"l not -l" wrote in message news:opc9br$7mp$1...@dont-email.me...
I must confess that I have been, I hope uncharacteristically,
grumpy of late. Since my original question seemed so simple, I
was surprised by its nasty turn. I rarely throw out current
personal details, finding them irrelevant and, as Kuthe has shown
repeatedly, unwise. I do reminisce about food and cooking from
the past; but, not current personal details. We (RFC) are
acquaintances, not friends, except perhaps in the Facebook friend
sense. Some are respected, well-known acquaintances, others
nodding acquaintances, a number are just tolerated nuisances and
a very few are just toxic vermin.
But, today, I'm going to put forth a little information about why
I asked the question I did, rather than just wing it as I often
do. I do this not for sympathy; but, in the hope of creating
understanding of the limited view many of us have of the reasons
questions are brought here. For many years, I have kept track of
the nutrition content of the food I cook, mostly carbs and that
means working with weights. Due to a recent medication change, I
have a potassium short-fall and must increase the potassium in my
diet; therefore, it is important to me to know how much a
potassium containing food weighs so I can calculate my intake.
Spinach is one of those foods.
I could have just grabbed a bunch of spinach and made the recipe
I had on hand; but, that would not have met the need in
calculating that day's potassium intake. In planning my meal, I
wanted to know if I also needed to add other potassium containing
foods. Before making a trip to the store, I wanted to figure out
what else I might need to buy. It is true, I could have just
said, I need x amount of potassium and calculated how much
spinach I needed to eat to meet that need. But, except for
Popeye, a fellow can only eat so much spinach at a meal before
tiring of it. So, given the recipe(s) I had, I thought to ask
for help with the conversion. Thanks to those who did help.
Based upon what I did learn, I bought 10 ounces of spinach for
the recipe (and ate half the recipe with dinner). I also bought
a banana (medium, 7 inches long) for dessert to give me the the
level of potassium I needed for the day.
Those who may have experienced low potassium levels will know how
that makes you feel and how that might make you grumpy as hell.
My apologies for my grumpiness.
Taxed and Spent; perhaps you could just assume you don't know
everything and that if a question baffles you, it may because you
just don't know enough, rather than the questioner being an
incompetent. If you don't understand, just go back to watching
Matlock and F-Troop for entertainment, rather than act an ass. I
did a quick review of your posts over the past 30 days and found
little but criticism, bile and venom, rarely about food and even
less about cooking. You come off more as Tedious and Snobbish.
So, significant amounts of potatoes, bananas and spinach over the
past couple of days have already had a beneficial impact of how I
feel. I am less grumpy, but not can still be easily irritated by
self-absorbed fools in search of entertainment through demeaning
criticism.
Sheldon's antics are mostly amusing, as I have seen his pompous
exposition of limited, often irrelevant "knowledge" for nearly 40
years. I get a kick out of Steve Wertz knocking Sheldon on his
ass and kicking him in his shriveled little gonads when Sheldon
is at his worst. It reminds me of years ago, on the old AOL
Fountain Pen Forum. Sheldon was just as he is today, a pompous,
limited knowledge dumb-ass pontificating regularly. Then, he was
knocked on his ass regularly by the man, Frank Dubiel, who
literally wrote the book on fountain pens long ago.
Four ounces of left-over rib eye and a twice baked potato for
dinner. Sliced banana with crunchy peanut butter and stawberry
sauce for dessert.
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I am sorry you have been having a horrid time. I agree things have been
very nasty around here lately. Sometimes I simply don't read for a day or
two and my KF is very useful.
I assumed it was often caused by problems like the storms etc. If course
some people are like that all the time:(
What you said was touching and I hope it makes people think. It has
certainly made me think:)
Your new diet sounds rather tasty, potassium or not:)
Good luck
O
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