It is Day 145 of my Daily Food Diary. 🔥
Yesterday, Rory returned to work up our garden planters. He helped Dan move one of the new planters to the front yard and Dan levelled it and filled it with fresh dirt. I got flowers planted and helped as required.
Altogether, we accomplished a ton of work, which was only made possible with Rory’s welcome assistance.
This week I hope to get the rest of the garden in, run to Unique Gardens for plants around the pond, pressure wash the patio furniture and get it in place, get the second new front yard planter in place, and get the lawn trimmed and mowed. A lot of the work will fall on Dan – or require his assistance, but it is all doable. 👍
After, we finished up yesterday, I sat down to enjoy my 2nd alcoholic beverage in two days.
First off, I chose an Absolute Ocean Spray cran-Raspberry vodka premixed drink. I cannot eat dried cranberries. I can drink cranberry tea. Apparently, I cannot drink anything (possibly anything alcoholic?) that contains cranberry juice. My abdomen swole up like a beach ball, pushed my hernia out, and the result was excruciating pain. 🤦
Second, I am not now nor have I ever been, a drinker. I grew up in a home that was generally pretty much dry. Dad had a bottle of Rye around. As he got older, he would take one straight shot on cold morning, before heading out to shovel the walks. Other than that he had a dozen beer – which he passed around on Christmas and Easter. Mom had a bottle of wine to serve with dinner – again on Christmas and Easter. There was a bottle of Lemon Gin that someone left behind after a visit. It lived there as long as I can remember.
As a teenager, I went out drinking. In Saskatchewan that meant heading out to the backroads with a case of beer. If I ever drank half a beer, it didn’t stay down long enough to be memorable. (No doubt due to the yeast content which I had no idea was an issue for me back then).
Throughout my first marriage – seventeen years of unholy matrimony, I seldom had a drink. It might have helped, but I was too busy having babies and raising them, to sit around drinking.
Since I met Dan, I have drank more alcohol – not regularly and not much more. If you rounded up every ounce of alcohol that I have drank in my lifetime, you wouldn’t have enough to keep an alcoholic happy through a long weekend.
Funny story (as in peculiar – it wasn’t really funny)… In 2012 I was in the hospital for a solid month with pneumonia and a fully collapsed lung due to empyema which is an infection outside of the lung. The doctors tried to treat it, drain it, and finally sent me to a cardiac specialist who used clot buster treatments to clear it up.
From the emergency room to the specialist, I saw several doctors. Going over my history, they all said that I am a very heavy drinker. It wasn’t a question and every time I said I wasn’t, I am pretty sure they noted that I was in denial on my permanent health record. 🤦
I finally asked one doctor, point blank, why they all thought I drank and he said because the only people who get empyema are the extremely elderly (I was 57) and those who abuse alcohol.
If I had been aware of my severe intolerance to yeast, I may have steered them in a different direction, but that was not the case. 🤔
Daily Food Diary – Day 145
Breakfast:
(1) c coffee (2)
(2) scrambled eggs (fried in butter & olive oil) (234) (6 grams)
(3) slices bacon (130) (3.3 grams)
(2) hash browns (240)
Snacks:
(1/2) c bbq corn nuts (230) (1 gram)
(1) Absolut/Ocean Spray cran raspberry (38)
(48) oz water
(2/3) c French Vanilla ice cream (183) (5.8 grams)
(7) pecan halves (46) (.6 grams)
(1) tbsp chocolate sauce (52) (.1 grams)
(1) tbsp caramel sauce (70) (.9 grams)
Supper:
(1) Turkey salad wrap – cheese tortilla wrap, turkey, Miracle Whip, green onion, celery, dill pickle & lettuce (248) (2.1 grams)
(8) Lay’s lightly salted ripple chips (116) (1.1 grams)
(8) Lay’s BBQ chips (86) (.5 grams)
Total net calories: 1320
Net calorie goal: 1243 – 1320 = 77 over 👎
Total saturated fats: 21.4 grams
Saturated fats goal: 13.75 grams 👎
That’s it for today. Take care and have a great day! 💖😌
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