Quote Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter View Post
Yeah I saw your thread about the romaine. It's not my favorite. I like Dole "Greener" salad mixes, has iceburg, some romaine, red cabbage and carrots in it, but then I doctor it up with cucumber, green pepper, onions, mushrooms and some kind of cheese grated on top. Oh, and dice up some ham if I have that available. I like eggs too but have cut back on those in recent months. I love fish, most all fish except salmon, and that's my Ma's favorite. My favorite would have to be fresh caught pan fish from around here, Blue Gills, Crappies, Sun fish, the absolute best fish ever. I don't care for lobster at all, but I love shrimp. I batter that and deep fry it myself. I like crab though. I like chicken too. The grocery store here in town sells those whole broasted chickens and I pick one of those up once and awhile, those are real good. I make some mashed taters and gravy and peas to go with it or something and it's a good meal. Then throw the left over chicken in with a can of chicken noodle soup or something, or just throw it in a sammich with some mayonnaise.

I take an "over 50" Centrum vitamin daily too, and a garlic tab. Been taking vitamins for so long I can't really remember when I started, it's been a long, LONG time. A vitamin and garlic gel tab with a glass of OJ or grapefruit juice.
I take about 16-18 vitamins, minerals and/or herbs. About half of them are the "do-it-yourself" blood pressure remedy off the internet. Mine's borderline. The junk I take for it keeps it down below that. I won't take the medicine unless I have to.

Since I was in the hospital I am or was anemic so some are for that. I load on garlic, the non-stinky kind. Geez. Back in the 80s that crap would burn your throat and mouth and keep you friendless Garlic and echinaeccia (sp) are precursors to natural antibiotics. Take a multiple on top of all that crap. And calcium. I don't care how much calcium I take mine is low. They tried to make me drink the Tang-tasting sh*t by the bucket-load in the hospital. Said I couldn't leave without my calcium level at a certain point and I was like F- U. Hope you got a retirement plan cuz I ain't drinking all that shit.

Speaking of nutrition ... hospitals have ZERO idea what that is. And they bring you three meals a day and bitch if you don't eat it all but never one to deviate from their schedules to get home, they won't leave the tray. I haven't eaten 3 big meals a day in probably 30 years. I eat ALL day, a little at a time. My body won't hold an entire meal. Especially of hospital food. I made made them give me 2 breakfasts every morning Was the only thing I could stand.

And you bet when I got my check out little briefing they asked this and that I lit them up on nutrition. Want me to do all this physical therapy, which was also lame, yet you won't feed me enough energy to do it. They were glad to see me go