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Posted: Sun Mar 5th, 2006 09:45 pm |
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Help needed for sophisticated picky eater!
Treatment has turned my stomach! I need a variety of simple things to keep eating..... no ability to do it for myself.... a husband willing to learn but convinced a four ounce portion of anything is not enough to worry about! Reinforced by forty plus years of uselessness in the kitchen! Need some sauces that can be divided, and used for heating up meat or veggies in, snack ideas that are easy to grab and try.... thinking about making him run out to Sam's Club and pick up a one of those take and bake party variety trays....... small bite size snackers you can keep popping in.... we can get by on frozen commercial for now.... just need new, fresh ideas! I have found keeping a bowl of blueberries nearby helpful... good for you, and moisture providing!...... and those cheese spreads, too. I feel like a toddler run amuck, always trying to find something tasty enough to shove in there and eat! Need ideas to lower the sugar, but not eliminate..... one of the things I CAN taste...... keep acid reasonable for balance...... and the grease has got to go! Can't handle fatty things right now! So.... I need treasures in food! We can get by with pre cooked deli meats..... but sauce uggestions would be great! Another way to change something, or make it more palitable!
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Elizabeth in Iowa
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Posted: Mon Mar 6th, 2006 06:49 am |
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DIPPING SAUCES ----- Go to your fav supermarket and cruise the "ethnic" sections. Bottled sauces, pastes, insty-sauce mixes, etc. [THAI, MEX, JAPO, INDIAN, etc.] They come salty, sweet, sweet sour, smokey, spicy ,..... you name it.
CHEESES ----- again, get some exotic varieties that are tasty [smoked gouda, bleu cheese, asiago] and fit your palette, They can [most] be kept at room temp [for days] so you could just pull hunks of [don't buy slices!]
DRIED/SMOKED MEATS ----- Beef jerky, nova scotia style lox [salmon], SPAM, etc. [Even if you can't chew, beef jerky can just be sucked on/gummed for the flavor and some nutrition.] "Potted" meats [Underwood Deviled Ham/Turkey/Chicken] are very soft and can scooped up by any multitude of CHIPS/MELBA TOASTS/SMALL DELI-RYE BREADS.
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At "mealtime", make a small platter, to include, a couple slices of deli bread/baby toasts [he can use a toaster ?  ] ,.... a little can of potted meat, some spam, a hunk of "stinky" cheese, some hot sauce or a pineapple salsa, some garlic pickle slices, a few good olives, and some napkins. You can make little "open-face" sandwiches with what ever ingredients you want, OR just take a bite of cheese, THEN cut off a hunk of spam and dip it your pineapple salsa, the munch it, THEN pop an olive or sweet pickle for a "chaser"
As you see the possibilites are endless [ONLY restricted by your pocket book ,... SPAM is not as good as BOARSHEAD BAVARIAN HAM [etc.] ,.... but a lot cheaper!].
ALSO, buy pre-cooked frozen SHRIMP [IQF] where you just grab 3-4 shrimp out'ta the bag, [from your freezer], and run under cold water for 3-4 minutes to thaw, and you have a chilled, mini-shrimp cocktail, ready for dipping in your bottled cocktail sauce, you purchased.
Buy fresh fruits [your favs] and make your own gourmet fruit salad ,... even refrigerated, they get "droopy' after a day, but it doesn't hurt the taste. Just omit bananas and apples [you can keep them whole, in a bowl, on the kitchen table, anyway].
YOUR PAL - CHEFAL
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Posted: Mon Mar 6th, 2006 12:28 pm |
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All good, simple stuff! Way to go! Just needed the reminder! Yeah, I do tend to look at at my 'plate' or meal more as a grazing encounter at the coctail buffet! A bite of this, a nosh of that..... when one is suddenly told.... you must get 3 to 4K caolories per day..... and food has been that stuff that holds body and soul together.... welll.... it does take attitude shift!
Spam and pineapple.... of course!
Been doing the room temp cheese and grape thing.....
Forgot about the ethnic sauces! Shame on me! Deli cocktail breads just the right size..... it's making the spreads and stuff in small batches that's the killer! And I've always been one of those people that never met arecipe she didn't like that began.... take a pound of butter, or grab a quart of cream......
small, flavorful, nutricuous..... we can do this!
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Elizabeth in Iowa
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Posted: Mon Mar 6th, 2006 01:26 pm |
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Here's a MASSIVE database [links in order of prederence, I think] to give you some more ideas ,....
Surf these, when you have time, AND make a list of the titles you like ----- reply back here with your favorites, and I will give you quick and easy recipes for the same.
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/dip-recipes/index.htm
http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=spreads
http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/bldips.htm
http://www.cooksrecipes.com/sandwich-recipes/cold-sandwich-recipes.html
http://www.thatsmyhome.com/mainstreetdeli/dips.htm
chefal
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Posted: Sat May 6th, 2006 01:01 am |
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 Which medical so called expert told you that coconut oil was bad for you and palm oil was better? ...I have web site after web site to prove everything you said about coconut oil being bad for you is completely bogus. Just try typing "the dangers of coconut oil "on the internet and read how many web sites you can reach that says anything negative about coconut oil.....not one.
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Posted: Sat May 6th, 2006 01:35 am |
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What in the world are you writing about!!! I never said that palm oil was good for you, quite the contrary. AND I am aware that unhydrogentated coconut oil, meat, etc. are good for you. And have said so. The only thing I warned about was that the extracted milk and cream are extremely high in calories, and if one is dieting, it might be wiser to limit it.
If you truly found a place on my site that recommends palm oil over coconut oil, please point me to it!
Please see Take Two: Coconut Milk
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