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Skriven 2012-01-28 21:03:35 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 20509 av HAP NEWSOM (1:123/140)
Ärende: back to school                                           [1]
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Hi Hap,

->  HN> I'm often in a quandary about those silly
->  HN> readings. However mashed potatoes seem to
->  HN> spike me pretty well. Most places we eat

-> I think they probably spike a lot of people--all those carbs, butter,
-> milk................but with my mom, mashed potatoes are a staple part
-> of her diet. She tends to get high readings but a good bit of that is
-> due to her not following a good diet. We've not been up there since

 HN> I try to avoid the taters as much
 HN> as I can..and I dearly love 'em! But
 HN> I'm trying to keep the blood sugars
 HN> under control, last A1C was 6.1 which
 HN> pleased the doc quite a bit. Just had
 HN> a huge battery of blood work done and
 HN> urine samples to check kindey function as
 HN> well.

Hopefully all numbers will look good to you and the doctor. We went for
years without eating a lot of potatoes but picked up the amount when the
girls were growing up. Then we dropped back to almost none while we were
in HI. Now we go thru a 5 pound bag every couple of months or so; we
still use a lot of alternatives but do eat more potatoes than we used
to.

->  HN> offer brown rice as well as plain white..and
 HN> ->
-> You're more "big city" than we are. (G)
 HN> ->
 HN> And I can be in real wilderness faster than you
 HN> too! (grin)

Probably so, tho I've not looked at a map. There are a few desolare
places here in the state but the number is diminishing. OTOH, if we were
in AZ, there are still a lot of places with nothing but cactus, mesquite
and some nasty critters.

->  HN> a couple even offer red rice. At home we
->  HN> have red rice and brown...no white at all.
 HN> ->
-> We've got the brown in long & short grain, brown basmati and the rice
-> blend. Also have some wild "rice" and several boxes of various grain
-> mixes put out by Seeds of Change. I used one of them as part of supper
-> last night, may use the left over as part of a loaf of bread.

 HN> As far as breads go, I have
 HN> whole wheat crumpets for tomorrow's
 HN> breakfast (poached eggs on toasted

Sounds good; I've got some english muffins in the freezer I ought to
pull out for something similar. I made 2 beautiful looking loaves of
bread today using a cup of the leftover grain mix. Between those,
several kinds of crackers, other breads, pastas, etc, we've got a lot
of carbs in the house.


 HN> crumpets) and some high fiber english
 HN> muffins...and that's it, no crackers
 HN> or bread at all. Do have cheerios
 HN> though!

->  HN> it, it's all on the green grass!

-> Do you mow year round? I know Steve appreciates the winter break from
-> mowing. Here he usually starts in late March/early April and does the
-> last one of the season in late September/early October.

 HN> During the winter the grass stays green,
 HN> but doesn't grow much..so mowing is
 HN> usually mid march to late September.

I see a lot of brown but some patches of green around here right now.


 HN> Our grass (if it did not get regular
 HN> watering) turns brown in the dry
 HN> summer heat.

Sounds like AZ but they get summer monsoons to help green it up. Most of
the year, if not watered, the grass would be brown.

-> Can't do much other. I've got my first class of the term tonight so
-> trying to do Fido now, got a chicken roasting in the oven and will try
-> to get more sewing (dress for Audrey) in before supper.

 HN> It's Friday evening
 HN> and I took Annie out for
 HN> a late lunch/early dinner when
 HN> she got home from treatment..only
 HN> 13 more treatments to go! Less than
 HN> three weeks!!

Good to hear that the treatments are almost done! We went out last night
to the prime rib place, had the left overs for supper with some cleaning
out of odds & ends from the fridge to go with it.

->  HN> Attitude m'dear a good attitude
->  HN> will carry you far!

-> Better a positive attitude than a negative one. IOW, better a Tigger
-> than an Eeore attitude. (G)

 HN> Yep!


-> Steve has an appointment in Raleigh next week; I may go along and do
-> some shopping at Whole Foods Market. He needs peanut butter, likes their
-> grind your own version. Doctor's office is a couple of miles further
-> down the same road, almost too convenient. We'll probably start shopping
-> there a lot more often.

 HN> There used to be a locally made
 HN> Peanut butter (Sunny Jim) that was
 HN> really good...but you had to mix
 HN> it yourself as it was nothing but
 HN> peanuts in it...so it separated and
 HN> the top was all the peanut oil!

This stuff would if we didn't keep it in the fridge. We used to get some
(Laura Scudder? and other brands but not Sunny Jim) that did the same
thing. I'd let Steve be the muscle power to stir it up. One time he
snapped the handle on the rubber scraper he was using--didn't know his
own strength.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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