"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Evelyn" > wrote in message
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>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
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>>> I'm making ribs, oven baked green beans, and made fauxtato salad
>>> yesterday. Myra's cheesecake for dessert, and I bought a small bag of
>>> peanuts in the shell for both of us, and that's it. No tomato
>>> beers...damnit. :-) What is everybody else having, are you having big
>>> parties, or just two, like us?
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>>> Cheri
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>> I am going to a party where the hostess has determined the menu, which
>> will include SOME items I can have and some I really shouldn't. For
>> instance, she is making homemade pizza for an appetizer. :-(
>>
>> I offered to bring jumbo shrimp cocktail for everyone, which I can eat
>> just fine. She DECLINED the offer and told me not to do it.
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>> So I am not going to be able to eat a lot of the food she will be serving
>> I am sure, but I can probably pick at this and that. This lady is a
>> fantastic unbelievable cook, who owned her own restaurant for years.
>> She loves to cook and honestly doesn't like it when people bring stuff.
>> Most of the time I can find plenty to eat at her house since she always
>> serves a great variety of foods, but the temptations are also very ......
>> well...... tempting.
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> Good luck to you Evelyn, yes...I know what you mean about temptations.
> Fortunately, with just the two of us, he'll be home at half time, I don't
> really have to have any temptations, but you know...sometimes, I won't
> even be thinking about some things, and then see them all laid out
> beautifully, and it is hard to leave them alone.
>
> Cheri


Hi Cheri,

Well I am somewhat proud of myself. I did good.... almost. She had
cheese, crackers, salami, potato chips, cheese doodles and home-made pizza
as snacks in the beginning, and I ate almost none. I did take a tiny piece
of pizza and managed to ditch some of it when no one was looking. So I was
polite, but not to my detriment.

Then she had a nice tossed salad, a spiral ham with pineapple sauce,
applesauce, coleslaw, potato salad, and baked macaroni and cheese. I
managed to eat lots of salad, a bit of coleslaw (it wasn't sweetened) and
several slices of ham minus the sauce. I took about a small tablespoon of
potato salad and didn't eat it. Ditto on the mac and cheese. I was
determined to be good, because I have eaten there before, and wasn't so
good.

OK, then came dessert and it was the killer. Home made rice pudding, which
was the absolute best I have ever tasted in my entire life, and a home made
pound cake. Whipped cream topping for the pudding. I had a very small
piece of the cake and a small serving of the pudding with whipped cream on
it. I knew it was naughty, but it could have been a lot worse.

Avoiding that home made pizza early on, was my saving. In the past I have
gone to this woman's house and felt quite sick later, because she is such a
fantastic cook and makes so many dishes that even with a tiny morsel of this
and that, you can easily over eat. What is more it is always carby stuff.

Next time she will come to my place and I will make the meal and it will be
a lot more diabetes-friendly food. The lady in question has a sister who
has diabetes and she herself has a weight problem (is it any wonder since
she cooks like that?) In the past we have had discussions about weight
loss, and I really think if she would only just consider low carbing she
would do better. Considering that diabetes is in her family, it might end
up being in her future too. I may loan her my Atkins book and hope she
takes the cue. She says she is going to join weight watchers, and I know
they now have a low carb option plan. This is a lady who really needs to
consider it.

But as for me, although I didn't test afterwards, I know that even though I
ate only very small servings of most of what she served, and it couldn't
have been good, but it could have been a lot worse. I was determined not
to lose my resolve. I even ate a low carb snack before I left the house to
go there to insure that hunger wouldn't drive me to eat more than I should
of the wrong foods.

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Best Regards,
Evelyn

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