The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

Emm-in-a-pickle

This thread grows so quickly there`s so much to catch up with each time I read.
Please don`t think I don`t care about people and their troubles and successes - I do, but folks post so rapidly I can`t keep up though I wish them well.
However, Pooky`s poorly kitten and the 5-day missing cat have haunted me most!
I am SO pleased to hear the kitten is eating and the missing moggy is home safe & well! Thanks for this good news.

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FUDDLE Paleo is expensive, the best way to stretch the pennies is by buying the cheapest cuts of meat and using the slow cooker to make sure they are edible, a lot of cheap cuts need long slow cooking or they tend to be tough. If you can tolerate it liver is one of the cheapest ways of getting your protien and chicken livers are under £1 even in the supermarkets, if you buy the packs of cooking bacon too you can make a nice big casserole for very little cash. If the SM has a butchery counter the liver from there will be nicer than the prepacked and probably cheaper too.

Hope your DD is feeling better today it's still so hot and humid down here which isn't helping, I hope it's a bit cooler where you are. You're so right about problems shared being problems put into prespective, to my mind it's a very important part of the OS philosophy that we help each other along and do the support by listening as much as by practical advice. We'll still be here when you do have time to join in again petal, keep reading and hopefully giggling too, Cheers Lyn xxx.

peony40

This reminds me, the other day I bought pork shoulder steak and it was delicious. I cooked it on a low simmer on the hob for 1 1/2 hours and it was delicious. This meat is cheaper than the pork loin steaks that I used to buy.

Lynn, I wish I could stomach the idea of eating offal. I used to eat liver as a child, but since then I have been vegetarian/vegan and only started to eat meat again because of my health issues. At the moment offal is a step too far, but who knows perhaps in the future.

Fuddle, what are you having for your breakfasts? I used to eat eggs but lately they have been disagreeing with me. I am now eating greek yoghurt with 1/2 clem and a handful of almonds. Sometimes trying to work out what is healthy for me to eat makes my head spin! Then trying to work out a healthy eating programme for hubby, and I don't have children to think about too.

I forgot to say earlier, I hope your daughter is feeling better today.

fuddle

I tried so hard with liver on Monday Lyn. I tried and tried because I know it's super for protein and cost me 88p but I felt more and more sickly the more I was eating it. I can't bare the taste and upset that its a no go especially as I love nothing more than pât!! Dog treats it ended up as

Peony for breakfast I've been having a strip of mackerel on a salad, drizzled with olive oil. Absolutely lovely but not sustainable cost wise - but it's been needed this week to make me get rid of the carb cravings. Ill be on eggs for breakfast, I'm thinking omelette with mushrooms and spinich and herbs.

Monnagran, Lyn - really worried about DD eldest. She's dropped into the underweight category according to BMI chart. She's awfully thin and not sure what I can do to get her to eat more. Her sister had 2 weetabix with banana chopped for topping, devoured the lot. She ate half and said she was full. I'm at my wits end without trying to make it obvious I'm concerned incase I fuel it.

mardatha

I've started a diet too, primal/low carb. Been on it almost a fortnight and have lost 7lbs already. I don't like breakfast so that's one problem less, don't eat till noon. Main problem I have is that I drink tea nonstop all day - and that knocks the diet to hell if you're low carb. So today we went away out and got Almond milk, Soya milk, and KoKo milk. Will see how that works. I need my tea! lol
I love liver fuddle

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FUDS If you don't like liver pet, you don't like liver!!!it's just one of those things in life. Perhaps the way round the protien cost would be to use eggs fairly often as they are reasonably priced, and pick up mince as often as you can, particularly turkey leg mince which is cheaper than the white meat and ring the changes with the mince recipes you use. You can make shepherds pie and use a range of toppings mashed cauliflower, butternut squash or sweet potatoes are all nice. Make burgers and add in onion, peppers, spices, herbs anything you like really, the same recipe can be used to make meatballs to serve over steamed veg strips (mock spaghetti!) or make a Meatzza using the mince mixed with pizza herbs and onion and an egg to make the base of the pizza and add on toppings you want to, cheese if you are still eating dairy sticks everything together.

Would DD1 like an enriched smoothie for breakfast? Whizzed up banana, milk, dried milk powder,yoghurt, cocoa powder, and maybe some peanut butter along with a sweetener would make a protien shake if she could manage that? and maybe fit in a couple of extra milky drinks during the day, maybe at teatime and definately at bedtime. It probably wouldn't take too long to put some meat back on her little frame with just a couple of extra little things to eat/drink a day. Hope that helps with ideas. Cheers Lyn xxx.

tattycath

fuddle wrote: »

I tried so hard with liver on Monday Lyn. I tried and tried because I know it's super for protein and cost me 88p but I felt more and more sickly the more I was eating it. I can't bare the taste and upset that its a no go especially as I love nothing more than pât!! Dog treats it ended up as

Peony for breakfast I've been having a strip of mackerel on a salad, drizzled with olive oil. Absolutely lovely but not sustainable cost wise - but it's been needed this week to make me get rid of the carb cravings. Ill be on eggs for breakfast, I'm thinking omelette with mushrooms and spinich and herbs.

Monnagran, Lyn - really worried about DD eldest. She's dropped into the underweight category according to BMI chart. She's awfully thin and not sure what I can do to get her to eat more. Her sister had 2 weetabix with banana chopped for topping, devoured the lot. She ate half and said she was full. I'm at my wits end without trying to make it obvious I'm concerned incase I fuel it.

Hi all. :wave:
fuddle, could you hide calories in. The stuff she eats? Maybe use full fat milk, give her milkshakes etc. just to up her calorie intake.
Not trying to worry you but When I was 17 I became anorexic. I felt I wasn't in control of anything in my life apart from what I ate/drank so I regularly skipped meals-said I would eat out or that I'd already eaten etc etc, only had tiny portions. Is there any drama or any difficulties se could be going through that you are aware of? Any impending exams etc? Any signs of bullying etc?
IMO don't panic but monitor her-does she seem well in herself otherwise? if she appears ok otherwise i would hide calories in her food until her appetite picks up if she is unwell I'd monitor her and maybe pop her along to drs if she doesn't improve.
HTH

peony40

Fuddle, I really like mackeral too, haven't had it for ages. Is it possible to eat tinned mackeral? Would this work out cheaper? I don't know what effect it has if it's been tinned though? I will need to read up on it.

Mar, 7lbs :T I have started drinking green tea again, which I really like. I have never heard of KoKo milk, we always have soya milk in for hubby.

alfsmum

Afternoon everyone,

Hope you are all bearing up:)

I am full of rock cakes! I found a bag of wholemeal self raising flour that needed using up so made an industrial amount of rock cakes, chucking in the zest from an orange and a lemon that needed using up. They smell and taste like Christmas, full of fruit and mixed spice. Mmmm, what to do with the rest of the flour? Herby scones, maybe? Needs to be something I can portion to share with my Mum and maybe freeze what we can't eat.

FUDDLE, try not to worry about your DD's eating. I've always found that my girls will soon eat when they are hungry but badgering them ( or anyone else!) to eat a bit more can be very off putting. Make sure you have plenty of healthy nibbles around so that she can top up when she needs to. I know you get out and about with your family so how about more picnics as she may eat more when she has worked up an appetite in the fresh air and is away from a more formal eating situation. Good luck with the paleo diet. Apart from the odd HM treat (hence the rock cakes) I eat very healthily but vegetarian and paleo don't really mix as I don't like eggs so if you take away my grains I wouldn't have much left.

Glad the poorly or missing kitties are ok.

By the way, one solitary kale seedling has survived the birds/weather/slugs at the allotment so I am thinking of giving it special treatment and calling it MAR

Popperwell

Afternoon All,
Sorry if I miss out anyone...

Great news about puddy cats(lost, found and ill)hope DD is much better Fuddle...

I'm kind of following all diets in that it is a little like the 5/2 diet and the Paleo diet without trying. Basically as far as I can see anything sweet is high in calories and fruit, veg and small amounts of meat are not.

So my way has been smaller portions. I seem to maintain my weight and move between 130-133lbs no less/no more...some of that could be water retention which is difficult to allow for.

Tonic water has helped the restless legs through the night too...I do take ginger, garlic and omega 3 regularly. I hope that I get most vitamins/mineral from my diet.

Yesterday it was approx 97% fruit/vegetables and 3% thinly sliced cooked beef(that was yogurt, strawberries, cherries, blackberries, banana, grapes and blueberries)later(tomatoes, spring onions, beef, cheese, beetroot, spinach, watercress, egg, celery, cucumber)

And according to the program that I check my diet against I get all my calories, protein etc...not too much fat, sugar, salt etc...

I can just about manage liver and kidneys but don't have them often and I am only supposed to eat small amounts of protein anyhow.