Hi,
I have never been a milk lover. In the 90's before I was lactose I used grape juice on my dry cereal and my coffee was black. 1st time the grape juice tasted funny. By the 2nd time it tasted good. :O) My husband had to have something different every day so there was always a variety of box cereals, omelets or pancakes/waffles on the weekends. I'm different. I can eat the same thing day after day and not get tired of it. I nuke 1/4c dry oatmeal with 2/3 c of water then added 1/3 c of frozen blueberries to cool it every morning since he died 16 yrs ago until a few mos ago. Also have a microwave poached egg and black coffee w it. When I finally went off the oats my A1c went up a little. Yrs ago an MD told me to stay away from anything "diet". He said the sweeteners were pure poison so I do agree with you about the sorbitol, etc.. I use Stevia/Truvia to bake and a tspn of dark agave syrup (calories but non-glycemic & tastes just like pancake syrup - You mom can have it) on a slice of Eziekiel bread (grocery freezer) w the egg and coffee. I recently made a recipe of bran muffins to see how they'd be w my belly. It's gone from one extreme to the other since Jan. Went to a Gastro in Feb. Had a CT and MRI. Nothing! Idiopathic. She said take fiber capsules and probiotics. With the quarantine I'm home 95% of the time. No social life at all. I'm a bridge player and jewelry artisan. I ruined my discs & lumbars with 45 years of pottery.. Have lost 3" in height. I think that's what messed up my GI too. All squashed. All of these chronic ailments may be annoying but we are handling them and are very lucky they are not major, painful and possibly terminal. Gotta put things in perspective.
Take care.
Marsh

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Hi,

  I have never been a milk lover.  In the 90's before I was lactose I used grape juice on my dry cereal and my coffee was black. 1st time the grape juice tasted funny.  By the 2nd time it tasted good.  :O)  My husband had to have something different every day so there was always a variety
of box cereals, omelets or pancakes/waffles on the weekends. I'm different. I can eat the same thing day after day and not get tired of it.  I nuke 1/4c dry oatmeal with 2/3 c of water then added 1/3 c of frozen blueberries to cool it every morning since he died 16 yrs ago until a few mos ago.  Also have a microwave poached egg and black coffee w it.  When I finally went off the oats my A1c went up a little.  
Yrs ago an MD told me to stay away from anything "diet".  He said the sweeteners were pure poison so I do agree with you about the sorbitol, etc.. I use Stevia/Truvia to bake and a tspn of dark agave syrup (calories but non-glycemic & tastes just like pancake syrup - You mom can have it) on a slice of Eziekiel bread (grocery freezer) w the egg and coffee.  I recently made a recipe of bran muffins to see how they'd be w my belly.  It's gone from one extreme to the other since Jan. Went to a Gastro in Feb. Had a CT and MRI.  Nothing!  Idiopathic. She said take fiber capsules and probiotics. 
With the quarantine I'm home 95% of the time.  No social life at all.
I'm a bridge player and jewelry artisan. 
I ruined my discs & lumbars with 45 years of pottery.. Have lost 3" in height. I think that's what messed up my GI too. All squashed.  All of these chronic ailments may be annoying but we are handling them and are very lucky they are not major, painful and possibly terminal.  Gotta put things in perspective.

Take care.

Marsh

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