Healthy Recipes Please

OK. So, I think the fun has officially been sucked out of cooking for me. As if it wasn't fun already with someone always disliking what we have for dinner, unless it is pizza or mac and cheese. Anyway, so, I eat way too much Sodium- almost twice the recommended daily allowance (which by the way is now 1500 mg a day instead of 2300- which is what the labels on the food read- which if you eat 2300 calories a day is fine, but I don't).

Anyway, Breakfast is easy if you have oatmeal or some other type of hot cereal.

Lunch seems impossible, as I used to love sandwiches. Tortillas and Bagels are horribly high in sodium (each having over 1/3 of the total daily allowance of sodium). Bread isn't even great. A Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich has about 600 mg of sodium (again over a third). I love cheese, and that isn't horrible in small amounts, but not great.

And Dinner seems impossible, too. Spaghetti and sauce has about 400 mg of sodium with one serving without Parmesan cheese, and I usually eat more than one serving. Plus I love salads, but salad with dressing is also adding to the sodium level- and without dressing, is yucky. So if you have some good dressing recipes, pass them along.

All that, and the three glasses of milk at least that I need to drink to try to combat osteoporosis(each over 100mg of sodium per serving) adds to the total. Anyway, one day I did great and had under the 1500mg recommended allowance, but the next day I was so hungry, I did horribly. I need to not just be cutting things out, but replacing them with other things. I can do homemade bread and leave out the salt. I don't really salt things at the table, so I can't cut that out much. We don't eat frozen or pre-prepared meals, so it isn't like I can cut those out either.

If anyone has some truly healthy recipes- that my family will eat, please share.

Thanks

At the KaZoo with Missouri

We went to the zoo with Missouri and Emily a couple of times. Here are some pictures.


I thought this was cute that they were holding hands. What sweet kids.

Kara loses her first tooth

Here is my cute Kara showing her tooth. She lost it at school at lunch time. She was eating lunch and it fell out in her lap. She got a cute little tooth necklace to carry the tooth home in. Luckily the tooth fairy remembered to give her money. Isn't she cute.

Playing on the driveway

When the weather is warmer, we love to play on the driveway on Sunday afternoons. This was one of the earlier times. Matthew was learning to rollerblade. He is pretty good at it now. It has been a great driveway. In fact, I am loving the house and especially the quiet street. We have little traffic (maybe 4-5 cars all day long on a busy day), so I don't worry about the kids going into the street.


Here is a cute picture of Matthew. Isn't he cute? Here is a picture of Brian rollerblading with Lindsay.

Here are some cute pictures of Elise. She was hanging out on a blanket on the grass. It was good light for some cute pictures of her. And she was smiling super double cute (as Lindsay would say).

Cute Seth

Here is a cute picture of Seth. Don't mind the mountain of laundry in the backgroung. Yes it is clean, no it isn't folded (well now it is).

Book

I just finished listening to this book on tape. It was our wards book club book for the month (not that I finished it in time or went to the meeting, but it was really great). Really- maybe a new favorite. It has a bit of everything. Let me know if you read it or liked it.

I read it because Guernsey was a middle name of a great grandfather. I am going to look into the name more now. Anyway- a fantastic book.

Dad's Funeral Talk

Dad’s Funeral Talk

Here are my notes.  I know it isn’t exactly what I spoke, but here they are.

A.      Intro, Dad’s testimony- Endure to the End.

a.      Dad’s Testimony (from email).  I can’t remember when I didn’t have a testimony.  Any time I have reflected on the matter, I have always known that God is really my Father.  I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet.  I know that The Book of Mormon is the word of God.  I know that the Gospel was restored through Joseph Smith.  I also know that Jesus is the Son of God.  He came to earth to atone for our sins, if we will repent.  I know that I can have my family for eternity, f I remain faithful to the end.  I know that Gordon B. Hinckley is a prophet today. 

Love, Dad

B.      Patience (Hope) w/ illness Parkinson’s & Cancer never he never gave up. 

D&C 121:7-9  My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;

 8And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes.

 9Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands

Once Mark (maybe?) game Mom a blessing and it said, “There is ALWAYS hope.”

President Uchdorf’s talk- Dark & Despair?  “Divine principles of the restored gospel we hope in can uphold us and carry us until, once again, we walk in the light.” 

In January, near the end of his life, I asked Dad what he wanted, he said he wanted to walk.  I think he was being a little funny, but not very.  Cute

C.      Death,  His death freed him from his weak body.  He is now with his family that has gone before. 

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a.      Alma 40:12, Paradise 12And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of those who are righteous are received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise, a state of rest, a state of peace, where they shall rest from all their troubles and from all care, and sorrow

b.      D&C 138:57 Preach Gospel-  I beheld that the faithful elders of this dispensation, when they depart from mortal life, continue their labors in the breaching of the gospel of repentance and redemption, through the sacrifice of the Only Begotten Son of God, among those who are in darkness and under the bondage of sin in the great world of the spirits of the dead.

c.       Mosiah 16:6-9 (8 sting of death swallowed up in Christ) And now if Christ had not come into the world, speaking of things to come as though they had already come, there could have been no redemption.

 7And if Christ had not risen from the dead, or have broken the bands of death that the grave should have no victory, and that death should have no sting, there could have been no resurrection.

8But there is a resurrection, therefore the grave hath no victory, and the sting of death is swallowed up in Christ.

9He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life which is endless, that there can be no more death

Hope in Christ-  Explain Ressurection, Alma 40:23The soul shall be restored to the body, and the body to the soul; yea, and every limb and joint shall be restored to its body; yea, even a hair of the head shall not be lost; but all things shall be restored to their proper and perfect frame

D.     Eternal Families, Marriages- The only way he and my Mom could be forever was in the temple.

a.      Faith, Hope that God will keep his promises.

b.      Dad worked hard to keep his promises

                                                              i.      Never yelled at Mom

                                                            ii.      Recorded FHEs when he was in Greenland for a year

                                                          iii.      Regular Temple attendance

1.      Even in the end, he went with the help of Brother Muhlestein

Enduring to the end.

            Church every week, and temple every week. Almost up to the last minute.

E.       HOPE-  ALWAYS HOPE-  He help[ed so many people.  He, like our Savior, ALWAYS SEE HOPE  for a better life in EVERYONE.

F.       Testimony-I have a testimony of our Savior love for me.  I know He loves me.  Because he loves us, the gospel is true.  Because of his love for us, we can have eternal families. 

In the name of Jesus Christ Amen.