potassium

Protein Banana Bread

 

Ingredients:

3or4 ripe bananas, smashed
1 snack size unsweetened applesauce
1/3 cup splenda
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
Pinch of salt
1 1/2 cup flour
2 scoop protein powder
Optional nuts or choc chips

Directions:

No need for a mixer for this recipe! Preheat oven to 350. With a spoon mix applesauce into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl. Mix in sugar, egg, and vanilla. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour and protein powder last, mix. Pour mixture into a buttered 4x8 inch loaf pan. Bake for 1/2 hour. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan, slice and serve.

Price, before taking extra potassium, please check with your PCP. The normal range for potassium is very narrow, and too much or too little can cause severe cardiac arrhythmia's and death. Your PCP will know how much and what type of potassium to supplement with. This is one that I would leave to the professionals. Just my 2 cents.

I've already taken some and they gave me 5 caps in the hospital because I was low.  My levels have continued to go down from before surgery to in the hospital.  9-2-10     4.3
                                                                                                  3-7-11      3.8
                                                                                                   3-25         3.1

I will wait to take more until I see the Dr tomorrow.  Thanks for the info.

I just wanted to jump in and say good for you for taking the potassium seriously.  I know of a gastric-bypass patient (my instructor's best friend) who actually went into cardiac arrest in the middle of a work day several months after her surgery due to potassium deficit.  Had she been at home, she would have died.... fortunately, she's a nurse, was right by a crash cart, and is fine now!

What loverofcats said.

We need an update, Price. What did the doc say today? Did you get a script for potassium?

--gina

I did the update in a different thread.  I didn't get one because he thought it would self adjust.  I have the low dose and will take a few a day.  We are going to retest in a month.