Tag: Saskatchewan garden

Daily Food Diary – Day 217 of 365

by annemariedemyen, posted in 2025, Health and Fitness

It is 217 Days since I started my Daily Food Diary!  That is 217 days without a single miss! 💖

This month, I am focussed on adding more color to our diet.  This will mean adding some new foods – or at least foods that we don’t make on a regular basis.

Last night, I decided on Stuffed Green Peppers.  If I have ever made them before, it was long enough ago that I don’t remember.   Dan has made them, so he was amenable to the plan and offered to help.

Stuffed GREEN Pepper

We didn’t follow a recipe.  It was just a team effort of this and that and whatever we had in the fridge.

At any rate, they turned out pretty well and gave us ideas for a few more colorful meals.  You might be seeing Enchiladas and Spanish Rice.   I am NOT a squash fan but we might try some Spaghetti Squash.  I used to enjoy cooking  it for our dogs Casey and Kat.  They seemed to like it.  

Casey & Kat

Our weather is warm, sunny, and clear today.  We all took a walk this morning.  I made the full circuit but the humidity didn’t help for sure!

I am just clearing my lungs out with my Aerobika and then I am going to do my Wednesday workout – half an hour of aerobics and half an hour of weights and cardio. 💪

Hopefully, the humidity will drop so I can spend some time outside this afternoon.  Our garden is suddenly entering its jungle phase. 😳

Daily Food Diary – Day 217

Breakfast:

(1) c coffee (2)

(1) c Honey Nut Cheerios (147)

(1/4) c 2% milk (28)

Lunch:

(1) Apple – Red (95)

(1/3) c mixed nuts (216)

Snacks:

(48) oz water

(1 1/4) c Caramel Corn (233)

Supper:

(1) Stuffed pepper – green pepper, white onion & garlic, seasoned ground beef, rice cooked in beef broth,  red pepper,  brown mushrooms, green celery, shredded habanero cheese, dried fried onions.  (465)

Total net calories: 1012

Net calorie goal: 1222 – 1012 = 210 under

That’s it for today. Take care and have a great day! 😊❤️

Daily Food Diary – Day 200

by annemariedemyen, posted in 2025, Health and Fitness

It is 200 Days since I started my Daily Food Diary! 🎈 It is also Sunday and another wet,  chilly  Saskatchewan summer day.

Our garden is struggling this year.  We have not had enough warmth or sunshine.  AND   we  have a forty foot Blue Spruce tree that has taken over our side yard and blocks out any sunlight that our garden used to get.  AND some of our tomato plants have developed a fungal issue that makes their leaves dry out and turn rusty.   I have been picking off the affected leaves and spraying the tomato plants with a fungicide (which washes off an hour later during our next rainy spell).

Dan went out to check things over this morning and came back  to say that one little tomato plant should be pulled out because “it is too small and will never amount to anything and it will only spread this rust fungus  to the other tomato plants” .

I  get it.  It’s a sick little tomato plant that is unlikely to produce fruit and will more than likely spread this fungus thing.   I did go out and picked off the worst leaves. (Now it is more of a tomato stick than a plant.)

But, saying “It is too small and will never amount to anything” was triggering.    Being the youngest of six siblings, I heard it. Being the most non-athletic kid in a town that was all about athletes, I heard it.  Leaving a miserable seventeen year  dysfunctional marriage, I heard it.   “YOU can’t take care of yourself and THREE teenagers! What will become of you?”  “I will THRIVE!” 

And that is  exactly what I did. 💪

I survived, I thrived, and I have celebrated many successes since.  Family wise, career wise (in a male dominated industry),  dealing with serious health issues.   I have thrived and I have amounted to ANYTHING! (Anything I want to be!)

I know this  is just a sickly, contagious,  little tomato plant but it is going to thrive or die trying.  

I have too much of my own baggage invested in that little tomato plant  to give up on it.   🙄

Daily Food Diary – Day 200

Breakfast:

(1) c coffee (2)

(1) Granola bar w/ nuts & dark chocolate (160)

Snacks:

(1/3) c mixed nuts (216)

(1) c caramel corn (133)

(48) oz water

Supper:

(4) oz Rotisserie chicken – dark meat w/skin (200)

(1 1/2) c white rice (363)

(10) Asparagus spears  (33)

(1 1/2) tsp butter (51)

(2) tbsp soya sauce (30)

(1) small salad – lettuce, cucumber, green onions, tomato, sesame seeds, fried dried onions, French Salad Dressing (216)

(12) oz carbonated water

Total net calories: 1114

Net calorie goal: 1229 – 1114 = 115 under

* Highlighted items contain significant collagen or significant contribute to the production of collagen

That’s it for today. Take care and have a great day! ☺️💝

Daily Food Diary – Day 140 of 365

by annemariedemyen, posted in 2025, Health and Fitness

It is 140 Days since I began posting my Daily Food Diary.  That is TWENTY solid weeks of mindful eating and accountability! 🥇

It is one year since my daughter and I headed south to Nebraska to celebrate my sister’s birthday. 

Happy Birthday, Jeanne –  with friends & family

On the way back to Canada, Jen and I spent a day exploring the Black Hills of South Dakota.   It was our long anticipated ‘Thelma & Louise’ trip. (Minus the driving off the cliff scene. 😂)

Driving THROUGH the Black Hills of South Dakota

It was an excellent trip all around.  We were gone for five days, but we made memories that will last a lifetime. 

Yesterday, I did get my x-ray done and the results were posted last night.  The only NEW note of interest was some possible issue with the lower left lung. 

“mild increase in density in the left lower lung, suggesting a possible atelectasis (collapsed lung) that is slightly more prominent than in a previous image.”   I have a follow up appointment with my respiratory specialist, so I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.   To be honest, I expect it is residual damage caused by my lung extravaganza of 2023. 

On our way home, Dan and I stopped at one greenhouse to pick up a few seedlings – herbs, flowers, and peppers.  They did not have the rhubarb plant that I wanted, but in typical Dan fashion, he went on a mission after dropping me off at home to do my aerobic workout.   AND – he scored at Canadian Tire. (Also in Dan fashion he got it on sale for half the price that I would have paid at the Home Depot garden center).

Rhubarb Torte in our future. 🤗🙌

Daily Food Diary – Day 140

Breakfast:

(1) c coffee (2)

(2) Eggo classic waffles (180) (1.5 grams)

(2) tsp butter (69) (4.7 grams)

(1) tbsp Maple Syrup (55)

(3) sl. Bacon (130) (3.3 grams)

Snacks:

(24) oz water

(1/2) oz dry roast peanuts (81) (1 gram)

(2) c air popped popcorn – no butter (62) (1 grams)

(1/4) c bbq corn nuts (115) (.5 grams)

(1) pear (103)

(1) peach (51)

Supper:

(1) lg serving of spaghetti with ground turkey meat sauce  (no cheese 😢) (628) (2 grams)

(1/2) c broccoli (30)

(1/2) c cauliflower (14)

(2) tsp butter (69) (4.7 grams)

Total net calories: 1243

Net calorie goal: 1411 – 1243 = 168 over 👎

Total saturated fats: 17.8 grams

Saturated fats goal: 13.75

* I totally skimped on the hydration yesterday.  I am so waterlogged from this weather, it was just off my radar. 🙄

That is it for today.  Take care and have a great day! 😊💕