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Skriven 2015-03-10 20:10:19 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 24644 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
Ärende: KK  was: houses
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Hi Nancy,

 RH> of the time. It carried name brands only, no store brand, but at a
 RH> decent prince.

 NB> Haven't seen Victory... and A&P is pretty much long gone, at least
 NB> from these parts...

We've not seen either for a long time. The A&P in M'ville was one of the
last ones around, but did the best business in its district. It got hit
by one of the floods the town had in the last 10/15 years and was bought
out by a company called Freshtown. They revamped it some, and some folks
say raised the prices too much. We say the prices are in line with what
we pay, so not bad overall.

 NB> don't  NB>> use oil very often... even now that I'm sauteing things
 NB> more, I'm  NB>> using the butter/canola mix for that...

 RH> I'll use whatever I think is appropriate. For the salmon patties and
 RH> fried potatoes with onions we did for supper tonight, I used canola
 RH> oil.

 NB> I probably would have just used the butter...  :)

Butter burns too easy for long term frying. We first fried the potatoes,
then did the salmon patties in the same pan with the same (plus a bit of
new) oil.

 NB> was  NB>> buying straight butter, I'd often get Wegmans... I think
 NB> they recently  NB>> came out with their own spreadables, but I haven't
 NB> tried them yet...

 RH> You'll have to try it and give us a report.

 NB> Some day... and when I do, I will..  :)

Always something new to try and let us learn from your write up.

 NB> eggs.  RH>> This is something I do without measuring so there's no
 NB> specific recipe.  NB>> Ah, ok... makes sense.  :)

 RH> It tasted good, no matter what it was called. (G)

 NB> That's the important thing...  ;)

Yes, and if there's a request for a repeat, you've got a winner.

 NB> problems... but I still don't want to push that too much  NB>> either
 NB> for myself...  Stevia worked very well for MJ when I switched  NB>>
 NB> her saccherine and/or Splenda to that... she had much better BG
 NB>  NB>> readings thereafter.

 RH> Stevia is a plant based sweetener, not an alcohol sugar so it is
 RH> better for you. Studies have been done (but I can't cite specifics)
 RH> proving that it is better for BG than the other sweeteners. Would I
 RH> rather have sugar? Yes, but since I can't, I'll go with the stevia
 RH> until something better comes out or if it can be proven that stevia is
 RH> harmful for long term use.

 NB> I'd read up on it before getting MJ on it... and of what's available,
 NB> it does seem the safest...  I have, though, heard of people who had
 NB> some
 NB> reactions to it, so I'm being my usual over-cautious self there too on
 NB> general principles...  :)

So maybe you ought to buy a small amount and use it every so often,
checking for reactions. If none, increase the frequency of use and keep
looking for reactions. Repeat as needed until you reach your comfort
level. I had to do the crash introduction but have adapted without major
repercussions.

 NB>  NB>> I grew up with brown sugar for hot cereal, so it was an easy
 NB> move  NB>> to use it for more things... :)

 RH> I grew up with a very limited amount of brown sugar allowed for hot
 RH> cereals, white for cold cereals. I used to (pre diabetes) use brown
 RH> sugar on hot cereals, with raisins and cinnamon, now it might be the
 RH> stevia and drop or 2 of molasses and fewer, if any, raisins. I dropped
 RH> the white sugar on cold cereal after getting married.

 NB> I hope you are still using the cinnamon on your hot cereals... that's
 NB> been proven to help with blood sugar control..   :)

I take a cinnamon capsule every morning. It's an easy way to get the
cinnamon without fuss. Started it as soon as I came home from the
hospital with the diabetes diagnosis and haven't quit.

 NB>  NB>> We don't do a lot of sweets, even though there's no problems
 NB> with  NB>> sugar here... We just try to be reasonable about them...
 NB> :)

 RH> I'm better about sweets than I used to be, but have them in much more
 RH> reasonable quantities than before. Last night, since it was so warm
 RH> still after church, we got ice cream cones; my BG reading this morning
 RH> was 88.

 NB> That's not bad at all..   :)

My original (one i was seeing when I was diagnosed) wanted it to be in
the upper 80s/lower 90s. I try to keep it to below 95, and do so, most
of the time. I could go higher, but don't want to get too tempted.

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Ruth
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