Eggs

[cjsmith]

Did you know that if you eat two hardboiled eggs for breakfast each day, you'll go through more than a dozen in a week? That seems obvious, but I hadn't done the math until this morning.

Another thing happens, too. I like eggs and I wouldn't have thought I'd easily get tired of eating them, but I'm here to tell you it happens fast.

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[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

i buy three dozen eggs to get me through two weeks, and that works well. took me a while to figure that out, though. ;-)

i'm getting tired of eggs, too, but i haven't really come up with anything that'd be just as quick and easy for work-morning breakfasts. for egg variation, could you make a crustless quiche? i should try that myself, although i don't have much to put in it besides bacon.

carrots are little sugar bombs - especially baby carrots. you might tolerate regular carrots in tiny amounts.

i seem to recall biaxin making everything taste funny, too. it's awful. maybe it'll fade with time? *hopeful*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's between 2 and 3 eggs a day! I can imagine how tired of eggs you're getting!

I should see if I can find some bacon that's not sugar-cured. My handout says no bacon or ham (or a few cold cuts either). I've had pretty good luck finding breakfast sausage that's not swimming in sugar.

Carrots are impressively high-glycemic, for a vegetable. (Here I'm not counting grains, such as corn, as a vegetable.) If I recall correctly the only thing worse is a potato.

Fortunately the Biaxin taste seems to affect me only when I'm not eating. Food still tastes like it always did, thank goodness! I've also found that a bit of very dark chocolate will banish the awful taste for a while afterwards. I'm allowed to have 70% cocoa and higher, oddly enough, and I found some low-sugar 80% that I'm using. I am going to become a total chocoholic.

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

yup, i typically have 2 eggs for breakfast, and maybe one hard boiled in a salad at lunch. i'm not always out of eggs when i make my bi-weekly grocery run, but it's usually close.

for sweetener, have you tried stevia? it's the only sweetener officially allowed on the diet i'm following. that said, to help keep my sanity, i let myself have a square or two of really dark chocolate. a little of that goes a long way towards keeping me happy.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've tried stevia. Most weird sweeteners taste nasty to me, but I don't know if I've ever had that particular one.

I love the dark chocolate loophole. That's a big help.

[eichin.livejournal.com]

The web seems to think that if you're a "supertaster" you won't like stevia either, though it's more in the licorice direction than just bitterness...

Don't forget that you can use chocolate in other things... a couple of ounces of very dark chocolate, plus cinnamon and chili powder went quite well in lasagne at the last chocolate party. Not sure what it would do with eggs, though :-) but if you're adding chili pepper anyway (just got back from NM so "of course" red chili is what you put on scrambled eggs...) it's something to consider... or if you're just bored enough with the eggs to try something :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Licorice, huh? That might be worth trying just for the weirdness. Licorice chocolate! Licorice chocolate eggs! :-)