Some parents allow their children to chew on teething biscuits (beware, some of these can be messy), frozen waffles or cool firm slices of fruit.

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He started the next day with some country ham and biscuits at Pop's place at 5am before eating a mushroom omelette with the local firefighters.

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There are lots of PowerPoint presentations, chocolate biscuits and nodding heads, some in silent assent, some in sleep.

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Some people just replace glutenated cakes and biscuits with their non-glutenated cousins.

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He stopped using jelly on his peanut-butter biscuits to decrease sugar content and started making a blander veal stock for some dishes, including Rover Easy, which has scrambled eggs with applewood smoked bacon bits.

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Some lucky up-and-comers, like Woodie award winning college band The Lonely Biscuits, find sponsors willing to cover their travel costs.

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