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Trouble is starting a cookbook of veggies recipes for Jennifer.  Here's what she needs:

 

Comment by TroubleonFire 2  Ladies, I need your help. I need receipes that are vegetables only. These are the restrictions for the receipes. No more sodium than 3-5%, there can not be any pasta, starch, no bread or potatoes or any kind of meat in the receipe. Jennifer has been diagnosed with Diabetes now, is on meds only. They put a port in on Tuesday this week. She is now getting chemo three times a week, which makes her pretty sick. She is having a difficult time finding receipes that her children can make for her so she can eat. I don't know why or understand why all the restrictions on her diet, other than they are planning on putting her on dialysis. And her body will not be able to process all the food she can no longer eat. Please, please help me. Also we need to send her cards and letters of encouragement to get her through this time she really needs the support. She has signed up for Chemo Angels yesterday and put me as her contact for that organization. For the new members, Jennifer is one of my best friends who is a Navy Mom, she has been battling cancer for almost 2 years now. She has Kidney cancer and Pancreas cancer, they have given her a 5 percent of survival rate for the next year to two years. She has hospice on standby. She basically no support from her immediate family, she only has us. Please, please is there some ladies out there that will be her Navy Mom Angels and write letters of encouragement and support, as well as send her little nick nacks that will cheer her up during her time that she has left. I will be forever in your debt. I would like to make her a cook book of her very own and have it printed and it be from all of her Navy Moms on the Heads at Ease project. Please if you have any questions please contact me through a PM and I will send you my email address and phone number. Thank You so much for listening to me. T

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Thank you for the receipe, it sounds good, and easy to do.

I recently found a recipe for fresh brussel sprouts.  You just put them in 1/4 cup of lightly salted water and put them in the microwave for 6-10 minutes.  The color stays a beautiful green and they are perfectly cooked.  DH raves over them all the time.  I fixed them for friends who came for New Year's dinner and he husband ate the left overs all up.

 

Summer squash casserole

1-3 onions, thinly sliced

butter

zuchini and summer squash (thinly sliced, equal parts)

salt and pepper to taste

1-2 slices American cheese

 

Place sliced onions in bottom of vegetable steamer over gently-simmering water; steam about 5 minutes.  Add slices of both squashes, amounts to taste.  Steam until tender, about 5 minutes.  Remove from steamer and place vegetables in casserole dish.  Add butter, salt and pepper.  Place cheese slices on top and cover.

 

Bake in warm oven or on top of stove until cheese melts.

dori this  receipe sounds wonderful, I'll have to try it. 

Not a veggie dish, but homemade laundry soap.  My neighbor gave some to me last fall and we love it!  She found the recipe in her grandmother's cookbook

Did you know that fabric softener and softener sheets in particular are linked to cancer?  I do not use those products.  I use vinegar in my laundry as a softener and this laundry soap also softens.

I ran out earlier this year so went back to the brand I had been using.  The static cling in the fabric was back!

I am writing the original recipe and putting her "tweaks" into italics.  I made the originial  And it makes alot!

Wonderful laundry soap  (my name not hers)

4 cups water

1/2 bar Felsnaptha soap grated    1 bar

1 cup washing soda

1 cup Borax

3 gallons water in a 5 gallon bucket    plus 4 cups water

 First mix the grated soap in a saucepan with the 4 cups water.  Heat until dissolved.  Add the water/soap mixture to the 3 gallons of water.  Stir in the washing soda and Borax.  Stir until thickened.  Let sit 24 hours, then stir again. Pour into clean containers using a funnel and measuring cup and have alot of them!

To use:  shake the bottle and use 1/4 cup per load, any size.

 

Enjoy!

 

I bought all ingredients at ACE hardware but the bar soap.  I got that at a grocery store.  This is quite inexpensive to make. My inital outlay was about $12.00 and I have enough to make another batch.  I have given some away and still have 2 large bottles (laundry soap, bleach and 2 large drink bottles).  Last a long time.

Sue I had no idea about the laundry soap and softners.  Do you have a receipe for low sodium dill pickles?  Jennifer loves dill pickles but can find any low sodium 3-5 percent.
thank you Sue, I will definately check these out.

I got that information from

www.sixwise.com  in 2006

 

do not know if they are still around but the article that I read was called:  The toxic dnager of fabric softener and dryer sheets.  It was very revealing to me and I quit using it.  Here is the beginning:

Although they may make your clothes feel soft and smell fresh, fabric softener and dryer sheets are some of the most toxic products around.  And chances are that the staggering 99.8 % of Americans who use common commercial detergents, fabric softeners, bleaches and stain removers would think twice if they knew they contained chemicals that could cause cancer and brain damage.

Are soft clothes worth it?

Fabric softeners are made to stay in your clothing for long periods of time.  As such, chemicals are slowly released either into the air for you to inhale or onto your skin for you to absorb.  Dryer sheets are particularly noxious because they are heated in the dryer and the chemeicals are released through dryer vents and out into the environment.  Health effects from being exposed to the chemicals in fabric softeners include:

Central nervouse system disorders

headaches

nausea

vomiting

dizziness

blood pressure reduction

irritation to skin, mucus membranes and respiratory tract

pancreatic cancer

 

The article suggested using 1/4 cup water vinegar to risne cycle soften fabric and eliminate cling

and add 1/4 cup of baking soda to wash cycle to soften fabric.

 

I am not trying to scare you, but at the same time this article came out, a very dear friend of mine was diagonsed with pancreas cancer.  The family's clothes always smelled so heavily of fabric softener and I've always wondered about that connection.

 

Check out the website  www.healthwise.com  I've gotten lots of good information from there.

 

Let me know about the pickle sites.  I didn't actually look at them, just gleaned info from the one lines.

 

I checked out Pickyourown.org last night and printed up the receipe to make dill pickles but I will have to look at the salt content in all of the pickling spices you have to use.  I think I will probably just reduce the salt in the receipe myself.

I was going to suggest that.  I reduce the salt and sugar alot in recipes.  for baked goods,

salt is also a rising agent, but for pickles, I think it is mostly to make the brine and then to taste,.  I'd rather have the dill.

 

ha, my hands are blue.  I am dyeing some pcs this morning so will head to church with blue hands.  a good advertistment for HAE. haha

I will get my cookbooks out and see what I can find.  Send an address and I will send cards.
Thank You Marlo, I will PM you Jennifer's address.

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