White Bread, the Numbers and Me

[melyxa]

Once upon a time, I had nasty triglycerides.  We're talking 380 or  so, when normal is in the 100 or so range.  Bad, bad, bad.

So I busted my ass to bring 'em on down.  We ate organic.  We only used good fats and only in moderation.  And we either made our own bread or ate really nice, wholesome breads.  And pasta?  Organic whole grain only, if you

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the hard work of a mother

[niteraptor]

up here its the oposite, NO ONE eats the organic bread, the ORGANIC produce so it goes to the pantrys and i will nab it up, my boys sitting at the church with me, will turn up the little old xian with her gilttery sugarcookies while they share a bunch, of bananas, and the people look at them in confusion, "dont they know whats good" and they do, i have 2 packages of black forest cupcakes in my fridge, untouched. i have the feeling they will meet with mr trashman next week. i have a cake and a dozen cupcakes in my room cause there is no room in the fridge, Y? they begged for watermelon, and that leaves little room for well, otherthings

[lyzrecusant]

One of the reasons I never quite got around to going down to the food pantry when we were on food stamps and qualified was because the little guys are allergic to a whole list of things - not that many really in the overall scheme of things, but...they're essentially allergic to the Standard American Diet (notice how that acronym comes out SAD?) So going to the food pantry and getting wheat (By which I mean "made with wheat flour, white or not") bread, and milk, and flour, and things full of corn or corn syrup (which is everywhere - oh, and by the way, if you're trying to lose weight, corn syrup is not your friend - apparently, there is a chemical switch in your brain that causes you to feel full and stop eating after you've consumed enough calories, and researchers have found recently that corn syrup does not trigger that switch - so you end up consuming way more calories than you need, because your brain isn't aware that you're consuming them. But I digress. Also we'd probably get a lot of products containing tomatoes, potatoes

[gothikfaerie]

*perks* Ohio - ? (greets and MM and all.. up in Cleveland, here ;)

Last time i dealt w/a food pantry (but one) i was working there to qualify for _my_ ration, so i was able to nab the 'weird' stuff that didn't make it into the usual pre-rationed giveaways. It might be worth **asking** them if they have unusual items.. yanno, if one person only donates WWbread, or a jar of grapeleaves, or organic anything, it may not get added in to the general ration shelves because it doesn't fit. Otoh, if they know you're willing to take what might otherwise be 'waste', you may stand to score better items. Also, we would make up special baskets for known diabetics.. of course, in smalltown Ohio they might be more willing to play ball than where you are, but it never hurts to ask, yanno?

[lyzrecusant]

We'll be about an hour and a half from Cleveland, down in Garrettsville. And we're moving there because Tom got a real (good) job. So we're not desperate anymore, and we probably don't qualify for food pantries or anything, nor would I take stuff from them...even though it's going to be a while before we're really back to being comfortable - it takes a while to recover from the impact of something like this - we had to live off our credit cards to cover the time between when the morons in PA decided we didn't qualify for food stamps anymore because we had nothing left to lose except the house (???? still haven't figured that one out) and when Tom got the job and actually started getting a paycheck, plus there is always stuff that foodstamps just doesn't cover, like my medications, which are *not* optional. But the point here is that we now have a Real Income. So I would not feel right taking help that someone else probably needs more than we do

[waimeawahine]

Choices had to give way to dependence on the kindness of strangers...to wit: no one donates whole wheat bread or whole grain pasta to a food pantry.

And that's a sad. Part of the problem with what's available for distribution is that food collection drives often specify canned goods or other items with a long shelf life. (And do you really want food that's gonna live longer than the average human being. I exaggerate a little for effect, but not much.) The Big Island does a little better than elsewhere in its food-giveaway programs because you can also get cheese (always cheddar) and cereals such as Special K. Once a year, there's a seniors program that gives away vegetables for a few weeks.

mom would ration my food (because she put me on my first diet at 9 [and took me to weight watchers at 11I see why you have issues; your mother certainly had them, as did your former spouse

Long Live the American Way

[soledad_duende]

For sweetening - move to Stevia if you haven't tried it yet. Grow it in a pot, buy somewhere - learn to use it. It's a bit tricky but hell, nutrasweet growing on one's garden is a blessing no matter how green your food gets. It's healthy and calory free - and hated by US officials (can we all say "lobbying" here?)

I will try to think for a cheap, non-SAD diet suggestions. I have a vague idea what's sold there, with prices, so mayhap i can come up with something you haven't tried already. Will mostly vegetarian, though, will that be a problem?

Also, Please send me your snail-mail address back-channel - you should have my email on the guild list. I might be able to send over some local healthy (and tasty) rye bread, flour etc. Don't worry, the bread stays fresh and tasty for 2 weeks or so, without preservatives (!) and there's always the dried ones too.

Re: Long Live the American Way

[rampallion]

thanks! will do, but it may be after we get back from our trip next week, because we already have way too much to do LOL

[sashajwolf]

9 was when my mother put me on a diet, too - behind my father's back, for extra screwed-up-ness points, but it sounds like yours would have outscored her by quite a long way. *sympathies*