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abcaines said:
Pecan pie with whiskey sauce was for dessert. My numbers are going to be so bad tomorrow. I'll be good from now on, I promise...😏
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We've been back for over a week now and I haven't been very true to my word but despite that I didn't gain any weight on this trip and my A1c dropped from 8% to 6%!
 
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I'm baking bread today.

The loaf pictured is from the other day. It's the second loaf I've made. With each loaf, I take note of ways I can improve. It's a work in progress. Even if the bread comes out looking weird or it has an odd texture, it still tastes better than anything we buy in the store and is a fraction of the cost.

Making our own bread allows us to control what goes in it. We eat whole/multi grain bread. We don't eat a lot of bread; what we do eat has lots of fiber and flavor. We're cutting back on sugar and making our own bread is a big part of that. I use about 2/3 the amount of sugar that the recipes call for; just enough to allow the yeast to work. I prefer molasses because of it imparts a bit of flavor and a nice dark color to the bread.
 
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I'm baking bread today.

The loaf pictured is from the other day. It's the second loaf I've made. With each loaf, I take note of ways I can improve. It's a work in progress. Even if the bread comes out looking weird or it has an odd texture, it still tastes better than anything we buy in the store and is a fraction of the cost.

Making our own bread allows us to control what goes in it. We eat whole/multi grain bread. We don't eat a lot of bread; what we do eat has lots of fiber and flavor. We're cutting back on sugar and making our own bread is a big part of that. I use about 2/3 the amount of sugar that the recipes call for; just enough to allow the yeast to work. I prefer molasses because of it imparts a bit of flavor and a nice dark color to the bread.
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that looks awesome... ... i had to temporarily suspend my bread baking efforts... ..i didn;t totally give them up.... i just ended up needing hands on help from someone experienced - and that person has been too busy to help... .but hopefully she will get some breaks from it all soon.... ... hopefully before christmas...... .
 
so... .i am still doing most of the cooking here at home.. .... but not much new that i haven't
mentioned or posted a video of already.. seems our household knows what it likes - and doesn;t
like to experiment too much.. or get too far away from comfort and safety zones.......

but...... there is always the unexpected isn;t there?.... .(I;m sure i heard that in a movie once)..:unsure:. ..
and you never know when some unforseen thing could happen that puts you into true survival situations.
.... ones where the acquisition of fresh food becomes impossible and you have to survive for an extended
period of time what you already have....... . for that purpose MREs and long term storage survival foods
were invented..

think of emergency survival food and some people imagine a picture of rambo eating spam out of a can with
his combat knife... ..it;s possible... and even do-able... i;ve done it myself on remote hike in hunting trips
before.... . but survival food doesn;t have to be that basic all the time..... .... ..

this is a video of the newest MRE the u.s. military came up with... they made it for cold weather troops...
but it would work in most any environment.... ..the main ingredient actually comes from mountain house
foods and can be bought by anyone in stores that sell hunting and camping gear.....


i have a few of these shirts in my closet.... .. i like wearing them to fast food restaurants....

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