What's for dinner?

captain you really are a caveman!!! Good you like cabbage you should it alot of it mum maybe diabetic but her bloods are always a good healthy colour doc puts it down to her 3 days a week cabbage! good for your blood cells!

guess ill listen to some vulgar david allen coe while my chicken is thawing . dont expect any civility from me for a couple of days ..

id eat an ostrich . h*ll id eat a tasmanian devil if i could catch the little b*stard ..

Captain Ostrich is very good protein and zero cholesterol? i dont know if you can get it there! i had it dried in south africa but there are a few ostrich farms here?

eh , ive been gone from home for 6 years . of course rebuilding my life defies a starting point .. like homer simpsons fantasy i need two wives " chop chop , dig dig , BEER ME .. lol

i love cabbage kaz . im going to fry some chicken this evening . i love the livers but hepc doc sez they are awfully high in cholesterol .,. bout ready to rework this kitchen but you normally get a task that size planned and staged then hit it when the worst of the work season is over . there usually isnt much left of me after a hard physical workday ..
woodcutting is still childsplay compared to hard stonework . it is both physical and mental ..
so thats why i need a good woman in my life . as a team wed accomplish so much more .

Lamb chops (payday)! boiled potatoes and cabbage YUK! dont like cabbage but mum loves it good for your blood? Ill just have an extra lamb chop!

Grilled Alaskan salmon, roasted Brussels sprouts, Hasselback yams. All good! Pat does not care for fish or yams, so he had a big taco salad.

Tomorrow I am meeting an internet friend for lunch in Rochester (about an hour from here) where he will be at the Mayo Clinic for a few days. He has early stage Lewy Body Dementia and I "met" him on a discussion site a few years ago. I met him for lunch last year and he was doing remarkably well. I hope he still is.

im on the chicken livers tonight . i sealed the block cores where the bats keep getting in . makes me wonder why i never done it months ago . maybe i just needed something to do battle with . them sh*ts are like swatting a pinball -- everywhere at once ..

Ha! Looloo its just too easy to open a can!!!!!!! fed up with cooking two different meals every night mum wont it this and that its wrecking my head! if she like fish my life would be so much easier! some days im so bored i will cook up a storm but most times im too tired to think so make an effort for mum and eat what i can! i used to love cooking? But at least shes eating! i just make an effort for her as its all she enjoys right now?

Kazzaa, I swear I had tuna for lunch every day last week!

Pasta carbonara for mum and tuna salad for me am turning into a tuna fish! running out of things to eat weight falling off me but feel better with no dairy and wheat!

FLA - Florida.

Dinner was left over. I arrived home late - past 7pm because I had to buy dad's grape juices and ice cream. The home nurse was here changing his catheter and now shaving dad. While he was shaving him, I started warming up my dinner. Since the livingroom has air con, I decided to bring my dinner in. I ate as he shaved. I was debating if I should offer him food - except we don't have food. Should I offer him the half of my food that I haven't touched with my spoon? Should I give him microwavable dinner. In the end, good manners ruled. I asked him if he wanted to eat. Thank goodness he said no!

Dinner was just left over chicken and corn. Oldest sis beat me to the left over chicken pasta that fave sis dropped off yesterday. Darn! I should have packed it and hid it in my private shelf. Early bird gets the worm. Tired. I will go lie down early - read my paperback book using the small book light.

Cap i dont know what fla is? and how come you cant see them until next summer?

na kaz i havent . son gkids and i sure had some kitchen fun in chicago tho .
kids are back home with their mom in fla now . cant see em again till next summer . when the stonework takes off and money is better ill send em a little cash . kids need things too ..

Cap did you try and make the "clafoutis" yet? its yummy! just an eggy batter but great with cherries! Pastry gives you heartburn!

eh i just baked me up a cherry pastry tonight . gonna miss these cherries when theyre gone . almost apple canning time though . i think apple cake with walnuts is as good as it gets .. ive about formed the plan to remodel my bunker kitchen but the plan is only half of it -- gotta start stockpiling materials before go time ..
tired today . cut , split , brought home bout 7 rick of wood in the last 2 days .
dam colonoscopy coming up . not a big deal but by the time the procedure is over it takes about 2 back to back fast food meals to get your strength back . im gonna keep my blood sugar up this time if i have to eat out of the sugar bag . screw those hypoglyc headaches ..

Mexican tacos with guacamole and some new soya crap cream ive yet to try? going to be HOT i shook the jar of chilli and a huge amount came out! dont you hate when that happens still i like hot food will have to tone it down with extra tomato puree!

those quart of chicken livers didnt come close to sustaining me . im still waiting for the angus cows .. damnt im still hungry ..

spap is what im sayin ..

i found the fork damnt . had a beer or 7 with afriend and came back to bats in the bunker . with a busted flyswatter theyre harder to hit but when ya finally hit em theyre screwed .. la la la la life goes on ..

Just some pasta salad and fruit tonight. It hit the spot, even if it wasn't exciting.

Physically, mentally and emotionally drained today. Took a Valium and ordered in fried chicken.

Check the toilet tank.

ahhh.
ive lost my fork . thats a big deal when you only have one fork ..

my aunt is 90 and the picture of health but she is going to die from dementia . it simply runs in the family . we have monsterous , english brains / foreheads , but dementia still runs way back to senile , whisk broom nostrils , talking nonstop , fruitbat crazy g- pa ..

My mother is a major artificial sweetener junkie. And she has a type of dementia that looks much like a mental illness with cognitive impairment. I've tried to figure out which type of dementia it might be -- vascular, Alz, LBD. Nothing really fits. I ran across the discussion of metabolic dementia and thought maybe. I imagine that many people with Diabetes 2 may have a sweet tooth they satisfy with artificial sweeteners. It would be interesting for someone to look at the effect of over-consumption of these sweeteners in people with diabetes.

Strangely enough, nicotine has a protective effect on the brain. It just has a usually-unwanted effect on the vascular system. And smoke has a terrible effect on every body part, particularly the lungs and throat. I've wondered if nicotine patches might help someone with early-stage dementia. I don't know if anyone has looked.

JessieBelle, this is all new for me. Since my mom and her mother had Alzheimer, I know that I'm a strong candidate of getting it. If eating sweets is going to increase my chances of getting it, I will do my best to cut back. It's bad enough that I don't exercise the way I should. I agree with you about the artificial sweeteners. One never knows until maybe 10 years later - to find out the real side effects of it. The scary thing is that these companies HIDE the true side effects - example cigarettes (nicotine) and lately the big auto industries (who knew about the defective parts and still continued to sell the cars all these years - knowing that several people died because of it.) Or those diet sodas, etc....

bookluvr, there has been a good bit of work on diabetes and dementia. Some is being done here in Birmingham by a prominent researcher. A research report I read lately linked frequent hypoglycemia with what is called metabolic dementia, which may become permanent if it continues. Hypoglycemia is a problem for people with pre-diabetes and diabetics taking insulin. It is also a problem for people who eat a lot of sweets, since hyperglycemia often over-corrects, causing blood sugar to drop too low.

I'd love to see some work on artificial sweeteners that people with diabetics use. It wouldn't surprise me if the body responds in a way that isn't healthy for the brain. Many older diabetics are addicted to sugar-free treats. I read one time a long time ago -- I don't know if it's true -- that artificial sweeteners can trigger the release of some insulin. What fooled the mouth fooled the pancreas, I guess.

There's an article in Reader's Digest Feb.2013 issue titled: Can You Eat Your Way to Dementia? Wow. I'm not into reading technical stuff (more into fantasies, fictions). But from what I understand -there is a correlation of sweets, insulin, brain - resulting in diabetes-like illness of the brain. This is all based on the rat experiments. They haven't tried it on humans.

Quoting a few paragraphs from it:
Insulin was typecast as a regulator of blood sugar, cueing muscle, liver and fat cells to extract sugar from the blood & use it for energy or store it as fat. In the brain, it helps neurons take up glucose for energy & regulates neurotransmitters crucial for memory & learning. It also encourages plasticity - the process by which neurons make new connections. As a result, reducing the level of insulin in the brain can immediately impair cognition. Conversely, a boost of insulin seems to improve its functioning.

When people frequently gorge on fatty or sugary food, their insulin spikes repeatedly. Muscle, liver and fat cells stop responding to the hormone & don't mop up the glucose and fat in the blood. As a result, the pancreas desperately works overtime to make more insulin to control the glucose, and levels of the 2 molecules skyrocket.

The theory: These constantly high insulin levels also overwhelm the brain, which then becomes less responsive to insulin, impairing the ability to think and form memories, before leading to permanent neural damage.
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I'm already forgetful. I think I better cut back on eating ice cream daily and all those other junk food, and no more drinking soda every night. Just in case this theory has some truths to it.