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(72,243 posts)highplainsdem
(62,659 posts)with the rest of my large breakfast.
I got up later than usual, so I won't go at least 6 hours between breakfast and lunch. Just had coffee and a cup of Daisy cottage cheese mixed with about a cup of black grapes, followed by a large banana (I like fruit, and with a family history of heart trouble, potassium is important). Still have to have some orange juice and then some milk with the usual supplements, vitamin A, D3, C, E, cal/mag/zinc, glucosamine chondroitin, l-lysine, and CoQ10 ( I take B vitamins with lunch). Almost ready to face a Saturday.
But I realized while I was eating breakfast that I hadn't checked Caturday posts on Twitter for a while...
marble falls
(72,243 posts)I make breakfast pizzas with a fermented Neapolitan crust that takes two days until it's ready to use, or eggs with toasted home made bread, fruit salad with Bulgarian yogurt, toast with peanut butter, break fast tacos with cheese and beans, steel cut oats, all healthy but no exactly health foods, some left overs and fresh veg egg omelets, try to mix it up to keep the wife interested.
We used to eat out for breakfast three or four days a week at health food place, but the Pandemic ended all restaurant meals. It really brought up my kitchen skills as the groceries had so many shortages here in central Texas. We've got pretty picky about quality over cost. The little bit of red meat we eat is high grade but smaller portions are more satisfying. Tripled the amount of fish we eat, doubled the poultry. We have vegetarian dinners two or three times a week
We can go several weeks with out going to a restaurant these days. But we are buying and eating higher grade foods now and enjoying it more and saving a lot of moolah. I do 90%+ of the cooking.
The hot summer murdered my garden.
I have an indoor hydroponic system (Aerogarden), I plan on having tomatoes next summer. I can grow 'cherry' tomatoes well, but I haven't found a small sandwich sized tomato I can get to set. I get tons of blossoms, but no 'maters. Yet.
highplainsdem
(62,659 posts)I eat wheat, though, along with joint pain and headaches, so I rarely have bread or pizza.
I do like eggs for breakfast, scrambled eggs or omelets or sometimes frittatas, but cottage cheese is quicker and easier.
I recently discovered - maybe I should say I've started trying, since I'd heard of these occasionally for years - foil packet meals, and have found recipes including some breakfasts that I haven't tried yet:
https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/recipes/g25654263/foil-packet-meals/
https://www.hungry-girl.com/go-to-guides/ultimate-foil-pack-recipe-roundup
https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/how-to-cook-in-foil-packets/
https://www.shape.com/healthy-eating/healthy-recipes/10-foil-packet-meals-easy-weeknight-dinners
https://www.livestrong.com/article/13769138-foil-packet-meals-recipes/
https://www.countryliving.com/food-drinks/g3394/foil-pack-recipes/
Re all the supplements - I've found them helpful. Discovered health food stores and Adelle Davis's books when I lived in NYC in the early 1970s. Got an immediate improvement in my health, and her advice on the B vitamins that help with kidney problems gave both my parents many more years of life. Several years for my dad when his kidneys were failing toward the end of his life, and several decades for my mom since she started getting kidney failure early due to a congenital problem. She made it to 96. When I say heart problems run in the family, I mean most of my mom's generation, all of my siblings, a niece, and at least three cousins. I'm doing fine.
I wish I thought it was usually possible to get enough nutrients from food, but we don't consume as many calories of more natural food as our more-active ancestors did, and meat, fish, dairy including eggs, and produce are usually poorer quality.
Having a healthy garden can help. I'm sorry yours was murdered by the heat.
marble falls
(72,243 posts)... I love cottage cheese, but for some reason I don't get it often as I used to.
Thanks for the list of resources!
NewHendoLib
(61,875 posts)Ah, tomatoes. PM me, or email me (nctomatoman@gmail.com) - we can talk tactics. I successfully grew 180 varieties this year - and it nearly did me in!
highplainsdem
(62,659 posts)you asked him for suggestions?
marble falls
(72,243 posts)... thanks for the lead!
yellowdogintexas
(23,735 posts)One of ours tears up and down the bare floor in our attic every night around 11 pm. She is not particularly large but she sounds like she weighs 30 pounds
highplainsdem
(62,659 posts)snow Bengal, who could do zoomies so fast that one morning when she was irked at my pretending to be asleep, when she wanted breakfast, she zoomed from the head of the bed down the hallway, through the living room into the dining room and up onto the table, pushed off in the reverse direction on the back of the chair at the far end of the table, tipping it just enough...and made it back to the head of the bed and was peering into my eyes from inches away by the time the chair hit the floor.
I had to laugh.
And she got her breakfast.