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Just Stuff
Feb. 19th, 2007 05:43 pm
It's amazing what a difference two white, granular substances can make when added to foods and beverages - salt and sugar. Had a bowl of Rice Krispies this morning & for probably the first time in my life, didn't put any sugar on it. Blegh. Even with the sliced banana, it was bland and flavorless. Had a vague toasted flavor, but other than that I could have been eating packing material. I could taste milk & banana, but that was pretty much it. The milk didn't taste like cereal milk should taste, either - it just tasted like milk. I'm not a huge fan of milk, either, but I've been trying to introduce a little extra calcium into my diet because of the impending surgery. I admit, I have never been a milk drinker, usually the only dairy I get is in my coffee. My mom didn't force it on me as a kid, either, because if I didn't want to drink it, I'd puke on purpose. Over the past year or so I haven't even been eating that much ice cream, mainly because my ulcer's been acting up & dairy makes it worse (contrary to popular belief, dairy does that to ulcers - lactic acid).
Way back when, after my car accident when my blood pressure first shot up, on the advice of various health professionals, I eliminated salt, caffeine and fat from my diet. For two years, no salt, no fat, no caffeine. It is possible to eat that way, but who wants to? My cholesterol (both good & bad) dropped to ridiculously low levels, causing its own array of deficiency-related problems, but my blood pressure was unaffected. I was a label-reader extraordinaire, and I could spot hidden sodium a mile away... and I lost weight, mainly because food became the most boring thing on the planet. I ate a lot of plain oatmeal. Not even Quaker Instant oats, because that had sodium added. I'm talking whole rolled oats that you have to cook for an hour. Plain toast, no butter or margarine. Plain white or brown rice. I don't know how some people can do it - they claim that whole foods, free of additives, taste wonderful all on their own... but honestly they don't. Salt adds this incredible new level to any food, even sweet ones. It makes the bland savory & the sweet deeper. That's really why I decided to let them put me on the blood pressure meds - salt, especially roasted in-the-shell salted sunflower seeds.
Food has become a favorite subject of mine lately. Nothing quite like comparing cereal box nutrition information & serving size or lining up 20 different boxes of granola bars in the grocery store & trying to decide if the South Beach diet ones are really all they're advertising themselves to be (actually, compared w/all the cereal bars, glorified candy bars & etc., they're not that bad) to give one an appreciation of being able to eat anything ya want.
On another note, I finally learned what '93' is about. I don't hear it much anymore, but it used to be a common occult greeting/blessing. The whole Blessed Be and 93 thing. For years, I've asked people, "What does '93' mean?" Most people get shifty-eyed & err & umm a lot, indicating that either they don't know or they don't want to tell me, like it's a great, big 3rd degree secret or something. Kind of like asking someone what Namaste means. I get different answers from everyone who says it that I've asked... I'd harbored suspicions that Namaste was a New-Age made up word, but it's finally been confirmed by several Buddhists for me who've given me the exact same answer - unlike '93'.
For those who don't know or only suspected - '93' is the numerological equivalent to 'love', at least in that Goetic/Crowley/Golden Dawn numerological system that I've never been able to learn.
Way back when, after my car accident when my blood pressure first shot up, on the advice of various health professionals, I eliminated salt, caffeine and fat from my diet. For two years, no salt, no fat, no caffeine. It is possible to eat that way, but who wants to? My cholesterol (both good & bad) dropped to ridiculously low levels, causing its own array of deficiency-related problems, but my blood pressure was unaffected. I was a label-reader extraordinaire, and I could spot hidden sodium a mile away... and I lost weight, mainly because food became the most boring thing on the planet. I ate a lot of plain oatmeal. Not even Quaker Instant oats, because that had sodium added. I'm talking whole rolled oats that you have to cook for an hour. Plain toast, no butter or margarine. Plain white or brown rice. I don't know how some people can do it - they claim that whole foods, free of additives, taste wonderful all on their own... but honestly they don't. Salt adds this incredible new level to any food, even sweet ones. It makes the bland savory & the sweet deeper. That's really why I decided to let them put me on the blood pressure meds - salt, especially roasted in-the-shell salted sunflower seeds.
Food has become a favorite subject of mine lately. Nothing quite like comparing cereal box nutrition information & serving size or lining up 20 different boxes of granola bars in the grocery store & trying to decide if the South Beach diet ones are really all they're advertising themselves to be (actually, compared w/all the cereal bars, glorified candy bars & etc., they're not that bad) to give one an appreciation of being able to eat anything ya want.
On another note, I finally learned what '93' is about. I don't hear it much anymore, but it used to be a common occult greeting/blessing. The whole Blessed Be and 93 thing. For years, I've asked people, "What does '93' mean?" Most people get shifty-eyed & err & umm a lot, indicating that either they don't know or they don't want to tell me, like it's a great, big 3rd degree secret or something. Kind of like asking someone what Namaste means. I get different answers from everyone who says it that I've asked... I'd harbored suspicions that Namaste was a New-Age made up word, but it's finally been confirmed by several Buddhists for me who've given me the exact same answer - unlike '93'.
For those who don't know or only suspected - '93' is the numerological equivalent to 'love', at least in that Goetic/Crowley/Golden Dawn numerological system that I've never been able to learn.
