@GottaLaff I recall a situation where I had to help a family member while they were in the hospital. They had anti - Obama stickers on their truck. I don't recall why but I had to drive that vehicle. I ended up putting tape over the stickers to obscure them. I do believe I neglected to remove the tape when done... Taping over seems rather "harmless" in general.
Anyone else hate the feeling of putting socks on when your feet are still drying from the shower? Like, they aren't wet, but they aren't exactly dry either?
@Mrfunkedude Not sure how you exit the shower, me I've already mostly dried off in the shower, I then in the process of stepping out dry each foot with my towel before letting it touch the bath mat. So yeah my feet are very dry before putting socks on. What I hate is when the careless person before leaves puddles on the floor that your socks soak up... Maybe I wasn't planning to shower right then, well my socks are definitely coming off!
You ever wonder how high the rate of people getting up from the toilet and forgetting to clean themselves went up after cell phones allowed you to browse the web?
@Mrfunkedude I had never once pondered this until reading your post. What is up with you and toilets +cell phones?? And yes I'm sure its statistically significant how much higher the rate is. But please tell me how in the world you would gather such information? Sure you could create a cell phone app that might guess when cleaning did not occur via the altimeter, however bidets might interfere with that metric. And I'm not sure how you could have gathered a baseline of non-smartphone users.
@dyani@penguin42 I don't experience with it, but within LibreOffice Write, it lets me OPEN a PDF. I tried adding alt text to an image in the original PDF... Now if Only knew how to see if its actually there..
@RickiTarr
"Women are": "not allowed in this world"
"Men are": " the worst in this country"
I also tried one more:
"Gender-fluid are": "the best of all the things you need in life"
In the 90's, a full grown man who was pretending to be a doctor, wrote a book called Men Are From Mars, and Women Are From Venus. The book simply stated that women are emotional, and men are rational, while writing about his downright abusive irrational treatment of his own wife, and somehow this was a best seller.
@RickiTarr I ran across an audio book version of that book over 20 years ago. I liked the abstraction Mars / Venus, but it's a shame he linked them directly to genders. Wow I knew so little else about that book!
GUYS! I am SO excited! I am not going to share it all here - too much to write - but I WILL share excerpts from where I wrote it all down, as it was happening (so it's quite lengthy)...and IF you are interested after you see this you can read the rest at ChiaChow (http://chiachow.net/?p=346), but here are the highlights:
"So I've been sick for about a week +/-, and craving toast. When I was a kid my mom always made us toast and soft-boiled eggs when we were sick, so maybe that's why?...I made a small amount of toast recently but this time I want a LOAF of bread to make toast. Going by the seat of my pants (and a lot of successful experiments in breads over the last 20 years) I made a loaf that is in the oven right now. Below is what I did, before I forget, if it works out; if it doesn't, you'll never see this anyway!"
*** blah blah blah ***
"Sliced the loaf into 18 slices. And this is what the macros look like, for the online calculator I used, and the brands of ingredients I used:
Calories = 651 (36/slice)
fat = 33g (< 2g/slice)
carbs = 36g (2g/slice)
fiber = 20g (1g/slice)
protein = 82g (4.5g/slice)"
I only used stuff that most low carbers/keto folk would have around the house anyway...STOKED!
@jrmat@KetoPlus I think much of this goes to the "brat" diet a doctor would suggest for a sick child: Bananas, Rice, Apple sauce, and Toast. Basically very simple foods that shouldn't upset a stomach, and be easily digested. When adults are sick we naturally gravitate to things that made us feel good when sick in the past.
As I rolled up on the self-checkout lane at the store this morning, I was asked it I had 25 items or fewer (the posted limit), because the they were "really busy."
Now, to be fair, it was busy, but there were two other open self-checkout registers and no one in line at that particular moment. And I ended up having exactly 25 items.
But here's the thing: I bet you a wedding cake I could ring up and sack 50 items—and pay—in the time it would take any cashier in that store to do 25.
@maxleibman I’ve never seen a posted maximum for self checkout. I must admit I typically favor self checkout so I can use my reusable bags without the eye rolls. But if it’s too big then you run out of scanned space as you can’t bag until you have paid, because the bags add enough weight that the machine thinks you didn’t scan an item 🙄
I used my other 2 slices of my animal-based bread to make a grilled-ham-and-cheese sandwich. And it was DEEEE-VINE! Crispy and buttery, with some thin-sliced deli ham surrounded by sharp pinconning and havarti cheeses...ahhhh.....
@ChiaChatter@KetoPlus Wow.. Looks delicious! After seeing that recipe for carnivore bread, I for some reason thought about cricket flour and how that would probably work in such a recipe as well. But just like online ordered meat flours, expensive.
Guys, I just made TOAST! Carnivore TOAST! There's a whole story about it on my site (link below) but if you're like me you'll skip to the recipe anyway - hahaha - so here it is, copied & pasted:
"I don't measure anything. I rarely follow recipes. I go by the seat of my pants when I cook. So I can share the approximate amounts of each ingredient that I used. But it's only a guide and certainly not written in stone. Feel free to use your own pants if you try this!
"I have a limited selection of baking dishes so I just chose a regular (Pyrex) loaf pan and buttered it, then set it aside. And I preheated my oven to 350°F.
"In a bowl I mixed together thoroughly about 1/3c of egg whites, 2T of full-fat Greek yogurt, and a Tbsp of oil (avacado in this case). When it was smooth, I added about 1/4c of chicken flour, 3 turns of pink salt, 1/4 tsp of xanthan gum, 2 tsps of beef gelatin, and 2 tsps of yeast (for the scent), and mixed it all until very smooth and creamy. Finally, I added a rounded teaspoon of baking powder from which I'd smashed out the clumps; mixed that into the batter quickly, scraped it into my loaf pan (it was only about an inch high), and put it in the oven.
"20 minutes later it was done and I put the whole pan on a cooling rack; about 20 minutes after that I was able to easily and cleanly lift the loaf out, cut it in half across the middle, then slice each half through the center to create 4 slices of more-or-less square bread."
(which I then toasted, the way my Gram taught me!)
@ChiaChatter@KetoPlus I had never heard of meat flour... Wow apparently you can make it with multiple passes in a food processor and a microwave?? 🤯
As for the "bread", I'm feeling like its sort of like a crisped chicken meatloaf texture-wise? I mean chicken flour is chicken striped of fat and moisture. Then the egg whites, yogurt and oil make a creamy mayo like substance, xanthan gum and beef gelatin gives it some resiliency? Glad you enjoyed it!
Good evening, keto, low carb, and carnivore compadres!
Today we ate at a restaurant and I took the opportunity to write a post about it...what I ate isn't that important, but I do share the most helpful tips I use to keep myself from straying way off the track. Below is the Reader's Digest version of those tips; if you want to read more, I'll provide the link below; if not, we'll still be friends!
1 - eat right before you go
2 - decide what you want before you get there
3 - order less than you want
4 - give yourself a LITTLE grace, within your own plan, if you can without doing damage.
@ChiaChatter@KetoPlus All of this! Especially the grace. If you know you are eating to plan the rest of the time, one meal is not going to derail you. In "What the Fat? Fat's IN: Sugar's Out", It has a set of rules, #9 says you should do a minimum of18 of a 21 meal a week true to a #LCHF (#LowCarbHealthyFat) , to maintain sanity. Not that all meals can't be LCHF, but that grace should be allowed!
@KetoPlus
I love Mexican food (or rather, our local interpretation of it) but between the tortillas, the beans, and the rice it is off-limits.
Today went to Qdoba - a fast-food Mexican place - and I was able to get the vibe without the carbs.
I ordered a bowl - no shell - with the seasoned ground beef, lettuce, tomato salsa, cheese, sour cream, and guac. Then I splurged on some corn salsa*. That was very filling and darned good!
(Tonight I had a leg quarter.)
It can be done, friends!
My daily carb limit is 50g total. More or less. What kind of carbs those are (as well as maintaining my IF/eating window) is most important in controlling my inflammation and pain levels - I don't eat for weight loss.
@ChiaChatter@KetoPlus You are welcome, just be sure to use a good nonstick pan, and I use a tiny bit of butter to make sure the pan is slick. My technique to cook the omelettes involves pouring about 1/4 of the mixture in the pan and moving the pan so the “batter” flows to uncovered pan like making a crepe. The chia does complicate the process so it might be better to try without that ingredient first. I also like doing this with spaghetti sauce, some chicken and mozzarella and basil in egg.
@ChiaChatter@KetoPlus I hope you enjoy. The turmeric acts a bit like a flour and makes it more of an darker orange color. I'm sure you know the chia does absorb moisture, so if the water ratio is off the mixture will be too lumpy and not spread right. I find the chai gives it a coarser grainy appearance and a bit of texture. Too much water makes the tortilla too delicate so it rips too easy. Oh yeah, and I use a glass 2c measuring cup to mix, so it's easy to pour.
@ChiaChatter@KetoPlus I didn't mention, I typically add red pepper flake to many things to make it spicy. (Including this "burrito") To me that's like how recipes will say "salt and pepper to taste". Some times I'll add cumin seed (or ground). I found cooking seeds in the egg brings out the flavors. (It's no wonder virtually every Indian recipe I've looked at starts with roasting some seeds in a pan; as that forces out the volatile oils so you can smell and taste them)
@ChiaChatter@KetoPlus When I play with Italian flavors, I love putting fennel seed or Italian or oregano in the egg mixture. I find adding chia to a tomato sauce makes it feel more like egg plant.
@ChiaChatter@KetoPlus There are so many hot sauces. I find I like a green one with chicken, and more of a chipotle based one for other meats. Mixing hot sauce with sour cream gives you more of the flavor of the sauce while the cream deadens the chemical heat. I'm typically using left overs with my eggs in the late morning (I do an intermittent fast by waiting till 10am to make breakfast) So in my prior pictures I was using some leftovers from a Mexican resturant's Mixed Fajitas.
@ChiaChatter@KetoPlus Its why I love Tex-Mex, it's so versatile. You can use, turkey, chicken, pork, shrimp, beef, even fish all different ways. A combination of shrimp and chorizo sausage is great!. I'm sure you can find some good seasoning ideas. Cilantro is always a good idea if you have it on hand (unless it tastes like soap if you have that gene) And cheese: Cheddar, Jack, Cotija (Co-tee-ha). Salsa: could be verde (green), or more of a pico de gallo, or a blender style.
@ChiaChatter@KetoPlus When I started my #LowCarb diet, my lunches were already low carb, so I really just needed to avoid carbs for dinner, and redo breakfast with more eggs. One of the first things I tried, and probably didn't come close to replicating, was to make a shakshuka. Its what got me using turmeric. Even if I missed on replicating, I was still among some wonderful flavors! Then I experimented with making rolled eggs. ("Gyeran mari" in Korean, or "Tamagoyaki" in Japanese).
@ChiaChatter@KetoPlus You can see images on my profile where I incorporated cold smoked salmon into the rolled egg. I used a bit of dill, and had cucumber and tomato on the side. I'll have to make that again soon!🤤
