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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

What a busy girl you've been. Hope you enjoy.
 
That's a marathon effort, Antje. Good on you. I hope you enjoy the proceeds of all that work.
 
Annb said:
That's a marathon effort, Antje. Good on you. I hope you enjoy the proceeds of all that work.
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It is!
And I was amazed by the amount of money on my bank account over the past two weeks (I get paid by the week, but only if I remember to fill out my hours, so more often than not I'm a week late and get two weeks of pay at a time), but I still don't fancy this much work too often.
It's ok to help a colleague out once in a while though, they're good to me as well.
 
I didn't go mad at lunch yesterday but I did overeat a bit later at night. I'm planning another tidy up day in the garden today, it's cooler, cloudy and dry again. I'm thinking of salad for breakfast with an egg, some ham and cottage cheese and spring onions and baby leaves from the garden.

Dinner might be chicken with fried courgettes and peppers from my mini polytunnel, cauliflower and a couple of small potatoes. Depends on how tired I get in the garden, I might just cheat and have something I don't need to prepare!
 
I did eat a bit more yesterday afternoon. I had a couple of tablespoons of the biryani inspired chicken dish with a little salad. There were about 6 small chunks of chicken with onion, sweet potato, cauliflower and coconut. I had intended to put the shredded cauliflower leaves in with it, but when it came to it I couldn't find them.

Breakfast today was avocado salad with 3 Jacob's Butter Puff crackers. 3 because that's what fell out of the packet when I opened it and I couldn't get the 3rd one to fit back in neatly. Cup of tea because I've run out of coffee.

2nd meal will be pork sausagemeat balls with kind of French style peas, to use up the cauli leaves, which I have now found, and some not very pleasant Romaine lettuce. Better cooked rather than trying to eat it raw.

I thought that Romaine lettuce were what we used to call Cos lettuce, but these were nothing like the crisp Cos we used to get, except in the length of the leaves. Those leaves are soft and bitter and fairly dry in the mouth. Not good. Never mind, I'll cook them with the peas and they'll be fine. Shan't buy any more of them though.
 
Seven days on the bridge, day one:

Same as yesterday on a smaller plate. Turns out spareribs reheat very well in the microwave (I did short burst, turning them every time), and my tomato and onion salad tasted even better on the second day.

Lucky there weren't any boats wanting to pass the bridge, not a good idea to push buttons or touch the VHF while eating marinated spareribs.

 
Last evening's meal was a bit of a mish-mash. It started out with 3 left-over sausages which I made into sausage meat balls; continued with a sliced onion, shredded caulflower leaves, frozen peas and chicken stock. Then the shredded, almost whole Romaine lettuce; then some buckwheat noodles. Finally added the (by then) fried meatballs. Surprisingly good and enough for 2 meals so I reheated the 2nd half for breakfast, managing to boil it dry, but not burned (I was stuck in my chair, unable to move for a while).

2nd meal today will be another mish-mash of a packet of beef and vegetables I found in one of the freezers (a bit on the dry side) with added defrosted broccoli and those shredded Brussels sprouts with some more of the chicken stock.

I also found some mackerel and tomato pate in the freezer so will have to use that. Maybe for once I'll have a starter with my meal.
 
I had a good day in the garden yesterday and predictably didn't feel like doing much in the way of preparation for tea, so I had buttered ryvita with cottage cheese and chopped onion.

I felt like having that again today so my brunch was ryvita with cottage cheese, and from the garden some sweet peppers, spring onion, very very tiny raw baby beets and babyleaf lettuce (leftover seedlings from my winter lettuce sowings).

I tested a tiny carrot from the July sowing, and it was the most carrotty, most delicious little carrot ever - pure joy. I've never grown my own carrots before so I didn't realise how little flavour supermarket ones have. I've got a succession of them growing and will get some more in and try to have overwintered ones to harvest through to spring. I believe you can leave them in the ground (pots in my case, under shelter) and they should be fine. We'll have to see what kind of winter we have!

The spring onion was a bit too mild so I will try different varieties for those. I've got some elephant garlic and onion sets coming in a few weeks, so will need to buy even more compost... it has not been a cheap gardening year but next year I will hopefully have more of my own compost, I've sourced some free manure and have a couple of wormeries on the go - my garden is full of fast growing trees and shrubs so there's no shortage of woody stuff either.

I do plan to have the chicken with fried courgettes and probably some small potatoes for tea today.
 
Seven days on the bridge, day two:
Stuffed bell pepper, reheated in the microwave, very tasty.

The sound of my laptop on the bridge is horrible, so today I borrowed a small bluetooth speaker from my neighbour to see if it would work.
Worked very well, so I used my break to buy one for myself and I can now enjoy music on the bridge!

I also got a very friendly message on the dating site from someone I've had a date with in early april. We were going to have a second date but he suddenly changed his mind. Apparently he's interested after all and he offered to take me out for dinner.
First time I'm having a 'classic' date, going out for dinner is not something I usually do and I've never done so on a date. I wouldn't normally dream of letting an (almost) stranger pay for my meal when eating out, but he offered and he has a lot more money than I have, so why not.
We'll be eating in a small and very good Italian restaurant on 4 September. I've eaten there a couple of times but the last time was years ago.
Very much looking forward to this date!

 
That looks gorgeous!
 
Antje77 said:
I wouldn't normally dream of letting an (almost) stranger pay for my meal when eating out,
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What's wrong with a man paying for you on a date? I would never have thought that I would have to pay for myself on a date It's really not accepted here. My boyfriend once said that when a woman says, "I'll pay for myself," it sounds like "You have a small penis."
 
Didn't have a starter. When I opened the defrosted tub, it didn't smell right, so I put it in the bin. The stew was more like a very veggie-full soup. Tasted good and there's still some left for tomorrow.
 
I don't see why one person should pay for the other in a time where both parties are expected to have their own money. The only difference between me and my dates is what's in our pants, how does that even have anything to do with who will pay for the meal?

My friends and I (both male and female) sometimes pay for eachother, but this is a back and forth thing. One date paid for my lunch before sailing, so the next time we went sailing I brought lunch for both of us.

In the case of date Don in the Italian restaurant, I provided dinner at my house at our first date, so him paying this time makes some sense. We already had a date 5 months ago and I know what his penis looks like too, so he doesn't have to be afraid I think his is too small.

I was brought up by separated parents, both strongly believing in equality between men and women. My mum has had relationships with both men and women, her sister is lesbian, my grandma started her own company and had a divorce at a time where this was highly unusual, and my great-grand-mother was a feminist activist, who protested for the right on abortion in the early 80's when she was in her 80's as well, so maybe I'm not all that average with my background...

In this video you can see old footage of a demonstration in Amsterdam in 1980 (I think), the woman with the hat is my great-grand-mother. At 1.26 you can see my aunt (her granddaughter) in the red sweater at a much later date talking about those demonstrations, and worldwide protests for women's rights through the years: Screenshot in case Vimeo doesn't play in Russia:

 

In fact, this comes from the fact that people who go on dates usually look at each other as a future family, and if a man is not ready to pay for a woman, then in case of pregnancy and childbirth, when she finds herself in a vulnerable position without the opportunity to work, it threatens death from starvation for both her and the child. But in the end, even if people are not planning children, it just became a way to show their concern, because people love what they invest emotions and money in.
 
Trying to find a way through the jungle of dos and don'ts when it comes to food. Too much protein may well be harming my kidneys, especially animal protein; too much saturated fat may do the same thing; any noticeable amount of carbs puts my BG up and puts my weight up and puts my insulin requirement up; most vegetables upset my digestive system badly; pulses seem to be worse; nut recipes all seem to need carbs. Aaargh!

Can't live on cabbage and Brussels sprouts alone. The only answer seems to be Mounjaro, if medics will prescribe it on Tuesday. Then I'll probably feel too sick to eat anything, so can just starve myself. Beginning to feel low about all this.
 
Works out that way for some, but not for others. Sometimes women and men prefer to be equals in everything - that's only fair, if both have an income and are unburdened by other responsibilities. Sometimes a woman has more resources and/or less responsibilities than a man. Why shouldn't she pay for both on occasions? "Going Dutch" is an old-fashioned expression in English, meaning sharing the cost between a man and a woman.
 
As for nuts, you can just eat them as they are, they're pretty tasty...

And with the kidneys, there seem to be more question marks than answers, going by your post here: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/kidney-function.209203/post-2775653
You had a one off (not double checked) very low result before it got back to appropriate for your age, even if it still shows an uncomfortable decline.
Your liver hasn't gotten worse on your current diet, and neither have your weight or your blood glucose.

I would want to see a nephrologist before I'd make drastic dietary changes that may make your diabetes treatment and weight management more difficult, this diabetes nurse of yours has so far never shown any sense in your treatment...

And I'd want to talk to someone knowledgable before starting a medication like Mounjaro with all the issues you have with your gut and various foods.
 
Uhm, at 48, I sure hope a family, pregnancy and childbirth will not happen, no matter who pays for the date (and thankfully, thanks to my ((great)(grant)parents there is a way of preventing this in the Netherlands even if my IUD plus condoms fail).

While your theory probably makes sense from an evolutionary perspective, social security (finances provided by the government if needed) has been pretty trustworthy for single mothers for the past 70 years in my country, not exactly a sound excuse to expect a male date to pay.
 
I do so agree, Antje. Trouble is - here we don't have access to a nephrologist (there is a renal department at the hospital, but they only work with people who have seen specialists elsewhere and advise or treat them), GPs are not accessible, nurses don't know much, and the medical consultant I see is only interested in my liver, because that was why I was referred to him. Since I can't see a GP, I can't ask for a repeat test to see what is happening to my kidneys (I did have a scan which showed a marked difference in my kidneys and that I have one "duplex" kidney, but that shouldn't be a problem, it's just odd. Nothing to follow up on that, as far as I know.) We don't have a joined up medical service here any more. We have people who know how to do their bit of the job and nothing more. Then there is this mitochondrial thing that nobody seems to know anything about - except the name.

And who really knows much about Mounjaro? I could try it and see what happens, as my SIL did. She bought it for herself and couldn't take it after the first dose.

We used to have GPs who knew their patients, their histories, their families and who would actually make house calls when needed. They weren't, necessarily, great doctors, but they tried. That doesn't happen any more. The doctors I have known for years no longer meet my eye when they pass in the Health Centre. Once they would stop and talk for a moment or two. It's a sad situation. Might just be me getting old and twisted (ah the good old days! )

Anyway, I've calmed myself down a bit now and I'm not going to get het up about it all. What will be, will be. Moderation in all things, I guess, is the way forward.
 
Breakfast was more of the beef and vegetable stew/soup from yesterday. That's it finished now - actually it was only a very small bowlfull and I'm now chewing on some walnuts to keep me going until 2nd meal is ready.

2nd meal is another freezer emptying effort: some rubbish frozen salmon that Neil bought some time ago with a box which said it was "vegetable mash". It's certainly mashed, so much so that I can't identify the vegetables. It tastes a bit spicy and may have some tomato in it. Whatever - it'll do the job. Just defrosting it all together in a pan at present.
 
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