Shame on that old friend! I'm sorry for the rough week, Patty, but it is a good thing you have someone to remove the basal cells (not intending to be Pollyanna here, just grateful you have good medical care!); I hope you get a reliable source of ice soon. No truck stops in the area you're staying? Are there Walmart or Home Depot in the area with small AC/DC fridges? Or is it all moot by Tuesday if you can get in for a repair or replacement?

We had some of your rain last night and the humidity today, it seems to come from a slow counter-clockwise circling thing off of the Gulf (our weather usually comes from the SW.)

I'm still working my way through Taubes' The Case for Keto and am glad to see that he distilled down the highly detailed material in Good Calories, Bad Calories. And while he doesn't offer recipes, his information helps inform shopping and cooking. I'm in the habit of buying lean meat and boneless skinless chicken breasts, but while protein is needed for our tissue growth and repair, too much lean protein

is composed of amino acids, and these can be converted to glucose in the liver and then stimulate insulin secretion. This is a slower process than eating refined grains or drinking sugary liquids, but the result is still likely to be at least some insulin secretion⁽¹⁸⁹⁾.

So the lean chicken and beef and pork in the freezer will be used in dishes that have oil in the sauces or cheese on top, to balance out the amount of fat consumed in conjunction to the meat portion. Too much lean meat is counter to the project. I'll be buying and baking more skin-on chicken leg quarters (my favorite parts when I buy rotisserie chickens).

One of our occasional members Lily Festre has been sharing from a Keto diet site on Facebook; while I don't believe I'll ever end up on a Keto diet, many of these recipes will keep the carbs down or out. (And in her photos shared she looks very healthy - it's working for her.) Today there was a kielbasa, cheese, and cauliflower soup that sounded very good (and you could easily swap out broccoli for a change.) I'm aiming at a low-carb diet with healthy fruits and vegetables, no wheat. I don't have a lot of weight to lose so just changing how I eat will manage to drop those pounds. Most of my life I was the "lean" description, it was after children that I gained, and even then it was still not obese. So I'll eat accordingly, assuming I can tolerate some carbohydrates.

Meanwhile in Declutter land, the trash was picked up and in it I got rid of a few things that were taking up space and not donatable. I have two more games to take over to my main library, puzzles to take to another library branch, and several things to list on the Buy Nothing page. I changed my mind about one game when I looked inside and saw lots of used scorecards. The kids played it a lot as teens so might enjoy it as adults also. I can see them with their spouses playing something like this on a holiday visit.