North to Alaska

[bobm]

I just took my wife to the airport as she has to go to Anchorage, Alaska on a work assignment. She will come home late Friday May 6. So I am on my own to survive the best I can. HELP with easy and fast to prepare food sugggestions is the top priority that may be different to my current menu. NO cheeze or peanut butter as I have a food alergy to them. Also HIGH proteen and LOW carb foods due to diabetes issues . Also, landscaping suggestions for our PNW home as I lost 2 Red Osier Dogwood trees about 3 weeks ago during a high wind storm and need to be replased. Location is 15 ' x30' strip of land between the house on the East side and the back fence on the West side. So morning sun from the SE side starting about 10:00 untill in the evening when the sun is behind the 30ft tall Cottonwood trees on the other side of the fence about 15 ft. away. I need trees that would grow to no more than 10' to 15' tall and maybe 4-8 foot wide. Very small bushes and ground hugging groundcover as most of the ground is in the shade except during the time the sun is overhead during the hotest part of the day. Curently the soil is covered with moss. This area was a former wet land, so the developer covered this area with small riff raff crushed rocks ( 4" to 12" deep ) and covered it with trucked in soil about 6" deep. I have had very little luck with planting native plants as they do not seem to want to live more than 3 to 12 months.

 

[ducks4you]

1) Salads with lots of your favorite fixings
2) Soup
3) Subway or Jimmy Johns--Both are healthy sandwiches
4) Grocery store whole chicken and favorite side dishes
5) Digiorno pizza or Murphy's Pizza--you cook either of them
might have more after I think about this...

 

[bobm]

Ducks... thank you for your suggestions, but these types of foods are what causes me issues with my blood sugar ... convert carbs to glucose instantly and I GAIN WAIGHT . Now a grocery store Cornish Game Hen torn apart with my bare hands and gobbled down , and pass of the side dishes would work just GREAT.

 

[ducks4you]

Do you know anybody who butchers their own birds?
Also, I think you'll do ok with salads.

 

[ducks4you]

How about one month of Nutrisystem for diabetics?

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

got a suggestion for you tree issue. i bought a couple of hardy crabapples that i am intending to use for rootstock in a couple years. i got them for a particular corner of the yard that stays wet most of the spring. they are supposed to be native to the northern part of the West Coast so shouldn't be too hard to find in your area. they are called Ranetka, or Oregon/Pacific Crabapple or Malus Fusca.

 

[bobm]

Do you know anybody who butchers their own birds?
Also, I think you'll do ok with salads.

Yea, ME ! I have butchered hundreds of chickens as well as all of the meat producing animals. As for salads... I was in a Wahsington State diet program for diabetics. One of the things that was counterintuitive was the vegies as my blood sugar whent up and I gained weight. Weird ha ? Must be my Northern Europeon genetics. I am curently in a Kaiser program with my doctor and a diatitian. I have lost 27 lbs in the last 6 months on a heavy carnivore based program, with almost next to nothing of grains,fruits and vegies.

 

[baymule]

Beat 2-3 eggs in a bowl, pour in small, oiled HOT iron skillet. Top with browned sausage, or hamburger, or ham chunks, pepperoni, or whatever your favorite (and most easily accessible meat is). If you like green onion or mushrooms, chop and drop on top. Bake at 350 degrees until eggs are set. Enjoy!

Baked chicken. Smear just a little mayo on the chicken, sprinkle dry Ranch dressing mix over chicken and bake.

Tree-Eastern Redbud or Japanese Maple.

 

[bobm]

got a suggestion for you tree issue. i bought a couple of hardy crabapples that i am intending to use for rootstock in a couple years. i got them for a particular corner of the yard that stays wet most of the spring. they are supposed to be native to the northern part of the West Coast so shouldn't be too hard to find in your area. they are called Ranetka, or Oregon/Pacific Crabapple or Malus Fusca.

According to the Master Garden Program at WSU, the native crabapples suffer from viral attacks, so they recommend grafted trees. I planted 4 grafted on a virus resistant rootstock crabaple trees on the other side of the lot about 2 1/2 years ago. So far so good.

 

[bobm]

Yesterday morning, I whent to the Master Gardener's Annual Tree Sale. I described my situation of location and growing conditions to a very knowledgeable Master Gardener with many years of local experience. I came home with 3 Japenese Maples... Acer Willis Devine , a new cultivar that has green leaves with red veining, and grows to 8-10 ft.tall. Acer Ukon upright tree , with lemon green leaves, that grows to 6' x 6' . Acer Hime Shojo, a dwarf cultivar with red leaves, that grows to 5-6' tall x 4-6' wide. These trees are in one gallon containers the cost me the arm and a leg princly sum price of $15.00 for all three.