you show them how gross a dishrag gets when they do that.  Even with the dishwasher a foot away.  Lately my guy has taken to leaving empty dishes, containers, wraps, etc. in the refrigerator - I guess he's having a science project to see how long it takes me to see them and get them out of there.

I think its just passive aggression - they figure if you get tired of it you'll do all the kitchen stuff, including cooking snacks in advance for their midnight pigouts.  I fantasize about padlocking my kitchen (or at least cupboards with good pans, dishes, etc.) and not let them in it without supervision - which is impossible as they always want to eat when I'm either working or asleep.

One of these days he's gonna find a favorite T-shirt at the bottom of his pile of dishes, as well as tools dented, bent and scratched scattered in weird places throughout the house.  Maybe then....no, I'm just having another fantasy.  They won't learn, its the war between the sexes, and it never ends.

I'm very heavy and I would NEVER expect any concessions because of my weight.  I don't expect people to cater to me or excuse me.  I'm overweight because I don't exercise and I eat crap.  At least I used to.  2009 is my year of change and I have been working diligently on changing that.

I agree with the other posters who says if this woman doesn't like the way she's treated because of the way she looks, she needs to change it, not demand acceptance.  Fat is the last bastion of that sort of thing.  I hate all the politically correct stuff.   Bottom line is if you're that heavy, you're unhealthy and you need to change things.  And I, too, know just how hard that is.

DH doesn't touch it but I love it. I grew up on it too.

I also grew up on Spam. Mom had a stove that had a pull out griddle above the oven and she would put spam and egss on there for a Tuesday night supper.

I have 2 cans of Spam in my pantry now. The ingredients state: Pork with ham, mechanically separated chicken, water , salt, modified potato starch, sugar, hickory smoke flavoring (I have the hickory smoke flavor), and sodiu nitrite. Opps. There's that bad word-sodium nitrite.