Gerri got the lab results back from a physical she took earlier this week. Every thing was fine except her cholesterol. Her Cholesterol wasn’t fine at all. The doctor has her on medication to get it under control but there is going to be a change in diet around this house.
The troublesome part of this is that since I’ve been working from home I’ve taken on the duties of cooking most of our meals. I really enjoy doing this and I’ve had fun experimenting with recipes I’ve found and some of my own making. Perhaps I got a little too much into some of the more cholesterol rising foods? The guilt here is getting to me.
The guilt comes into play in more ways than one. I’m one of those people that can lay around, eat fried foods, never paying any attention to fat intake and my cholesterol level remains around 160. I could stand to lose around thirty pounds and I need to exercise more. Gerri goes to the gym regularly, tries to eat a healthy diet (when I’m not feeding her one of my dishes) and is generally concious of what she puts in her body. She ends up being the one with the high cholesterol.
So, I’m looking for recipes. If you have any recipes for a low-cholesterol diet I would appreciate you sharing them with me. I intend to share at least one recipe a week on this site with other folks. I’m also looking for ideas for what to replace my typical southern breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, gravy, biscuits and grits with. All suggestions will be welcome.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
