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Tues., Dec. 28, 2010- DAILY MENU

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

Key to Abbreviations:

Dairy Free – DF
Gluten Free – GF
Dandy Blend- Dandy (coffee sub.)
 Macadamia Nut Oil- Mac Oil
NSA- No salt added
Olive Oil – OO
PP – Protein Powder
S & P – Salt & Pepper
Sugar Free – SF
TBA- To Be Announced

Last night’s snack – 1/2 cup egg nog (Now posting the evening’s snack on the next morning so I can post right after dinner.)
7 a.m. Lemon juice & warm water
7:30 a.m. – Going to work 2 the MANNA kitchen, so need a hearty breakfast. Decided to use my soup from last night with chickpeas, lentils & veggies with some rice snaps. The recipe has been posted on my website: www.menupause.info in the link Kitchen Nutrition with Recipes.

8 a.m. Decided to make one slice of toast before leaving for the bus. I put some Omega 3 oil on top. 10 a.m. Had a tangerine @ MANNA and one truffle someone brought & placed on the snack table. Delicious! I didn’t dare check the ingredients!
12:30 p.m. Went to lunch with Cyndi, the dietitian at MANNA. She & I have done some food demos at The Wellness Community. She treated me as a holiday gift. Very nice. I had a cup of their vegetarian asparagus soup and their 1/2 Thai salad with avocado in place of chicken. One of the few places that edamame bea ns are in the salad, along with peanuts and shredded Napa cabbage. Very tasty.

3:30 p.m. Cut open a pineapple I bought on Fri., but it was dry and tasteless. Had a few nuts and drank my water. My acupuncturist wants me to drink 6 glasses (at least), so I pour out the 48 oz. in the morning into 4-5 glasses and remind myself to drink during the day. This, is addition to any tea or smoothie, which I will make now as my real snack, since the pineapple is too dry to eat. Maybe I will add it to the smoothie.
4 p.m. Made my green smoothie with cold water and some of the less-than-sweet pineapple chunks, kiwi, raspberries & lettuce.

5:30 p.m. Had a big breakfast and lunch, so I just had a bowl of the soup I made last night with some tahini or rice snaps.
My snack will be posted on tomorrow’s menu.


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New Year's Eve

Monday, December 27th, 2010

We had our first snow of the season.  Now we have lovely white snow everywhere, but soon it will turn dirty, so enjoy it while you can.

The holidays, especially New Year’s Eve, were hard for me when I was single for 13 years. I am not a New Year’s Eve party goer, but I also don’t like being alone. Sometimes I was invited to a party, a couples of times I went to First Night, an arts program some cities sponsor to keep people away from the booze and into venues for music, art, dance, and poetry. During these years I was asked out once by a man I had been dating for a short time, but realized we did not fit well together. So when he asked me out for New Year’s Eve, I made some kind of excuse. I hate rejecting someone, so I think I made up something plausible. Sometimes a white lie is better than the raw truth, when you know the person will be terribly hurt.

One year I went to Kripalu Yoga Retreat Center in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. It snowed and we were  in a winter wonderland, surrounded by mountains and brisk, cold air. A friend and I signed up for a weekend workshop entitled Finding Love. I was surprised to find so many men in the group. I always thought men were too shy, too macho, or too proud to attend such as event. But I was wrong and glad I was wrong, because I learned a great deal about men’s feelings regarding women that week-end. As one of the characters stated in a novel I just read, Suspicion of Guilt by Barbara Parker, “Men are another species, darling. Their minds don’t work the same as ours.”

This is a picture of an iceberg that I took while on a cruise to Alaska in June. It’s actually quite beautiful, especially with the blue undertones.

One of the best sessions was one in which we broke up into small co-ed groups. The workshop leader, herself divorced and happily remarried, gave one person in each group an old-fashioned waitress pad and I think an apron. (I volunteered for that job. I had been a waitress a long time ago and thought this would be interesting.) Each person gave me their “order” for a mate. My list included such items as: someone with a good sense of humor, someone who was family-oriented, and a man who was a generous lover. Interestingly enough, when I did meet my second husband, I came across the list in moving and discovered that he filled the bill almost perfectly.

So, my advice to you, if you want to be in a relationship, make your list and hang it in a convenient spot so you will see it and review it often. Put what you want out to the Universe and the Universe will answer. Just saying, “I want to meet a man or a woman” isn’t good enough. The Universe wants specifics! Start your list!!

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