Re: new here---severe parasite infection

Oh, dear Donna, I'm blushing!

I only tell the brilliant stuff, you see...and what I did best.

Thanks to my dh I keep some of it up nearly every day, even when it is stuff he wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole!

I can just imagine me having to prepare liver! I can barely be in the same room with it! Yet he makes me meals that only I will eat. Once in a while he will eat half an avocado. I remember, when I first knew him, he actually ATE salmon I gently baked, open-faced, with butter, brown sugar, lemon juice and salt.

It was much later, when we were fishing, that he told me he was trying to eradicate the species.

And that he only asked me to make the daily supper salad for all of us because he thought that's what I would have on my own. He and his grown daughter ate some every day, for a few weeks, until he told me they didn't 'need' it every day...only on frosty Fridays in the 'hot place'. (He didn't say that...I deduced it after several years.)

I'd like to point out that, if you are changing your diet, there are dozens of delicious things to make that you haven't thought of before. And, that a person's 'tastes' change, quite easily.

It's just a matter of anticipation. Anticipation of eating begins the digestive system before every meal...as my husband learned when he was seventeen and in the Air Force. Can you imagine a teenager's hunger coming smack up against foods he didn't care for...in war-time...when there was precious little food of any kind? And what there was cooked wholesale, by military chefs?

The fellows he bunked with found some goose eggs once. They cooked them on a shovel over the small stove in their bunkhouse.

But, the eggs were inedible, to them, because the geese had been feasting on acorns! The eggs were green and bitter!

Still, dh found that he loves gardening, this last summer. His tomatoes were his pride and joy, and the fellows grew watermelons, beets, carrots and more, to please anyone's heart and tummy...never mind that only I ate, and relished, the beet greens...and the wonderful salad greens, including arugula. Yum!

Anticipation is the key to health-giving nutrition. As we go along, we alter our tastes...sometimes according to the season. When the watermelons are ready, we cleanse our kidneys...even if we are the type to carefully pick out the seeds, instead of crunching them.

My best, Donna, everyone.

Fledgling