From the The Universal Household Assistant or What Every One Should Know (1884):

Things to try. — Try popcorn for nausea.    Try cranberries for malaria.    Try a sun-bath for rheumatism.    Try ginger ale for stomach cramps.    Try clam broth for a weak stomach.    Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas.    Try a wet towel to the back of the neck when sleepless.    Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach.    Try eating fresh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel.    Try eating onions and horseradish to relieve dropsical swellings.    Try buttermilk for removal of freckles, tan, and butternut stains.    Try taking your cod liver oil in tomato catsup, if you want to make it palatable.    Try hard cider -- a wine-glass three times a day -- for ague and rheumatism.    Try taking a nap in the afternoon if you are going to be out late in the evening.    Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid to remove whooping cough.    Try a cloth wrung out from cold water put about the neck at night for sore throat.    Try snuffing powdered borax up the nostrils for catarrhal "cold in the head."    Try walking with your hands behind you if you find yourself becoming bent forward.    Try a silk handkerchief over the face when obliged to go against a cold piercing wind.    Try planting sunflowers in your garden if compelled to live in a malarial district.

Did much better today. Almost made it. I've decided not to count incidental foods such as lollipops at the bank and 15 calorie sugar-free popsicles at purpleglitter's. I ate mac 'n cheese for breakfast, ramen for lunch, mac 'n cheese again for dinner and sunflower seeds as my healthy snack. I did eat some cookie substance, and that is what I missed the goal by.

Almost made it today. Ate and egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast, a bowl of ramen for lunch, a bowl of corn for dinner, and sunflower seeds for my healthy snack. However I ate an additional tofu pup, bringing my meal total to 4. I can do better.

The Bebe situation continues to spiral downwards. Lake and I noticed large gashes on lakes beautiful hand-painted kitchen table. She spent days working on it, and Bebe decides it's a great idea to cut on it without a cutting board. We didn't exactly confront Bebe about it. We talked about how angry we were quite loudly, so she could hear us. Then we removed Lake's table from the kitchen. The gouges can be covered up with some painted vines at this point, so we want to protect the table from further damage. We put the crappy, falling apart card table from the corner of the playroom in the kitchen to replace it. It will remain in the kitchen for the remainder of Bebe's occupancy. After Bebe moves out, we will replace it with a nicer table, but we will not put Lake's table back out until we live alone.