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[Decrepit]

Had a change-of-pace lunch today, to begin using up foods bought at the start of the pandemic (in case of quarantine) whose 'best eaten by' dates are approaching. It consisted of brown rice, broccoli, tuna, butter beans, honest to goodness real butter, a tad of Wickles and spices, all blended together. Turned out better than expected. That little dab of Wickles is what did the trick, I think. Being as it was a more filling lunch than I normally consume, I'll forgo my daily salad-supper and make do with a whole Fuji apple and water. Maybe throw in a 100% whole wheat cracker or two.

[Infa Red]

#1 gaming food - Dr. Pepper and Goldfish. Lots of them, don't skimp.

No way around it.

This post has been edited by Infa Red: May 23 2021, 08:30 AM

[Decrepit]

Am making a minor alteration to my daily breakfast. Instead of adding a whole banana to my oatmeal/fruit combo, I now add only half a banana. To the plus, banana no longer overpowers other fruit flavors. Also, I hope this contributes to weight loss. A negative: my daily potassium intake is now reduced. I suppose money saved can be added to the plus column, but for once it isn't a prime consideration.

A hopefully temporary negative: I keep forgetting I need only half a banana until the whole banana is peeled. Not ideal for keeping the unused half fresh until next day.


For what it's worth, tonight's salad-supper was especially yummy.

[Infa Red]

Dang you eat too healthy for being in mid south states !! lol I'm suppose to be eating like that due to my location. Proud of you, but where's the fun ?
BBQ where you at is prob off the hook. And I love BBQ. But in Cali, we are not known for the best BBQ in the states.

A little Mac n Cheese never hurt anyone followed by some peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream !!! Hell yea.

This post has been edited by Infa Red: Jul 16 2021, 04:15 AM

[Dark Reaper]

I had some pizza and fruit punch mixed with some fruit punch flavored vodka.

[mirocu]

Pizza would be nice. As it is, I'm having coffee and buns.

[mALX]

Am making a minor alteration to my daily breakfast. Instead of adding a whole banana to my oatmeal/fruit combo, I now add only half a banana. To the plus, banana no longer overpowers other fruit flavors. Also, I hope this contributes to weight loss. A negative: my daily potassium intake is now reduced. I suppose money saved can be added to the plus column, but for once it isn't a prime consideration.

A hopefully temporary negative: I keep forgetting I need only half a banana until the whole banana is peeled. Not ideal for keeping the unused half fresh until next day.


For what it's worth, tonight's salad-supper was especially yummy.

You could make a banana split for dessert with the other half of a banana that you didn't use in the oatmeal, lol. You can't possibly be watching your weight for any good reason, you are skinny as a rail in your avatar!

Dang you eat too healthy for being in mid south states !! lol I'm suppose to be eating like that due to my location. Proud of you, but where's the fun ?
BBQ where you at is prob off the hook. And I love BBQ. But in Cali, we are not known for the best BBQ in the states.

A little Mac n Cheese never hurt anyone followed by some peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream !!! Hell yea.

Bolded above: MMMMMMMMMMMM !!!!!!!

Pizza would be nice. As it is, I'm having coffee and buns.

This post has been edited by mALX: Jul 16 2021, 11:06 AM

[Adella]

Nothing..Nada..Zilcho

Just started my regular 36hr fast. Oh…black tea I suppose. Nothing in it. That is my staple drink.

But…looking forward on Tuesday to a nice 8oz Ribeye with four fried eggs and mushrooms cooked in butter. I might generously concede to a little leafy salad with it…or an extra egg!

A.

[mALX]

Nothing..Nada..Zilcho

Just started my regular 36hr fast. Oh…black tea I suppose. Nothing in it. That is my staple drink.

But…looking forward on Tuesday to a nice 8oz Ribeye with four fried eggs and mushrooms cooked in butter. I might generously concede to a little leafy salad with it…or an extra egg!

A.

I usually try to stay on a high protein/low carb diet all the time too. It is amazing how many doctors tell you not to eat eggs, butter, etc. = but your health improves tremendously when you do.

[Decrepit]

I forgot my grocery list again. It's getting to be a too regular habit. Its absence caused no great harm. I forgot only one food item on the list, a box of artificial sweetener. No big deal. I've enough on hand to see me until next week's errand day. I didn't buy two non-food items on the list: Shampoo and a bottle of herbal supplements. The first I remembered. It was out of stock. I remembered the second, but couldn't recall 'which' supplement was needed. Again no biggie. I doubt that supplement does me a lick of good. I buy them out of habit, and because they're dirt cheap. Lettuce heads were out of stock. I made do with two bags of pre chopped salad lettuce. Had I shopped much later in the day, I might well have had to do without strawberries. That would be a major dietary setback indeed! Or would it?

[Pseron Wyrd]

I basically live on frozen pizzas.

[Adella]

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I usually try to stay on a high protein/low carb diet all the time too. It is amazing how many doctors tell you not to eat eggs, butter, etc. = but your health improves tremendously when you do.

I don’t want to labour the point….but this is so TRUE.

Advice from my local practice specialist nurse was “Cut down on Salt”
I asked “Why?” Knowing full well the expected usual answer “To lower Blood Pressure…and it is bad for you”.

I responded “Show me or point to ONE clinical human trial which proves salt raises blood pressure”.
She was flummoxed because like all medics she just assumes you will believe everything they say without question…and of course there is no such salt trial. It is a assumption based upon comments from a learned medical professor’ish type like 60+ years ago, and has simply been an adopted medical rhetoric for decades. I also pointed out without any salt..you will die…which is true! (I do not advocate consuming silly quantities of salt either…I think the RDA is like 6 grams…of which you will get naturally from wholesome foods).

Then she says…eat lots of vegetables and a little lean meat….I pointed out it was actually unnatural to eat like that…We evolved as early hunters eating fish, animal meat with fat and eggs. In fact most veggies are not indigenous…..You won’t find them growing wild…think about that!
The potato for example originated naturally in Peru. You can grow Kale in your garden and farmers plant it…but it doesn’t present in a wild meadow huh!

Since realising this I converted to a naturally very low carb diet of meat, fish, eggs and animal derived fats…I lost weight, felt better and that constant hunger to keep snacking simply vanished.

Disclaimer: I am not a medical authority…but it works for me. All I am promoting here is that you don’t just accept the medical blanket statements issued to shut you up. It’s your body…question them!

[mALX]

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I usually try to stay on a high protein/low carb diet all the time too. It is amazing how many doctors tell you not to eat eggs, butter, etc. = but your health improves tremendously when you do.

I don’t want to labour the point….but this is so TRUE.

Advice from my local practice specialist nurse was “Cut down on Salt”
I asked “Why?” Knowing full well the expected usual answer “To lower Blood Pressure…and it is bad for you”.

I responded “Show me or point to ONE clinical human trial which proves salt raises blood pressure”.
She was flummoxed because like all medics she just assumes you will believe everything they say without question…and of course there is no such salt trial. It is a assumption based upon comments from a learned medical professor’ish type like 60+ years ago, and has simply been an adopted medical rhetoric for decades. I also pointed out without any salt..you will die…which is true! (I do not advocate consuming silly quantities of salt either…I think the RDA is like 6 grams…of which you will get naturally from wholesome foods).

Then she says…eat lots of vegetables and a little lean meat….I pointed out it was actually unnatural to eat like that…We evolved as early hunters eating fish, animal meat with fat and eggs. In fact most veggies are not indigenous…..You won’t find them growing wild…think about that!
The potato for example originated naturally in Peru. You can grow Kale in your garden and farmers plant it…but it doesn’t present in a wild meadow huh!

Since realising this I converted to a naturally very low carb diet of meat, fish, eggs and animal derived fats…I lost weight, felt better and that constant hunger to keep snacking simply vanished.

Disclaimer: I am not a medical authority…but it works for me. All I am promoting here is that you don’t just accept the medical blanket statements issued to shut you up. It’s your body…question them!

[Dark Reaper]

Pretty much had this and a frozen pickle cube to snack on.

[Decrepit]

As nonexistent long-term readers of my contributions here are likely to remember, I was once enraptured with the taste of Fuji apples. Super sweet. Super juicy. Ultra crisp. Food of the gods! Then, some years ago, their to-me sterling qualities went into decline. Top-notch Fuji's appeared less and less often on my lunch/dinner plates. Even second and third rate Fuji's are quite decent eating, on par with the best of other apple varieties. I continued consuming them, in hope of better things to come. Then, at a certain point, almost every Fuji I bought was third rate at best, the majority being subpar. A month or two ago, I switched to bags of Pink Lady apples, despite their being somewhat more expensive. While not on par with better Fujis, I find PL's a more consistently 'good' apple. This was reinforced when the store was out of PL bags last week. I again bought Fuji's. To my happy surprise, one Fuji was lower third-tier, and one was low second-tier, making them decent eating. The remainder, however, were low-tier to bottom-of-the-barrel. Next to no sweetness. Not overly juicy. Somewhat pulpy, as a Fuji should never be. I needed to liberally sprinkle those with artificial sweeteners to make them palatable.

So it's now official. I'm definitely no longer a worshiper at the feet of Mt Fuji. No more for me, thank you.

Such a sad decline. I wonder if maybe Fuji's fell victim to 'Big Agra', or if maybe the store where I buy them simply stocks from a subpar source. Whatever the case, I'm done with them.

[Acadian]

I've been favoring honeycrisp apples for a time now.

[Decrepit]

I've been favoring honeycrisp apples for a time now.

Honeycrisps aren't bad. They tend to cost more than I'm willing to pay. Of course I'd have said that about Pink Ladies not too long ago. Speaking of which, this week's bag of Pink Ladies is a disappointment. Not as disappointing as Fuji's tend to be, but not overly enjoyable either. I'll say this, I've not yet felt forced to coat them with sweetener as I do with too many Fuji's.

I need to drink more water. Significantly more. Problem, I simply forget to do so.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Aug 26 2021, 12:16 PM

[Decrepit]

Dang you eat too healthy for being in mid south states !! lol I'm suppose to be eating like that due to my location. Proud of you, but where's the fun ?

I had 'fun' eating for over fifty years. It's payback time.

But seriously, one benefit of my current diet is that I get next to no migraines anymore. That's worth a good bid of sacrifice! Heck, when I saw my neurologist last month I was able to truthfully report that, so far as I can recall, I had not a single attack during that six-month period! A first, I think. And far cry from the thankfully long-ago days when I was often plagued by migraines more days than not.

[Pseron Wyrd]

I need to drink more water. Significantly more. Problem, I simply forget to do so.

I drink about a gallon of water a day. During the summer months, when I am working outside, I can drink as much as two gallons a day. I don't do it for health reasons, necessarily. I started drinking a lot of water during a period in my life when I didn't have money and I guess I just never stopped.

[mALX]

As nonexistent long-term readers of my contributions here are likely to remember, I was once enraptured with the taste of Fuji apples. Super sweet. Super juicy. Ultra crisp. Food of the gods! Then, some years ago, their to-me sterling qualities went into decline. Top-notch Fuji's appeared less and less often on my lunch/dinner plates. Even second and third rate Fuji's are quite decent eating, on par with the best of other apple varieties. I continued consuming them, in hope of better things to come. Then, at a certain point, almost every Fuji I bought was third rate at best, the majority being subpar. A month or two ago, I switched to bags of Pink Lady apples, despite their being somewhat more expensive. While not on par with better Fujis, I find PL's a more consistently 'good' apple. This was reinforced when the store was out of PL bags last week. I again bought Fuji's. To my happy surprise, one Fuji was lower third-tier, and one was low second-tier, making them decent eating. The remainder, however, were low-tier to bottom-of-the-barrel. Next to no sweetness. Not overly juicy. Somewhat pulpy, as a Fuji should never be. I needed to liberally sprinkle those with artificial sweeteners to make them palatable.

So it's now official. I'm definitely no longer a worshiper at the feet of Mt Fuji. No more for me, thank you.

Such a sad decline. I wonder if maybe Fuji's fell victim to 'Big Agra', or if maybe the store where I buy them simply stocks from a subpar source. Whatever the case, I'm done with them.

You know, I think nothing fresh tastes as good as it used to. Maybe Celery does; but not just apples = a good peach seems to be non-existent now; and the same with tomatoes. Even going to the Farmer's Market and buying the Grainger County tomatoes is producing a mediocre tomato taste. I keep buying the Vine & Roma tomatoes just because they USED to be the best tasting in this area; but they have been blah for years now.

Is it our taste buds or is fresh fruits and veggies really going downhill in the last number of years? Maybe they are putting too much chemicals in the soil or something.

I've been favoring honeycrisp apples for a time now.

Honeycrisps are bad. They tend to cost more than I'm willing to pay. Of course I'd have said that about Pink Ladies not too long ago. Speaking of which, this week's bag of Pink Ladies is a disappointment. Not as disappointing as Fuji's tend to be, but not overly enjoyable either. I'll say this, I've not yet felt forced to coat them with sweetener as I do with too many Fuji's.

I need to drink more water. Significantly more. Problem, I simply forget to do so.

If you buy even one of any 16 ounce waters at the store and drink it; you can continue to use that bottle and just clean it regularly and refill it with either your own filtered water or tap water = the thing is, those plastic bottles collapse as you drink, and you end up tripling the amount of water you take in with them.

It goes down much easier that way; and you can either drink it chilled or at room temperature. I can't stand water; but can down several of those a day without even realizing it. Plus there is the added bonus of being able to measure how much water you have actually been drinking that way; if you are keeping up with that.