Hello,
It is I, Girl of Approval. My topic is menus. Why? Because menus have been a topic of conversation lately. After a recent trip to to the dietitian, the idea of menu planning was discussed. I find this idea mind boggling. Deciding what to eat in advanced and multiple days, perhaps even weeks in advance? Terrifying. I'm a fly by the seat of your pants kind of person; however, diabetes is not an impromptu disease. It requires planning and scheduling. Blood sugars should be taken at certain times of the day, food should be eaten at the same time each day, carbohydrates should be counted and restricted, and being a floating butterfly sucking nectar at whichever random flower is encountered is not part of the Plan.
I don't always want to eat certain foods and in certain combination, and am fussy. Beyond fussy. So, meal planning let alone menu planning. Ugh. We haven't yet tackled this issue. Eric was part of that meeting with the dietitian and we both find this a difficult task. However, he has been on my case to check my blood sugar, to take my shots, to take my medications, and that's a start. But really, at what point do I have to move beyond the starting point? I've been a diabetic since 2005 and it's not going to just go away overnight. My pancreas and cells are not going to magically make more insulin and use is more efficiently just by wishing.
Where does that leave me? With a blank calendar, no meals planned, multiple cookbooks looked over, and no new recipes tried. Some people have stage fright. I have recipe fright. What if that new meal is yucky? Then what? Eat the yucky food? No, I will not. But that's wasteful and expensive. Trying two new recipes a week seems like such a gamble. I think I'd rather play the penny slots, but I am actually gambling with my eyesight, feet, kidneys.
Depressing. Not depressing is the beer cheese dip at JL Beers. This is fantastic and I could eat a vat of it. The chips are also delicious and the burger was good. I had the Humpty Dumpty. It has a fried egg on it and is fabulous! We also ate the Blue Moose and I did not have chicken strips. While this is a feat of self control, I did have chicken. Not sure I really overcame my chicken strip fetish with a chicken breast on a bun. It was also good if not a bit messy. I had the sweet potato fries and they were some of the best I've had. They came with an unidentifiable sauce which was white and appeared to have poppy seeds in it. It was a bit sweet but not creamy. I would eat it again. :o)
Neither of those meals was on the meal plan.
