RE: We all have a main staple in our diet, what is hour's?

[Guest guest]

Mark,

It is so fun to read your Emails. Also very helpful in the food department.

Cottage cheese mixed with hard boiled egg and some ground pepper on it is

one of my favorite lunches.

_____

From: blind-diabetics

[mailto:blind-diabetics ] On Behalf Of Mark Ruth

Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:23 PM

To: blind diabetics

Subject: We all have a main staple in our diet, what is

your's?

I would say cottage cheese is my very biggest main staple in my daily diet.

it is low carb and can go with all most anything. use to be I ate raw oats

every morning. just oats raw with milk and splinda. now I notice when I eat

oats my sugar will be higher then I like. so I cut down on what I eat and

can't have any more now then half a cup. I think right behind cottage cheese

would be eggs. I always keep some boiled eggs in the fridge every day. get

the hunger pain? well eat a boiled egg. hits the spot every time. you can do

so much with an egg. ever tried grilling you some onions in the skillet with

a bit of olive oil before you scramble your eggs? it is hard to beat for

extra flavor. I really don't miss bread. never have been a real bread eater

with my meals like my Momma was. do dig hot yeast rolls right out of the

oven with some real butter and strawberry jam! so I don't bake them no more.

make you some chicken or turkey salad with mayo, eggs, pickle relish,

onions, celery and spices. let sit a few hours or over night. now you can

eat this like dip on your favorite veggie. I really like it on a slice of

cucumber or bell pepper. hard to beat cottage cheese though. it is good on

veggies as well. cut up some fruit in your cottage cheese and add some

splinda. throw in some walnuts or almonds as well. let this sit a few hours

and it is about as good as it gets. I haven't tried the kale chips yet or

making pancakes with pork rimes and eggs. can't get pass either one yet. not

going to knock them though until I have tried both. I do miss chips and dip.

hot on fire dip that is! I'm married to a Mexican lady who hates anything

hot or spicy. she doesn't even like black pepper. good thing I'm the cook

because I love it hot and more kinds of hot is better! going to mess around

with different ways to make me a new chip for some dip that won't shoot my

sugar in to next week. I've heard of romaine or leaf letis, but not sure yet

if that will work for me. I'm here to tell you for sure those so called low

carb crackers and chips you can now buy my dog wouldn't eat! very nasty to

say the least. ever had any sweet potatoes chips? these to me are very nasty

to the taste. I do like turnips and maybe they could be sliced real thin and

baked in the oven until they were crushy like a chip? I have always ate the

same veggies all my life because I suppose I got tunnel vision like most

people. I run across veggies I have no clue how to cook them or what they

taste like or what do you eat them with. now that I'm eating more veggies,

I'm going to step out and try some new veggies on for size. If I don't cook

them right, then what the hay! like a artichoke? what in the world is this?

what about leaks? what is that? ever tried those potatoes that look like a

finger? now here is a way you can eat a few potatoes and not eat to much.

baby or finger will do the trick. do any of you like Brussels sprouts? my

honey loves them. I can't hardly stand to chew them up. I know corn on the

knob is not good for us who are watching the sugar, but some times you got

to step out and eat the for bidden fruit. so get you a fresh corn on the

knob and slice it up like you would a cucumber in to quarter inches slices.

then boil them and roll them around in some real butter. they will keep a

while in a tight container in the fridge and you can have a couple at dinner

every day or so until they are gone. what about water melon and cantaloupe?

I love them both, but high in sugar are they both. who can eat one slice of

a real sweet cantaloupe? not this pig! water melon is simply sugar water

just about, but man is it ever so good around the fourth of July! next time

the buddies cook out on the grill, you wrap your dog up in a huge romaine

leaf instead of that bad bun. you could eat 2 this way. just have one that

is a foot long instead! if you buy the romaine fresh, you will have a big

enough wrap for your dog and put the good stuff around it that you like.

ever had veggies on a stick on the grill? I always let my veggies and meat

sit over night in some olive oil and spices before I put them on the sticks

the next day on the grill. you can do it in the oven if you wish and they

are good this way too. get you some button mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, bell

peppers, onions, your favorite fruit and some kind of meat. here is also

where you can use those corn on the knob sliced up like a cucumber on the

sticks as well. once it is done, then pull it off the stick and spread it

out on a romaine leaf, fold it up like a taco or a burrito. you know the one

staple I miss a lot is pinto beans. however beans are way high in carbs. I

use to never eat less then 5 cups of beans at a time and always had two

bowls with half of a skillet of corn bread! now I may cook a cup of pinto

beans and add it to a whole pot of soup. times sure do change. when you get

a real bad sweet tooth going on and you are afraid you might slip and eat a

thing you shouldn't, eat a bit of plain mustard and it will help that tooth

go back to sleep. get you some of those large mushrooms that is the size of

a small plate. make you some scrambled eggs with grilled onions and cream

cheese with some baby shrimp, then put it in the bowl of the huge mushroom

and let it heat up in the oven for just a few minutes, but not to long or it

won't be as good. rub that mushroom down with some melted butter before you

put the egg stuff in it. if toast doesn't mess with your sugar, then set the

mushroom on a piece of toast and do it all together. just do it all kinds of

different in what ever combination you dig. but these huge mushrooms make

grate bowls you can eat and it isn't deep fried and will kill your sugar

reading in 2 hours. go to the health food store and buy the stuff to make up

your own cereal using things that are healthy. just have some one go with

you and pick out how ever many items you want to be in your cereal. nuts,

seeds, granola, but be careful with dried fruit because it is way high in

carbs. add cut up fresh is better when you wish to eat some. get you a

blinder or a food processer and start playing around with foods that are low

in carbs. this is what I have done in the past and have created some dishes

that I do enjoy with out guilt. now don't forget to pick you up maybe six

containers of cottage cheese! it is the one staple you have to have on hand

always to do right by your sugar and if you just don't like it? well pull

your head out of the sand and learn to like it!

[Guest guest]

well now that is one I haven't tried yet. my Momma liked salt and pepper on

her cottage cheese, but never tried it my self. I do eat cottage cheese with my

eggs of a morning. I haven't found a good replacement yet for the bacon I miss.

thought about maybe chewing on some card board and pretend it was bacon. all the

breakfast meats are just salty. I'm doing rather well not eating salt, but I do

from time to time. can't figure out if I miss salt the most or milk. picked up a

half gallon of milk one week ago to day and still got half of it left. I'm so

proud of me that I hurt my arm patting my own back! I have though figured out

that I have to go real easy on any carbs at lunch or my sugar will be to high at

dinner. so since I take the insulin at breakfast and dinner, well this is where

I eat those carbs that I got to have. going to have turkey salad on cucumbers

for dinner to night and maybe a half of a orange. it has been about 15 since my

shot and it is time to get at it.

We all have a main staple in our diet, what is

your's?

I would say cottage cheese is my very biggest main staple in my daily diet.

it is low carb and can go with all most anything. use to be I ate raw oats

every morning. just oats raw with milk and splinda. now I notice when I eat

oats my sugar will be higher then I like. so I cut down on what I eat and

can't have any more now then half a cup. I think right behind cottage cheese

would be eggs. I always keep some boiled eggs in the fridge every day. get

the hunger pain? well eat a boiled egg. hits the spot every time. you can do

so much with an egg. ever tried grilling you some onions in the skillet with

a bit of olive oil before you scramble your eggs? it is hard to beat for

extra flavor. I really don't miss bread. never have been a real bread eater

with my meals like my Momma was. do dig hot yeast rolls right out of the

oven with some real butter and strawberry jam! so I don't bake them no more.

make you some chicken or turkey salad with mayo, eggs, pickle relish,

onions, celery and spices. let sit a few hours or over night. now you can

eat this like dip on your favorite veggie. I really like it on a slice of

cucumber or bell pepper. hard to beat cottage cheese though. it is good on

veggies as well. cut up some fruit in your cottage cheese and add some

splinda. throw in some walnuts or almonds as well. let this sit a few hours

and it is about as good as it gets. I haven't tried the kale chips yet or

making pancakes with pork rimes and eggs. can't get pass either one yet. not

going to knock them though until I have tried both. I do miss chips and dip.

hot on fire dip that is! I'm married to a Mexican lady who hates anything

hot or spicy. she doesn't even like black pepper. good thing I'm the cook

because I love it hot and more kinds of hot is better! going to mess around

with different ways to make me a new chip for some dip that won't shoot my

sugar in to next week. I've heard of romaine or leaf letis, but not sure yet

if that will work for me. I'm here to tell you for sure those so called low

carb crackers and chips you can now buy my dog wouldn't eat! very nasty to

say the least. ever had any sweet potatoes chips? these to me are very nasty

to the taste. I do like turnips and maybe they could be sliced real thin and

baked in the oven until they were crushy like a chip? I have always ate the

same veggies all my life because I suppose I got tunnel vision like most

people. I run across veggies I have no clue how to cook them or what they

taste like or what do you eat them with. now that I'm eating more veggies,

I'm going to step out and try some new veggies on for size. If I don't cook

them right, then what the hay! like a artichoke? what in the world is this?

what about leaks? what is that? ever tried those potatoes that look like a

finger? now here is a way you can eat a few potatoes and not eat to much.

baby or finger will do the trick. do any of you like Brussels sprouts? my

honey loves them. I can't hardly stand to chew them up. I know corn on the

knob is not good for us who are watching the sugar, but some times you got

to step out and eat the for bidden fruit. so get you a fresh corn on the

knob and slice it up like you would a cucumber in to quarter inches slices.

then boil them and roll them around in some real butter. they will keep a

while in a tight container in the fridge and you can have a couple at dinner

every day or so until they are gone. what about water melon and cantaloupe?

I love them both, but high in sugar are they both. who can eat one slice of

a real sweet cantaloupe? not this pig! water melon is simply sugar water

just about, but man is it ever so good around the fourth of July! next time

the buddies cook out on the grill, you wrap your dog up in a huge romaine

leaf instead of that bad bun. you could eat 2 this way. just have one that

is a foot long instead! if you buy the romaine fresh, you will have a big

enough wrap for your dog and put the good stuff around it that you like.

ever had veggies on a stick on the grill? I always let my veggies and meat

sit over night in some olive oil and spices before I put them on the sticks

the next day on the grill. you can do it in the oven if you wish and they

are good this way too. get you some button mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, bell

peppers, onions, your favorite fruit and some kind of meat. here is also

where you can use those corn on the knob sliced up like a cucumber on the

sticks as well. once it is done, then pull it off the stick and spread it

out on a romaine leaf, fold it up like a taco or a burrito. you know the one

staple I miss a lot is pinto beans. however beans are way high in carbs. I

use to never eat less then 5 cups of beans at a time and always had two

bowls with half of a skillet of corn bread! now I may cook a cup of pinto

beans and add it to a whole pot of soup. times sure do change. when you get

a real bad sweet tooth going on and you are afraid you might slip and eat a

thing you shouldn't, eat a bit of plain mustard and it will help that tooth

go back to sleep. get you some of those large mushrooms that is the size of

a small plate. make you some scrambled eggs with grilled onions and cream

cheese with some baby shrimp, then put it in the bowl of the huge mushroom

and let it heat up in the oven for just a few minutes, but not to long or it

won't be as good. rub that mushroom down with some melted butter before you

put the egg stuff in it. if toast doesn't mess with your sugar, then set the

mushroom on a piece of toast and do it all together. just do it all kinds of

different in what ever combination you dig. but these huge mushrooms make

grate bowls you can eat and it isn't deep fried and will kill your sugar

reading in 2 hours. go to the health food store and buy the stuff to make up

your own cereal using things that are healthy. just have some one go with

you and pick out how ever many items you want to be in your cereal. nuts,

seeds, granola, but be careful with dried fruit because it is way high in

carbs. add cut up fresh is better when you wish to eat some. get you a

blinder or a food processer and start playing around with foods that are low

in carbs. this is what I have done in the past and have created some dishes

that I do enjoy with out guilt. now don't forget to pick you up maybe six

containers of cottage cheese! it is the one staple you have to have on hand

always to do right by your sugar and if you just don't like it? well pull

your head out of the sand and learn to like it!