[ginnie]

Yeh my son did say the same thing. He would prefer I did it without making myself sore like that. I am much better this morning. The baths helped, and I have been stretching out. I guess on top of DJD I am just getting older now. I still feel young inside my head, but the body objects to that. I will be way more careful. If my docs. knew this I don't think they wouldn't appove either! Thanks waves, have a good day. I hope something good comes your way. I am on line to NT for a little bit, then I will go out into the garage and do some mosaics. I should do some housecleaning, but that doesn't sound like fun to me. heck with my bed too! ginnie

[Mari]

Hi,

I was cooking the steel cut oatmeal in the crockpot too long.
It sounds like maybe I am dumb to not think it matters how long to cook something. 'Probably I am.
I was figuring I could dump it in the crock pot to cook and turn it off when when I woke up.

Last night I cooked it only for 6 hours in the crockpot. It had a different consistency and taste (?) . . . It was good.

I am trying to eat more beans and such in order to lower my grocery bill and cut back on meat for a while. Eggs are fine because they are cheap.

M

[bizi]

WE buy these boneless pork chops that are about 4 oz each one 10 for 10$.
WE each had one tonight, split a pound of fresh asparagus. $4.50 for 2 dinners.
bizi

[Mari]

Originally Posted by bizi

WE buy these boneless pork chops that are about 4 oz each one 10 for 10$.
WE each had one tonight, split a pound of fresh asparagus. $4.50 for 2 dinners.
bizi

Bizi,


I love asparagus! My mother had some growing wild in the yard when I was kid. She would cut some for dinner with a pair of scissors. The last two times, I bought asparagus, I did not share with hubby --- just rinsed them and ate them raw!!

I enjoy pork sometimes, but I only eat it when hubby is not around or when I am at a restaurant. Hubby does not like the smell of it.

For $1.50 I can get a 14 OZ bag of black eyed peas that will last the two of us several meals. I add garlic and water . . . . , so each meal is about twenty five cents. Hubby eats them with rice or adds other veggies to make a nice dish for us.

On weeks when I am really trying to cut down the grocery bill, I buy cabbage. That is just about the cheapest, most nutritious, and most versatile vegetable I know.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/03/...for-your-buck/

If you want to watch your wallet and also buy fresh vegetables that provide pretty good nutrition, below are the choices that offer the best combination of those factors, says Jennifer Langston of Sightline Institute, a nonprofit sustainability think tank, who developed the rankings with her co-worker Eric Hess. Here are their rankings of the best, cheapest veggies:
Cabbage
Collard greens
Mustard greens
Turnip greens
Carrots

M

[ginnie]

I may try the crock pot for the oatmeal. However i kind of enjoy the "snap" of the 25 minute cooking. Love steel cut oatmeal, and eat it often. ginnie

[waves]

I love asparagus too, but we hardly ever get to have it.

i don't know how to do cabbage other than chop it up and throw it in some water with other vegs. and potatoes but i do love it. here we can also get the curly kind which has a wonderful texture.

Originally Posted by Mari

For $1.50 I can get a 14 OZ bag of black eyed peas that will last the two of us several meals. I add garlic and water . . . . , so each meal is about twenty five cents. Hubby eats them with rice or adds other veggies to make a nice dish for us.

i love beans with garlic. i especially like to make bean-salads that way.

black-eyed peas take kindly to rosemary and raw fine-chopped garlic. can always add fine-chopped celery and carrots. some water, some olive oil. salt & pepper to taste.

with garbanzos i like to use garlic and thyme, plus the usual olive oil/water combo, salt & pepper. they taste better left overnight. i don't usually bother with the celery and carrots but they can work.

now with kidney beans, redbeans and broad white beans, i like them mixed and i like celery and onion in there. no garlic or carrots.

black beans... hot or cold, with fresh (raw) chopped onion and lemon and nothing else!

NB: where there is raw garlic, do not store a dish for more than a couple days as it can develop botulinum toxin.

when i make a cooked bean dish, i tend to do spicy ones. often i will use a curry base or similar. that goes really well with rice. often i will make a green veg separately, like spinach, to round out the meal.

~ waves ~

[waves]

sometimes when i want something lighter to go with steamed rice, i will make broccoli and oblique-sliced carrots. prep. ranges between just heated in the microwave optionally then dowsed with lemon, to sauteed with ginger and onions - very tasty!

i also like to eat the leftover carrot-zucchini-bellpepper combo that we make with rice.

usually i do those things for lunch. (on non tuna days! )

i never worry about protein because my father is practically carnivorous so dinner alone includes plenty.

~ waves ~

[bizi]

WEll I have reached one goal and have maintained for a while so I don't think the weight I have lost is just water weight...my scrub pants are looser. and my bra size is going down always an indicator that I have lost weight. now if I could just lose these love handles...next goal is the last 10 pounds. this will be the hardest to lose...thank you for being patient with me.
I just figured out that the metamucil I have been using is not the sugar free kind that I thought that I picked up but full of sugar!!!!
So I have been having a lot more carbs than I thought and still losing.
bizi
Who intends to pick up the sugar free kind ASAP!

[ginnie]

I am just not right with the PC. Can you tell me where on the new post page the thread starter is? I want to post this morning to everyone if I can. If I can't do it will you?
I need prayers and good vibes sent my way today. I have an appt. that very well is the one, that will determine if I have to spend my life in a wheelchair. If there is no correction for my ankles, that will be my fate no matter what I do. I am very frightened, I am only 60 and I know others have to use a wheelchair, but it doesn't help when you are facing that yourself. This is a specialist, the student of the best in the country who is evaluating me today. I feel sick to my stomach and I am shaking. Trying not to tear up just thinking about it. I got in just about overnight, but I didn't have much prep time to prepare myself emotionally. I was such a very active person Bizi, I can't walk the 127 steps to the beach, nor walk along the shore. I can't walk in a fair gounds with my friends. So I have to find out the truth if there is a correction from the top in the field. What I have is a degenerative joint condition called anterior tibial tendon disfunction, and it is indeed crippling, and causes more pain than I can endure without meds. Can you post for me? and just in a way that is simple. I am off line now till after the appt. I need all of you right now. thank you so much ginnie

[Mari]

Originally Posted by ginnie

I am just not right with the PC. Can you tell me where on the new post page the thread starter is? I want to post this morning to everyone if I can. If I can't do it will you?
I need prayers and good vibes sent my way today. I have an appt. that very well is the one, that will determine if I have to spend my life in a wheelchair. If there is no correction for my ankles, that will be my fate no matter what I do. I am very frightened, I am only 60 and I know others have to use a wheelchair, but it doesn't help when you are facing that yourself. This is a specialist, the student of the best in the country who is evaluating me today. I feel sick to my stomach and I am shaking. Trying not to tear up just thinking about it. I got in just about overnight, but I didn't have much prep time to prepare myself emotionally. I was such a very active person Bizi, I can't walk the 127 steps to the beach, nor walk along the shore. I can't walk in a fair gounds with my friends. So I have to find out the truth if there is a correction from the top in the field. What I have is a degenerative joint condition called anterior tibial tendon disfunction, and it is indeed crippling, and causes more pain than I can endure without meds. Can you post for me? and just in a way that is simple. I am off line now till after the appt. I need all of you right now. thank you so much ginnie

Ginnie,

You can use this link to post your own thread:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/ne...newthread&f=38


Mari