The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #153246 Message #3593785
Posted By: Charmion
20-Jan-14 - 08:03 AM
Thread Name: Declutter and Fitness in early 2014
Subject: RE: Declutter and Fitness in early 2014
Cold and snowing in Ottawa, not the kind of weather that makes me long for the great outdoors, but I must hie myself to the gym today nevertheless. Before the New Asthma Dope, any temperature below about -12C would make me cough, but now my main problems in cold weather are numb hands and frost on the spectacles. This week we're back in the deep freeze, with highs just nudging above -20.
Over the weekend, I made two large batches of soup -- one lentil and leek, the other bean and kale -- to take me through CET's next absence; on Wednesday, he's off to Petawawa for at least a week, possibly two. Life is much less stressful if the freezer is full of mostly-veg dishes that combine with a bit of bread and cheese for a filling, tasty, mindlessly easy meal that is also consistent with my diet. Cutting back on meat for the sake of both calories and my middle-aged digestion has piqued my interest in beans, only to discover that CET has "bean issues" -- life-long prejudices against varieties that I consider highly desirable. We've been married 15 years, and I just found out that he won't eat lima beans! Not fair -- that should have been covered in the Diocese of Ottawa compulsory pre-marriage course.