What's on your Monday menu?

Happy Monday Gang!! What a great weekend. We finally got the meat rabbits to freezer camp and I couldn't be happier. They dressed out between 2.5 and 3 lbs. each which is pretty good. So now we have another protein option in the freezer. I'm getting a group of people together for some freedom ranger meat chickens to be ordered for the Spring. I'm finding it is cheaper in the long run to raise more of our own animals than to purchase meats in the supermarket. The prices keep going up and up and the quality of the meat isn't as good as it was. I'm lucky to have a farm nearby that makes their own animal fed that can purchased in bulk.

We have a lot of stuff going on already at work. A training on Wednesday and a third-party audit on Thursday. I have a feeling 2026 at work is going to be a hellish year.

QOTD: How has 2026 started off for you? So far at home it has been pretty darn good. At work well that's another story. LOL

B: coffee and protein shake

L: steak quesadilla

D: turkey salad over toss salad

Hitting the Y for some weights and treadmill

Have a great day everyone!!!

Good morning Jennifer and all you readers.

I have an appointment on the phone at 10. My brother and his family are coming over for lunch. The kids head back to school tomorrow.

I started the Mayo Clinic diet Friday, had a bad Saturday and the other days have been great with it. It's easy enough, I don't do the recipes for the most part. I do freestyle. I like it a lot so far. My blood sugar numbers have been better.

QOTD: not great personally. My mom is off kilter. I got so stressed out so badly I almost threw up. Food wise is good though. I haven't turned to food but for Saturday and even then it could've been way worse.

B: egg, toast and cheese. For my pill taking snack it was a 100 calorie cracker snack. Of course coffee

L: I'm not sure. I'm thinking a tuna sandwich. We found some really good canned tuna that is so so good. It'll be low carb bread with 3 ozs tuna, tomatoes, onion and cheese. Strawberries with a bit of half and half.

D: it's unknown at this time. It may be a salad.

Snacks is an apple with pb. Maybe some bell pepper strips and hummus.

I wish more readers would post, but alas we can't force people to do something they don't want to.

That is great news about the Mayo diet. Sorry to hear about your mom. I know she struggles with things. Here's to a good phone appointment.

I sure do agree!

thanks!

the appointment went ok, the connection gave out a few times but it was still good. My mom will likely be this way for the rest of her life. Since her stroke she is just a different person. Some of it is the same though as when I was growing up. She yells a lot and that stresses me out to no end and triggers a trauma response. I handle to usually better but it's been bad since November. I'm going to have to find a better way to deal with it.

Mel,

where did you find info on the Mayo Clinic diet?? Is it a subscription?? I need to get myself back on track.

I did the subscription and use the app on my iPad and their website based tools too. It's not the cheapest. I paid 115 for a year. A lot for me. But when you add up Ww it's by far more expensive. It just seems to make sense to me for some reason.

they also have a book that's I've read before and multiple recipe books. It was a little tricky to find the link to their program at first. Almost like it's kind of hidden. They have tons of informative videos, articles and such. If you join they have a FB group that the clinic actually interacts with and answers questions. If you do join a year is the cheapest option by far. You get access to a lot of their ebooks included.

they suggest following their recipes for the first two weeks but I'm not really doing that. I am doing the tracking freestyle like and I chose the simple plan. They have a few different plans including diabetes, glp-1 friendly, Hewlett-Packard healthy and a couple more I believe,

Let me see if this link works.

https://diet.mayoclinic.org/us