One thing I will really miss after Nov.5 is my coffee cake muffin from the Dunk. Also the Pumpkin muffins too. Mind you, eating so many muffins has made me muffin shaped so they are doing me no favours but they are sooo good. I don't even think I get to drink Pumpkin coffee (maybe I can if I add my own skim milk and sweetener) but you know it wouldn't be the same without the good ole fattening creamer and sugar.
In my younger, skinnier, poorer days you could get 4 muffin Jiffy Mix for $1 and I made them all the time. Two packages together made 12 and were very good with plenty of butter. There were more sweet-eaters around then than I live with now so I didn't get to be a pig with them.
When Jiffy Mix for muffins was 3 for $1 (the corn ones were still 4 for $1) I still baked them but there tended to be more of them around and they went right around my middle so I quit making them. In fact I haven't baked in a long while.
The last time I made muffins was when Amanda and I went to church and there was always a call for baked goods for Sunday School, Pot-luck suppers, bake sales, and I had a new, very dangerous type of muffin. Two boxes of cake mix made exactly 48 muffins, and these fitted very nicely in a cookie pan covered with foil paper.
They were dangerous because I made them for the seasons. Halloween Party cupcakes would have been chocolate cake, orange icing and decorated with candy corn or something similar. Easter would have meant yellow cake with pastel icing and Easter candy, and so on.
I was very generous with the icing and candy.........needless to say I haven't been to church for years much less baked any kind of muffin.
And so next week, November 5, I start my 2-week pre-op protein shakes diet, and of course after there will be more shakes gradually working up to food. But my job will be to get as much protein and nutritional food as I can ( which will leave no room for junk) into that tiny stomach. That plus vitamins will keep my hair from falling out *shriek*
And so my last weekend for junk and Reece's Peanut Butter cups. But if I do it right there should be much less of me by this time next year. Hopefully my craving for sugar will be way in the past *crosses fingers*
Can you have liquid yogurt? It is good for a healthy tummy and fights yeast and infections and has some vitamins.
ReplyDeleteSugar is a hard thing to give up. I love pop and chocolate too much...bad Sheila.
Prayers and ((hugs)) my friend Linda.
Take it one moment at a time, more than that and life will drive you CRAZY
xoxo
Hi Sheila and thanks so much for dropping by, I appreciate it more than you know. I will be able to eat yoghurt a couple of weeks out from surgery, it will be liquids until I see my Dr. follow-up visit on Dec 2.
ReplyDeleteYoghurt is an important protein food. The 2 week pre-op is for me to lose as much as I can so my liver will shrink a little. They don't like having to work around a large liver (I have fatty liver disease as well, just to darn fat,lol) I can have a couple of small fruit, the protein shakes, plenty of fluids (water, crystal light) and my lean cuisine supper. You can bet I will be looking forward to eating something once a day xxx