High Blood Pressure and Potassium

Adults can consume 4700 milligrams of potassium or slightly less if using drugs to lower their blood pressure, unless you are told to eat even less than that due to additional conditions such as kidney disease. Forty-seven hundred milligrams is 4.7 grams, move the decimal point over three times from the right to convert milligrams to grams. 4700. to 4. 7 0 0.^ is three spaces from the right. 5500 millligrams is  5500.^ 5. 5 0 0. = 5.5 grams milligrams/grams/kilos
 1000 milligrams (mg) EQUALS 1 gram (g) 1000 grams (g) EQUALS 1 kilogram (kg)about 2.2 pounds

An easy way to  know what foods are about five hundred milligrams is to measure 4 dense ounces or 8 fluid ounces and look for red and yellow meats and vegetable-fruit foods.
Kidney beans, beets, figs,  apricot, avocado, orange juice, mollusk, halibut, tuna, carrot juice, almonds, tomatoes and plain yogurt (8oz)(not red or yellow but filled with potassium) 500 mg. a normal portion around 4 oz. or-3 heaping Tablespoons, juices are 8 ounce portions.
If you stick to the 500mg portions you can have 9 servings a day approximately. Example of this is: Breakfast: 1 egg, or 1 oz cereal and 1 1/2 strips bacon-500mg, 4-6 oz juice-500mg, =1000mg
Lunch: 2 oz. lunch meat-300mg, 1 cup yogurt or 1 oz. cheese-750mg, 1 tomato-250 mg.=1300mg
Snack: Chocolate, apple or ice cream bar [diet versions] -300 mg, or, smoothie-650mg=300-650mg
Dinner: 6 oz. meat poultry or fish-650 mg, 4 oz. heavy veget-500mg, 8 oz. A-vegets-500mg=1650mg
This is without breads, crackers, chips; this is a basic low carb dense nutrient menuof about 1100 cal.
If you subtract the bacon -100, the snack -200 you have 800 calories super fast diet. If you diet remove two ounces of dinner meat and add one and one-half tablespoons of 40 calorie lite-dressing.







Even richer in potassium or K are spinach, soybeans and products from soybeans and winter squashes which are double what the other foods hold (945mg) plus, white potatoes which are triple the potassium (1400-4-5oz.)

Good choices, not only due to the potassium intake, on the super low calorie diet, are spinach, edamame, pumpkin and acorn squash--super filling --and you could add these to the breakfast egg instead of at supper. You can also add three whites to every yolk for extra large servings at almost no cost in calorie value.

It is important to monitor the intake of the mineral to prevent irregular heart rates.

 

Tuna and Mushroom Paté

 Recipe

Hard cook 4 large eggs
Put the eggs in a pan of cold water, bring the water with the eggs in it to a boil, boil a couple of minutes, turn off heat and let set for 20 minutes
-- Replace the water in the pan with cold water while still letting the eggs set for a few seconds  Peel the eggs

Make the gravy mix as directed except only use 3/4 cups of water.
Drain one 6 oz. can of wpckd. tuna

Combine everything in a bowl and add 1 tsp seasoned salt, 2-3 TB Miracle Whip
Stir again.

Eat as deviled tuna or as stuffing for leafy greens. Even stuff a tomato, a zuchinni or some celery with the mixture.  If you stuff something with the 'pate' serve more seasoned salt for seasoning the vegetable or even regular salt.

Dense Dough Buttons

Cookie Base
1 Cup less 2 TB creamy peanut spread
4 ounces Neufachtel
2 TB margarine
1 heaping TB Miracle Whip (as egg substitute)
Sweet and Lo Bulk 1 TB -- or, to taste
1 1/2 tsp salt -- or, to taste
1 tsp. baking soda or 2 tsp. b.pwdr.

Blend, drop on baking tin, 5-6 minutes at 350°
Keep frozen until serving time to prevent crumbling.
Can be baked more but will be dry like scones.
Makes 45

Miracles of Bean Sprouts and Other Comfort Food

Bean Sprouts

More crunchy, salty, tomato-y, sweet, butter-y, gooey and scrumptious things are possible with these.

Stand in for Snacks like potato chips, wheat crackers (may need some crispie thing-a--ma-jigs though for the wheat ones)

The next one is tricky, PEANUT BUTTER--mixed with 1 part diet margarine and two parts peanut butter--Trick One.

Trick Two--make meringue shells for soft white bread. Bake and split in half like hamburger buns--spread with the mixture. Salt the meringue but don't sweeten it before baking.

Trick Three:Microwave 1 1/2 CHEESE SINGLES on butter PAM microwave proof plate about one minute, let cool. This should be cracker-y and maybe a little chewy in the center-for plenty of crunch microwave another 20-30 seconds. JUMBO CHEESE Wafers. A LARGE cracker sensation for a dollop of peanut butter, even add fat free cream cheese and sugar free blackberry jam fruit spread, simply fruit type. ENJOY like HEAVEN.

One of the biggest treats of all, if you don't want to get fat, but would get fat if you eat, (much bread or starch or fat or sugar) is tomatoes. Fresh or not it is a pretty unlimited vegetable high in food value and cancer fighting chemicals. You should learn to eat them from the vine because this is one of the most gratifying and filling ways to enjoy them. Some low calorie Catalina type or blue cheese or French dressing and bacon chips make a meal. Tomato soup is great too.

Great Tomato Soup Recipe:

8 oz. can of tomato sauce
2 tsp. mustard
1/4 tsp. seasoned salt or favorite salt or to taste--1tsp. if using unsalted tomato sauce
2 pink spoons of sweet 'n low
(one packet)
large splash of Worcestershire sauce
dash of Tobasco

Heat and eat. (Created by me, upon the loss of my second husband when I was 31--I ate nothing else but this and the microwaved cheese singles with the gooey toppings mentioned above for probably years)

Try placing the bean sprouts under the canned diced tomatoes and melting some cheese on top, add a tsp. of salt and dash of sweetening, your choice for a quick skillet casserole for one.

New Pumpkin Bars

Stirred on the stovetop a can of pumpkin thickened with cornstarch and water is comfort food that can be frozen too and sawed into serving size treats,

Large deep skillet
4 oz. corn starch
15-16 oz. pumpkin pureé
㌶ Water to fill pan, about 4 cups, even more if it is too thick.
Sweet 'n lo bulk 3 Tb.
1 Tb. salt
Cinnamon 1 tsp. or to taste
1 tsp. of vanilla-actually imparts a buttery flavor in this recipe

 Put into your MOUTH and SAVOR.

Add one cup of water to the corn starch, stir completely until thin white liquid forms.
Put other ingredients into the pan, stir the remaining water into the pumpkin until smooth and thinned.
Turn heat to low.
Add corn starch mixture.
Continue cooking while stirring alternating with a wire whisk and a large spoon and turn heat up to medium until it boils.
Stir one or two minutes.
Add vanilla.

That's it.
PUT INTO favorite dish to freeze, cool whip tubs can be used, divided plates intended for microwaving are good because the servings will already be divided, (the large piece in the dish gets sawed in half to make the recipe last longer). The cookie crumbs from the PB cookies elsewhere in this blog are crumbled on top before freezing.

You can also serve this warm as a pudding, it is thick and creamy, simply store it in something you can heat it up in as stoneware mugs, this will go in a microwave easily. Have a potholder ready to hold your mug handle.

Munch 'ems

I want you to season the Ranch Dressing to create this great dip.

Add some seasoned meat tenderizer, a couple of shakes to about 2 TBs. plus a pink spoon of sweet'n low.

Almost no carbs, plus some protein for hair, nails, skin and muscles.

Frozen Apple Treat

There is no scoop of ice cream in my version, but here is chocolate, apple and whipped topping, I substitute fat free cream cheese under the chocolate layer for the ice cream.
First the apple mixture that has been prepared like below
Softened fat free cream cheese
Pillsbury sugar-free frosting on top of this
Then Cool Whip non-dairy frozen topping


I am flipping for this dessert. I combined unsweetened applesauce, 23 oz. of it, with an equal part of water, 8 tablespoons of cornstarch, 2 tsps. of salt and about 1/2 cup equal to sugar sugar-free equivalent maybe Splenda which measures equally spoon by spoon. Then I thickened this while stirring over medium heat until boiling for a minute or so until slightly thickened, if it is not so thick it will be when it cools.

Pour this mixture into freezer dishes, I like square divided dishes so the pieces are in square frozen serving pieces. Eat a parfait cup of it already, like in a margarita glass. Top the unfrozen mixture with protein cookie crumbs. Freeze solid. Something like this image before the toppings, there is no cinnamon, only the cream cheese flavor, but it is great.

After it is ready or frozen, ice with fat free cream cheese, sugar free chocolate Pillsbury cake frosting and a little whipped topping. This is a tasteful ice cream bar with a twang of summer with the apple edge to it.




Something like this image before toppings. Just make rectangular pieces or whatever shape is handiest for you and dollop with toppings.