Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Week 28, Day 7

breakfast: cream of wheat - Dai brought some home from her camping trip since they bought a whole box just for their trip.  He bought regular - my mom always bought the quick cooking or instant.  But we spend five minutes cooking oatmeal so 2.5 for another cereal seems very reasonable - just the way one grows up with only one kind and never thinks about it.

Lunch:  cherries, peaches and tomato sandwiches on Cressida's church sourdough.  We had bagged it and saved it.

Dinner: Burritos again.  The beans are almost gone, too!  There is enough for Jason's lunch tomorrow but I am not sure beyond that.  This batch I intentionally made a little spicier.  Last night the girls asked for milk to drink with dinner.  Dai said, "I think I know why milk helps with the spicy.  Spicy is an acid and ilk is a base so it cancels out the spicy."  Jason and I then told her spicy is a base, not an acid and that we were pretty sure milk was neutral pH.  I told her most things we drink are fairly neutral pH, but there is a range.  Phyllis then pointed out that sodas are slightly acidic.  Jason then asked, "It would make sense it would be neutral because what is milk's real purpose?"  A moment of silence and then Dai, said "Cheese!"  We had a good laugh and then Phyllis said for calves.

*  Update later: Milk is actually slightly acidic (6.8 pH) which totally make sense why it helps with spicy foods, which are bases.  However, at 6.8 it is practically neutral - water being the neutral standard at 7 pH.  Kind of cool what kids drive you to learn, right?

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