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[ShrekDawg]

IT is a process to eat healthier. We are faced with terrible food every day. I dont allow my kids to eat school lunches... it was pizza twice a week. Juice and milk.

We stopped the juice and milk thing long ago. Water and cheese is seemed a better choice.

This is the little bit I know about the Mediterranean diet. Mediterranean diet is a bit of a fallacy. When the study was done, it happened to co-incide with some month long tradition and the foods were a bit different than normal fare. Having said that, it is FAR FAR better than SAD. They also have better controls on herbicides and pesticides, and eat more grass fed dairy and meats and more fish. More locally grown fresh produce.

Changing our diet is a process, I eat closer to paleo now, but cant quite give up cheese and sour cream. THough cheese consumption is way down; tend to look for European cheeses. Deli meats are a thing of the past; bacon and ham, occasionally, far less than before.

Lots of herbs. And spices. THose I have totally embraced!!

Breads. I stopped baking bread almost 20 years ago. I could polish off a whole load all by myself if smothered in butter! Real butter. lol I learned bread is more addictive than cocaine..... there was a study on it. TOtally explained my addiction.

Sugar. We cut way back--- mostly decreasing the foods that needed sugar. Stopped baking. We had become accustomed to eating a sweet every day. Sooo, I stopped baking for the kids. Oddly, they have not complained. THough they do get a LC dessert now and then, and crap out side the house. lol

Thanks! This is all very helpful. Everything’s still a bit of a work in progress. For example, decided to eat a bit healthier today and cook up some of the vegetables from the garden and some eggs and was gonna skip candy and junk but then I went downstairs and grabbed some candy bars... my dad got this bag of Halloween candy last week. Been eating it a lot, like one day I ate like 15 mini candy bars at once

But I’ve been trying to be better. So I thought I’ll just have one... grabbed 4... I thought well I’ll just eat one or two and save the rest... nope, put them away but shortly after I went over and grabbed them.

And I’ve also been up a few hours yet just finishing cooking and about to eat now. Granted I’m super slow at cooking and have to cook everything separate since I only like one pan but still.

Haven’t really drank much of anything either.

And my sleep schedule is a mess. Last night I tried to go to bed early and did but then I woke up super early and fell back asleep till late... so slept way too much

And really don’t exercise.

I’m a bit of a mess in general

Trying to work on it though

But even now I just burnt my eggs cause I wasn’t paying attention haha still edible but still.

 

[ronott1]

Our internet is DSL from the phone company. The only other option is satellite.


Which is why yours starts to mold in a few days outside the refrigerator and theirs is still good 3 weeks later. Makes you wonder just what is in that stuff!


migraine hell


See my reply to the last message I quoted

Yes! I have to store in the fridge or frezer!

 

[microchick]

Very interesting information, Arielle. No, I haven't looked into the trees you mentioned. All but two of our newer apple trees came from Starke Bro. Nursery down in southern Missouri. I know they use a quince for their pear trees because we had two Asian trees snap off at the ground and what came up from the roots as far as we can tell is quince...plus, that is what they told me they used on the Asian pears.

I'm less than thrilled with their stock as when I talked to them, I told them we wanted fruit that would be hardy in our growing zone and resistant to disease....2/3rds is neither. The Asian pears and some of the apples have succumbed to Fire Blight. The 75 thornless blackberry plants that we bought from them are not cold hardy as promised. We lost 90% of them this past winter. They were 5 years old.

Last year we planted two Candy Crisps? I'd have to look at the tags again that we bought from a local Amish Nursery that so far have been thriving.

We managed to get our 'leaning tree' mostly upright and restaked. What you said about them makes sense. This tree, an Arkansas Black, bore heavily this year and it's crop literally pulled it over.

 

[drumstick diva]

I have my own diet - when I weigh too much I eat less. When I loose too much weight, I eat more. Ice cream is my go to source but, I can go days without it- like now because I can't get to a grocery store. But I don't fall apart if I run out.

I drink caffeine free diet Coke. I am pleased with it. When I take an impromptu nap and wake hours later,. usually find a full or half full glass of coke on the kitchen table. If nothing ominous is floating in it - I drink it anyway. Don't care if its warm or all the carbonation is depleted. Who cares?

Avoid "caffeine" because it never energized me, or anything else beneficial. Never liked coffee and, tea always sent me dashing for the bathroom. Feh. Can't tolerate acidic drinks/juices that I once did. So what? Also drink plain tap water - we have Chicago water. Sometimes/ rarely get bottle of water for traveling or walking.- so I can' throw it out once it's empty.

Old expensive water bottles (empty ones) ended up having chemicals in them that were no good. Couldn't keep up with it - or buying ones that didn't have bad chemicals but were very difficult to clean.

Also drink 16 oz. of skim milk a day with a serving of Ovaltine chocolate malt powder in it. If I run out of milk I eat a coupon spoons of Ovaltine anyway. I still have a Captain Midnight Ovaltine cup. When I like/ love something I stay with it.

Sorry, I don't mean to be preachy, just don't follow fads or care about them. Everyone is different and I don't believe any fad/diet or even clothes/makeup fashion works for everyone.

On BYC I travel alone, don't need "bookends," to protect me. I'm self starting - don't need a push to get going or "trip wires," to tell me stop.

 

[drumstick diva]

BTW once found pumpkin spice popcorn in a bag on clearance. I tried it, it was very good.

 

[perchie.girl]

In Iran they have Black berry Trees... Looked it up.... because I wanted one... what they call a black berry tree is a species of mulberry...

a sun loving heat loving tree.....

the black ones come in dwarf varieties... Going to have to net it... Oh heck will need to net a whole row of different things especially If I Espalier it....

By the way they do NOT taste like Black berries... If they have seeds they are very soft and easy to chew... they tast like Grapes some and berry some and are a mess to park a car under...LOL... But If I espalier it I can keep it along a wall and train the branches over head.

Mulberries take intensive care in regards to pruning their branches shoot out about three feet in the spring and can be bent in the shape you need. I am up to that... or will be Goats and I suspect chickens would love the leaves too.

deb

 

[microchick]

DD how a person diets, how a person eats is an individual thing. What works for some won't work for others. Eating healthy is the thing everyone should strive for.

I can relate to the milk though. I love skimmed milk. I can drink a glass anytime and find it more refreshing than water when I am thirsty. And low fat ice cream is a basic comfort food.

DH and I gave up pop cold turkey about three years ago. We were drinking a lot of it. No caffeine, no sugar, just too much. When we figured out how much we were spending a week on pop we kinda went....whow....and stopped. Can't say I missed it cause I didn't. In fact I treated myself to a big serving at a fast food place and didn't like it at all. It burned my mouth, burned my throat. It was a real wake up moment.

Personally I drink a lot of water, and a lot of iced tea now. I love iced tea, especially iced herbal teas like mint and peach. Sweetened with stevia or saccharin (neither seems to bother me like sucralose or aspertame do. For a while I was using the Crush water packets that you add to a bottle of water but that was how I discovered the sucralose connection to my upset stomach. DH uses them but I don't.

@KDOGG331. Trust my advice and word of warning spoken from an old gal! The day will come when you will not be able to eat 15 mini candy bars at once because as I like to put it, the day comes where you may as well just take em out of the package and smear them on your backside and hips because that's where they are going to wind up anyway. It's never too early to kick the candy habit. As a treat, yep, but not as a habit.

Today we finished cleaning and scrubbing down the 'puppy room' and I made a surprising discovery. Diesel had halfway chewed his way through a power cord to the light in the utility room. It had to have shocked him but there were two separate chews on the cord. How it didn't burn his mouth or pop the circuit breaker I'll never know. I took the light down and DH is going to replace the cord. Plans to hang it (it's a fluorescent hanging light.) somewhere out of his reach. What the little devil did was jump up on the dish washer and spare stove where the cord was right in his reach.

Time to break out the bitter apple spray again.

 

[dsqard]

@dsqard!

@KDOGG331 Stay safe!

Pumpkin gingersnap icecream is delicious!
Local creamery makes it as a seasonal flavor. They also make caramel apple. I have one sweet treat a day. I'm maintaining my weight just fine. I do exercise often to maintain my weight and it helps me feel good. Healthy lifestyle is a choice you have to make every day but it doesn't mean you have to deny every indulgence. Just my two cents.

 

[ronott1]

In Iran they have Black berry Trees... Looked it up.... because I wanted one... what they call a black berry tree is a species of mulberry...

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a sun loving heat loving tree.....

the black ones come in dwarf varieties... Going to have to net it... Oh heck will need to net a whole row of different things especially If I Espalier it....

By the way they do NOT taste like Black berries... If they have seeds they are very soft and easy to chew... they tast like Grapes some and berry some and are a mess to park a car under...LOL... But If I espalier it I can keep it along a wall and train the branches over head.

Mulberries take intensive care in regards to pruning their branches shoot out about three feet in the spring and can be bent in the shape you need. I am up to that... or will be Goats and I suspect chickens would love the leaves too.

deb

My Mom used to make mulberry jelly. I liked it a lot!

Mom could make jelly out of nearly anything though. She has a real talent for that kind of thing. I make Jelly too of course.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Made it back from Costco short trip[ milk, eggs, Tillamook make a aged extra sharp white cheese I love used the last making a scalloped potato so bought more only find it there get three bottles of ketchup good question there is it Catsup or Ketchup ?