Hello ladies
I hope your all having a lovely weekend as our Canadian friends are now hosting the winter Olympics now that is one Olympics we will never host something to do with the lack of snow Although we are hosting the summer Olympics of 2012 the first time since 1949 I really would like to go but I expect the tickets will be £££ and out of our price range. Then there is the parking to consider in London which is not the easiest of places to park at the best of times unless you know the city which we don't. We do go on deliveries but are straight in and straight out hoping to dodge the dreaded parking wardens who put parking fines tickets on your vehicle for parking in the wrong place.
DH is looking forward to Pancake day on this Tuesday to many of you this will be known as Shrove Tuesday. Must pick up a lemon or bottle of lemon juice as I like to have my pancakes with lemon juice. I will use sweetener instead of sugar to cut on the calories a wee bit. Although this will be my main meal of the day I can cut back a little bit at dinner time (on Tuesday my treatment day so my cook meal of the day will be at around 5pm rather than 12.30ish.).
I finished making the soup today the red lentil one it was a success at tea DH thought it was rather nice to say the least. For dinner I had rice, vegetables and veggie burger. The rice I put in some condensed low fat soup added onions and garlic plus veggies for a tasty dinner. I made enough for another day which I will have with chicken breast.
I have a pair of new glasses not sure if I let you know but I am gradually "breaking them in" so to speak. It is not an easy transition it has made my eyes ache and sore. This is because they are getting use to the stronger prescription and the prisms in the lens. Today has been the most successful yet I have managed all but about an hour and half with my new ones so it will not be long before I am wearing them full time. I have wore glasses all the time (not just for reading) since I was 21 years old so know fully how difficult some lens are to get use to. The worse by far was varifocals now they took 6 weeks for me to be use to them. I was all right until I went shopping and then it felt like items where coming off the shelf towards me Otherwise I was OK but eventually I mastered them I was so determined to do so I did not want two pairs of glasses now I would only lose one.
ROSEBUD Your DH is a braver soul than me going to watch the hockey in the cold weather. Maybe the consideration of you going to turn the furnace down is a sign that Spring is around the corner for you
We already have signs of spring I have seen the crocuses and snowdrops leaves peeping through the soil. I will have to look in our garden to see if any daffodils are making an appearance. We are still prone to frost or snowfall at this time of the year so we are not out of the woods yet.
I see that you maybe considering taking omega 3. I am not very keen on fish unlike my sisters DH. I take flaxseed which is high in omega 3 the other benefits of flaxseed are
* Omega-3 essential fatty acids, "good" fats that have been shown to have heart-healthy effects. Each tablespoon of ground flaxseed contains about 1.8 grams of plant omega-3s.
* Lignans, which have both plant oestrogen and antioxidant qualities. Flaxseed contains 75- 800 times more lignans than other plant foods
* Fibre. Flaxseed contains both the soluble and insoluble types.
I take my flaxseed in my cereal in the morning but other ways of using it are in soups, stews or flaxseed muffins to name a few. I have put it in porridge and fruit yoghurt as well so there are many ways to eat it. I find it very filling with having it for breakfast and sustains me till dinner very easily.
It took me months to train Rizzie to sit on his hind legs and "beg", plus give his paws, put the ball directly into my hand. My husband does not have the patience for that sort of thing. It is hard work but when you seen the end result it is so worth all the effort. For me to take the picture I had the ball in one had just out of camera shot and the camera in the other hand feeling like a juggler at the time Needless to say we had to have several photographs before I snapped the right one thank goodness for digital cameras else I would use a reel of film just for a few good shots. Now that would have been mega expensive this way is so much cheaper and easier come to that.
I knew that young dandelion leaves were good for you but not for what vitamins etc. I watched a programme on what you could eat off the land and what people ate during the war. So nettles where on the menu also. Not that I have tried either the nearest I have had is dandelion and burdock pop which has probably never seen a dandelion in its life and more likely chemically flavoured I am sure there are many things like that we just think of weed or just pass them by never giving them a second though are good for us. We get so use to getting most things from the supermarkets and other shops that we forget what our ancestors ate for years. There are many berries which much be rich in vitamin C that we could eat but don't. I do go blackberry picking but that is about it and have when I was young picked wild mushrooms. Not that I could pick out a mushroom from a toadstool. It was my father telling me that was a mushroom otherwise I would have been clueless. I have picked also chestnuts wild gosh it is all coming back as I sit here and beechnuts but that is like 30 odd years ago.
It is getting late here time to make hot chocolate I think and then think about heading towards my bed. No rocking required tonight I have been busy for the best part of the day with cooking so up and down like a yo-yo. Take care my fellow chicks till next time
purpleorc