by Trinity » Tue Mar 22, 2022 6:35 pm
Today: various teas, 2 oz. unsweetened Silk, fruit, potatoes, vegetables, balsamic vinegar, Split Pea Soup, “oat bars,” Thai Green Curry sauce (this was from SS without vegetables or rice, just blended the ingredients with an immersion blender), brown rice. Exercised.
My numbers are in. Everything in normal range except my white blood cell count was a little on the low side (from 1 cup of coffee that morning and/or a meal with oil in it the day before? Who knows) and my potassium was slightly higher than normal range, I guess because of all the potatoes. My cholesterol is 100 even so that was pretty cool.
There is a lunch monitor at my kids’ school who has from time to time bothered them individually with, “Where is your meat? Where is your cheese?” Today my daughter told me this lady took a picture of her lunch: asked her to remove all the little lids and took a picture of it. Now, I’m not really sure why but this TOTALLY got under my skin. I brought a jelly sandwich to lunch every day of grade school and no one cared! I e-mailed the lady (who is a Spanish teacher) and told her our family limits meat and dairy for personal reasons and to delete the picture and leave my kids alone. I mean, for my son especially this is his ONLY break in the day to relax and talk with friends—he doesn’t even have recess in 6th grade. Just leave my kids alone! Gah!!! It’s not like she’s a health instructor. It’s not anyone’s business anyway! The school lunches are absurd: hot dogs, cheeseburgers, fried chicken, and fries. OK, end of rant.
I sort of tried to make the oat bars from the e-mail today, but all I did was empty the rest of the cinnamon spice instant oatmeal packets we had into a bowl, mix it with water, and bake it so it didn’t work that great—tasted OK but turned out kind of rubbery. I’ll try it for real when I get some more rolled oats.