OT - Mini Rant, Fast Food

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Sherry wrote:

On Nov 24, 3:26 am, "jmcquown" wrote:

Sherry, she's trying to *gain* weight, not lose it. 2% cheese and
lowfat
mayo isn't what she's looking for. I do agree about the sodium.

I know, but IIRC she mentioned she has been diagnosed with heart
failure
and a blocked left ventricle. So, people especially like her should
try to
get the calories without all that saturated fat and salt.

Which is why I'm surprised that nobody said word one about my suggestions
for high-calorie foods full of unsaturated fats. Vegetable fats (and fish)
are the best sources of heart-healthy calories.

Joyce

--
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good
many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch

Yes, you're right. For just now, however, they're *WAY* more concerned
about getting me enough protein to keep my body working (and, for vanity's
sake, quit losing my hair). The rest of my blood tests look great for all
vitamins and minerals, shows no damages from diet - the only thing that gets
red-lined from my bloodwork labs report is the severe lack of protein. I
tried using dry milk to add to whole milk (and actually anything liquid)
because the nutritionist told me it was tasteless... it's *not* tasteless,
it adds a king of funky aftertaste (or maybe that's going back to the taste
bud problems. *GADS* I'm such a mess and a screw-up!


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Sherry wrote:

On Nov 24, 3:26 am, "jmcquown" wrote:

Sherry, she's trying to *gain* weight, not lose it. 2% cheese and
lowfat
mayo isn't what she's looking for. I do agree about the sodium.

I know, but IIRC she mentioned she has been diagnosed with heart
failure
and a blocked left ventricle. So, people especially like her should
try to
get the calories without all that saturated fat and salt.

Which is why I'm surprised that nobody said word one about my suggestions
for high-calorie foods full of unsaturated fats. Vegetable fats (and
fish)
are the best sources of heart-healthy calories.

Joyce

--
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good
many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch

Yes, you're right. For just now, however, they're *WAY* more concerned
about getting me enough protein to keep my body working (and, for vanity's
sake, quit losing my hair). The rest of my blood tests look great for all
vitamins and minerals, shows no damages from diet - the only thing that
gets red-lined from my bloodwork labs report is the severe lack of
protein. I tried using dry milk to add to whole milk (and actually
anything liquid) because the nutritionist told me it was tasteless... it's
*not* tasteless, it adds a king of funky aftertaste (or maybe that's going
back to the taste bud problems. *GADS* I'm such a mess and a screw-up!


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Hugs,

CatNipped

You are NOT a screw-up! That implies your problems are your fault, and they
aren't. I hope the doctor can do something to help the taste problem. I
agree with you about powdered milk, though. It does have a taste of its
own. It isn't necessarily a bad taste, but it doesn't taste like milk.

Joy

CatNipped wrote:

For just now, however, they're *WAY* more concerned
about getting me enough protein to keep my body working (and, for vanity's
sake, quit losing my hair). The rest of my blood tests look great for all
vitamins and minerals, shows no damages from diet - the only thing that gets
red-lined from my bloodwork labs report is the severe lack of protein.

What do you (or do your doctors) think is causing you to be so deficient
in protein? Is it because you don't like the taste of meat or other high-
protein foods and can't stand eating it? Or is your body not absorbing it
somehow, regardless of how much you eat? Or...?

Joyce

--
There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one
to come off as a sane person.
-- Dan Greenberg

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:52:17 -0600, Storrmmee wrote:

nothing wrong with good and healthy food, Lee

But it's a *lot* of work, and involves a lot of standing at the counter
which sets off my back pain.

I had to take a Vicodin this evening after spending most of the afternoon
doing the baking and boiling for Thanksgiving dinner: hard boil eggs for
deviled eggs, bake and frost a cake (mix and canned frosting - I do have
my limits - with chopped pecans [in the batter] and grated black walnuts
[on the frosting]), bake cornbread (from scratch - whole grain flour and
corn meal, honey, real butter), and put the black-eye peas on to soak.

Thursday, I get to roast the turkey, cook the rice, make the gravy (from
scratch - including making the stock), cook the black-eye peas, and make
a bunch of deviled eggs. No, I'm not having company - I do all that for
me. The cats will help eat up the turkey over the next week or so, and
I'll manage to finish off the rest of the stuff myself (except the
cornbread and cake - half the cake is already in the freezer and I'll
have to freeze some of the cornbread or it'll go moldy in less than a
week). I expect to, as usual, get very tired of turkey, rice, and gravy
before it's all gone.

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Ted Davis )

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CatNipped wrote:

For just now, however, they're *WAY* more concerned
about getting me enough protein to keep my body working (and, for
vanity's
sake, quit losing my hair). The rest of my blood tests look great for
all
vitamins and minerals, shows no damages from diet - the only thing that
gets
red-lined from my bloodwork labs report is the severe lack of protein.

What do you (or do your doctors) think is causing you to be so deficient
in protein? Is it because you don't like the taste of meat or other high-
protein foods and can't stand eating it? Or is your body not absorbing it
somehow, regardless of how much you eat? Or...?

Joyce

--
There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one
to come off as a sane person.
-- Dan Greenberg

It's a bit of both. Because of the narcotics I have to take for the RSD
(and some other drugs I take also), my mouth stays as dry as bone (my lips
and tongue are literally stuck inside my mouth when I wake up because I
sleep with my mouth open. Even putting food in my mouth doesn't cause the
saliva gland to do its work. So anything I try to eat that's the least bit
dry, it starts to feel and taste like clay and won't break down enough to
swallow. Then, for some reason, I'll be in the middle of eating (actually
taking a bite of something and I'll go instantly from hungry to vomiting.
And the third part of the problem is exactly what you said... I don't know
if it's my thyroid (which was partially cut away because of tumor when I was
young) - but it's just not entering my system as it should. I don't know if
it's true, but I've heard that protein is a food group that is naturally
hard to digest. I *wish* it could be fixed with a simple pill, but there's
nothing they can do until they find out *why* this is happening (throw in
all the serious illness that could, either by themselves or in a combination
of two or more, and that makes it even harder to find.

And added to all *that* is this horrible taste always in my mouth (to
whomever suggested it, I stopped taking the Lisonopril but it didn't help),
so I *DON'T* want to eat even though I force it down anyway (trying to *not*
reach that hungry/nauseated point).


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Hugs,

CatNipped
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Can I come over to your house tomorrow? Pretty please?!!! ;

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Hugs,

CatNipped
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On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:52:17 -0600, Storrmmee wrote:

nothing wrong with good and healthy food, Lee

But it's a *lot* of work, and involves a lot of standing at the counter
which sets off my back pain.

I had to take a Vicodin this evening after spending most of the afternoon
doing the baking and boiling for Thanksgiving dinner: hard boil eggs for
deviled eggs, bake and frost a cake (mix and canned frosting - I do have
my limits - with chopped pecans [in the batter] and grated black walnuts
[on the frosting]), bake cornbread (from scratch - whole grain flour and
corn meal, honey, real butter), and put the black-eye peas on to soak.

Thursday, I get to roast the turkey, cook the rice, make the gravy (from
scratch - including making the stock), cook the black-eye peas, and make
a bunch of deviled eggs. No, I'm not having company - I do all that for
me. The cats will help eat up the turkey over the next week or so, and
I'll manage to finish off the rest of the stuff myself (except the
cornbread and cake - half the cake is already in the freezer and I'll
have to freeze some of the cornbread or it'll go moldy in less than a
week). I expect to, as usual, get very tired of turkey, rice, and gravy
before it's all gone.

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Ted Davis )

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:38:49 -0600, CatNipped wrote:

Can I come over to your house tomorrow? Pretty please?!!! ;

It would be a long trip. For one thing, we have no commercial airport
anywhere near here.

Anyway, it won't be that good. For one thing, the cake turned out badly:
large holes. For another, what I cook is just what *I* like, the way I
like it, and I don't always succeed (my giblet gravy never turns out
quite right and I often dry out the turkey). Actually, the turkey is
mainly to provide the giblets for giblet gravy - my feast is built around
rice and giblet gravy, black-eye peas, cornbread, and deviled eggs. The
turkey is sort of a side dish - I'll eat more of it at a meal after the
gravy is gone and I make sandwiches with the last of the white meat. The
cats get most of the dark meat - the local vermin and neighborhood dogs
get the carcass. I don't know who does what with the bones, but a turkey
carcass thrown out into the yard tonight will be gone before dawn (I put
the small bones in the garbage so the cats can't get at them).

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Ted Davis )

was totally with you until the olive garden, have eaten in good to nasty
ones, the one here in springfield is a definitley avoid olive garden,
horrible unclean srvers, have gottten lunch portions for dinner, paper and
wrappings from the soup bag in soup, mold on the parm from the grinder, and
i won't talk about the really bad stuff, Lee
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CatNipped wrote:
I absolutely *HATE* McDonalds. Of course, perversely that's the *ONLY*
fast food place that DH likes. It's not just the food bad, but the
service is horrendous (we sat in line at the drive-through for, I swear,
*45 MINUTES! We stopped there on the way home from the doctor's office
and (needing to gain weight) I ordered a bacon double cheeseburger with
extra pickles. We were charged for that, it came in a "double
cheeseburger" wrapping, but what was inside? A single patty, bacon that
was so old it looks and tastes like leather, and not a single thing else
on it except a few pickles - no tomatoes, lettuce, sauce (ketchup, mayo
or muster) - that's it, dry and nasty from sitting under the heating
lamps.

My brother was in the fast food business for many years (Hardees). He
said a lot of the quality in such places depends upon how strictly the
"quality control" is maintained by the franchise, or franchise-owner. You
find that's true with many "chain" type restaurants,not just the fast food
variety. Marie Callendar can be very spotty, even in the same city -
excellent in one location, barely edible in another - even though the menu
is supposedly the same. Good Earth is very different from city to city -
even the menu is not the same everywhere. On the other hand, I've eaten
in any number of Olive Garden restaurants, in several different cities.
They serve the same menu everywhere, the quality of the food is
consistently high, and the service consistently good. (Consequently, when
I'm in a strange city looking for a quick meal, I look for an Olive
Garden, because I know I'll get a good meal at a reasonable price.)

if you drink hot chocolate, add your powdered milk to that, also look for
whole powdered milk instead of skim powdered milk, its not readily available
in all stores, but iirc its available on walmarts site to store, Lee
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Sherry wrote:

On Nov 24, 3:26 am, "jmcquown" wrote:

Sherry, she's trying to *gain* weight, not lose it. 2% cheese and
lowfat
mayo isn't what she's looking for. I do agree about the sodium.

I know, but IIRC she mentioned she has been diagnosed with heart
failure
and a blocked left ventricle. So, people especially like her should
try to
get the calories without all that saturated fat and salt.

Which is why I'm surprised that nobody said word one about my suggestions
for high-calorie foods full of unsaturated fats. Vegetable fats (and
fish)
are the best sources of heart-healthy calories.

Joyce

--
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good
many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch

Yes, you're right. For just now, however, they're *WAY* more concerned
about getting me enough protein to keep my body working (and, for vanity's
sake, quit losing my hair). The rest of my blood tests look great for all
vitamins and minerals, shows no damages from diet - the only thing that
gets red-lined from my bloodwork labs report is the severe lack of
protein. I tried using dry milk to add to whole milk (and actually
anything liquid) because the nutritionist told me it was tasteless... it's
*not* tasteless, it adds a king of funky aftertaste (or maybe that's going
back to the taste bud problems. *GADS* I'm such a mess and a screw-up!


--
Hugs,

CatNipped
See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped

See the RPCA FAQ site, by Mark Edwards, at:
http://www.professional-geek.com/rpcablog/

that all sounds wonderful except for the peas, can't abide those... now if i
had all that food and wanted to eat it for a couple of days fine, then it
would get portioned and frozen... at least i would have done... back before
i didn't have a freezer anymore... your post just reminded me again how
lucky i am to be here thanks...

btw, something else I had before the fire was a bread machine... we did bake
in it sometimes, but between my hands having issues, and DH's back issues we
often used it on the dough cycle to do the better part of kneading, then we
would shape/rise/bake in a stome, just an idea for you to consider, Lee
"Ted Davis" wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:52:17 -0600, Storrmmee wrote:

nothing wrong with good and healthy food, Lee

But it's a *lot* of work, and involves a lot of standing at the counter
which sets off my back pain.

I had to take a Vicodin this evening after spending most of the afternoon
doing the baking and boiling for Thanksgiving dinner: hard boil eggs for
deviled eggs, bake and frost a cake (mix and canned frosting - I do have
my limits - with chopped pecans [in the batter] and grated black walnuts
[on the frosting]), bake cornbread (from scratch - whole grain flour and
corn meal, honey, real butter), and put the black-eye peas on to soak.

Thursday, I get to roast the turkey, cook the rice, make the gravy (from
scratch - including making the stock), cook the black-eye peas, and make
a bunch of deviled eggs. No, I'm not having company - I do all that for
me. The cats will help eat up the turkey over the next week or so, and
I'll manage to finish off the rest of the stuff myself (except the
cornbread and cake - half the cake is already in the freezer and I'll
have to freeze some of the cornbread or it'll go moldy in less than a
week). I expect to, as usual, get very tired of turkey, rice, and gravy
before it's all gone.

--
Ted Davis )