Thanks for starting this PC. With all the info Wifezilla and Ninja is providing....I'm getting back on track with the low carb thing. I fell off a little while ago, and reading all this is getting me going again. Soooooo thanks !!
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Yeah, those two are on a mission here. They've convinced me to reduce
my sugar and empty carb intake, balance my meals out more, and with all
the recipes my meal planner is full for quite some time.
I've gotten some very cool PM's from folks who have read this discussion
too.
Here is my low carb breakfast casserole that I made this weekend:
Breakfast Casserole - makes 4 servings
cooked, crumbled sausage - about 1/2 to 3/4 cup
canned diced green chiles - about 1/4 to 1/3 cup
diced onion or scallions - about 2 to 4 TB
grated cheddar cheese - about 3/4 cup
4 eggs, well beaten
hot sauce, opt. to your taste
eta: grease the pie plate before layering the ingredients!
in a glass or pottery pie plate layer the sausage, chiles, onion, and cheese
in a bowl, beat the eggs with the hot sauce; season eggs with salt and pepper
pour egg mixture over the layer ingredients
bake at 350 F for 20-30 minutes or until mixture firms up and a dinner knife stuck in the middle comes out clean; let sit just a few minutes before cutting into 4 wedges and serving
The amounts of the sausage, chiles, onion, and cheese are very forgiving. You could use cooked crumbled bacon or diced ham in place of the sausage or use diced cooked veggies instead of the meat, but don't leave out the cheese.....
I eat one portion for breakfast for four days and just warm the wedge on a plate in the microwave.
Well, ok. I don't believe in sunscreen and love the sun. Am I wrong?
Nope! You are right no target
Despite the promotion of using gobs of sunscreen, people are still getting cancer. Skin cancer. In areas the sun DOES NOT shine!
Why? Looks like vitamin D FIGHTS cancer, but due to health official recommendations, for the most part Americans are chronically vitamin D deficient. The list of diseases either caused by or made worse by a vitamin D deficiency is huge. Cancer, heart disease, muscle and skeletal pain, autism...
I used to be a person that hid from the sun. I was, as Weird Al puts it, "whiter than sour cream". I only went out after slathering myself with SPF 50+ sunscreen and reapplied often. Unfortunately, I still burned anyway.
After learning about vitamin D, the unfounded fear of overdosing most people have (infants don't show signs of overdose until they have taken doses of 40,000 over a period of months), how much the body actually uses in a day (5,000-6,000 IU), how little we actually get from our food, and how the sun isn't our enemy, I gave up sun screen. I also started supplementing with vitamin D3 over the Winter. Later Summer, I stopped using sun screen. I DID use a clear titanium when I spent an entire day at the water park, but no sun screen. Instead of bursting in to flames after 10 minutes, I actually got a little tan. Not dark brown, not fried red, but a bit of a healthy glow. I did not burn ONCE. One day, I was out in the sun for several hours, and I did get a bit pink, but within hours after getting home, it was gone. No pain, no blisters. It was awesome. By getting my blood level of D up, my body no longer let through every single ray of sun in an attempt to make the D I so desperately needed.
My friend Abi recently lost a person very dear to her. She was only 35 and died of melanoma. She was very pale and always avoided the sun. The cause was most likely untreated type 2 diabetes brought on by a diet high in cheap processed foods.
Here is some reading material if you are interested. (You might want to wrap your head in duct tape to keep your head from asploding
Sunscreen has always made my BS alarm go off. Remember the hole
in the Ozone layer that got everyone started on SPF 30 and above?
Hmm, we don't hear much about that anymore. Now global warming
has taken over as the next eco marketing scam.
I spend a lot of time on the water in my sea kayak. I never wear suncreen
but will limit my exposure until my base tan develops.
There is nothing like closing your eyes and turning your face to the sun. I swear I can feel my cells rejoicing.