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Skriven 2015-07-10 19:30:04 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 28935 av Dave Drum (1:18/200)
Ärende: fast things
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Hi Dave,


 ML> steer and have a hamburger sandwich - a patty between two
 ML> more patties.

 DD> My problem with that is that unless the burger patties are made with
 DD> binders (which I try to avoid) and over-cooked the thing falls apart
 DD> when one attempts to pick it up and eat it like a sammich. Even if
 DD> using cheese between the patties as a binder.

Steve made some burgers out of grass fed beef tonight--85/15 lean-ness.
Seasoned with just Ono seasoning, pepper and garlic powder they held
together quite well, probably would have held as a "sandwich". Steve had
his on bread with ketchup; I put mine on a sandwich round with a dab of
ketchup and homemade cucumber relish. Sides were steamed green beans and
a beet/mandarin orange (found them water packed at Target)/feta with a
light vinegarette dressing salad. No set amounts of ingredients but the
salad came together well and will be repeated. Dessert was cantalope; it
and the beans & beets were all from the farmer's market.

 RH> That's going a bit too far in your direction. I like protein but not
 RH> quite to that extent. I also don't mind a certain amount of carbs. In

 ML> I try to go all the way in my direction, and I don't find
 ML> it excessive for me (obviously). But today I had three

 RH> I try to keep somewhat of a balance, but it's easier said than done
 RH> sometimes.

 DD> A balanced diet to me is food that can be carried to table without
 DD> over-much spillage.  Bv)=

I try to keep the proteins and carbs about the same or tip a bit in
favor of the proteins. I've been punching up the potassium the past week
or so as well.


 ML> pieces of chicken, a couple rice cakes, an ear of corn,
 ML> a sweet potato, a lot of fresh fruit, and a beer. Not
 ML> very much like me; I pretty much prefer the extreme
 ML> protein diet with an occasional dose of fruit.

 DD> Plenty carbs there - when I was first diagnosed as extra sweet and was
 DD> pin cushioning my finger tips six or so times per day I found that a
 DD> serving of sweet corn (never tested on popcorn) would spike my glucose
 DD> reading into the stratosphere. Fortunately, my dietary habits have my

Corn is a high starch/high carb vegetable so your numbers would go up.
According to one source, a 6" ear of corn on the cob is 15 grams of
carbs. Most decent ears are at least half again as large so you're
looking at +/- 20 carbs, which is about half to 1/3 of what I should
have at a meal. Popcorn is 15 grams of carbs for 2 cups so you can be a
bit more indulgent there, don't recall what corn off the cob is.

 DD> blood glucose readings fairly calm. My annual physical last week gave
 DD> me an A1C of 6.0. When I commented to the doctor I could probably get
 DD> it down to the mid-fives for the next one he remarked "No, six is
 DD> nearly perfect for you. They have found that too aggressive on the
 DD> A1C/BG is worse for you than too slack."

I got mine down to the low 5s (5.1 last time, 5 this past January)
without trying. It's been lurking in that territory for a couple of
years now.

 DD> Nice to know that I am doing something right, even if inadvertently.
 DD> As you know I pay scant surface attention to carbs, fat, etc.

Sounds like you're doing something right. I know some of the time
reflects when you were living with your brother and sister in law so
maybe a combination of your cooking for them/them for you was a help.


 RH> After the test and a run over to Whole foods, we
 RH> had lunch at our favorite Korean place in Raleigh. Steve had the spicy
 RH> squid, I had beef bulgogi, both with various small sides including a
 RH> couple of small pieces of sushi, fried sweet potato, yaki mandu, kim
 RH> chee, seaweed, etc.

 DD> I had lunch a one of the few surviving Chinese buffets in town. They
 DD> had a new (to me) offering of "Calamari in Spicy Sauce" - which was
 DD> very thick rings cut from squid bodies and lots of tentacles. And some
 DD> pretty unidentifiable (except for the onions) vegetables in a brown
 DD> sauce. It wasn't especially "spicy" (as in hot) but it was tasty. And
 DD> only the tips of some of the
 DD> tentacles were "chewy".

Sounds interesting. We'd not been to the Korean place in about a year.
It's not as convenient as the one in HI was; that one was about 10 miles
away and in a much smaller town than Raleigh. (G)

 ML> Surely. The imagination required to put a burger in a
 ML> fries carton or a whole lettuce leaf (not to mention
 ML> the issue of where in a McDonald's one would find a
 ML> whole lettuce leaf) is beyond many, certainly beyond
 ML> those who write staff guidelines for that company.

 RH> Don't know where you will find a place other than Chick-Fil-A that uses
 RH> anything but shredded lettuce. I prefer the leaf over the shredded
 RH> stuff as it doesn't fall out all ob=ver the place (as the bun is
 RH> falling apart).

 DD> Hardee's (some of them, not all) in this area use lettuce leaf on
 DD> their dollar menu spicy chicken sandwich. McDuck's uses either finely
 DD> shredded or something that looks like the lettuce from a Dole
 DD> pre-packaged salad mix on their dollar menu spicy McChicken. I prefer
 DD> the Hardee's - the chicken puck is bigger, spicier, has a seeded bun,
 DD> and the mayo is not thick enough applied to drip down my wrist.

OK, we've not been to Hardee's in a while so I couldn't remember which
way they did their lettuce. I know BK and McD's do the chopped version
that falls out all over the place; IIRC, Wendy's does also. I've been
going more for the strips than the sandwich lately at places that have
them, again, fewer carbs.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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