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05:16 PM

@Mountaindewed and all:

Mountaindewed, you and i are alike in that we eat and drink a lot of convenience foods. Perhaps there are others on the thread in the same boat.

I know this isn't the ideal. Fun, but not healthy or sustainable without long-term consequences. Home-prepared food is the ideal.

The problem with a lot of convenience foods, my doctor explained to me, is that the manufacturers strip out the natural taste and nutritional value in processing and replace it with sodium.

I developed high blood pressure about ten years ago and it may be a sodium-heavy-diet- and excess-weight-related condition as i have no genetic history of high blood pressure. I have to take meds for it. Ack, another pill! The expense, the bother, etc.

I know i'm doing my best to eat home-prepared food, but i'm just not much of a cook. It's a whole other lifestyle change and it's too overwhelming right away.

And perhaps it always will be. I'm 54. It's hard to see that i could morph into Betty Crocker at my age.

There's more hope for you tho because you're young. I know those tacos are yummy but a home-prepared kale salad and ground beef would be far superior.

Don't wait til you're my age to develop some skills in the kitchen. Keeping to a calorie limit will work -- it did for me 15 years ago. But a long-term goal for an ideal diet is a home-prepared one.

Perhaps i'm not telling you anything you don't already know, but i see you making mistakes i made and wound up 250 pounds with high blood pressure and i can't be silent. It wouldn't be honorable.

P.S.:

I had a home-prepared salad, raspberries and whey protein powder in skim milk for dinner! I also discovered that i can make scrambled eggs in a disposable bowl in the mic, so that's another triumph for Jane the Novice Cook.

I've eaten my way thru a whole carton of eggs when they usually rot before i get to them, i'm such a reluctant cook. They're yummy!

(I have a phobia about washing dishes -- another obstacle to tackle but not just right this second.)

Perhaps this is a project we can work on together, improving our diets by home-preparing.

Would you be into that?

We would just check-in on the main thread and share our victories and defeats in home-preparing our food.

Of course all are welcome to join in, it's just this seems an especially urgent problem for Mountaindewed and i.

Replacing pop, fancy coffee and other drinks with water could also be part of it. I see from your screen-name that you are probably a pop fiend like me. Am i right?

It's a hard habit to break, but our organs will thank us! @FluffyDinosaur drinks only water and they are at a healthy weight. @Soupe du jour actually LIKES cooking!

They can be our heros!!!