puffinfarm
Assistant Cook
- Joined
- Jul 22, 2008
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Happy July to all.
I just tripped over this site recently and decided to join up. I am not a big contributor to groups, I tend to just lurk. I will pop my head up if there is a question that I can toss two cents toward, but other than that, I will hang in the background (quietly giggling at peoples' jokes and quips).
I have just become a stay at home daughter. This will be a group that will be growing exponentially as our population gets older. My mother has reached a level of physical condition that she cannot stay alone and I will not put her in a nursing home. (Nothing against people who make that choice, but it is not for us.) And we cannot afford to pay outside help. So, I am trying to work from home, in between care needs. In 4 or 5 years, our society will realize the volume of people in this situation and we will have more help available, but for now, I muddle along.
I would like to share a 'recipe' that I have been making for breakfast for my Mom. This is as a result of trying to provide nutritionally dense foods, that are not too highly spiced, but very flavorful and easy to eat in very small portions. (Sounds impossible, you are right.) I have been trying to include fruits and vegetables anywhere I can and came up with the idea of cooking oatmeal with fruit juice instead of water. It sounds like a very simplistic idea, but all the best tend to be obvious, just unrevealed. That is it, the whole recipe.
COOK OATMEAL WITH FRUIT JUICE, instead of water. I have found that using cranberry juice is really good as well as some blends. Of course, only use fruit juice, not drink, cocktail or beverages. It gives the oatmeal a really good flavor (as opposed to a very subtle flavor of wallpaper paste) that you do not need to add sugar, butter, cream or any other high calorie, low nutrient enhancers. You get the additional goodness of another serving of fruit and the oatmeal turns interesting colors. Of course, I often add dried fruit and/or nuts for variety, but it does not need it.
I am sharing this with everybody as a really good aha idea.
Please give it a try.
PuffinFarm
Colorado Springs, CO & Penrose, CO
Why do folks need a license to drive and don't need a license to reproduce?
I just tripped over this site recently and decided to join up. I am not a big contributor to groups, I tend to just lurk. I will pop my head up if there is a question that I can toss two cents toward, but other than that, I will hang in the background (quietly giggling at peoples' jokes and quips).
I have just become a stay at home daughter. This will be a group that will be growing exponentially as our population gets older. My mother has reached a level of physical condition that she cannot stay alone and I will not put her in a nursing home. (Nothing against people who make that choice, but it is not for us.) And we cannot afford to pay outside help. So, I am trying to work from home, in between care needs. In 4 or 5 years, our society will realize the volume of people in this situation and we will have more help available, but for now, I muddle along.
I would like to share a 'recipe' that I have been making for breakfast for my Mom. This is as a result of trying to provide nutritionally dense foods, that are not too highly spiced, but very flavorful and easy to eat in very small portions. (Sounds impossible, you are right.) I have been trying to include fruits and vegetables anywhere I can and came up with the idea of cooking oatmeal with fruit juice instead of water. It sounds like a very simplistic idea, but all the best tend to be obvious, just unrevealed. That is it, the whole recipe.
COOK OATMEAL WITH FRUIT JUICE, instead of water. I have found that using cranberry juice is really good as well as some blends. Of course, only use fruit juice, not drink, cocktail or beverages. It gives the oatmeal a really good flavor (as opposed to a very subtle flavor of wallpaper paste) that you do not need to add sugar, butter, cream or any other high calorie, low nutrient enhancers. You get the additional goodness of another serving of fruit and the oatmeal turns interesting colors. Of course, I often add dried fruit and/or nuts for variety, but it does not need it.
I am sharing this with everybody as a really good aha idea.
Please give it a try.
PuffinFarm
Colorado Springs, CO & Penrose, CO
Why do folks need a license to drive and don't need a license to reproduce?
