[Blindtlk] struggling with blindness skills

Tue Jan 17 18:15:35 UTC 2017

Hi,

I am right handed so I still hold the fork with my right hand and the knife 
with my left.  With time and practice you will learn to cut left handed.

Sandra Johnson

-----Original Message----- 
From: Annely Rose via blindtlk
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 10:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] struggling with blindness skills

Hi Everyone,

I've been following this thread and all of your suggestions are great.  I'd 
like to add to the one about using the fork to check around on the plate.  I 
have put my fork with the tines flat or parallel to the plate and patted it 
around in a systematic pattern.  This covers more area than using the tips 
of the tines.  As far as continuing to hold the knife in the right hand and 
the fork in the left when eating, this can be very challenging when not 
cutting anything if one is right handed.  Judy, I like how you said about 
corraling the food together, usually at 6 o'clock.  When I do this, I make 
sure I'm using a systematic, overlapping pattern starting from the right and 
moving to the left side of the plate and starting at the edge and moving to 
6 o'clock.  Keep the questions coming.  We'll try to have the answers.  Take 
care and God bless everyone.

Annely
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On Sat, 1/14/17, Judy Jones via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] struggling with blindness skills
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Judy Jones" <sonshines59 at gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, January 14, 2017, 3:02 PM

I didn't think about
that, but the knife idea is very true.Â  Having lived in
Europe for a while when younger I picked up the
semi-habit of eating
left-handed with the
fork when cutting with the knife, instead of putting it
down every time.Â  Now, I find myself switching
between the eating modes.

Judy

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From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Heather
Field via blindtlk
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2017 10:55 AM
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Cc:
Heather Field
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk]
struggling with blindness skills

Hello all,
I have two simple
but very effective suggestions.
1. Solve
the, where is the food issue, by using and fork in the left
hand
and a knife in the right. It seems to
be a uniquely American tradition to
eat with
only one utensil. In Europe and the Commonwealth countries
it is
generally the practice for people to
use both a knife and fork when eating.
Although Americans have a knife at their place,
they pick it up and lay it
down when not
cutting. The idea is to hold both knife and fork during
the
meal and not lay the knife down.
It is relatively simple to locate, identify and
move food about on the plate
using two
utensils. This removes any need to mess around with pushing
bread
about on a plate.

2. Leave the butter out of the refrigerator.
Butter can be kept in a butter
dish, which
is a container made for that purpose which has a lid, and
can be
made of ceramic or hard plastic.
However, there's no need to have a butter
dish as any low-sided, flat container with a
replaceable lid will do. Butter
can be left
in the pantry or food cupboard in all but the hottest of
summer
weather. If you have air-conditioning
then butter can be left out of the
fridge at
all times. . It will then be soft and very spreadable. Of
course,
butter will go rancid and go off in
the cupboard quicker than it will in the
fridge, but if you use it regularly it will
usually be used up long before
that. Store
butter in the fridge until you are ready to put a new stick
in
the butter dish, and wash the butter dish
with detergent after every two or
three new
sticks of butter. It needs to be cleaned of old butter
every
couple of weeks because the residue of
the stick of butter that was in the
dish
before adding each new one is going to go rancid and affect
subsequent
new sticks. But, you don't
need to wash it before every new stick. I just
wipe mine out with a paper towel and throw the
butter dish and lid in the
dish-washer about
every two weeks or so.

I
hope these suggestions are helpful.
Warmly,
Heather

-----Original Message-----
From: Julie J. via blindtlk
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2017 6:41 AM
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Cc:
Julie J.
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] struggling
with blindness skills

For
the potato's, I use the fork to check the plate to see
if there is
anything on the plate, similar
to what you describe for the meat.

Others suggestions for the butter are good.Â
I'd just add that if you are
trying to
spread cold butter, it's pretty much a lost cause.Â  It
isn't a
blindness thing, it just
doesn't spread so well.Â Â Â If you are using
margarine, it does spread easier, even when
cold. I think margarine is
disgusting
though. *smile*

Other than
what has already been said, I think it's just about
practice.Â  I
like to try new things when
I'm alone.Â  then I don't have to worry about
being rushed or someone stepping in to help.Â
Having all the time I need to
try out
different approaches and find what works for me is really
helpful.

Julie
-----Original Message-----
From: Jen via blindtlk
Sent:
Friday, January 13, 2017 7:39 AM
To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Cc: Jen
Subject: [Blindtlk]
struggling with blindness skills

Hi guys,

I'm struggling with blindness skills in two
areas. One is eating food
without my
fingers, and the other is spreading condiments and butter.
What
are your strategies for eating without
using your fingers, for non-finger
food?
Some foods are feelable, like meat, so it's easy to use
a knife/pusher
to shovel them onto the
plate. With hot cereal, I tap the spoon around to
see if there is anything left. But Some foods
are harder, like mashed
potatoes on a
plate.

Spreading condiments
/ butter is hard for me, especially butter. I try to
feel with the knife to see if I've spread
around the whole length of the
bread, and
frequently, I've hadn't.

I would appreciate any tips or alternative
techniques on all these things!

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