Trying to keep weight on.....

Its hard for me to keep on weight.  I try to eat at least every 4 hours.  I am eating millet, or quinoa.  Cheese, sour cream, and/or cottage cheese with every meal.  Hot dogs, salad out of my garden.  Every couple of days I try a slice of toasted wheat bread that I froze a while back.  I melt some cheese on it in the microwave.  I sometimes mix the quinoa or millet cold into my green salad.  Lettuce, spinach, and swiss chard from my garden.  I also add pinto beans in every other week.  They are good mixed with either the millet or quinoa, sour cream, and cheese.  I have issues with rice, and wheat.  I also have roasted sweet potatoes with sour cream.  I was done to 115.  I am back up to about 125.  Started at 135 last July.  When I do eat I try to eat a big plate full.  Then sometimes I force myself to eat more the minute I feel hungry again even if its been only 2 hours.  :-) 

Beets

Cut the tops off the beets leaving about 2 inches of stalk.

Cover in pan of water. 

Cover, bring to a boil, simmer for 30 minutes of until you can inserting a fork into them. 

 When finished, cut off tops and bottoms and slide the skin off.

Wash the greens and simming in about 1/2 cup water until soft about 10 - 20 minutes.

I eat all greens with a little apple cider vinegar.

Roasted Potatoes or Sweet Potatoes

Preheat oven 425

Scrub and Peel any kind of potato these are sweet potatoes

I use the bottom of a teflon broiler pan. 

 Add palm shortening or any other kind of oil you prefer.  Olive oil is great, I just can't use it.

 If using palm shortening place in the oven to melt.  Notice my squash is in the oven too.

Place potatoes in the pan and coat with oil. 

If using plain white potatoes, try mixing in rosemary, basil, or chives.

Bake 30 minutes stirring every 10 - 15 minutes.

Butternut Squash

 

 Pre-heat oven 425

Scrub the outside of the squash.  Slice in half, clean out seeds and gunk.  Place in roasting pan with a couple inches of water.  Cover and bake 30 - 60 minutes when forked it is soft.

Scoop out, eat with butter, or in my case sour cream and salt and pepper. 

While this is baking to save on oven heat I also roast potatoes.

histamine - epiphany

We have had a several new corn allergy people this week on Delphi.  I had an epiphany....  :-)  If you have read my stuff, I do try to be funny.  Well, my epiphany was that its the beginning of seasonal allergies. (grass, weeds, trees, mold)  People are having worse allergies than normal and they are finding out they are allergic to foods too. 
Allergy Bucket Theory:  You are already having a reaction.  When you are over reacting to several allergians, you then feel you are reacting to everything. 
This happens to me.  I will eat something that I know I am not allergic to, but yet it will feel like I am having a reaction, which later I realize I was not reacting.