RaisingBatkids

Elly | 25 | mum | wife to Andrew | Uni Student | goal weight: happy in my own skin | fitness goal: run a half marathon in Sept 2017 |

[fatmaninalittlesuit]

[byebyethinspo]

glamorize going to bed early, like, 8pm early

instead of making high stress levels a competition, brag about feeling whole and at peace.

make is cool as hell to take 2pm naps and go on mindful walks by yourself.

talk about mental health and normalize visits to counselors or support systems

teach kids that being different is beautiful and that it’s healthy to love what makes us who we are.

make #selflove and #selfcare the most common hashtags

[gothicprep]

at first i thought that Science was a shit waste of time. then somebody did this study,. and now… hooboy.. now i like it

[slowspinningredemption]

cannot believe my loud car small penis theory now has scientific backing

[manticoreimaginary]

New Zealand’s new water safety mascot is amazing and his instagram is a gift

[spybrarian]

OKAY I just noticed the thing @manticoreimaginary FORGOT TO MENTION is that his name is the Swim Reaper.

[jehovahhthickness]

[aunt-mimi]

When somebody says that “a man likes to feel like a man,” all I hear is “A man likes to feel superior to you and it’s your job to make him believe it.” 

[geekandmisandry]

Someone said this to me once, that a man needs to feel like a man, I replied “well I’m not stopping him” and had to watch this fragile creature try to explain to me that my strong personality could demean men.

Like, if I have to pretend you are a strong man and cater to that then clearly you’re not that strong dude.

[keltic-moon]

“if I have to pretend you are a strong man and cater to that then clearly you’re not that strong dude.”

bolded for those in back

[hellyeahsupermanandwonderwoman]

[buffjaguar-deactivated20181208]

I am so in to this. I want this life so bad!

[rabbitgoblin]

fucked up how cooking and baking from scratch is viewed as a luxury…..like baking a loaf of bread or whatever is seen as something that only people with money/time can do. I’m not sure why capitalism decided to sell us the idea that we can’t make our own damn food bc it’s a special expensive thing that’s exclusive to wealthy retirees but it’s stupid as hell and it makes me angry

[rabbitgoblin]

bread takes like max 4 ingredients counting water and sure it takes a couple hours but 80% of that is just waiting around while it does the thing and you can do other things while it’s rising/baking plus im not gonna say baking cured my depression bc it didn’t but man is it hard to feel down when you’re eating slices of fresh bread you just made yourself. feels like everything’s gonna be a little more ok than you thought. it’s good.

[pluckedanarchist]

bread is amazing and it’s also been sold to us as something really hard to make? Every time I tell someone I made a loaf of bread I get reactions like “you made it yourself???” and “do you have a bread machine then?” I haven’t touched a bread machine in probably 10 years. You CAN make your own bread, folks, and it’s actually pretty cheap to do so. I believe the most expensive thing I needed for it was the jar of yeast. It was about $6 at the grocery store and lasted me MONTHS (just keep it in the fridge.) The packets are even cheaper. destroy capitalism. bake your own bread.

[boonbucks-city-beach]

You can also make your own yeast by making a sourdough starter, so that cuts cost even more.

But you have to feed the starter daily/weekly and that means it grows quickly, but there are tons of recipes online for what to do with your excess starter. Cookies, pretzels, crackers, pancakes, waffles, you name it!!

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

Here’s a link to The Home Baking Association’s site. It has recipes and tips.

[petermorwood]

Make it even easier - “No-Knead Bread”. All YOU do is mix the ingredients together and wait until it’s time to heat the oven. The yeast does all the rest.

Here’s @dduane​’s first take on it and the finished product. We’ve made even more photogenic batches since.

Kneading is easy as well; either let your machine do it, or if you don’t want to or don’t have one, get hands-on. It’s like mixing two colours of Plasticine to make a third. Flatten, stretch, fold, half-turn, repeat - it takes about 10 minutes - until the gloopy conglomeration of flour, yeast, salt and water that clings to your hands at the beginning, becomes a compact ball that doesn’t stick to things and feels silky-smooth.

Here’s what before and after look like.

My Mum used to say that if you were feeling out of sorts with someone, it was good to make bread because you could transfer your annoyance into kneading the dough REALLY WELL, and both you and the bread would be better for it.

Then you put it into a bowl, cover it with cling-film and let it rise until it doubles in size, turn it out and “knock it back” (more kneading, until it’s getting back to the size it started, this means there won’t be huge “is something living in here?” holes in the bread), put it into your loaf-tin or whatever - we’ve used a regular oblong tin, a rectangular Pullman tin with a lid, a small glass casserole, an earthenware chicken roaster…

You can even use a clean terracotta flowerpot.

Let the dough rise again until it’s high enough to look like an unbaked but otherwise real loaf, then pop it in the preheated oven. On average we give ours 180°C / 355°F for 45-50 minutes. YM (and oven) MV.

Here’s some of our bread…

Here’s our default bread recipe - it takes about 3-4 hours from flour jar to cutting board depending on climate (warmer is faster) most of which is rise time and baking; hands-on mixing, kneading and knocking-back is about 20 minutes, tops, and less if using a mixer.

Here ( or indeed any of the other pics) is the finished product. This one was given an egg-wash to make it look glossy and keep the poppy-seeds in place; mostly we don’t bother with that or the slash down the middle, but all the extras were intentional as a “ready for my close-up” glamour shot.

I think any shop would be happy to have something this good-looking on their shelf. We’re happy to have it on our table.

Even if your first attempts don’t work out quite as well as you hope, you can always make something like this…

[rae-napier-deactivated20180822]

can we have more posts like this in future please? this is really useful and could help those who are struggling

[satyinepu]

…it’s not hard?………shit….I always thought it was

[anetherealgrace-deactivated2018]

It’s honestly a shame that so many people have been misled into thinking that cooking from scratch is both luxurious and time consuming when it’s not; if you have 20 to 45 minutes on any given day, then ultimately you have time to cook a wholesome meal regardless of ingredient quality.

[datagoesboom-deactivated2018090]

I love cooking. I love baking bread, and honestly its really rewarding. You can also pre-slice and store in the freezer. You can make sandwiches with frozen bread and let it defrost throughout the day in your lunchbox. There’s nothing like homemade bread on a crappy day. Old bread makes great croutons or toast! If you’ve never tried it, give it a go! Doesn’t matter if its not perfect or doesn’t turn out great the first time! Yeast packets are hella cheap. If the yeast is dead, you can still use that stuff to make pizza dough and flatbread. Try it! You might like it!

[fruitsaladchewits-deactivated20]

[moonlightgalore]

this semester, my goal is to study as hard as Rory Gilmore wish me luck.

[insincere-engineer]

idk if y’all americans and that know this, but in Australia instead of snow at christmas we get these lil shiny bugs everywhere and they’re attracted to the christmas lights and we call them christmas beetles

and despite being australian they don’t bite or anything they just crawl around on your hand and it’s such a good and pure feeling and yeah

[cryoverkiltmilk]

‘despite being australian’

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

“We know what your thinking but this does not want to kill you”

[p0cketw0tch]

“Old Man Michael!?!”

[succubitic-deactivated20150903]

i think everybody’s biggest regret is being like 5 when emo was popular

[djpaulyd]

Nothing ever made me feel old like this post just did

[littleoceanwhisper-blog-deactiv]

Dear Future Child...

One day, if it’s 3am and you find yourself in a world of complete despair. Please don’t turn to strangers on the Internet for solace as I did, please climb into my bed & I will hold you until the demons sleep. If it is Thursday morning and you’re too sad to move, I won’t force you to. I will buy ice cream & we will watch your favorite tv show and I will remind you of your importance. If you feel like you have no purpose, I will remind you that you were created entirely with love & every pain you feel, as I feel as well. When you’re sure you can’t go on anymore, I will tell you that when I was a teenager I searched for peace at the bottom of a vodka bottle crashed by a bottle of pain killers, but years later when you were placed into my arms in delivery room, I realized you were the reason I’ve been holding on for so long.. & you saved me. So if you ever feel like grabbing that vodka bottle, put it down. We will get into the car and I will drive until the sky turn magenta. I will show you how sun rises, encouraging you to rise too. 

Sweetheart I refuse to be unaware of your sufferings, as my mother was to mine…

[raising-batkids]

Went for another 5km run tonight! Being on #keto I definitely feel like I have a slow burn of energy so I don't feel super exhausted or full of energy at different times but I just feel the same amount of energy overall so that's super helpful for running, I felt like I could keep that pace for hours. It was so nice. Starting off the week right 😍🙌#runninggoals #workout #run #running #runningcommunity #nike #nikeshoes #nikeplus #nikepluskinecttraining #5km #weightlossjourney #weightlossjourney2017 #ketodiet #ketogenicdiet

[douxreviews]

The new Bond has to be British, able to handle themselves in action scenes, and look good in a tux. 

There is really only one option: 

[sorry-no-more-no-less]

Repeat: Emily Blunt

is 

the 

only 

option.

[mr-and-mrs-bates]

I would be so on board with this

[degizzie]

oh my

[lesship]

She’s ready, we ready

[homolesbians]

Fuck yes please!

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it’s always amazing to watch adults discover how much changes when they don’t treat their perspective as the default human experience.

example: it’s been well-documented for a long time that urban spaces are more dangerous for kids than they are for adults. but common wisdom has generally held that that’s just the way things are because kids are inherently vulnerable. and because policymakers keep operating under the assumption that there’s nothing that can be done about kids being less safe in cities because that’s just how kids are, the danger they face in public spaces like streets and parks has been used as an excuse for marginalizing and regulating them out of those spaces.

(by the same people who then complain about kids being inside playing video games, I’d imagine.)

thing is, there’s no real evidence to suggest that kids are inescapably less safe in urban spaces. the causality goes the other way: urban spaces are safer for adults because they are designed for adults, by adults, with an adult perspective and experience in mind.

the city of Oslo, Norway recently started a campaign to take a new perspective on urban planning. quite literally a new perspective: they started looking at the city from 95 centimeters off the ground - the height of the average three-year-old. one of the first things they found was that, from that height, there were a lot of hedges blocking the view of roads from sidewalks. in other words, adults could see traffic, but kids couldn’t.

pop quiz: what does not being able to see a car coming do to the safety of pedestrians? the city of Oslo was literally designed to make it more dangerous for kids to cross the street. and no one realized it until they took the laughably small but simultaneously really significant step of…lowering their eye level by a couple of feet.

so Oslo started trimming all its decorative roadside vegetation down. and what was the first result they saw? kids in Oslo are walking to school more, because it’s safer to do it now. and that, as it turns out, reduces traffic around schools, making it even safer to walk to school.

so yeah. this is the kind of important real-life impact all that silly social justice nonsense of recognizing adultism as a massive structural problem can have. stop ignoring 1/3 of the population when you’re deciding what the world should look like and the world gets better a little bit at a time.

[neurodiversitysci]

Empathy and universal design are for more than just people with disabilities.

Also, I love this quote: “it’s always amazing to watch adults discover how much changes when they don’t treat their perspective as the default human experience.”