If It Tastes Good...

Now he's got an idea what I've been going through for years.

Hubby went to the hospital a while ago and wound up staying overnight, since they put a stint in an artery/vein of his heart (I can't keep it straight which is which.) After that, he was sent to cardiac rehab, where they assumed he'd had a heart attack. That was the first thing that pissed him off. No matter how many times he told them he had not had a heart attack, they stuck to that assumption.

They told him not to eat out more than once a month. To cut back on the amount he eats, and ingest more veggies (something I'd been telling him for a while, but what do I know?). They wanted him to walk at least 5 times a week, watch his salt, forget eggs... They had whole mess of things for him to do and not do.

I did what I could to help. I hate fish, the smell of it kills any appetite I might have, but I got salmon and tilapia fillets for him to alternate in the grill with his chicken breasts. I got a variety of frozen veggies that could be cooked in the microwave and tasted better than anything I knew how to cook. I had him get involved in deciding what he wanted for supper. I got so tired
of hearing him complain, "If it tastes good, I can't have it!" I've been saying that for YEARS! I bit my tongue to keep from uttering the same words I used to hear whenever I made that complaint; "If you have to do it, you just have to do it."

Yeah. Sure.

But neither of us is a chef; we don't know how to change our entire cooking repertoire and make it taste good. They're so busy telling you what you CAN'T do, they don't take time to give you any clues how to change your cooking to replace the foods you can't have.

We may have to do it, but it doesn't mean we have to like it.