Cool Sandwich and Fruit Salad

My Food Diary June 29, 2012

I baked (yes, baked) the chicken hot dogs yesterday,

yesterday's blog click here

This link will have photo of cooking the hot dogs with a chicken breast. I wanted something

really light today, easy, and very quickly done.  It's just too hot to do much!  LOL I used croissants

instead of regular bread.  Added the lettuce, tomato, and hot dog. Quickly cut up the fruit and a few dabs of broccoli. 

Use fruit you have on hand. I happened to have kiwi, strawberries, bananas, and mandarin oranges. I 

also added a bit of  low fat Thousand Island Dressing.

*My methods of cooking or food choices may not be suitable for everyone. I'm trying to do simple, fast, easy, and healthy cooking. I'm eating healthier than I did before.

Lunch In A Bowl

My Food Diary June 28, 2012

Baked chicken, veggies, fruit, and crackers.

Baked chicken and chicken hot dogs (hot dogs for tomorrow) in

 NuWave Oven for 20 minutes. (Turn over after 10 minutes). 

While meat is cooking, tear washed lettuce leaves, prepare washed

veggies and fruit according to your preference--sliced, etc. Add pieces of

baked chicken breast. Toss salad

and add salad dressing, if you desire.

I added no salt nor oil. I baked meat in a Nuwave Oven (all meat was frozen

when I started cooking them).  I did not use the hot dogs in this

salad.  I cooked them today to conserve energy and won't have to

do anything tomorrow but heat in microwave for about 30 seconds.

Thanks for reading my blog!

*My food diary helps me keep up with what I actually eat. My method of cooking or ingredients may not be suitable for everyone.

NuWave Baked Fish and Veggies

My Food Diary June 27, 2010

Baked fish and veggies served with lettuce, tomato, and cucumber salad.

 Baked fish and veggies in Nuwave Oven. Baked 10 minutes (fish was frozen), turned everything over and baked 10 minutes more.  I did an experiment with the okra.  Actually, the okra was too big before it was harvested and was not tender to start with.  However, I thought at least I could get a little experience by trying it.  It did not work. Needed be be younger okra and sliced.  I've done that before and it worked.  Oh well, trial and error! LOL

Baked Whole Fish and Veggies

 

Started with frozen fish, baked with veggies (without oil, margarine, or salt) in NuWave Oven (Rapid Air would be the same timing, etc). Turn all over after 10 minutes and bake 10 minutes more. Of course you would need to check that fish flakes and that veggies are tender.

 

*I am not implying my meals are on everyone's diet or best way to cook plan.  LOL  However, I find it healthy, quick, and easy.  Especially nice for a couple, a single person, elderly, or those that prefer fast, easy, and healthy cooking.

My Food Diary, kept by personal choice, for medical reasons. June 25, 2012

Beef Tamales, Black Beans, Corn, Peaches, and Crackers

Losing business??? This might be why!!!!

 Does your business mean something to you???? Listen up--This might help YOU and the customer!

BRAVO! Nothing like trying to communicate with someone on the phone that "ignores" your request  for them to speak slower, etc. OR give you someone that will. BUSINESS owners: If your business means anything to you--provide someone that can communicate under these circumstances. Rude people from  your company just might affect your business! Read this blog for more!

http://www.deafinitelygirly.com/2012/01/im-bad-at-making-phone-calls.html

Salad Meal for a Summer Day!

June 21, 2012 Quick, Easy, Healthy for a hot day!  I used canned chicken for the chicken salad. I didn't add too many things to the chicken salad as I usually do since the veggie salad contains a lot of healthy things.  The veggie salad contains several veggies and the recipe makes enough to count on leftovers for a couple of meals. Good for family cooking and I know it would be a good, easy, meal for senior citizens. 

Baked Chicken, Marinated Veggie Salad, Carrots, and Croissants

June 18, 2012  My Food Diary

Sorry about the extra "i" in marinated!

*I keep personal food diary, my choice.

 I prefer easy, fast, and healthy! My diet may not be suitable for everyone.

True Green way before it was "fashionable"!

This isn’t about food but I think it’s worth posting.  June 17, 2012

Old-Time common sense that worked! Worked before “green” and would work now!
An email I got. I don’t know who wrote it but it does point out some things for the younger generation and those harping about the “green” living to think about.

» Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older
» woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags
» weren’t good for the environment.
» The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back
» in my earlier days.”
» The young clerk responded, “That’s our problem today.
»
» Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future
» generations.”
» She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.
» Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the
» store.
» The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and
» refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.
» So they really were recycled.
» But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
»
» Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused
» for numerous things,
» most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown
» paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks.
» This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use
» by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings.
» Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
» But too bad we didn’t do the green thing back then.
»
» We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store
» and office building.
» We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower
» machine every time we had to go two blocks.
» But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day.
»
» Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the
» throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling
» machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry
» our clothes back in our early days.
» Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters,
» not always brand-new clothing.
» But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the green thing back in our
» day.
»
» Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every
» room.
» And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember
» them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
» In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have
» electric machines to do everything for us.
» When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up
» old newspapers to cushion it,
» not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
» Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the
» lawn.
» We used a push mower that ran on human power.
» We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run
» on treadmills that operate on electricity.
» But she’s right; we didn’t have the green thing back then.
»
» We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a
» plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water.
» We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen,
» and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the
» whole razor just because the blade got dull.
» But we didn’t have the green thing back then.
»
» Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes
» to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour
» taxi service.
» We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to
» power a dozen appliances.
» And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from
» satellites
» 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
» But isn’t it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old
» folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?
» Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson
» in conservation from a smart ass young person…
» We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to
» tick us off.

*I got this in email. I did not write this.  I don’t know who did.

Plug Your Ears For A Day!

Challenge! See how it really is!

Challenge: PLUG your ears for a day!

Please accept the challenge to place earplugs in your ears for one day.  During that day, remove all closed captioning and volume to your television or videos that you watch.  I especially want the Media, Networks, Movie industry, local news media, weather reporters, politicians,  and video makers to do this.  This way, you can "walk in the shoes of a deaf or hard-of-hearing person" and see how well you hear the things being said.  Just because a person does not hear well or at all doesn't mean they are stupid or that they don't deserve to "hear" via closed captioning. 

I know some television stations close caption the news but do not close caption weather (even emergency warnings), or interviews. The hearing person can hear it and the blind can usually hear it.  The deaf or hard-of-hearing can not!
I realize expense, time, and other things discourage the motivation to invest in closed captioning.  However, the deaf and hard-of-hearing person usually wears hearing aids, tries to read lips, actively listens but it is usually impossible to hear without the closed captioning.  I think you will better understand where I am coming from if you will accept my challenge. Walk in their shoes for a day, please. (and don't cheat) 

Thank you for your time reading this and I especially thank you if you do something about this problem!

 

Let's Ban Everything!

Ban Alcohol, Sugar, Cigarettes, Cars, Pets, Medicine, Food, ETC.!

Friday, February 24, 2012

Sports and Politics

I don't resent everyone that doesn't support my choice in sports or politics. 

I'm an avid LSU and New Orleans Saints fan. I REALLY want them to win, every time!   It wouldn't be much to the game if there were no opposition and no fans for the opposing side. 

As far as I'm concerned, politics is the same.  I support the candidate of my choice, VERY STRONGLY, but with respect to the other side. I don't expect every single soul to see everything as I do.  


I like to see the candidates be free to express themselves, even if I don't agree with every word out of their mouth.  At least I get to listen, check the facts, and make a choice. Thank God,  I do have a choice.  Just saying! Thanks for your taking the time to read my blog about this.