OT: being tired and meals

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Making meals is always a chore for me

too when I'm fatigued.

I've found that a roasted chicken (I

buy them from Costco) will go a long way.

Have your meal from the roasted chicken

that night, I usually pair it with some steamed veg's, or a raw garden

salad.

I then pull enough meat off; add some

celery, onion, light mayo and spices and my kids like the chicken salad

on a salad or in a wrap, or just pull pieces of the chicken off and have

it on a salad for lunch or dinner.

I then throw the chicken carcass (break

it up, and pull the meat off) and make a soup with it; I add lots of onion,

garlic, parsley, spices, carrots, spinach, broc, cauliflower, celery, asparagus

(whatever low starch veg's I can find) some chick. broth if you need more

flavor, I keep frozen brown rice on hand and quinoa and add that for more

substance.

So from one chicken I've made 3 meals,

possibly more. The soup will last for several lunches and dinners

too, and freezes well. It does involve a little chopping of veg's, but

that can be done the day before.

I've recently learned to make Chicken

chili w/white beans, and stuffed peppers w/ground turkey; both are very

nutritious and very simple, and taste even better the 2nd day, and freeze

well.

You can make great meals w/organic chick

or turkey sausage, saute it up with some onions, and whip up some eggs

and throw it in w/them, add some tomatoes, spinach, peppers, cheese if

you can eat it, put a top on and let it sit for 5 min's or so, and you

have a yummie fritatta.

I also use the sausage to make a very

simple pasta sauce, I brown the sausage with some onions, garlic, add some

fresh tom. or canned, spinach, broc., chick broth, let it simmer for a

while and then I add some gluten free pasta, very tasty.

I'm working on some quinoa recipes that

are simple, if they turn out good, I'll share them.

From:

" dennis "

To:

<Lyme_and_Rife >

Date:

05/23/2012 05:43 AM

Subject:

RE: OT: tyred to be

tyred still struggling withthe new moon flair

Sent by:

Lyme_and_Rife

Hey Marie J

My husband also likes meat and potatoes only

sigh very frustrating! He will eat roast chicken breast only

if he has too. Or he will eat dishes with chicken breast as

long as it isn’t too often.

He can’t touch seafood due to allergies.

So meat! He loves corned beef which I put in a slow cooker in the

am and wait for it.....potatoes and froz veg with white sauce. He

loves beef stroganoff, steak, meat skewers, hamburgers, Mexican raps, sausages,

mince in gravy, bolognaise, stewed meat, meat balls..... My memory

is a problem...I go to the fridge and I have no idea what to make.

He loves fresh veg but understands my limitations when sick or tired and

is happy for veg and fairly healthy food.

I have also used a list of possible

dinner ideas on the fridge which are quick and easy and it has been a life

saver. It is necessary as my memory is so bad I will stare at the fridge

and have no idea, give up and sit down. My daughter needs carbs

to hold weight and can’t eat white potatoe or most rice...we discovered

accidently that basmati rice is the only one not glutenous which

does not affect her stomach Yahoo, one more option to sweet potatoe.

I have long since accepted that some nights

are impossible and take out is an option, I pick my battles and don’t

beat myself up anymore. I did completely gluten free and dairy

free for 1year as my daughters stomach was so bad and that was exhausting

and expensive with lyme and honestly did not make me well, though seemed

to heal my daughters stomach a lot.

Yes fatigue and budget greatly affect our

meal plans too! So you made me smile!

I only do fish in alfoil as no fat/ flour

and cooks itself. My friend uses oven bags instead but I’m sure

a lidded small oven dish will do, I just too tired to clean much.

Cheers

From: Lyme_and_Rife [mailto:Lyme_and_Rife ]

On Behalf Of Marie Benoit

Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2012 1:23 PM

To: Lyme_and_Rife

Subject: Re: OT: tyred to be tyred still struggling

withthe new moon flair

Thanks ,

you made me laught with the frozen veggys

Looks like I am not the only one to go for the frozen veggy.

I have bought architoch 3 weeks ago .... They are still

wainting fo rme to cook them ! No kidding. And fatigue piles

up with it the shrinked budget that limit the diversity .Cosco frozen veggy

are three sorts of mixing and they all looks like the same except

one that i preferes to skip ( corn+carrots+peas =no thank you very much

thank you no.) I will print what you wrote I forgot the alluminuim foil

cooking very handy even thought it is alluminium we need to feed our self

to began with . I can reimplace the rice with potatoe .

I was thinking of thistoday wha tis easy quick meal and

I tryed to make a list it can make a week .

1)rosten chiken ( pu tin the oven like it is an wait )

and mashed potatoe

2)humberger patty ( on egarlinc scrunch in the oil )with

sweet potatoe in water and then a pice of better

3)a slice of pork with apple sauce or aple

4)the mexican rap with the already made quacomole some

salad of any kind and some chesse the all thing in a pen

5)melt cheese on a piece of bread in a pen and some

frozen veggies

6)the salmon from cosco already seasoned and a potatoe

or what ever

7) spagetty bolognese my husabnd like the delmonte better

than my own tomato sauce made so why bother ?

The problem rise the second and thrid week of exhaustion

..

I will try what you do : any diet is too challneging

to me and my husbnad is super limitative he likes meat and potatoes only

.

THank you LIsa again ,

Kindly Marie

To: Lyme_and_Rife

Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 7:45 PM

Subject: RE: OT: tyred to be tyred still struggling

withthe new moon flair

Wow Marie,

I’m very curious to hear what answers you

get for this question! After years, of crushing fatigue at the moment,

I now cycle through it rather than live it all the time! I read wonderful

advice to precook meals when Okay and freeze, but for years I struggled

always and with a husband and 3 kids left overs were eaten at dinner or

for breakfast. With weak aching arms and hands I found chopping vege

exhausting, couldn’t stand up for long and bought endless gadgets to help...some

of which took longer to clean than use!! Finally found one in big

w called a tefal fresh express. Makes making salads and soups much

quicker and easier.

However at my worst pre made bought

salad which I could extend by adding lettuce for family of 5 and

put fish in foil in the oven with 1 table spoon water and slice of

lemon, it was all I had the energy for. If really bad I used precrumbed

fish and baked, not fresh and premade, but better than nothing and too

sick to care. The sicker I got the less I could do and I had to learn

to compromise.

I made soup or strog or sweet and

sour etc with pre frozen veg (tons of pre frozen veg, though I prefer to

steam not microwave) and a stripped precooked chicken or pre cut strips

of meat and have finally resorted to packet mixes for instant flavour.

Rice cooker is fantastic as you don’t have to watch, or I use gluten

free pasta. Crock pots are also great. Chuck in a flavour

base meat and defrosted frozen veg packet...yes fresh is best if you can

stand up to prepare and shop reg, if not frozen is still at least vegetables.

If big enough amounts you have lunch or breakfast low in refined

carbs too.

Just about getting through....have done take

out etc when too sick for even this.

Cheers

From: Lyme_and_Rife

[mailto:Lyme_and_Rife ]

On Behalf Of Marie Benoit

Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2012 6:28 AM

To: lyme_and_rife

Subject: OT: tyred to be tyred still struggling withthe

new moon flair

HI Everyonne ,

How do you manage to do the basic thinga day needs us to

do please like cooking ?I am back to crawling underfatigue and cannot get

it out so th eproblem of feeding me

andmy husband rises again , I am wondering if some of you

have found ideas to make it easy cooking and still good ?

THanks Marie

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