Oh my goodness, how I wish I could grow my own garden. I eat zucchini every single day. I love fresh veggies.

My friends live in New Jersey and they grow bumper crop of beef steak tomatoes. Every day, I take grape tomatoes, chopped up zucchinis, romaine lettuce, some red onion, and some back sliced olives (always sliced, because even though the can says "pitted", don't believe it, because you can break a tooth if there's a pit in them. I always take it out and slice it myself.
Then on top, I put some sliced grilled chicken, a bit of extra virgin olive oil, some lite salt, and there you have the best lunch you ever had.

I just gave some to Alan. He would rather eat cereal but I won't let him. I mean, who has cereal for lunch when you can have a nice grilled chicken on some greens. It has all the anti-oxidants, clorophill, etc. etc. It's just plain good for you, has fiber and it tastes great.

I eat this every day. And if I don't make the grilled chicken, I'll put a can of solid white Bumble Bee tuna in place of the chicken.

Oh, Alan just discovered yet again, a new cereal for his breakfast.
First it was Fiber One, then it was something with Shredded Wheat (ugh), now it's Kashi Go Lean Crunch. He eats it with skim milk, he loves this.

I don't go near cereal because of my diabetes. I don't eat any refined starches or sugar or any thing with lots of carbs. I do eat a low-carb bagel for breakfast with an egg beater or an egg. Then some coffee and one of my blueberry muffins.

Alan just made a batch. Yes indeed he did. For the first time, he mixed up all the ingredients, poured them into the muffin pan and baked them for 15 minutes.

Didn't want to do it at first. Now he's bally-hooing all over the house "I made muffins" "I made muffins".

My god, you thought he discovered gold or something.

Melody

P.S. I have to tell you a funny story. If I told this before, sorry, I forget things sometimes.

Now, Alan never gets names right. He just doesn't. He will tell people when we went to see the movie Godzilla, he would say "we saw Gonzalez"

So he's talking with some buddies the other day and one of them says "Alan, if you could have any woman in the world, who would you have?" and Alan (who, years ago, adored Mariah Carey, but now he likes the singer who does "hips don't lie"), well he looks at the guy and says "I love Shakille". The guy says: "You like Shaquille O'Neal???, HEY GUYS, THIS GUY THINKS SHAQUILLE O'NEAL IS SEXY".

Alan goes "no, no, you know who I mean, the one who shakes her hips and does the belly dancing". And the guys started laughing and said "Oh, you mean SHAKIRA".

I never laughed so hard as when he came home and told me this story.