Home again.

On 6/26/07 3:05 PM, in article , "Karen C
- California" wrote:

Alison wrote:

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:08:45 -0700, Karen C - California
wrote:

Yep. XH was put on a low-sodium diet, and we discovered that when they
took out the salt, they generally replaced it with fat or sugar, so the
packaged foods that screamed "low sodium" were no healthier overall;
often had more calories than the full-salt version.


That's true. OTOH, the fat and sugar won't raise the blood pressure
if that was the issue.


No, but they'd cause new health issues. At nearly 300 lb, he didn't
need more fat, and was probably on the verge of diabetes.

Obviously, the best solution would have been for him to eat my healthy
made-from-scratch cooking, but he didn't want that. (Given his
druthers, the man would eat a steady diet of deep-fried food.)

I know a few people like that!

C

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 6/26/07 3:15 PM, in article , "Pogonip"
wrote:

Google is my friend. It was very difficult *wiping sweat from brow* --
I had to type in "potted meat" and press the little button. There were
other pages I could have told you about, like the "potted meat tribute
page." But I exercised restraint.

Google can be your friend, too. In the upper right corner of the
Firefox browser is a search box - where you can search terms on a list
of different sites.



Blowing raspberries your way!


Mmmmmmmmm, yum! Love dem raspberries.
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/

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On 6/26/07 3:05 PM, in article , "Karen
C
- California" wrote:

Alison wrote:

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:08:45 -0700, Karen C - California
wrote:

Yep. XH was put on a low-sodium diet, and we discovered that when they
took out the salt, they generally replaced it with fat or sugar, so the
packaged foods that screamed "low sodium" were no healthier overall;
often had more calories than the full-salt version.


That's true. OTOH, the fat and sugar won't raise the blood pressure
if that was the issue.


No, but they'd cause new health issues. At nearly 300 lb, he didn't
need more fat, and was probably on the verge of diabetes.

Obviously, the best solution would have been for him to eat my healthy
made-from-scratch cooking, but he didn't want that. (Given his
druthers, the man would eat a steady diet of deep-fried food.)

I know a few people like that!

C

I am a people like that !! If I had my druthers, and a stronger digestive
system, I would eat like that too. ;*))

Let's all sing!
OKRA-HOMA!
Every night my honey, spam, and I sit alone and sulk,
and watch the hulk making lazy circles in the pie!


PAT, ducking and running in VA!

YarnWright wrote:

ANY 'greens', even OKRA!
Which, on the radio today, a djay asked if Okra comes from... get this:
Okrahoma???
LOL
Noreen

On Jun 26, 3:15 pm, Pogonip wrote:
Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 6/26/07 1:43 PM, in article , "Pogonip"
wrote:

As a public service, I submit to you:
http://www.pk.org/pottedmeat.html

With a lovely picture of the various potted meat products offered to the
American consumer.

How/why did you find that! more importantly - why did someone think this was
worthy of that much research.

C

Google is my friend. It was very difficult *wiping sweat from brow* --
I had to type in "potted meat" and press the little button. There were
other pages I could have told you about, like the "potted meat tribute
page." But I exercised restraint.

Google can be your friend, too. In the upper right corner of the
Firefox browser is a search box - where you can search terms on a list
of different sites.

LOLOL Great answer!

Higs,
Katherine

On Jun 26, 3:16 pm, Karen C - California wrote:
Katherine wrote:
Yepper! Which is why home cooking is better. You can regulate what
goes
into the meal.

Absolutely. But you can't regulate what goes into the husband when he's
not home.

When we first got married, I was puzzled how he could be gaining weight
on what I was feeding him. Then I found out. On his way to work, he
supplemented my healthy breakfast with a 600-calorie muffin slathered
with butter. He topped off the low-cal lunch I packed with a bucket of
the Colonel's finest. After a low-fat dinner, he'd run an errand by way
of either Dunkin Donuts or the ice cream shop.

It's not that I'm a bad cook, it's that I don't cook the way his mother
did (with lots of salt, lots of fried food, gravy on everything) and my
healthy meals made him feel "deprived".

OK, how long have you been married to m y Keith? g
I remember one summer when he swore that he wasn't eating anything
but what I prepared and he kept gaining weight. Turns out he was
DRINKING a minimum of two iced cappucinos every day!

Higs,
Katherine

Pat in Virginia wrote:
Let's all sing!
OKRA-HOMA!
Every night my honey, spam, and I sit alone and sulk, and watch the hulk
making lazy circles in the pie!


PAT, ducking and running in VA!

YarnWright wrote:

ANY 'greens', even OKRA!
Which, on the radio today, a djay asked if Okra comes from... get this:
Okrahoma???
LOL
Noreen


Oh my, that's positively side-splitting!

Doreen in Alabama

Karen C - California wrote:
Lucille wrote:

She always found something to use it in, even if it was only a pot of
soup.



Yep. Every couple weeks, I used to clean out my fridge into the
crockpot. If it was green and supposed to be green, into the soup; if
it wasn't supposed to be green, into the trash. And if there was a fair
amount of leftover meat, I put in less water and called the resultant
concoction "stew" instead of soup.


But you should call the "stew" your "stock pot" - far more eco-friendly
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney
www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont
(Remove teeth to reply)

On 6/26/07 6:25 PM, in article
, "Katherine"
wrote:

On Jun 26, 3:16 pm, Karen C - California wrote:
Katherine wrote:
Yepper! Which is why home cooking is better. You can regulate what
goes
into the meal.

Absolutely. But you can't regulate what goes into the husband when he's
not home.

When we first got married, I was puzzled how he could be gaining weight
on what I was feeding him. Then I found out. On his way to work, he
supplemented my healthy breakfast with a 600-calorie muffin slathered
with butter. He topped off the low-cal lunch I packed with a bucket of
the Colonel's finest. After a low-fat dinner, he'd run an errand by way
of either Dunkin Donuts or the ice cream shop.

It's not that I'm a bad cook, it's that I don't cook the way his mother
did (with lots of salt, lots of fried food, gravy on everything) and my
healthy meals made him feel "deprived".

OK, how long have you been married to m y Keith? g
I remember one summer when he swore that he wasn't eating anything
but what I prepared and he kept gaining weight. Turns out he was
DRINKING a minimum of two iced cappucinos every day!

Higs,
Katherine


OMG (to quote the kids) I'm married to him too!

C

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:08:47 -0400, "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at
comcast..net wrote:
They are what I feel is a 'user upper' - I can never bring myself to
throw anything out, old war time training, nothing must be wasted.

I think that's why my mother made them. I know she learned from her mother
and my grandmother never threw out anything that could conceivably be called
food. She always found something to use it in, even if it was only a pot of
soup.


Some of my mother's left-overs were the best things I've ever eaten.
I loved her mashed potato cakes (like rissoles without the meat - just
potatoes); cottage fried potatoes from left-over boiled potatoes; and
those pot roast sandwiches - run the meat through the grinder with a
little onion, add mayonnaise - yum.

Alison