Recipes, Food Tips, Healthy Eating & More

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Thank you, Harriet for sharing.

@rosemarya- I have seen this and forgot the name! Incredible!

This sounds like a great idea! I’ve had bad reactions to medications in the past. For instance, about 12 years ago while taking Tricor for high triglycerides, I awoke one morning and couldn’t see out of one eye. A retina specialist diagnosed me with wet macular degeneration and commented that at 57 years old, I was very young to get that. I checked the local hospital website for side effects of Tricor (the only med I was taking). Two side effects were unusual bleeding and vision problems. I requested that my cardiologist take me off the med. After 10 days off Tricor, my vision returned, and there was no sign of wet macular degeneration. I manage my cholesterol through diet and exercise and tweak that diet when I need to. I eat a plant-based pescatarian diet. The following is my favorite salad. It’s a meal. I eat salads once or twice a day. Create your own amounts; these are just ingredients I use most frequently... and the salad can be stuffed into a baked potato, also, for a healthy comfort meal.
Grated carrot and grated cabbage (purple or green), are always the base of the salad. Then I add lacinato kale, arugula, avocado, beans (pinto, kidney, etc.), tofu, broccoli (shred the stalks), fruit (choose apples, oranges, grapes, mangoes, blueberries, raspberries, etc.), 1 oz. low-fat cheese (I like Cabot), and my dressing is olive oil and vinegar or olive oil and any fresh squeezed citrus...

@jakedduck1 I love blue cheese but rarely have it now, it's very high in sodium. I use goat cheese most of the time for salads, it has half of the sodium. I think it's an acquired taste but I love it now. I would never use a raw egg.
JK

@hopeful33250 Always, aluminum foil. I have never used Mrs. Dash but I will have to give it a try.
When I feel I can afford to add something with sodium, I grate some pecorino romano on top of the vegetables. It has to be freshly grated. Grana Padano is good too but more difficult to find in typical supermarkets.
JK

@jakedduck1 Is epilepsy the reason for dietary restrictions? It sounds as if you do have your epilepsy well under control.
KL

JK- Good mroning- When I make turkey burgers I always use Mrs Dash as a seasoning

@jakedduck1 LOL I think they eat healthy Jake

@merpreb I have never made turkey burgers. What do you put in them? I have had turkey burgers in restaurants and they have been so dry they were almost inedible.
Thanks. JK