Someone mentioned it on a yahoogroup today, so I looked up a few recipes, and now that I've read them I MUST HAVE SOME! Bacon is of course a staple of the way I eat, as are pecans...and I have some SF chili powder at hand. But brown sugar...hmm...obviously way too carby for me. I've used a couple of different subs: Diabetisweet is one, and Sugar Twin is the other. I've used both and find the Diabetisweet to be preferable but of course that's a personal opinion and about worth what you just paid for it.
Anyway, I need to find out if either of these products would get all melt-y and caramel-y so as to hold the pecan bits together and adhere the topping to the bacon, as real brown sugar does. I will get back to you on that, as soon as I find out - either from someone wiser than me about such things, or from my own experience.
Meanwhile I need to find a way to keep the drool out of my keyboard.
Friday, January 9, 2009
I got my answer!
Someone mentioned it on a yahoogroup today, so I looked up a few recipes, and now that I've read them I MUST HAVE SOME! Bacon is of course a staple of the way I eat, as are pecans...and I have some SF chili powder at hand. But brown sugar...hmm...obviously way too carby for me. I've used a couple of different subs: Diabetisweet is one, and Sugar Twin is the other. I've used both and find the Diabetisweet to be preferable but of course that's a personal opinion and about worth what you just paid for it.
Anyway, I need to find out if either of these products would get all melt-y and caramel-y so as to hold the pecan bits together and adhere the topping to the bacon, as real brown sugar does. I will get back to you on that, as soon as I find out - either from someone wiser than me about such things, or from my own experience.
Meanwhile I need to find a way to keep the drool out of my keyboard.
Anyway, I need to find out if either of these products would get all melt-y and caramel-y so as to hold the pecan bits together and adhere the topping to the bacon, as real brown sugar does. I will get back to you on that, as soon as I find out - either from someone wiser than me about such things, or from my own experience.
Meanwhile I need to find a way to keep the drool out of my keyboard.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Prayers for a friend's family
My heart is heavy for a friend and her husband who are going through a rough patch together with his employment situation. He's a good man, a good provider, a great worker, and has had a very successful career for many years. But all that may not matter, they will find out tomorrow morning whether he will be out of work anyway. If I had a business in his line of work, he'd be the first executive I would hire; in fact, I'd be relying on him to make decisions and advise me. I would trust him that much, and his abilities and honesty and judgment. Any company would be better off for having him on their team - where he is now, they just don't see it... I will be praying for them tonight, not that he gets to keep his job necessarily, but that God will use this situation to get Mike, a generous and loving Christian family man, into a position where he will be able to work in a Christian manner, with respect for others, and where he can shine Christ's light on all he does. Whether that's with his current company or somewhere else. Because "only what's done for Christ will last" and a Christian cannot achieve satisfaction otherwise.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Family and Food
Spent the evening yesterday with daughter Casey and SIL Josh, they took us out to eat, then we went to the nursing home to visit Grandma (my mom, who has Lewy Body Dementia). Grandma was having a good day, and really enjoyed seeing Casey - they've always had a good and close relationship - and Josh, as well as Casey's "baby bump": Leelan Daniel will make his appearance in April.
Then the kids came over to exchange Christmas gifts, as this was the first time we could all manage to get together. Casey got me a neck pillow that I love, it's got beads or something in it, and is similar (different shape) to a pillow she got me several years ago, that goes EVERYWHERE with me, and I use it not only to hold my head but for other things as well...anyway, it was the perfect gift!
And onto food: I ate carbs at the restaurant yesterday, as I was afraid of...I just seem to lose all control when faced with so many delicious choices. FWIW, I did take my white kidney bean extract beforehand...
Today was much better: steak and salad for lunch, yogurt later, another salad with turkey and ranch dressing later, and 3 wasa fiber crackers with melted mozzarella later. So a good food day today. I sure love salads.
Went to the doctor, all is well, I'm back to normal activity, we talked about my GERD and a new med since the old one isn't working for me anymore. And about my recent neurological issues and most recent hospitalization and subsequent vast improvement. All is well, I'm back up to normal activity for the first time in months. And working on taking off the poundage that accumulated during those months...
Then the kids came over to exchange Christmas gifts, as this was the first time we could all manage to get together. Casey got me a neck pillow that I love, it's got beads or something in it, and is similar (different shape) to a pillow she got me several years ago, that goes EVERYWHERE with me, and I use it not only to hold my head but for other things as well...anyway, it was the perfect gift!
And onto food: I ate carbs at the restaurant yesterday, as I was afraid of...I just seem to lose all control when faced with so many delicious choices. FWIW, I did take my white kidney bean extract beforehand...
Today was much better: steak and salad for lunch, yogurt later, another salad with turkey and ranch dressing later, and 3 wasa fiber crackers with melted mozzarella later. So a good food day today. I sure love salads.
Went to the doctor, all is well, I'm back to normal activity, we talked about my GERD and a new med since the old one isn't working for me anymore. And about my recent neurological issues and most recent hospitalization and subsequent vast improvement. All is well, I'm back up to normal activity for the first time in months. And working on taking off the poundage that accumulated during those months...
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Sundays without church...
...are like hamburgers without catsup. There's something missing as you go through the day. But sleet and freezing rain and my husband's job kept us from church today...it has been several weeks since we've gone, mostly because of either weather or Pete's job, or I was in the hospital one of the Sundays we've missed...
We're a family that goes to church every week, and in-between too. We are one of the most involved couples...or we were. How can we be there for everything (we don't like to miss a thing!) when Pete always has to work, and I don't drive?
Anyway...I spent the day working on my Facebook page, depressed. Cleaned some bird cages, worked on my daughter's computer...didn't accomplish much.
So far I had 5 bites of cottage cheese, 2 containers of yogurt (it's delicious but I like my own home-made yogurt better!), and about a dozen slices hard salami with cream cheese. Plus a couple of cups of coffee with the usual: sweet'n'low, SF vanilla soy milk, and a splash of whole milk. Going out for dinner tonight with daughter and son-in-law, I understand, depends where we go but most places will serve a salad and a piece of some sort of protein. I just have to make sure I'm not ravenous when I go, my biggest downfall has always been eating in restaurants!
Chilly (lower 20's outside) and grey. I should have worked in the shop to get orders out tomorrow, feel tired and limp today though, is it the weather?
We're a family that goes to church every week, and in-between too. We are one of the most involved couples...or we were. How can we be there for everything (we don't like to miss a thing!) when Pete always has to work, and I don't drive?
Anyway...I spent the day working on my Facebook page, depressed. Cleaned some bird cages, worked on my daughter's computer...didn't accomplish much.
So far I had 5 bites of cottage cheese, 2 containers of yogurt (it's delicious but I like my own home-made yogurt better!), and about a dozen slices hard salami with cream cheese. Plus a couple of cups of coffee with the usual: sweet'n'low, SF vanilla soy milk, and a splash of whole milk. Going out for dinner tonight with daughter and son-in-law, I understand, depends where we go but most places will serve a salad and a piece of some sort of protein. I just have to make sure I'm not ravenous when I go, my biggest downfall has always been eating in restaurants!
Chilly (lower 20's outside) and grey. I should have worked in the shop to get orders out tomorrow, feel tired and limp today though, is it the weather?
Music: Cornerstone
http://www.box.net/shared/4qigydvz2h is the link to Cornerstone...one of my all-time favorites. Jesus as my Cornerstone is the basis for everything in my life.
(You will notice that none of my recordings are perfect. Neither am I.)
(You will notice that none of my recordings are perfect. Neither am I.)
Jesus is the Cornerstone,
Came for sinners to atone.
Though rejected by His own,
He remains the Cornerstone.
When I am by sin oppressed
On the Stone I am at rest.
Though the seeds of truth are sown
He remains the Cornerstone.
Jesus is the Cornerstone.
Rock of Ages, cleft for me.
Let me hide myself in Thee!
Rock of Ages so secure,
For all time it shall endure!
Til all children reach their home,
He remains the Cornerstone!
Til the breaking of the dawn,
Til all footsteps cease to roam,
Ever let this truth be known,
Jesus is the Cornerstone!
Jesus is the Cornerstone!
Low Carb-ness
I don't make New Year's resolutions. In fact, I don't even celebrate New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. It is a non-holiday to me. So when I say that I'm returning to my low carb way of life today, it has nothing to do with the calendar, but everything to do with my life.
I started eating low carb a few years ago. I lost quite a bit of weight, then realized that all the hanging skin and saggy flesh moving earthward thanks to gravity was despicable. I hated it and, even though I wasn't quite to my halfway point in pounds lost, I decided to stop and maintain. First, I wanted to give my skin a chance to Do The Right Thing, and suck up to my new body size. Second, I wanted to stop the horrible process of making my body ugly, until I saw the results of my "skin test".
I maintained well for the next few years, and enjoyed all the healthy advantages that come from eating a low carb diet, including digestive improvements (from GERD to gas), clear skin for the first time since puberty, more energy and better sleep, a greatly improved blood lipid profile, lower blood pressure, etc. Excellent!
Then about 10 weeks ago I had a "cerebro-vascular incident" followed by weeks of an unidentified neurological problem that left me at my husband's culinary mercy. His shopping and cooking wasn't necessarily low carb. And frankly, I had bigger concerns than what I ate. 2 hospital visits during this time when I was given their version of a "heart healthy" diet (read: loaded with carbs) didn't help - nor did the 2 courses of oral steroids that made me ravenous...
With any weight loss diet, when you stop doing it and go back to eating the foods that made you fat, guess what? They'll make you fat again! I gained about 25% of my lost weight back. I didn't care at first, worrying more about my brain than my weight. But once I started showing improvement, the dissatisfaction with the way I'd been eating started to surface. So when I finally improved to the point of being able to once again be the main shopper and cook of our household, it just happened to be January 2nd. And so, it just happens that I'm thankfully resuming my low carb lifestyle at the beginning of a new year.
Today I slept in, then ate a salad with ranch dressing and a heavily seasoned fried pork chop for "brunch". Suppers was a ground beef patty, fried with a small chopped onion and some mushrooms, with a hefty side dish of buttered green beans. My evening snack was salami "crackers" (lay out hard salami sliced on a paper-towel-lined, microwave-safe plate and cover with another paper towel; nuke for 30 seconds, rearrange slices carefully because they're hot, and nuke for another 30 seconds; depending on how powerful your microwave is, you may or may not need another 30-second burst; let them stand for a few minutes and they'll crisp right up) and cream cheese - 7 "crackers" with 1 measured tsp of cream cheese, full fat of course, on each. I also drank several cups of coffee with sweet'n'low, SF vanilla soy milk, and a squirt of whole milk in each.
I'm feeling better already.
I started eating low carb a few years ago. I lost quite a bit of weight, then realized that all the hanging skin and saggy flesh moving earthward thanks to gravity was despicable. I hated it and, even though I wasn't quite to my halfway point in pounds lost, I decided to stop and maintain. First, I wanted to give my skin a chance to Do The Right Thing, and suck up to my new body size. Second, I wanted to stop the horrible process of making my body ugly, until I saw the results of my "skin test".
I maintained well for the next few years, and enjoyed all the healthy advantages that come from eating a low carb diet, including digestive improvements (from GERD to gas), clear skin for the first time since puberty, more energy and better sleep, a greatly improved blood lipid profile, lower blood pressure, etc. Excellent!
Then about 10 weeks ago I had a "cerebro-vascular incident" followed by weeks of an unidentified neurological problem that left me at my husband's culinary mercy. His shopping and cooking wasn't necessarily low carb. And frankly, I had bigger concerns than what I ate. 2 hospital visits during this time when I was given their version of a "heart healthy" diet (read: loaded with carbs) didn't help - nor did the 2 courses of oral steroids that made me ravenous...
With any weight loss diet, when you stop doing it and go back to eating the foods that made you fat, guess what? They'll make you fat again! I gained about 25% of my lost weight back. I didn't care at first, worrying more about my brain than my weight. But once I started showing improvement, the dissatisfaction with the way I'd been eating started to surface. So when I finally improved to the point of being able to once again be the main shopper and cook of our household, it just happened to be January 2nd. And so, it just happens that I'm thankfully resuming my low carb lifestyle at the beginning of a new year.
Today I slept in, then ate a salad with ranch dressing and a heavily seasoned fried pork chop for "brunch". Suppers was a ground beef patty, fried with a small chopped onion and some mushrooms, with a hefty side dish of buttered green beans. My evening snack was salami "crackers" (lay out hard salami sliced on a paper-towel-lined, microwave-safe plate and cover with another paper towel; nuke for 30 seconds, rearrange slices carefully because they're hot, and nuke for another 30 seconds; depending on how powerful your microwave is, you may or may not need another 30-second burst; let them stand for a few minutes and they'll crisp right up) and cream cheese - 7 "crackers" with 1 measured tsp of cream cheese, full fat of course, on each. I also drank several cups of coffee with sweet'n'low, SF vanilla soy milk, and a squirt of whole milk in each.
I'm feeling better already.
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