u/Minimum-Code-3950

I have craved wet dog food my whole life. There are many foods ive made that are similar, but most of them are very time consuming to make. An example is slow cooker chuck roast stew with less liquid that usual. On the internet these days, they call this genre of food "slop bowls". I cannot get enough of them.

Needs to be:

-thick, moist, somewhat homogenous texture. Not like soup which is liquid with solids in it, but not quite as homogenous as oatmeal.

-meat-based, ideally pork, beef or chicken. Eggs okay too

-contain veggies

Do not want:

-super complex ingredients/cooking

-super high in fat/carbs (i have a very sensitive stomach)

-long cooking or prep times

Examples of meals i have made that hit those marks:

-Ground beef cooked and seasoned, with a bit of rice, canned diced carrots&peas, and a triangle of laughing cow cheese melted in

-Scrambled eggs, canned potatoes, and diced bell peppers mashed in a bowl with some Mexican cheese

The only thing missing from these is the gravy-like texture that wet dog food has. I dont necessarily want to add a real gravy because it would be nearly as many calories as the actual food ingredients in the meal, but if i could get that texture in there somehow, I think I would be eating that like 15 times per week lol

Anyone know anything about this? I just expect the worst whenever petsmart tests something new now.

Anyone else having severe issues with their BP? They are consistently arrived dehydrated and slightly underweight, then they refuse to eat for 4-6 weeks and eventually get euthanized when vet care doesnt help. We haven't had a single healthy BP this year. Some of them are requiring force feeding or injections (per vet) and 90% of them show no improvement anyways and need to be euthanized. Does petsmart not realize it isnt profitable to send out sick animals that inevitably require hundreds of dollars in vet bills just to get put down? Nevermind the major ethical concerns. About 40% of our Syrians also develop wet tail or respiratory issues within a few days of shipment.

I was using 9mg six times per day easy. For a few months. Ended up in hospital with weird allergic reaction stuff and thought id be in and out so I didnt bring a tin. Been 48 hours with zero nicotine.

Once I hit 8 hours with no nicotine, withdrawal set in badly. I was crying non stop, angry, moaning and groaning, wanting to peel my skin off. Most of all just so frustrated with my situation and felt out of control. No physical symptoms to note, only mental.

12 hours in, withdrawal almost completely faded. I will admit I was using small wadded up paper towel dipped in soda and then in salt to soothe the oral fixation. It helped a LOT. I just put it in like a pouch. I wasnt thinking about the zyns anymore at all.

Now im 48hrs in and the frustration is back. I want to get rhe fuck out of here and have a zyn. Im stuck in an empty room, laying in a bed with nothing at all to do and I cant even have a zyn. All day and all night. Im usually a really active person so im frustrated and bored in general but I know the withdrawal is making it 10x worse.

Just wanted to share my experience. Withdrawal was actually not that bad at all considering how heavy of a user I am. If I remained locked up in the hospital for a week id probably be done with zyn. The issue for me is I do not yet want to quit. Now I know I could when the time comes

Just looking for ideas and how to best phrase my work experience at petsmart and translate that to another position. Can't take it anymore lol, but it is hard to figure out where else I would fit. For reference I have worked every position except leader and groomer/bather.

Despite rampant understaffing, the expectations keep becoming more absurd and out of touch.

Everyone knows about the sign ups, activations, puppy guides, autoship, ATS, and more. Now we are supposed to COLD CALL customers and beg them to come to our events. The same customers we harass in store are now getting what are essentially spam calls from us too.

It reeks of desparation and honestly if they start regularly expecting us to cold call customers to beg them to come in, i wouldnt blame people for wanting their account/information deleted and not giving us their business. Not a single customer called today was interested and a couple were very irritated by the call.

Long story short I am working on recovering from alcoholism which has sent my diet and cravings spiraling. I took ozempic for 9 months 2 yrs ago and have some left in the fridge. You would think cutting out thousands of liquid calories per week would result in weight loss but it has done quite the opposite!

I maintained my weight with total ease until I stopped drinking. I was looking into microdosing just to help maintain the habits I built but I was wondering if my stash in the fridge is worth even trying. Most of it is about 1 year old. I dont care if its less effective, if anything, that would be better. But if it will have no effect on my hunger and only cause those dreaded side effects, I will throw it out. It just hurts throwing out like 800 dollars of product 😭