This tends to happen: I buy a box of cereal or spinach and eat nothing but that until I run out. I have very little variation in my diet, but I don't know how to filter variation into my meals. Being a new homeowner. I am on a pretty tight budget (I feel the need to explain this to justify my lack of dough) and being really creative for every meal tends to get costly - at least in my experience. Then there is the lack of time. Working a full time job and a part time sales job with 1/2 time grad school status puts a damper on my social ( & creative cook) calendar. Enough of the 'woe-is-me' outlook. What can I do to change this? I think I must be sick of the chili I made two days ago already or I wouldn't be having this conversation in my mind.
On a lighter note, my water consumption has doubled since I put a prompter on my work calendar. Right about the time my tea is an inch from the bottom, I am prompted to fill up. *Gulp* goes the rest of my tea and I head for the Glenwood.
Food for today, Wed. Jan 6:
2 Wheetabix
Milk
Brown Sugar
Tea
Banana
Chili
spinach
mushrooms
dressing - I think some feta cheese vinaigrette?
water, water, water!
Tonight I am going to dinner with my best friend from high school, Sarah. We are going to check out al Vento, near my place in South Minneapolis. I am quite positive they do not have many local items, and maybe we will change restaurants at last minute.
Also, today my brother went into the ER due to a Crohn's related issue last night/this morning. He has been admitted and is staying hopefully only one night in the hospital. I am going to visit when I leave work today. His fiancé and my mom are up there with him now. Both Carrie's brother and my brother have Crohn's; a random occurrence that we discovered several years back.
My gramma has done a lot of research on this and what natural foods can decrease flare ups (my dad has Crohn's too) and found that a tablespoon or so of dried coconut a day can help. Along with macadamia nuts. I think I will look more into this again and see if I can help him. Carrie, have you heard of any remedies that have worked for your bro?
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My brother usually just drinks a lot of alcohol to be honest.
ReplyDeleteAlso, what is a "Wheetabix?"
ReplyDeleteThat may be true about the alcohol, but I also eat a lot of pizza and smoke tons of cigarettes. Actually, fish oil has been shown to help a lot I hear. I used to take that when I was littler. I kindof think it helped, but I honestly don't have any idea. Better than Prednisone.
ReplyDeleteWhat's weird is that I've been w/out healthcare for a year now, and I've stopped taking all my meds because I can't afford them anymore. You'd think I'm be in trouble, but I actually have gone a very significant time w/out a flareup. (2+ years) It's the longest since I was diagnosed.
Also, not to over-comment, but I was thinking about this since I read your post yesterday at work.
ReplyDeleteFood that I've noticed are harder to digest (these are purely personal, though): lettuce, "ruffage," too much dairy, whole-grain things in general, too many nuts (for me). Nuts I would put as the worst option for myself...too many and I actually get PAIN.
But like I said, it's a personal thing. I think over the years I've slowly learned to avoid too much ruffage and nuts because they've consistently caused me pain.
However, I would definately think about the fish oil:
just a google search, for instance:
http://www.crohns-disease-and-stress.com/fish-oil-for-crohns-disease.html.
Carrie was just mentioning to me how she has started using fish oil as well. Not sure how that's going.
Anyway, I hope your bro is doing better.