Time for a break

[chochiyo_sama]

well, I spent $80 some bucks on groceries...ugh.  i was horrified to discovered that my favorite go-to easy meal (hot dogs) has risen in price to like $5 for a package!!  For $2.00 more I could get a roast.  So I did.

WTF???

$5 for something made of "lips and assholes"????

LOL

That's what my Grandma Neitzell used to tell us hot dogs were made of.

Never stopped us from eating them.

Well, if I don't cook on the weekends, I do not eat decently during the week.  So I have just popped a roast with potatoes, onions and carrots into the oven and I have a big batch of homemade chicken barley and vegetable soup on the stove.  It is completely made from scratch and smells soooooo good.  i wish you could all come over and join me in a bit bowl of it.  It has barley and chicken and carrots and onions and potatoes and celery and rutabaga in it as well as a big of tomatoes that my mom froze for me to give it body.  yummmmmmmy.

I decided to take a little break and write a progress report as it was sort of tiring to cut up all those veggies by hand--especially the rutabaga which is almost but not quite as hard as a rock.  it sure adds body and flavor to a soup, though.

I still have half of it left.  I don't know if you can freeze a raw rutabaga or not.  I'll have to call my mom and ask.

I suppose I could just boil it up with some potatoes and make mashed potatoes.  i have heard that it is really tasty when added to mashed potatoes in addition  to adding a lot of nutrients. 

I have a squash I need to bake as well.  i love squash.

Well, Jim and DeAnn are stopping over to get some of this soup--it is way to big a batch for me to eat up on my own.  so i better go and put some in a container for them.

huggles.

Comments

Sounds delicious.

[the_godiva]

I really need to start cooking again. Of course, that means I really need to get my kitchen clean and organized. Only got started after I put in the dishwasher. I've got cans that still need to go out to the garage where I turned a bookcase into a "pantry". I need to get rid of stuff. I need to rearrange stuff. But I need to get it done and start cooking.

I've been living on fast food and pre-packaged food for years now. Every since I hurt my back and started my masters, which was about the same time. So about 5 years.

I weigh almost 200 lbs now. A little under but not enough to make a difference. I need to lose weight, which isn't going to happen on frozen dinners and McDonald's. Home cooked meals at my parents' house once a week isn't going to help much.

If I don't I'll either become diebetic or I'll have a heart attack. Maybe both. My brother had two stints put in on his birthday, Oct. 22. He's three years younger than me, also has high cholesterol, and had almost total blockage. My Dad has 90% blockage and has already had two heart attacks. I live alone. When I have one, I'm going to die.

I can't eat healthy unless I start actually cooking.

But the Dr. has to do something about my energy level. I work, take a nap, eat dinner, watch TV then go to bed. That's my life. I have zero energy for anything else. It's been this way for a decade. I can't be expected to exercise when all I do is eat and sleep and have no energy to do anything else beside sit in front of the TV.

The last time I felt good (and had energy and lost weight) was when I was on inhalers for asthma. Then they said I didn't have asthma and took my inhalers away.

Re: Sounds delicious.

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

That sucks.

I've been eating way too much fast food since I hurt my knees. Now I know that my knees hurt because they are basically without "cushion" between the bones of the knees. I had cortizone injected so they are not horrifically painful but I still have trouble just walking around the grocery store--by the time I am half-way done with my shopping, my back is killing me because I am walking and standing funny to compensate for my knee hurting.

I completely understand about the energy level--part of it is all the salt and fat of the fast food.

I feel very energetic when I am eating lots of fish and fruits and vegetables. I need to get back to that.

Since I hurt my knee, I have been crawling into bed at around 7 pm and getting on my lap top.

I can't keep wasting my life away like this.

still chilly?

[papillon-san.livejournal.com]

Hey, turn on the heat or somethin' . . . poor baby, you've been freezing for the last few posts. What's up with that? You need some feet warmamizers.