eva : not so fast ! i think i posted earlier that we always start our second breakfast with a bowl of granola cereal, good balkan style yoghurt and fresh fruit; only thereafter .... since we are in the pool for our morning swim from 8 o'clock to about 8:45 we do feel like having a good brekfast(and in anticipation of the arrival of ebeth and doggies, our shopping list was somewhat expanded - and so may be our waistlines !). we certainly feel that as long as we keep busy with housework, gardening - we have a lot of about 10,000 sqare-feet -, swimming and walking, we can have regular meals without gaining any weight. i must admit that the weight-distribution has shifted somewhat in the last few years - the physiotherapistssays it's "poor posture". ain't that good news ! hbg
Bo...I knew both of those older folks well, and I don't think, at the ages of 96 and 101, that they really wanted any more years. Perhaps you are right about the way they grew up, but both were raised on what we would now call high-saturated-fat, high-refined-carbohydrate diets...just what we are now told will surely lead to an early death. And the 96-year-old didn't breathe fresh air for most of his life...he inspected fire-ravaged buildings for 40-something years, and he smoked filterless cigarettes for most of his life.
Perhaps the best thing a "healthier" lifestyle would have done for these folks would have been to make them feel better for all those years. And, no doubt, that's a good enough reason by itself.
For those who do not have a genetic predisposition for long life, or who have significant health problems, diet truly can lengthen their lives, though.
What I meant to say, but wasn't clear, was that having a good diet doesn't necessarily mean you'll live a long life. Some people manage to live very long lives despite their downright pitiful diets. I don't think the correlation is as simple as popular culture would have us believe.
Breakfast today = cubed tofu cooked in ancho powder, season salt, minced garlic , oregano , toasted sesame oil with browned sweet onions, button and portabella mushrooms. Baby sweet tomatoes , spinach and herb tortillas. Yellow and green bell peppers. Vanilla soy milk and an IV of coffee.
:-)
4 cups of tea and a piece of Chilean tea cake that one of the cleaning staff brought in as a treat
mmmmmmm
Remind me never to go to Shewolf's house for Thanksgiving dinner... No tofurkey for me...
That is quite a soy-y breakfast she had, isn't it.
ehBeth, 4 cups of tea in the morning?
I'd need a portable toilet, otherwise I never could
make it in the office in one stretch.
Haha cjhsa, I'm with you - too much tofu (that brings
on quite a load of gas along with it). They're shooting
up on Thanksgiving.
CJ - I thought I was quite restrained in my tea drinking for a Monday morning.
Too many cj's around here.... ;D
shewolfnm wrote:Breakfast today = cubed tofu cooked in ancho powder, season salt, minced garlic , oregano , toasted sesame oil with browned sweet onions, button and portabella mushrooms. Baby sweet tomatoes , spinach and herb tortillas. Yellow and green bell peppers. Vanilla soy milk and an IV of coffee.
:-)
damn, and I used to like you!!!!!!!!!!
this morning I had left over bisquits with pork gravy left over from last night.
dyslexia wrote:...this morning I had left over bisquits with pork gravy left over from last night.
That's more like it.
Sausage patties, scrambled eggs & coffee.
Most important meal of the day.
Machinery won't move if it ain't been properly greased.
In all fairness, for breakfast I had granola with skim milk, a piece of buttered whole wheat toast, and tea. Now, lunch was a whole different beast (literally, two different kinds of beast).
I had a donut.
I know the many reasons this is terrible, and I hardly ever succumb, don't even eat many sweets, but.....
the donut display called to me as I was putting my grocery cart in line, "oooooooooooooosssoooooo!!!!"
was it at least a nutritious breakfast donut, OssoB?
You know, like a dutchie or an apple fritter :wink:
Jelly filled?
Bavarian cream?
hmhmhmhmhm?
Right before Thanksgiving is an excellent time to go on a diet. That way you can pig out at the dinner table on Thanksgiving.......so I had one hard boiled egg and one peice of toast. Tomato slices and water. Yummy......
I had the usual, 2 slices of buttered whole wheat (usually it's whole seed multi-grain) and a big cuppa joe.
Oh...if only someone would cook for me I might eat! Half the time I forget to eat and the other half, I'm just not hungry. What you all have posted thus far does sound so wonderful though!! Even shewolfman's creative concoction!
I think I need a chef!
