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Recipes, Food Tips, Healthy Eating & More

Posted by Debbra Williams, Alumna Mentor @debbraw, Feb 22, 2019

Some of the members of the Gratitude Discussion Group were interested in having a place to share recipes and food ideas. I’m hoping that we can use this thread as a place to have that kind of discussion. I’d love to hear your ideas for quick meals, comfort food, healthy snacks, and more.

Personally, I’ve just been through a bad reaction to one of my medications that left me with a very queasy stomach. I would love to hear ideas – or recipes – that might be used when you need to get something on your stomach, but don’t want to overdo it.

Hopefully, this thread will even be a place where we can share recipes for special treats and yummy rewards. It doesn’t always have to be healthy!

I’d love to hear from members who have been part of other discussions AND from new members who have good ideas, recipes and food tips to share. I’m excited to see who might start us off here with an awesome food suggestion!

Interested in more discussions like this? Go to the Just Want to Talk Support Group.

JK | @contentandwell | Jun 13, 2019
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@jakedduck1

As long as I eat healthy, which is a chore with my dislike of cooking, I seldom have problems maintaining or losing weight. My downfall is if I don’t eat healthy and my gluttony for deserts kicks in. My Mom can eat just 1 of anything but I can’t. Now I’m hungry for a Carmel cheesecake.
Jake

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@jakedduck1 I think many of us can relate to not being able to eat just one of something. My sister and I were just talking about that the other day. It's often easier to simply not have something in the house at all. Basically it is like being an alcoholic, they can't apparently stop at one drink, and us food-aholics can't stop at just one of something we really like. I have read that it's harder to break a food addiction than it is to break other addictions because you can't just stop eating.

@imallears I eat a very healthy, nutritious diet but I still cannot resist things when they are around, particularly if I have one -- one almost always leads to more than one. I do love sweets. The only sweet I generally buy is dark chocolate, over 70% cocoa, because that's actually good for you too. I work at limiting how much I eat of it.
JK

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Leonard | @jakedduck1 | Jun 13, 2019
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@gingerw

@imallears Mary, your message is good for anyone here, not just Leonard! Making food a healthy game could be fun. We all need food to survive, definitely, and that is what makes it difficult for people with eating or food disorders. Leonard, my dad always said he never met a cookie or cheesecake he didn't like. Towards the end of his life he wanted Panda brand black licorice. [Myself, I just want Good N Plenty]. Sometimes I still really desire what is a no-no on this renal diet, like a banana or good navel Orange.
Ginger

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@gingerw
My kidney doc wants me to eat an orange a day. I’ve had a few but not every day. I have kidney stones.

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lioness | @lioness | Jun 13, 2019
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@karen00

@jakedduck1........what is this study re: cereal that you guys are talking about?

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@jakedduck1 New today is that Roundup has inundated our cereals .Cheerio,s any oats, corn cereal so go to a smoothie in the morning like banana, yogurt ,almond milk or milk blueberries and blend it .

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JK | @contentandwell | Jun 13, 2019
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@jakedduck1

@imallears
You make some valid points. Funny thing is I use to love to cook and bake. I liked to make candy. I seldom eat sweets anymore and do eat quite healthy now bellyaching every inch of the way. I usually have 4oz of meat, potato veggies sometimes a salad. When my dad was alive we all went on a 700 calorie diet. Everything had to be weighed and measured but we all got full and had everything from appetizers to desert and never had any cravings. I use to eat every meal at the bakery and have a couple candy bars with a root beer float every night in bed. I’m not as active as I use to be when my pain was controlled with Fentanyl. I control it more now by staying off my feet. One reason I don’t cook or do anything for a prolonged time. After awhile I just collapse. Trying not to take any pain meds. I should hire someone to cook that way for me. I have a gal who cooks for me occasionally, guess she need to come more often. I hired her to help with my Mom but she’s not showing up.
Jake

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@jakedduck1 It sounds as if you actually have a valid reason for not cooking if being on your feet for too long is a problem. Did you have your own bakery?
If the person you hired is not showing up as regularly as she should, it's time to find a new homeworker. I suspect there are many out there.
JK

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JK | @contentandwell | Jun 13, 2019
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@jakedduck1

@gingerw
My kidney doc wants me to eat an orange a day. I’ve had a few but not every day. I have kidney stones.

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@jakedduck1 Oranges are good for your kidneys? That's really not a bad treatment, will OJ do? I love oranges but they are a lot of work. Living in CA there must be great oranges around.
JK

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imallears | @imallears | Jun 13, 2019
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@contentandwell

@jakedduck1 I think many of us can relate to not being able to eat just one of something. My sister and I were just talking about that the other day. It's often easier to simply not have something in the house at all. Basically it is like being an alcoholic, they can't apparently stop at one drink, and us food-aholics can't stop at just one of something we really like. I have read that it's harder to break a food addiction than it is to break other addictions because you can't just stop eating.

@imallears I eat a very healthy, nutritious diet but I still cannot resist things when they are around, particularly if I have one -- one almost always leads to more than one. I do love sweets. The only sweet I generally buy is dark chocolate, over 70% cocoa, because that's actually good for you too. I work at limiting how much I eat of it.
JK

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@contentandwell
Hi,

Dark chocolate is my go to also. I have to have a sweet thing after I eat dinner....sometimes lunch too. Always been that way but never had the urge to eat more than one piece so, lucky that way. Can make a slice of cheesecake last 3 nights...need just the taste but the urge is not there for more. That’s a blessing although I can understand the urge for more. Also have to have a glass of wine with dinner...again just one. Guess it’s the way I am hardwired more than will power.

FL Mary signing off

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Leonard | @jakedduck1 | Jun 13, 2019
In reply to @lioness "@jakedduck1 New today is that Roundup has inundated our cereals .Cheerio,s any oats, corn cereal so..." + (show)
@lioness

@jakedduck1 New today is that Roundup has inundated our cereals .Cheerio,s any oats, corn cereal so go to a smoothie in the morning like banana, yogurt ,almond milk or milk blueberries and blend it .

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I rarely eat breakfast. KP twice a day is torture enough. It’s traumatic enough just to walk through the kitchen to do the laundry. I should have lived in biblical days before they ate the fruit. No laundry, talk about the good old days.
Jake

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imallears | @imallears | Jun 13, 2019
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@jakedduck1

@imallears
You make some valid points. Funny thing is I use to love to cook and bake. I liked to make candy. I seldom eat sweets anymore and do eat quite healthy now bellyaching every inch of the way. I usually have 4oz of meat, potato veggies sometimes a salad. When my dad was alive we all went on a 700 calorie diet. Everything had to be weighed and measured but we all got full and had everything from appetizers to desert and never had any cravings. I use to eat every meal at the bakery and have a couple candy bars with a root beer float every night in bed. I’m not as active as I use to be when my pain was controlled with Fentanyl. I control it more now by staying off my feet. One reason I don’t cook or do anything for a prolonged time. After awhile I just collapse. Trying not to take any pain meds. I should hire someone to cook that way for me. I have a gal who cooks for me occasionally, guess she need to come more often. I hired her to help with my Mom but she’s not showing up.
Jake

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@jakeduck

Hi,
Well your situation is different and understandable. If it is an option for you to hire a cook/housekeeper then maybe she or he would be willing to make several meals that could be frozen. So you do have will power if you can stay off pain meds. But being inactive probably leads to the food cravings . A rock and a hard place for sure.

I’d like to know if your family owned or ran a bakery too.....how interesting.

I remember root beer floats...wow and an orange drink and hot dog with relish at Coney Island...Eggcream sodas.....and the first White Castle hamburgers.....the best things ever back then....and those little wax bottles that were filled with liquid...use to chew the wax and spit it out.....and a bottle of Pepsi with a whole sleeve of Ritz crackers while reading the latest Nancy Drew book....omg I need a snack.....

Stay well....FL Mary

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imallears | @imallears | Jun 13, 2019
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@jakedduck1

I rarely eat breakfast. KP twice a day is torture enough. It’s traumatic enough just to walk through the kitchen to do the laundry. I should have lived in biblical days before they ate the fruit. No laundry, talk about the good old days.
Jake

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@jakeduck
Hey, they ate plenty of fruit in Biblical times. They didn’t eat 3 meals a day like we do but 2 main meals. So you could eat bread and fruit in the morning .At least you don’t have to wash your toga in the stream and beat it against a rock.😏 They didn’t
eat much meat if I am correct...bread veggies, grains and fruit....no toaster steaks...and oh yes...wine.

FL Mary heading for the pantry.... naw too late

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Leonard | @jakedduck1 | Jun 13, 2019
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@imallears

@jakeduck
Hey, they ate plenty of fruit in Biblical times. They didn’t eat 3 meals a day like we do but 2 main meals. So you could eat bread and fruit in the morning .At least you don’t have to wash your toga in the stream and beat it against a rock.😏 They didn’t
eat much meat if I am correct...bread veggies, grains and fruit....no toaster steaks...and oh yes...wine.

FL Mary heading for the pantry.... naw too late

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Haha, no togas in the beginning, not sure how long the good times continued. I doubt they cooked the fruit. My grandmother used a washboard and made me use it. She wanted me to appreciate how easy I had it. She lived in a tent for awhile but never made me live in one. Her dad was weird, he had an outhouse in the kitchen. I always wondered what an outhouse in the house would be called. Wine, ick you can have my share. I think my Dad’s accident has something to do with my aversion to alcohol.
Jake

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