Food!?!

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As I consider banning most readership, there are things I can post.  Just no ideas or anything personal, for the moment.

For those of you who have difficulty getting food, this might be for you.  I have trouble with food for any number of reasons.  Doing dishes can be too much.  The task gets backed up, the kitchen falls into disarray, it all spirals into no place or tools with which to cook.  Yes, I do have food coming in.  And that has helped immensely.  But I wanted to build on that.  And I have.

There are good and bad things to eat out there, but if you are very hungry the difference is small.  With a little bit of planning, things can work so you eat less of the really bad stuff, only some of the sort of bad stuff, and more of the good stuff.  When I say bad, I mean empty calories nutrition wise.  The more and fresher the nutrients, the better.  But that just isn't possible, even for a meal a week here, save when it comes in.  So, I started looking at the options.

While certainly not perfect, any calorie in with some claim to nutrition is better than nothing, or worse feasting and fasting cycles.  I have been trying various things.  What has been good have been Nature Valley granola bars, Kellog's nutri-grain bars, mixed bags of nuts, cheese or peanut butter cracker bars, and even ramen noodles.  Yeah, each has it's problems and good points.  It beats starving while trying to figure out fresh foods I can't eat quickly enough so they go bad or some other "healthy" system.  And a hundred and fifty calories helps a bunch once in a while.  Actually I am now down to 260 even.  I tried insta-mac and cheese and... no.  Not even I can do that.  It's mush, with mush on the side.  Boxed is okay, but not nuke stuff, though the boxed stuff requires a pot and all else, so is no better than fresh foods for this purpose.

Most of those foods are good enough.  And they are supplemented by local 'mom's home cooking'.  Plus, once in a while, I can supplement a real meal or two in there.  Most of that food is good enough as is, save the ramen noodles.  Way too salty, and yet so convenient, so I tried something these last two tries of it.  If you make ramen noodles, as the stuff stews for that last minute?  Add a teaspoon (two if you are eating a double pack) of butter.  It cuts the salty taste to nothing and adds delicious as a final ingredient!  Because it is still so salty, and I do trust the docs a little bit, I don't eat that often.  But sometimes I need something hot.  Cold food is good enough mostly, but it just won't do all of the time.  And, well, I don't eat much salt anyway.  Probably not enough to be honest, so I don't mind infusing salt laden food into my diet once or twice a week.

If you have to keep it simple, can't keep up on shopping, can't keep up on dishes, and actually are overweight anyway?  Do it.  You might be surprised what eating a few extra calories, even so-called unhealthy calories, does for you, and your waistline.  I've dropped 14 pounds from my lowest in decades range of weights this summer, even right through a hard personal down cycle, by just figuring out how to get a few more calories into my ogre half-dead lump.  My max was 350 ever, but recently it has ranged from 274 to 300... until I started figuring out how to get food in my face regularly... that's as much as 40 off, a 13% sale, but the bottom line hasn't been reached either!

Just... do it.