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  • Mushroom Onion Gravy Gluten Free Dairy Free

    Mushroom Onion Gravy Gluten Free Dairy Free

    One of the things that worried me, and worries many people is the question of how to make gravy on GAPS. No typical thickeners are allowed. The more usual ones: cornstarch or flour are on the no-no list, but the unusual items like agar agar, arrowroot, and potato starch are, too!

    Does a GAPSter just have to learn to live without gravy?

    No, you don’t. If you can eat onions [affiliate link] and cauliflower, you’re going to have gravy, and it will be delicious and nutritious.

    I’ve already shared an Onion Gravy recipe, but this time I came up with one that includes mushrooms. I used baby portabellas and the end result was nice brown gravy. To tell you the truth it could easily pass for Cream of Mushroom soup! I’m serious! The taste and mouth feel was perfect.

    This recipe does take two hours to cook in the oven, so plan ahead on a day when you have plenty of time to get it started earlier in the day.

    Mushroom Onion Gravy
    Mushroom Onion Gravy
    Mushroom Onion Gravy
    Mushroom Onion Gravy

    Mushroom Onion Gravy

    • 3 large onions
    • 1/2 head of cauliflower
    • 8 ounces portabella baby mushrooms
    • 2-4  Tablespoons butter
    • 2 to 3 cups chicken, turkey or beef stock
    • salt to taste

    Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a medium sized glass casserole dish. Peel the onions and chop into eight pieces. Rinse cauliflower and break into small florets. Rinse and trim bottoms of seven baby portabella mushrooms. Place all ingredients in the glass dish with 1/2 cup of water. Cover with aluminum foil, or use a lid if your casserole dish has one.

    Bake for one hour, remove from oven. Stir ingredients. Replace in the oven and allow to bake for another hour. While the onion mixture is baking, wash and slice the remaining mushrooms. Saute in two tablespoons of butter. Cook down until all liquid is gone.

    After the second hour, the cauliflower should begin to look somewhat caramelized, and the onion should be translucent and fork tender. The baked portabellas will have a firm texture. Remove from oven.

    Place 2 cups of the onion, cauliflower and mushrooms mixture into your blender. Add 1 cup of broth and blend until pureed (1 to 2 minutes). Pour gravy into a saucepan. Continue to puree all the vegetables with stock. Once it is all in the saucepan, add butter and salt to taste. You may also add pepper. Mix in the sauteed mushrooms. Serve while warm.

    I love Cream of Mushroom soup, and used it regularly. I am really happy to have a GAPS friendly substitute. Although it is not exactly the same as Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup, it is a close substitute, and it is gluten free and dairy free. It is much more nutritious as it contains good stock.

    This gravy would be delicious alongside beef roast, chicken, topping faux-tatoes, or other vegetables or you could even make a loaf of GAPS-friendly bread, slice it, toast it and make gravy toast.

    You’ll have to let me know if you try it out. Because of the caramelized onions, this gravy does have a bit of a sweet taste to it, but I thought it was delicious. My husband normally won’t eat anything caramelized because he doesn’t like sweet on his vegetables, but he loved this. Even my 21 year old who shuns anything “abnormal” thought it was pretty tasty.

    Let me know if you try it!

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    Recipe: Mushroom Onion Gravy Gluten Free Dairy Free
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    A GAPS legal gravy.
    Ingredients
    • 3 large onions
    • ½ head of cauliflower
    • 8 ounces portabella baby mushrooms
    • 2-4 Tablespoons butter
    • 2 to 3 cups chicken, turkey or beef stock
    • salt to taste
    Instructions
    1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
    2. Grease a medium sized glass casserole dish.
    3. Peel the onions and chop into eight pieces.
    4. Rinse cauliflower and break into small florets.
    5. Rinse and trim bottoms of seven baby portabella mushrooms.
    6. Place all ingredients in the glass dish with ½ cup of water.
    7. Cover with aluminum foil, or use a lid if your casserole dish has one.
    8. Bake for one hour, remove from oven.
    9. Stir ingredients.
    10. Replace in the oven and allow to bake for another hour.
    11. While the onion mixture is baking, wash and slice the remaining mushrooms.
    12. Saute in two tablespoons of butter.
    13. Cook down until all liquid is gone.
    14. After the second hour, the cauliflower should begin to look somewhat caramelized, and the onion should be translucent and fork tender.
    15. The baked portabellas will have a firm texture.
    16. Remove from oven.
    17. Place 2 cups of the onion, cauliflower and mushrooms mixture into your blender.
    18. Add 1 cup of broth and blend until pureed (1 to 2 minutes).
    19. Pour gravy into a saucepan.
    20. Continue to puree all the vegetables with stock.
    21. Once it is all in the saucepan, add butter and salt to taste.
    22. You may also add pepper.
    23. Mix in the sauteed mushrooms.
    24. Serve while warm.
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  • Thanksgiving Dinner 2010 (GAPS-Style)

    Thanksgiving Dinner 2010 (GAPS-Style)

    Last year at this time I was sad, tired, overweight and addicted to carbohydrates. I remember Thanksgivings of the past. I remember feeling tired and bloated having eaten a huge platter of mostly carbohydrates. And my feet ached so badly throughout the day! Not to mention my lower back ached from standing for such a long time cooking. It was difficult keeping up with all the cooking and cleaning that goes along with making many side dishes for a Thanksgiving dinner.

    For years and years I ate what I wanted, when I wanted, and however much I wanted. And slowly grew larger. It was my worst fear… the thought of gaining weight and gaining weight and gaining weight until I weighed three or four hundred pounds. Thank God I found GAPS, which has been the answer for me.

    After all that I’ve learned, I can’t imagine going to back to eat the way I did one year ago. It would be stupidity!

    This year, it was so much different. I had energy to last throughout the day, and my feet were just fine. They were tired and a little achy at the end of the day, but considering I’d been on my feet most of the day, I think that’s to be expected.

    So here’s what I ended up making:

    The following recipes can be found in the Heart of Cooking Thanksgiving Allergen-Free And Limited Diet Menu Planner*

    GAPS Thanksgiving Dinner

    GAPS Thanksgiving Dinner

    I pulled out my holiday dinnerware, which is a cute snowman set that my Mother-in-law gave me about five years ago. I just loved this set when I saw it, and she’d found it at a thrift store!

    I personally was very pleased with the entire meal. I did a lot of snacking through the day so I wasn’t hungry when we sat down to eat our meal. I did take a small spoonful of most everything. So different than Thanksgivings in the past, when I would pig out and feel so uncomfortable after eating.

    Not having that compulsion to stuff myself is like a miracle to me. It was something I’d done all my life, and I’d tried to curb the ravenous eating, but I just couldn’t seem to conquer it.

    If you read my blog regularly, you may recall that we were going to have a New York Strip Holiday Roast. Well, my husband came home with one that was too small to even consider cooking for my family. If there isn’t a huge piece of meat it’s distressing, so there was no point in even making the roast he brought home. So I opted for the pork loin. The white part of the meat was dry, but the dark meat (very little of it) was heavenly. I will definitely make this recipe again.

    The faux-tatoes came out great as usual.

    The onion mushroom gravy was so close to mushroom soup – n weirdo thickeners! Just onions [affiliate link], cauliflower and mushrooms, and of course some butter and salt. Delicious.

    The Coconut Bread Dressing was perfect, once I baked the loaf of bread correctly! It turned out bread-like and worked nicely for the stuffing.

    The butternut squash and apples were not a big hit. I liked them, but I also took the recipe one step further and pureed the mixture.

    The Pumpkin Bars were great, and are GAPs legal. The Cashew Date Frosting is as long as you use coconut milk [affiliate link] that has no additives. I used an 8×8 pan and sliced the bars into 9 squares, then sliced each square into four squares so ended up with 36 pieces. I put the frosting into a sandwich bag, took off the corner and made a fancy little topping and called them Pumpkin Bites.

    Pumpkin Bars with Cashew Date Frosting

    I almost cried when I tasted the Whipped Coconut Cream [affiliate link] with a bite of pumpkin pie. It’s been so long since I had whipped cream… it was just heavenly.

    I didn’t get around to making the Green Bean Casserole.

    I have to say I was very pleased with the Allergy Free Menu Planner, and feel it was well worth the $5.95 that I paid for it.

    If you would like to buy your own copy, please click here: Allergy Free Thanksgiving Menu Planner.

    In spite of the few cheats, I didn’t veer far from GAPS. I was very pleased with the meal, and I think my family was okay with it as well. My husband said it was very good, and my youngest son said it turned out good in spite of not using any thickeners or sugar.

    How was your Thanksgiving? Did you stay on GAPS?

    *Affiliate Link

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  • Thanksgiving Dinner 2010 – The Plan (GAPS-Style)

    In my last few updates, I mentioned that my 21 year old son was planning to cook a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, complete with all the foods that I am currently not eating (and not sure I will ever eat again for some of them).

    I was a little bit disappointed at the thought of having to cook my own little Thanksgiving dinner to eat alongside all of my former favorite foods, but I could handle it. Well, today my son found out that he was chosen to work Thanksgiving Day. Apparently there is a lottery drawn on holidays and whoever gets picked has to work. He told me this morning and said he’d be cooking Thanksgiving dinner on Friday, instead.

    Imagine my surprise at how happy I felt because this meant that someone needed to cook a meal for the day. Having spent my entire adult life cooking Thanksgiving dinner and then not being able to cook it this year, I guess I hadn’t realized how it was making me feel. I told my son then I’d fill in and cook a GAPS Thanksgiving Dinner instead.

    That meant I had to do some quick thinking and luckily I’d purchased Sarah from Heart of Cooking’s… wait… it seems there has been a change to the website and now it is Allergy Free Menu Planners. Okay, we’ll go with that. A few days ago I decided to buy Sarah’s Thanksgiving Limited Diet Menu Planner (I liked this product so much that I signed up to become an affiliate for Sarah) for $5.95 just to see if there was anything I could make for myself, some new ideas for recipes.

    I was very impressed with the comprehensiveness of the menu planner. All the recipes have nutrition information (calories, fat, protein, carbohydrate, fiber, cholesterol, sodium) and she includes helpful tips along the way. She also includes a grocery list of the things you’ll need to have on hand. And there are a ton of recipes to choose from!

    Now I’m really glad I invested in it because there are a couple of recipes I’d like to try out on Thursday.

    Here’s my base plan:

    Okay, here are the recipes I’d like to try from Sarah’s Thanksgiving Limited Diet Menu Planner (the ones that are bold, I definitely want to make those):

    • Butternut Squash and Apples
    • Green Bean Casserole
    • Spiced Cranberry Sauce
    • Coconut Bread Stuffing
    • Pumpkin [affiliate link] Bars with Cashew Cream Frosting
    • Pumpkin Pie with Nut-Free Coconut Pie Crust with Coconut Whipped Cream
    • Pecan Pie

    Uh. I think I have gone way overboard!! LOL!!

    I definitely want to make the Spiced Cranberry Sauce and the Coconut Bread Stuffing. For the record, I’m going to cheat with the coconut whipped cream as the full fat coconut milk [affiliate link] that I bought contains guar gum, which is not allowed on GAPS.

    My thumbs are still hurting and sore, and man, if I happen to bump the swollen joint of my right thumb against something, oh the pain. My eyes cross it hurts so bad. I wonder if this will ever heal completely. It makes me sad. And makes me wonder what else I need to eliminate. Or is it the dental crown I got recently? Or is it just old age setting into my thumbs.

    In spite of my having realized that nuts cause my thumbs to hurt worse, I am going to have nuts for Thanksgiving. They are, after all, legal on GAPS. I just hope I don’t suffer too much as a result of eating them.

    I had to order more glucosamine. I think I’ve been taking it for two months now. I had read that it takes three months until you feel any effect. Well, I have felt a great deal of improvement. I had really hoped to be completely healed. The new glucosamine that I ordered last night has glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM. The last brand had only glucosamine and MSM, no chondrotin.

    I felt a lot better today, in spite of only having six hours sleep. I actually felt happy and excited for part of the day. It will be another night of not getting enough sleep as I got home late from work.

    Hugs to all! Don’t let the bed bugs bite!

    P.S. The author of Lights Out says we crave carbohydrates when we are tired. When we are well rested, we have less of a tendency to have cravings for carbs, and if we do, have an easier time not giving in to the cravings. I shopped at Sprouts tonight, and on the check out aisle next to mine I saw a package of Medjool dates. I squished on the package a bit and they were the softest, freshest dates I’ve ever seen. So I bought them. And when I got home, I ate one. I controlled myself. I wanted to eat a second one, but I stopped at just one. Partly because in the past eating sweets has kept me awake at night, and I hate insomnia. I was proud of myself for only eating one date. It has been hard at times this month to avoid eating fruit, and I have had a few pieces. Like yesterday I had half of an apple and today I had the other half. I also had several spoonfuls of peanut butter [affiliate link] yesterday. Awful peanut butter, too! It was some Jiffy stuff with sweet crap in it! Anyway. I consider it a small cheat and I am not going to beat myself up over it.

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  • D348 I Can Actually Eat Three Meals a Day Now

    For many years I had to eat rather frequently throughout the day. If I didn’t I would be nervous and shaky and grumpy and I’d just feel awful. I remember reading in Eat Fat Lose Fat that it was important to eat only three meals a day. Granted that was if you were in good health, which at the time I thought I was in fairly good health. I did suspect I had adrenal fatigue, so that eliminated me from the suggestion to eat only three meals a day. But… I still thought about it and how I probably really should only eat three meals a day.

    I would wonder how can people make it on only three meals a day? I would eat something before I left for work in the morning, say at 5am. Then I’d be hungry by 7 or 8am at work. Sometimes I’d be hungry an hour or two later. Lunch was usually around noon. Then I would have to eat something before I started on my way home from work or I’d be so voracious by the time I got home I’d overeat on whatever had been cooked for dinner. Usually something with carbohydrates. It took me a long time to talk my husband isn’t not making a meat and a carbohydrate. But it never really stuck for him until I went on GAPS and stopped eating things like mashed potatoes, brown rice, macaroni and cheese, etc.

    I was realizing in the last week or so that I can actually eat only three meals a day now.

    There are a couple of reasons why it’s nice. For one thing, that’s less food I have to cart with me to work. Today I had two scrambled eggs [affiliate link] just before I walked out the door at 5:30am. I started to feel hungry by 8am but I had only brought my taco salad (leftovers from last night) so I didn’t have anything else to eat. I used to run over to Circle K and get a banana and a package of cashews. Then I stopped the banana, and now I’m not eating nuts. Some days I just don’t have anything extra from home that I can think to bring.

    By 10:30 this morning I was feeling quite hungry, pretty famished. But not to the point where I was nervous or shaky or grumpy. I decided to have a few forkfuls of my taco salad, just to hold me until 11:30 which is when I usually go to lunch. I’d forgotten that I was eating lunch at 11pm with one of my coworkers. So I had my taco salad, which consisted of hamburger meat with chili powder [affiliate link], garlic powder [affiliate link] and onion powder, with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, olive oil and hot sauce.

    My husband drove me into work this morning, so we drove home together. We had to stop at the store on the way home and when we left the store it was 5pm. Once we got home, I had to go out and milk, since we changed milking from morning to afternoons due to it being so cold in the morning.

    After milking, I cooked dinner. I grilled burgers, and also sauteed a head of cabbage. Along with that I had black olives, some avocado and a slice of white onion. Delicious!

    I did overeat a bit at dinner, I was pretty hungry and I didn’t really have enough to eat today.

    Not having to eat so much almost surely means less calories.

    Speaking of calories. I have tried so hard to not make GAPS into an “I’m losing weight” diet. It’s about my health. But it has escalated into an “I’m losing weight” diet. I wore my “new” size 12 stretch jeans to work this week. Lots of compliments. Lots of people calling me skinny. Well, I’m not quite “skinny” weighing 184 pounds at 5 feet four inches. So not eating as often means less calories, which should equate to more weight loss. We’ll see. I still have to make it through Thanksgiving.

    Speaking of which, I cannot believe it is next week! How did it get here so quickly? I thought we still had a couple of weeks to go.

    I need to find some Mini Pie Pans* (those link to some I found at Amazon) so that I can make myself a tiny little pumpkin [affiliate link] pie. The problem with making a full sized pumpkin pie is that I will eat the entire thing. And I really don’t want to do that.

    I still have trouble controlling myself with carbohydrates. I am definitely going to have to work on that.

    I was looking for pumpkin pie recipes, and found these: Halloween Butternut Squash Pumpkin Faces! Are they adorable or what? Here are a couple of pumpkin pie recipes I found. Heart of Cooking: Allergen-Free Pumpkin Pie Recipe: gluten-free, grain-free, nut-free, sugar-free, dairy-free and the other is from Wellsphere: SCD Pumpkin Pie. Both contain coconut milk [affiliate link], which I’ve had difficulty finding without guar gum. Maybe I will have to try making some from coconut flakes…

    As I’m mentioned, my youngest son has stated that he is making a traditional Thanksgiving feast with all of the standard fare: mashed potatoes and gravy, homemade potato yeast rolls, stuffing/dressing and other items that I am not eating. So that means I have to figure out some side dishes of my own as I will be able to eat the turkey. I am going to make Pioneer Woman’s Butternut Squash Puree, but with a bit of honey [affiliate link] rather than maple syrup. And I will be making Faux-tatoes with Onion Gravy.

    Well, I’d better get myself to bed. Tomorrow will be my first day in a long time where I don’t have to go out first thing and milk. It makes for a relaxing morning when I don’t have to milk right away. But the trade off is that I have to milk later in the afternoon. Well, I’ll just try to enjoy the fact that I have the morning free.

    ‘Night!

    P.S. After I posted this daily report, I came across this recipe: Honey Pecan Pie from SCD Recipe. Now I really need to get those little baby pie tins so I can make four little pies for myself. 🙂  And this one: Apple Cobbler Recipe. Yum! And check out all these coconut flour recipes at Organic Coconut Flour.

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  • D346 Staying On My GAPS Diet During The Holidays

    Well, the holidays are past approaching. My youngest son claims he is cooking a traditional meal with all the carbohydrates that I no longer eat. At least I don’t have to prepare them. I am definitely making myself some faux-tatoes with lots of butter, and I will also be having butternut squash. I am going to figure out how to make pumpkin [affiliate link] pie that I can eat, and I am going to have an almond flour [affiliate link] crust. Hopefully it won’t bother my thumbs too bad.

    Speaking of my thumbs, they are still not 100% healed. I don’t know if they will become totally healed but I keep hoping. The right thumb knuckle burns at times, as if I scalded it with hot water. It is also enlarged and swollen. I am continuing to take my glucosamine but it doesn’t seem to be doing much better than when I first started using it. I don’t want to increase to a higher dosage. I was taking 4 capsules daily, and then went to six. I’m thinking I may drop back down to 4 again.

    Last week was difficult for me. I didn’t post because I was depressed and lost in a funk, fearful for our country. Even Dr. Mercola sent out a letter telling us to Get Ready for Higher Food Prices Due to Falling Economy. In a nutshell, Dr. Mercola said the best thing we can do is continue to work on our health. Another blog I read said if you are overweight, lose the weight. Okay, so I’m doing that. At least I’m doing one positive thing.

    I am feeling better today. I went shopping at Savers again over the weekend. My hubby went with me. I was looking for a pair of jeans as the pair I’d been wearing was getting faded looking. I found a pair that looks brand new for $3.99.

    Size 12. Thank goodness for stretch jeans. I tried a pair of “regular” jeans that were size 12 and couldn’t get them buttoned.

    I think the nuts I was consuming were adding a lot of calories and keeping me from losing weight. I’m anxious to see if I can continue with my fruit fast (cheated for several days in a row eating bananas, grapes and strawberries – not huge amounts, but hey, it’s not a “fast” if you eat them, right?) for the rest of this month and see if I have some weight loss.

    It’s sure hard to not totally get sucked into the “I”m such a good person ’cause I’m losing weight.” People at work keep calling me “skinny” and I just think it’s funny, since I’m not skinny wearing size 12 and at 184 pounds. Not by a long shot. One of my coworkers said she hated me now, of course she was just joking.

    But we’ll see who hates who come December. All that party food. That I can’t eat.

    Oh, it’s okay. I’ll live through it. I really don’t care that much for it. Especially since there are foods that I can make that are delicious and GAPS legal. There is only one big party that I have to get through. It is our staff potluck Secret Santa party. I think I already mentioned that I’m bringing GAPS legal chili and I am also going to bring some kind of almond flour baked good so that I’ll have some dessert to have. They always have a vegetable tray, so there’ll be that.

    I would love to make myself some mayonnaise and turn it into a ranch dressing type dip for veggies. Maybe I should think about doing that.

    I switched milking to the afternoons, so I don’t have to get up quite so early. Not at 3:30am anyway. Now I just have to get up at 4am. I know. It’s still early.

    I hope you are doing well. Leave me a comment and let me know how you’re doing, okay?

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  • D339 Nuts Cause Inflammation, Who Knew?

    My thumbs are SOOOOO much better today! They are still bothering me just a little bit but I can do all the things I was having trouble doing while they were hurting, my goodness, I never realized how much I use my thumbs! It hurt to wash dishes, trying to grip a wet soapy glass, or even washing a spoon. And my goodness the pain if I happened to brush my thumb joint against the glass while washing it.

    I am just amazed and thrilled that my thumbs are so much better.

    I am also so curious why the pain localized in my thumb joints?

    A suggestions from an email correspondent, “Nuts… may exacerbate osteoarthritis because excessive histamine “attacks” joints, and this causes joint pain related to inflammation.”

    So maybe I have osteoarthritis in my thumb joints due to all the work I do with my hands?

    I am just pleased that I have been able to figure out what was wrong.

    I found my bowel tolerance level to Vitamin C on Monday. I have been putting the Vitamin C powder into capsules and during the days I work I stay at the level I am at. For example, last week I had six capsules morning and night. Each capsule holds 833mg. So that was ~5000mg. On Friday I bumped that up to seven, morning and night, and was at 5800mg (11,600mg total). I stayed there on Saturday and Sunday, then on Monday I bumped the morning capsules up to 8, so 6600mg. The rumbling started and I had a bit of loose, ahem, you know.

    So I’m going to stay with 7 capsules morning and night. I’m also taking 3 glucosomine and MSM morning and night. A “B” Complex 100 morning and night, and two capules of calcium morning and night.

    GAPS does not advise taking supplements in the beginning part of the diet, but I think I have done enough healing that I can start to take some vitamins to help. Vitamin C is supposedly required to heal the adrenal gland, so that is why I am taking so much of it.

    I understand I cannot just stop taking the Vitamin C in the large amounts, or I could end up with scurvy. !! So I would have to go off it slowly if I had to stop taking it for whatever reason.

    I am not sure what is supposed to happen next. For example, will I just take 7 capsules morning and night for the remainder of my life? Will I ever need less? Will I know because of stomach rumblings? I also understand I might need more if I get a cold.

    Interesting. I really miss the support of the list because I know the ladies (and gentleman) there could answer my questions. Just kidding on the “gentleman” part, I know there is more than one guy there. 🙂

    So I am staying off nuts for this entire month, at least that is my plan. I was looking forward to having some kind of baked delight for Thanksgiving. Or at least pumpkin [affiliate link] pie made with almond flour [affiliate link] crust. I have NEVER had any issue with nuts in my entire life that I can recall. I had fallen into the habit of having nuts every single day, using them for a quick snack while at work or on the way home from work.

    I think I will be able to get by with eating nuts again without such inflammation but I want to give my body a chance to settle down before I torture myself with a test.

    So that’s what is going on around here.

    Oh. The other thing. Before I went on GAPS, the idea of self-sufficiency and survival preparedness was so simple. Just buy a big bag of beans and rice. Haha. Now how do I go about being “prepared” if I’m on GAPS? I guess the first reaction is “go off GAPS”. But, if some bad thing is going on, I want to be in optimum health. If eating rice and beans makes me exhausted and fat, and depressed, that won’t be good.

    What are your thoughts on being “prepared” in the case of something bad happening?

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