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Skriven 2011-03-23 21:30:56 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 8695 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>> Nature Valley has a few versions of a Sweet and Salty nut
 NB> granola  NB>> bar, a peanut one, an almond one, and a cashew one... it
 NB> has salted  NB>> nuts in it, and a sweeter nut butter yogurt layer on

 RH> I'm not nuts on nut butters but Steve is. I'd have to look for
 RH> something else.

 NB> The bottom layer doesn't really taste all that much like a nut butter,
 NB> since it's mixed with yogurt.  Maybe a vaguely nut-flavored sweet
 NB> yogurt...?  Hard to describe... one kinda has to taste it...  And the
 NB> granola bar on top has more taste to blend with it as well.

I'd probably ask Steve to check it out for me. I've had too many
instances of being told there's no peanut butter in something or not
having it listed in the ingredients as such to chomp down on something
like that only to find it has a definate peanut butter taste.

 NB>  NB>> figure they've given up enough already, and don't have that much
 NB>  NB>> longer anyway, so might as well enjog what little's left... ;)

 RH> I suspect so on that one. They do eat whatever I cook, usually
 RH> healthier than their normal diet. They are so stuck in their eating
 RH> habits tho that we can't convert them, even if it is for the better.

 NB> I think that trying to convert their habits at this point is
 NB> indubitably futile... be glad they will eat what you cook and get a
 NB> little extra
 NB> healthy into their diets once in a while at least... ;)  A little
 NB> might rub off, you never know...

I doubt any signifigant dietary changes will rub off at this point. I
can just cook healthier and with more flavor while I'm up there.

 RH> They probably are figuring they don't have too much time left so enjoy
 RH> the food while they can, but it's been long enough since the diagnosis,
 RH> that they should have had the last "bit of enjoyment" long ago and
 RH> moved on to healthier eating. But, they're adults and live several
 RH> hundred miles away so we just bear with it.

 NB> The fallacy in that is the "long enough since the diagnosis" part.
 NB> Their thinking is much more likely the not long before we are gone
 NB> forever, might as well just have what we want.  The "life is

Yes, and for the last 10 years or so whenever they have anything major
done, like re-roofing the house, my Dad says something on the order of
"that's the last time it'll ever have to be done in my lifetime".


 NB> uncertain, eat dessert first" mentality...  :)   As you say, they are

Yes, but Mom shouldn't eat dessert--at least the ones she fixes/buys.
Most of the time it's ice cream (at supper) or boughten cookies at
lunch.  We made some lower sugar cookies at Christmas time but she went
for the higher sugar ones and her blood sugar reading was always very
high.

 NB> adults, and
 NB> you aren't the ones nearby to influence on a regular basis, so you
 NB> don't really have much other choice.  :)

I know; they eat the way they have for so many years and don't want to
change. We just have to live with it, not like it.


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Ruth
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