CAMMIE Re: Shirley - Eating

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Honey, if you can handle all that, why are you fiddling with ensure

and boost???

I saw a surgeon on teevee tonight who made the Dr. X special. I

swear, he got a big plate of french fries, piled on some grated

cheese, nuked them, dipped them in catsup and made a meal of them.

If I did that, my cardiologist would be the first one to walk up and

say, " Hello, Cammie. " My general care physician would be right

behind him.

Me, too, about the Braun. Unfortunately, September a year ago,

Hurricane Ivan (and the subsequent repair people) wrought

incredibles in my kitchen. I still have no real oven and no

stovetop, and Gawd only knows where the braun (and a lot of my other

cooking gear) are.

I tried to fry an egg (my hubby calls it a " dip egg " in a

combination of the microwave and the toaster oven one day this week.

He was very sweet about it (and very hungry) but the results were,

um, odd.

But some day, as Miz Scarlett said, As God is my Witness, I will

never go Braunless-stickblenderless again. Even if not for dip eggs.

And this may not be safe advice, but I found I could just run a

pyrex cupful of hot soapy water, poke it in there, and let it clean

its business end when I turned it on. Ahhhhhh....

C.

> Good to know. I did go shopping yesterday, but completely forgot to

> look for Boost/Ensure. Oh well. The splint comes off tomorrow and

> eating should get a lot easier.

>

> After eating nothing but two protein-powder smoothees yesterday, at

> about 4 p.m. I took myself out to Cracker Barrel for some real

food. I

> had chicken-fried chicken, hashbrown casserole, mac and cheese,

lemon

> pie. Oh man was it good. I was a little self-conscious eating by

> myself with my splinted metal mouth -- it takes forever to eat --

but

> no one seemed to notice or care and the waitress was really nice.

>

> Then, I made the yummiest thing last night: I steamed some

zuchinni in

> the microwave and blended it up with butter and salt. Mmmmmm. I

think

> I'm craving vegetables because I haven't eaten them much during the

> last few weeks.

>

> I gotta put in another plug for the Braun handblender. I love mine

so

> much! I mounted it on the wall above my knives and find I'm using

it

> two or three times a day. I think I will continue to use it even

when

> I no longer need soft food. It's so much quicker than the food

> processor and there's only one part to wash.

>

> Luna