***Saturday Bites, Vites & Exercites***

Hi guys,

BITES: (DS Maintenance Mode
B - 2 protein coffees (60g)
S - Fage Greek yogurt w/blueberries and a protein coffee (30g)
S - popcorn
L - protein shake (30g)
S - pork rinds
S - fresh salsa and Scoops
S - CarbSmart ice cream

VITES:
morning batch: done
4 calcium batches: done
iron: skipped
evening batch: starting 

EXERCITES:
laundry and housework

B:  coffee and heavy cream.  Cottage cheese and SF jam.
B2:  chicken fried steak on LC tortilla with sour cream and diced tomato
L: marinated baked chicken
D:  some sort of critter. 

I'm really hungry. I keep looking in the frig (as if food will magically appear since the last time I opened the door?)   My neighbors should keep an eye on their small pets today....   I have a BBQ, and I'm willing to use it!

Vits:  yup

exer:  shoveling gravel.  pushing loaded wheelbarrow up hill   

Jam?  Where are you from?  You're talking about what's referred to in the US as jelly, as in peanut butter and jelly, right?

Yes, normally eaten a breakfast on toast. 

Jelly, jam and preserves are all made from fruit mixed with sugar and pectin. The difference between them comes in the form that the fruit takes.

• In jelly, the fruit comes in the form of fruit juice.
• In jam, the fruit comes in the form of fruit pulp or crushed fruit (and is less stiff than jelly as a result).
• In preserves, the fruit comes in the form of chunks in a syrup or a jam.

Where I grew up, on a farm in Washington state, all of these were called jam.  But what I had this morning was technically preserves, jam with chunks of fruit in it.

Now that you mention it, the only time I heard 'jelly' was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and it was never made with jelly.

You're quite an expert on 'preserves' for want of a generic term.  I always thought in the US they used jelly where we use the word jam in the UK.  BTW what you guys call jello is what we call jelly over here. ;-)

I googled it.  The part in italics I cut and paste from the internet. 

I knew there were different types, but we always called all of it 'Jam'.  My parents were from Europe - maybe that's why we called all of it Jam.

Yep, we call most stuff jam.  It's cultural I guess - when a German sees an animal with long pointy ears they'll call it a hare, whereas we'll say it's a rabbit - our default assumptions are different, not that either is especially better at differentiating species. ;-)

I didn't skip my iron last night but I took a bit less instead.  I pushed the fat today, but still not great so cut back the iron a little more. Taking bed time strontium has messed with my iron schedule as the liquid stuff is full of sugar and stains your teeth so I used to take iron before bed and brush my teeth immediately after, but now I take it in the middle of the night hence the tablets (I'm not prepared to brush my teeth too).

Good afternoon,

Bites;

B1: Protein shake and 1/2 banana - needed a change from strawberries

B2: 2 eggs and 21/2 slices bacon

S: chips and dip

L; 6 ribs and salad

D: yogurt and protein shake

VItes still have supper and bedtime to do

Exercites: raked front yard, worked in flower beds, and painted a wall and flower pot, does laundry count?

Laundry always counts.