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Basically I have to take bloody diazepam three times a day and be visited by HTT every day and even then the nurse reckons it's 50/50 if I'll need to go into hospital or not. This has gone too far. I'm absobloodylutely sodding fine and visited the drop-in as I was worried I was going to become not-fine and wanted to know how to stop DP worrying unnecessarily after having spoken to CMHT as I was referred from GP as I wanted to avoid becoming depressed and how to maintain my current good humour and general sparkling and effervescent nature. The lesson apparently being that being responsible and proactive with your mental health gets you accused of poor insight and told to take drugs on pain of hospital admission.

She's really fucking scared me. I will not go into hospital. So to avoid it I have to swallow pills that make me slow and stupid and sleepy even though I am totally happy with the way I am now and it's everyone else who doesn't like it. Maybe its everyone else who needs bloody medicating.

I hate this so much. I know its a bad idea to get involved in MH services. So why do I ever go back?

This has been an education.

I used to eat like shit but now I'm diabetic I grind my own flax seed

collard greens? but they probably don't taste nice without all that pork fat

I avoid large quantities of sweetcorn and treat corn and pulses as carbs not veg - so to have in extreme moderation.

My hba1c is AMAZING

Pork fat is okay. Saturated fats are a minor concern which i think about if there's an easy mono sub.

Sadly I suspect collard greens are like kale and therefore horrible.

what's a sort of typical daily menu for you?

noooooo collard greens are nice

all greens are

Oh and I do have IBS but it can go swivel. I'm just glad I'm not on phenelzine any more - that would be HAAAARD!

canned chicken exists. I believe the brand is Sweet Sue, and it is a southern thing. At one point, when my ex was gone and I was having to get food from the charity pantry, i had canned chicken, as well as other vile canned meats: SPAM, (which i had eaten once in a while growing up, my dad liked it), canned corned beef. Canned mince and onions (which M & S sells here). Canned sausages and sandwich spreads. By the second week, i was requesting vegetarian foods please. I would rather NO meat than canned meat. Canned tuna and salmon are alright..

The chicken looks horrible, exactly as you would expect a whole chicken, boiled beyond its limits, to look. I pulled the meat off the bones, picked off the skin (boak, boiled chicken skin!), strained the broth and added noodles and a can of mixed veg: soup. My little DDs ate it, so, good.

I know there was an era, pre-refrigeration, when canned meats must have been a godsend to housewives, especially those who needed to stock up on groceries when the pay packet came, as the DH might drink any cash. But, OMG are they nasty!

I couldn't eat a corn dog, scared of what the hot dog is made of

but cheese dogs YUM

am so glad never to have met a canned chicken!

mom, please send me some hormel beef tamales pleeeease

Let me see.

Don't eat breakfast. Lunch is nuts, or pte with oatcakes, or cream cheese with oatcakes, or boiled eggs, sometimes with mayo, or a lump of meat, or an omelette. I try not to have an oatcake-based lunch every day. Some days i have very-low-carb flax bread instead but it's very higj calorie and hard eork to make (grinding flax!)
Snacks: full-fat Greek yoghurt or peanut/almond/cashew butter (often homemade).

Dinner, DP manages, but its usually meaty or pulsy with minimal amounts of carbs and if there are carbs, they're high fibre or high fat or both - paratha yes, mother's pride, no. Courgette ribbons yes, pasta no.

I try to keep under 1300kcal a day but it depends what exercise I do.

Frankly its a bit shit sometimes :-D

Mmmmmmmmmm, boiled skin.

I read your beginning, and came along today and jumped in at the end, now I have to back up and figure out why you are discussing American foods.

Which I am glad they have here though often, what they have was not what we ate, my mother was kind of granola weaving and we didnt get a lot of junk cereal, for instance, and they dont import the boring ones we ate. On the other hand, nobody back home sends me stuff because now they think I can access whatever I want.

Canned tamales: a very exotic thing when I was a kid. i love real ones, and know how to make them, but you need a whole party of aunties to set up an assembly line and have a big tamale making and eating party, and send packages home for everyone to freeze. The process is too much work for just a meal. So, if I happened across a can of them, i would eat them.

wow it sounds like a lot of work but incredibly wholesome

why so few calories? are you about 4'9? or is it a diabetes thing?

my menu is the same every day without fail porridge and an omelette (spinach and other veg, sometimes feta) and roast veg for the other meal with snacks of fruit and greek yoghurt - unless a bit of social life intervenes and then I have to eat Other Things

Pate, that is.

Fruit juice is out. Fruit itself makes me feel guilty - I try to stick to one satsuma or equivalent. Bread is out, along with rice, couscous, pasta, potatoes, sweet potatoes, quinoa, etc.

I dream about canned tamales and yet I don't think I liked them years ago

I know in theory how to make them and have the equipment but where am I meant to get the ingredients?

I need to lose weight - I'm 11 stone 5 and 5 foot 6

It sounds healthier than it is. All my favourite veg are carby - I'm a supertaster and cruciferous veg are horribly bitter

but how and where can you get stuff?

I can't even get cornmeal, we used to have those little blue and white packet mixes for johnny cakes. I can't get CANNED TAMALES. I can't get frozen burritos.

Momagain, I want to try your tamales

I run so I don't get the 'carbs are dodgy' thing at all but even without pasta or rice or bread I get plenty each day.

Have enjoyed this food chat, thanks

Mitchy: where are you? There is a mexican/American store here in Glasgow that sells Masa, and I think has corn shucks this time of year, for holiday tamales. Everything else you should be able to get at any grocery: lard or veg lard, spices, meat.

If they dont have cornshucks, you can use kitchen parchment, like they do for the canned ones.

Tootsie rolls are my favorite, i bought them, and candy corn, at that shop today.

Glasgow! I'm in Suffolk. Which is FAR.

I never thought of kitchen parchment but I swear those really hot ones were in cornshucks not parchment, maybe not hormel

masa is the main thing but I haven't tried very hard, I bet I could order some online