"East Coast elitist" is not a label that even Sarah Palin could pin on me. But I am no "Joe Six-Pack American" either. In fact, after drinking my fill of German beer for the three years I lived in Bavaria as a soldier and student, I have despised American beer.No way could a "mountain boy" like me be...
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10/21/08 12:16pm
Since I canot endure hard liquor, I'm considering adding a beer or wine to my diet. I've also read that there are benefits. But what about the carbohydrate count? Since you advocate such a low number of carbs, wouldn't the addition of these liquors throw me off my insulin requirements?
10/23/08 12:29pm
Hey, Dave, I love coffee, too, but I am not the gourmet you are. I hope you don't faint, but McDonald's now makes good coffee. As you can probably tell, I prefer a lighter, mellower roast than you do. One of my sons says I am a coffee wimp. ;-)
As to making coffee, I tried a press and didn't like the "sludge" left over, so I have been doing my research and am planning on purchasing a Chemex coffee maker. The newer versions have glass handles instead of the original wood collars, which makes for easier cleaning. They are also rather elegant looking.
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Thanks for this post. I've been really down about my weight and blood sugars lately, so this was a nice break from all the doom and gloom reading I have been doing lately.
11/ 3/08 2:54pm
Funnily enough I think American beer is as good as if not better than European and other beers - however you need to be selective, I think for a diabetic a low carb beer is the most useful and Michellob Ultra is I think the best of the genre! Its a pilsner style leaning towards Budweis and quite lovely iced on a hot day here in Australia where it is quite hard to find!
Coffee - I pollute with milk but not sugar. At work I use a plunger mug, at home a brewing macine with a washable nylon filter. I found a local roasters inexpensive blend as good as any...not that I don't know the difference and when in doubt would choose a Kenya growth bean. Latin American ones are often too harsh or strong I have found.
Tea - this is my weakness, currently I am drinking fbop (flowery broken orange pekeo) from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) with full cream milk. We used to use long life skimmed milk (low price) but found it didn't keep very long and I have read that without fat the calcium content is not available to us. 98% and other types of non full cream milk are premium priced here and since we don't drink more than 1/2 litre a day if that the fat consumed is low.
Since controlling sugars is a priority for me (us as diabetics also) I am beginning to rethink my diet and leaning towards less terror of meats - providing I don't eat excessively fatty cuts - there is a theory out there that anything that moved around is good for us wheras grains in particular aren't! I still avoid potatoes as much as possible and recommend a good rice cooker not only is it easier to make rice than potatoes with this, it encourages us to make things that go well with rice especially Japanese style meals. A Japanese style curry, mild and tasty is one of the easiest as you can buy ready to use curry and thickner which you just dissolve in a gravy stew of meat and vegs. One other tip is to use rice vinegar when baking fatty meats e.g. lamb in a closed pot - it's delicious.
9/ 1/11 4:34pm
I've been camping/hiking for quite a while, but today was the first time I'd heard about using UV rays to disinfect water. All this time I've just using the standard portable water filters. Do the UV rays affect the taste of the water at all? I'm actually with some of the other commenters in that water is the only thing of those that I will drink.
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For religious reasons, I can only drink one of the three things you listed. I'm sure you can figure out which.
I drink mostly water. I really like Cherry Coke Zero. I probably drink too much of that. When I have a long day ahead of me in clinic, or an exam to take that day, I drink a sugar free Rock Star. Not the greatest thing to drink I know, but it helps me concentrate during tests.
Thanks for writing.
Dear Chris,
I sure hope that your religion allows you to drink water! Was that a pretty good guess?
When I was a freshman at the University of California, Riverside, and later at BYU, I was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While driving home one night I happened to see a terrible accident in which one person died.
Being responsible, I stopped and tried to help. Later, the District Attorney's office had me take a lie detector test. In those days it was most unscientific, but even as a subject I could figure out that they would ask me one question to relax with and then a leading question and so on back and forth.
However, on some of the relaxing questions I didn't relax, and that really puzzled the examiner. One of them dealt with drinking Coca-Cola. I had a guilty response to it, because my religion didn't allow it. You have a more relaxed religion than I did.
Best regards,
David
David,
I currently follow the "letter of the law" interpretation of the LDS Word of Wisdom that forbids basically illegal drugs, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, and tea, as opposed to the more "spirit of the law" interpretation that is more restrictive.
Interesting info though, thanks for sharing.
Dear Chris,
Thank you for clarifying for me that the LDS church has a letter of the law and a spirit of the law interpretation of the Word of Wisdom. I didn't know that!
Best regards,
David