Breakfast Monday 21 November 2022

[irisblue]

I'm going to have a herbal tea soon & much later today eggs & toast

[gademocrat7]

1. Coffee with cream now

Cheese toast and sliced apple later.

[Emile]

2. Black coffee now, ☕

Scrambled eggs and toast later.

[Callalily]

3. Coffee now, and I think

that I'll make some oatmeal with walnuts, dried cranberries and honey a little later.

[MissMillie]

4. wrap & coffee

sausage, egg & cheese, tots and salsa in the wrap



I admit, I'm pretty bored with it, but I don't have it in me to come up with something else.


Our beloved rat terrier, Audry, is not doing well. She didn't eat all day yesterday, and it appears there is blood in her urine. Today we scramble to find a vet that can see her on short notice--and of course scramble to find a way to pay for it.

[hippywife]

5. I dunno.

Just got up a little while ago, sippin' mocha and water. Husband has been up quite a while, had his yogurt, banana, and then just ate a piece of the pie from last night.

As usual, I am NOT hungry, wasn't hungry last night, either, and only had a quarter of husband's reuben that he couldn't finish for dinner last night. I was dangerously out of my weekly Ozempic injection for 3 days past when I needed it (due to shortage from the manufacturer) and had a normal appetite. Since picking it up and using it Saturday, I'm back to no appetite. So, it's definitely what's been killing it. Probably better this way, as it's really brought my A1c way down, but definitely no fun.

Anyhoo...gonna be a busy day. After I make some hard boiled eggs and get a fresh batch of yogurt on, I'm just going to make our holiday dinner. There's only the 2 of us, so why the heck not?

I'll probably make and bake some whole wheat rolls since unable to get them from the store.

[NJCher]

6. very interesting

on the Ozempic. So many people have that problem. I am trying to figure out how to monitor glucose levels without medical intervention. I'm not finding anything helpful. I guess I will just have to keep track of carbs.

So far my doc hasn't put me on anything but I think it's because I"m borderline.

Wow, you make your own yogurt! Do you use a yogurt maker?

Just tea for me this morning: hibiscus.

[hippywife]

7. If you want to monitor blood glucose levels...

you really need a monitor with test strips, but not sure insurance would even cover that if someone is only borderline. It might be worth asking your doctor to prescribe them for you and see if they do. If the insurance won't, you don't have to actually fill the prescription, just ask your pharmacist to put it through to check.

I was able to stave it off for a long time. Once I was diagnosed as diabetic, after being borderline for a long time, I was able to turn my labs around to all normal just by eating foods as whole as possible and eliminating all processed foods. No counting calories, fat or carbs. My doctor was shocked. But I think heredity eventually caught up with me, plus some other things that were going on in my life that led to depression, and here we are. The way you seem to eat, I would think you maybe could be okay, for now at least. But definitely don't take my word for that.

Husband eats yogurt every single day. If I didn't make it, we'd go broke buying it. The Greek yogurt he liked is now selling for over $5 at Walmart. I can make it for half the price.

I used to just make it on the stove top, pour it into mason jars, and then put the jars in a large cooler that had been pre-warmed with a heating pad. I put a folded bath towel over the heating pad, put the jars in, then covered them with the other half of the towel and leave them overnight to incubate. But a few years or so ago, I got a good deal on a Crock Pot Xpress (instant pot) and started making it in that. It doesn't reduce the incubation time, it just eliminates the need for me to stand over the stove stirring the milk to keep it from scorching. After it's done, I empty it into a couple of old 32 oz yogurt tubs, plus saving about 4-6 oz for starter for the next batch.

I also add heavy cream to it, along with the starter, and it makes a full fat thick Greek style yogurt without any straining. You can keep it thick, without the liquid pooling in it, if you smooth over the top of it after taking out spoonfuls and not leaving a depression/opening for that to happen. (That works for sour cream, too.)

[hippywife]

8. Deviled eggs.

Just had my breakfast.