Harmony -- this may be the grocery store you went to and had no success, but here, we found Boars Head low-salt & no salt turkey and roast beef at Publix. (One of them was no salt added, the other was just low or reduced salt. HOWEVER, I have no idea about nitrates and whether or not Boars Head contains them! Sorry.) Dh actually liked them -- he is not really crazy about salt anyway, so it was (fairly) easy for him to adjust -- but VERY difficult to actually find the foods! I absolutely know what you mean about reading every label in the grocery store! That is why we got so frustrated, and why dh now is locked into these four meals that I cook and repeat... cook and repeat... until I am so sick of them I could scream. BUT -- since things improved so much after the ablation, dh does allow himself to eat whatever he wants, basically, for maybe 3 nights a week.
When we are home, it is oven-baked chicken, fish, Philly cheese sandwiches, and hamburgers.
I use Mrs. Dash lemon pepper and original seasonings on his, add no salt to the hamburgers or Steakums (which is what we use for Philly cheese sandwiches), and he eats Swiss cheese -- it was the lowest in sodium we could find.
We also use King's Hawaiian bread -- again, lowest sodium rolls we could find.
The hard part is the vegetables -- that is where dh would miss the salt and other seasonings. He simply will not eat green beans or any kind of beans, without good seasonings, like his mother & his aunts used. He isn't crazy about salads at home, although he will eat them from a salad bar with lots of choices. We have pretty much stuck with corn on the cob -- which I know, doesn't even really count as a vegetable, but rather a starch. DH uses unsalted butter.
Oh -- we also found lower sodium Pringles potato chips, so we usually eat those w/hamburgers and Philly cheese.
It is boring and tiresome and aggravating sometimes, but we manage. You'd think we'd be losing weight, but... no... surprisingly no.
I guess we reward ourselves too much with sweets.
And like tonight -- dh was gone all day playing golf, so I went and got myself a meat lovers pizza... and a package of Dolly Madison Zingers.
I've been IN THE ZONE though! * whew * I got over 9000 steps yesterday and today I am almost at 8000. Since I usually average around 5000, this is great progress for me.
Y'all saw how necessity forced me into the "baby room" zone yesterday -- well, today, I got up, walked away the pounds, s2s, and got back into it.
I really need to have a big go-to-the-dump day, but ds needs to be here to say yea or nay on so many things that I don't see that happening for a while. I just stuffed a bunch more stuff in an already stuffed closet, but it did open up a lot of floor space in that room.
I also vacuumed the living areas of the house, all except the master bedroom and bath. I'll get that before bed.
All this while having MANY interruptions.
The first one was caused by my own curiosity. LOTS of LOUD sirens headed down the road around 11:30 this morning, so I turned on dh's old police scanner and heard that there was a house fire at the intersection where my dmom's 2nd house is -- late dgm's house -- so after my shower, I drove out there to make sure it wasn't dmom's. It wasn't -- it was a neighbor, (not anyone dmom really knows) and no one was home, but the house probably is a huge loss from smoke and water damage if not fire.
The second one, while I was out, I had to go to the post office & drug store.
Third, dgd arrived... and I started doing bank statement while she was eating lunch.
Fourth... dmom called and asked me to call her doctor... which necessitated another call to dmom...
Fifth... ds came to pick up dgd...
Sixth... dmom came to have me pay some bills and complain about the cost of upkeep for two houses (and forgot to bring her empty med dispensers so I'll have to do that tomorrow)
Seventh... I was about to pass out from hunger so I ordered the pizza... and ate... and bug lady called...
Eighth... dh came home and I took the SUV to ddil to have her put the carseat back in (I can never get it tight enough)
So now, I still need to finish the bank statement and the vacuuming!
My day sounds like something P&P would make up!
I also made dh a hair cut appt for next week, btw... but I did not type up our council minutes from church last Thursday, so that should be a priority also...
Elizabeth, yes, I agree you need to see the receipts. Your x and his wife have already proved themselves untrustworthy anyway, and as you said, he needs these for tax purposes so there should be no problem with giving you copies.
Waving to
ALL!!!
Oh --
Harmony, could you tie a short ribbon, or even loop a rubber band through the top of the keys to identify them? I mean, if the nail polish wears off too quickly?
Okay... back to the grindstone...