Showing posts with label homemade cottage cheese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homemade cottage cheese. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Breakfast revisited - Rooibos Tea & Homemade cottage cheese with fruit#2

Rooibos Tea - or Red Bush Tea - arrived yesterday.
I do like the hearty taste. And it is caffeine free.
Finally - a decent replacement for coffee*.

I wanted to give fruit and homemade cottage cheese another try.
I microwaved the frozen fruit - blueberries & strawberries - for 1min at level5.
I added the cottage cheese.
It tasted much much better.  The fruit was chilled but fruity.  The cottage cheese added to the flavor of the fruit. We'll try this for a bit and then look for improvements and alternatives.


Still having headaches pretty much daily. 
But I'm heading to bed with ice packs one head and heating pads on neck with 2naproxin. They are not heading into migraine status (high levels of pain and long hours) so that is an improvement.

Have I been poisoning my body with my diet for 30years? A diet of yogurt & fruit, bananas, citrus, onions? And caffeine. Has the most of my troubles been caffeine?*

*http://www.amazon.com/Heal-Your-Headache-David-Buchholz/dp/0761125663/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398452375&sr=1-1&keywords=heal+your+headache

Monday, April 14, 2014

Breakfast possibilities - homemade cottage cheese and fruit.

My normal breakfast is yogurt & nuts & fruit - strawberries, blueberries, apples, pears - whatever is in season and looking tasty.  I have always kept frozen blueberries and strawberries in the freezer to make sure fruit is handy.

I love the taste of plain yogurt and fruit and nuts. There is something wonderfully fresh about this combo.  I would eat it for breakfast and snack and dessert some days.  I love the walnuts in the combo for their crunch and density.  The yogurt would cover the fruit just enough to give the fruit a tang. It was healthy and I felt like I was doing something good for myself.

Yogurt is off the diet*.
Nuts are off the diet*.
But I'd like to still eat fruit with something.

Today I'm trying homemade cottage cheese with blueberries and strawberries - both frozen.  I'm waiting for the berries to loose their crystals. I find myself picking at the cottage cheese in hunger. It is all quite cold. I know I'm not giving this a good "try".

But this breakfast - hot water for beverage and icy strawberries, icy blueberries and cold cottage cheese - isn't working for me.

I know I need to find something steady for breakfast. Something that is ready to go in the morning. I want to keep trying until I get the right replacement.

Maybe I'll try ricotta cheese and fruit tomorrow. Put a bowl of fruit together the night before?

*http://www.amazon.com/Heal-Your-Headache-David-Buchholz/dp/0761125663/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398452375&sr=1-1&keywords=heal+your+headache