Taco bake casserole dinner! 😋

 

Hi everyone!  here is another loso meal for your family!! 

My recipe  low sodium taco tortillas. 350*  10 -15 minutes in the oven 

Tortillas are 125 each mg. 

No salt  added tomato sauce, 25  mg  each can 

Hamburger  75 mg 

Fiesta cheese 🧀 170 

parmesan cheese 5 mg 

Green onion 🧅 

Mushrooms 4 mg. One cup

Black olives half slice is    140 mg 

Lo sodium  taco bake!!   

Enjoy !

Meal planning healthy style ❤️🥰🧑‍🍳

 Since I had a Covid birthday December 19 after my ICU crisis, I am now strong enough to have a small group of people over if they’re all well to celebrate my birthday this year!!!    I did my meal shopping ahead of time because the weekend can get busy and everyone is coming over Sunday after church!!!    So excited to see my girlfriends this weekend !!!  

So happy I stayed in the budget and if you do reserch you will find lots of losodium items !!!  

So far I have kept the fluid off and I’ve been doing so great with Jesus strength helping me find the items to stay in my amount that I’m aloud to have ! Always ask your cardiologist what the amount is your able to have of salt  salt is in in everything  no matter what  there is a few items the frozen veggies have 0 salt  45 mg depending what brand you order !!

It’s sad in the grocery stores they don’t have much items low sodium you have to stand there looking for hours !!  I remember those days since I’m on oxygen and lack of energy I can’t do that anymore so that’s why I order on line for food delivery!🚚     Someone once said on my post people need to stop ordering on line get of there buts and get it themself !!!  I said bro them kindly before you go off like that think before you speak   Especially in social media you have no idea what people physical streangth is  and there heart condition!!    So apparently they didn’t reply back ! I was glad do that !  

Anyhow my point is sorry I’m rambling  on 

Order in line is where you can find sugar free and lowdown food items !!  ❤️❤️😘🫶 plus it shows the prices as you add to cart so I am never going over my budget .

Tell me what your meal plan of the week is how do you do it do you switch it around or stay with the plan !??? 

Please comments below tell me where your from !😍

 

ICU crises❤️🫶😭anniversary!!

 I am I see you crisis was six weeks ago!!!!  2024 is the year I will never forget !!!   

Here is a brief  rundown  of our year together “ 

Jesus took our sweet mommy to her heavenly home 🏡 I knew mommy wasn’t going to make it much longer so happy I saw her through it all weather and health permitting last year I didn’t let mommy go through dementia alone neither did her sister my aunti she found Chelsea place and it was a memory care center !”  

It was the best one around and so close to me and Rob !   It was really two street lights away !! 

Then I got hurt at Chelsea’s a  a resident pulled my arm and it gradually got worse over time so I waited way to long to go checked out I was diagnosed with a frozen   Shoulder !!!  

It hurt 😢 so badly to the point I needed help getting dressed !! & having my husband take my showers 🚿 with me it was horrible painful !   I did go in and got sterioid  shots a few it helped so much & finally I got approved for  PT physical therapy! I started a few and then I got really sick 😭

With bronchitis   Every year I get bronchitis and flue shots and yes my covid boosters I had mine sqedualed covid and flue shots but since I came down very hard with Bronchitis and Covid  I canceled 😞 

I also  took the home test it said negative on the covid tests it said negative  ! 

But my family wanted to take me in sooner to the er I said no we will be in clinic that following morning so we waited it was really almost too late !⏰  

So they got me in as soon as they could   I was so sick I was sleeping three days and forgotten my medications 💊 I was so week I was barley hanging on  !  

I knew it was serious ! 

They said my covid came on at the end of my bronchitis. My body was just too weak and that’s how I got it. I will never forget it. I didn’t have any appetite at home. I barely ate anything. I couldn’t taste anything and I was sleeping literally three days.!   My husband and my aunt was very worried about me and they wanted to take me and right away which I should’ve listened to myself!  

As soon as they got me in we waiting all afternoon We waited all afternoon for a A-room ICU   I was extremely sick 😷 I needed 15 leaders of Oxygen  and I had 9 pounds of fluid on my heart ❤️ and lungs 🫁 ! 

I was a hot mess  they hooked me up with tubes and Ivs very quickly once I was in the room there was about 9 doctors and nurses all talking to me at once  my aunt was in the room with me all day and late into the night !”

It was so scary 😨   They we’re all great talking to me distracting me asking me fun questions keeping me from not being fearful 😨  

We talked about my love of quilting and cooking and my blog they all wanted to be in the blog they were so fun 🤩 about that so here’s the photo of the the best cardiologist team most of them !!   

They were all keeping me calm and giggles during this scary 🫣 time in my life !!  

I was admitted in the 6 and got to go home on the 13!      It’s only been 6 weeks anniversary a little over !   Wow amazing how Jesus has carried me through it all !!  

One thing I realize. Mommy and I we are always a good team. No matter what I know she passed away but she was my gardian angel 😇 watching over me the whole time Jesus was giving me the strength to hold on. 

This has been my new special verse  lately whole new meaning in a strong way. It’s funny how scriptures do that for us we can read it year after year it always means something new to us. !!! That’s the mystery of Gods word to us !!  

One year I did my own bible study 📖 I looked on line with all the verses that talks about the heart ❤️   The heart is what God loves the most !!”    He knows all hearts 💕   

 

Today I had a great fallow up appointment  ! Did a EKG  and a device check my normal shows  short afibs !!  They don’t need to change any meds no need to do heart Cath ! The first week of follow up was scary I was going into dangerous afibs but that was only for a short time !!! Praise Jesus !

 I encourage you what ever your heart ❤️  health is please 🙏 walk with Jesus in your health journey   He is there with you through it all just trust Him !    It’s scary 🫣 but he will give you peace as you walk through your trials “    

I remember lying there with nothing I can do but talk to Jesus “ 

One of the nurses says she says  say so much. How did you make it through?   I looked at her and said with a smile it was Jesus !!!!   He helped me through it all !!!  

She smiles and said to me I can tell it shows !!!!  😘🥰😍😇

Seriously God will bring us to a place where all he wants us to do is to surrender our all to him !” He will restore our pain with goodness in results !”   Nothing we go through is in vain  somehow Gods plan for each of us not to make us sick but brings out good in the outcome   

I have been born with congenital heart ❤️ disease  it was on my fathers side and my mom’s side of the family my grandfather had it  and my dad as well “  I just learn to manage it with eating rifht & taking care of me as much as I know how too !! 

That’s why God has led me to write this blog  to show others there is hope overcoming heart failure !  

God uses great doctors and medications  

To manage everything is to be in a low salt diet 

Always ask your doctors what limit daily is yours salt limit mine is 2000 day mg   

It gets easier as time goes on it took me years of learning to cook this way !!!

I started doing doing lots of research on all the items I like too cook with and look at the nutrition facts label 🏷️. 

I know it takes for ever at the store but I started on line it’s much easier and quicker !  Then I can go to the store and grab what I need  I hope you enjoy my blog and try my recipes you can change it up how ever it fits you remember we’re all different !”

Enjoy your journey 

Don’t give up !!! ****❤️🙏📖

Tonight beef stake ! ❤️🫶heart healthy

Hi everyone !   I’ve been getting my strength back and cooking more !  Since my icu crisis. Here is a meal I made tonight !

When Rob comes home I made stake in the slow cooker. And serving the size of rice with mushrooms 🍄 and diced onions 🧅  😃  baby spinach on the side. Cooked in a little bit of oil.   !  So tender! 

What did u all make?  🫶❤️😘

While cured pork products such as bacon and ham are relatively high in sodium, fresh pork is naturally low in sodium. Pork tenderloin and other loin cuts are excellent sources low sodium.   !!!   

Serving size stake  89.5 mg chart   Says 

Baby spinach 49 mg 

Rice 🍚 o mg 

Onions 🧅 4.8

Mushrooms 🍄 1 mg. 

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Chicken helper🫶 😍😋❤️

•  When your budget is tight  you use what you have you make it work !!!”  When you cook for your loved ones you want the best for them.  Salt is in everything but if you choose the right ingredients that make it work best for you !! ❤️🥰😘🫶🥗🥕. 
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• Frozen veggies gas 0 salt some have 45 mg the stir fry if I do those I never ever use the sauce  those are extreme high sodium!! 
• So just know all sauces have very high sodium content if you use it together with the frozen veggies “. 
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  Enjoy 🤤😋 your family and kids will love this meal  🍽️ 

Some can choose tuna  but I was craving for chicken !! 

Enjoy you can also add your fave cheese that melts great like blended cheese 🧀 140 mg.  Parmesan cheese is 45 mg mozzarella cheese 🧀. 135 mg but one slice of cheese is 45 mg mozzarella that is !” 

We’re all different  I’m only aloud to have 2000 mg daily 

Todays lunch. &. dinner !!   

Cream of soup  45 mg Walmart 

Frozen corn and pease 0 mg 

Black olives  125. Half sliced cans 

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Lo so stuffed pork loin❗😋

 Yesterday I wanted to do a recipe for me pork loin stuffed! I have never did anything stuffed in the kitchen before lol 😂. I am ready !    I have pork loin lo sodium bacon 🥓 diced onions 🧅 and spinach   as soon as I can file the spinach and mushrooms 🍄  ❤️😋😋😋.  I am happy I found SF cappuccino!  French Vanilla!    Now that I am diabetic I'm so happy enjoy my favorite drinks !!

What I did was cut the pork loin in half and stuffed it with my mixture in each pork loin   Set the oven for 350* 35 min and an extra 15 min and it was cooked perfectly!!

.These were great left overs!!! 

#losoporkloin 

#lotsofflavor

Letting go of someone you love is hard but keeping the memories is easy 😘

Reflecting a lot about what happened last year to all of us it amazes me how Gracious God is!!!     Most of the times we focus on. The negative effects on our lives because that's just so natural to do!!  

most of you know that my mom, sweet mama passed last August about six months ago. It was the hardest thing to do is to watch your parents decline over the last years of taking care of her.!   We all have our loved ones that we cared for and take care of and it’s very difficult especially if you have a family and children and other underlying issues with your health it’s very difficult to take care of another person!! 

          my husband and I took care of my mom for six years. Most of those years we did not know she had dementia early and she was in depression, so it was very difficult and rewarded at the same at the same time. Take care of her.

Mommy took care of me and I wanted to take care of her till the very end that’s how much I loved her     

Got to the point where it was so difficult for me that I my heart was it, Lyle, pounds of fluid extra on my heart and lungs and I was not getting much sleep and I was not taking my meds right or not eating right To I had to go to the hospital to the ER. I got a lot of test done as I remember. I also had a doctors appointment the next day for a follow up. When I went into the ER, I told him I had to go home. I had to take care of my mom. I have to leave to get some sleep as I remember it was a very very long night. 

Miss Carol was taking care of Mommy at home 🏡   So my husband can take me in to the ER!   So anyhow the next day the nurse gave me extra lasics and after a few days I got the fluid off my heart ❤️ and lungs 🫁. I felt so much better! What a huge difference I felt!

My cardiologist told us I needed have plan b and have a place forpmmy to live its to difficult for me to care for momma all by myself during the daytime hours “ 

My husband worked long hours and he did a eo did a wonderful job taking care of her!!!   Not most men would do the things my hubby did for his sweet mother-in-law “  

I was so proud of him!!  

These two ✌️  had a special bond with each other it has been so sweet to watch their friendship bond!!!   She would always say when's the bald man coming back to see me!!!  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My aunt found a wonderful place for Mommy it was at Chelsea’s Place her room was right by the eating area, and she had a nice big room all to herself. It was very sunny and bright and a large window and her own bathroom.!!!  

 It was a little scary for all of us. Adjusting to momma living there she did very well. It was harder on Rob and Momma to bring apart from each other but they managed very well he came to see her on his way to work and on his days off!!!   Rob would make meals for her and bring them in and mom loved his cooking 🍳!! 

Mommy made friends in no time at all!    Mom was very very shy 😊 but she did speak when she wanted to and sometimes it was her sassy talk 💬  that's what I loved about her!!!  

The best place about Chelsea’s was that it was so close to our house that I could go to her every other day and eat lunch with her. Most of the times I would bring my own lunch and heated up alert, microwave that the chef I got to know At Chelsea’s he says just let me know when you’re here and I will make a plate for you too.!!!  Sometimes Cheff k would even share recipes!!!! 

another wonderful thing about Chelsea’s place is they do lots of activities. They keep somebody engaged and out of the room to socialize mama really enjoyed painting we brought in lots of paint, and I painted with her before she laid down for her nap.  She told me she really enjoys painting together!!!  

I am so happy my aunt Vickie found chelsea’s place it was so close I could go every day but I went every two days they even had field trips and I got to go follow them. And join them !”    The day we had to put mommy on the hospice care that was the hardest thing to do. I think I was more fearful for that because I knew it was time.     The God kept strong 💪  through it all I went home crying almost every day! 

 it was so hard to know that mama needed more help and more care. The hospice team was great. They would keep her medication going until she couldn’t swallow anymore. Then we noticed that she stayed in a room a lot and she did not get out of bed one month July she had no food or drink. She slept for a whole week we thought she would lose us, but she later she came back to us and she gave us more time!!! The nurse asked her what’s your secret you look good Mary!  Mommy looked at me and she said Carrie is my secret!!!!   That melted my heart so much and it warmed my heart so much!!! 

I was so proud of her!   

Just love this sweet pic of these two!!!!💕

This is miss Carol she helped cared for mommmommy with me. Before Ch Chelsea’s place 

She loved coming you see Mommy we brought Mommy's Bible in and she was so happy 😁 She missed her Bible so much she would read it when she would be eating her dinner!   

So after Mommy shortly got on hospice she took another turn for the worse we were there every day and Mom's sister was there twice a day!! We didn't want to miss out any time with her the end is so special and so hard “    The hardest part for me was not giving her food and liquids and her not being snlr to smile  😭😭  she gave me one last smile it was emotionally hard for her to do I can only imagine   I read her the whole book 📖  of Psalms miss Carol read her her fave Psalms 23 

The next day I prayed and talked with mommy holding her hand I said Mommy you you see Jesus she blinkhed her eyes for yes!!!   That's how we communicated!!   I said Mommy when Jesus comes to take you home 🏡 you need to follow him!!  Please follow him its okay to leave Rob and I will take care of each other and take care of your home 🏡.  I talked about Jesus glory and how she will see her family that's waiting for her!!! 

I told her i promised I would live a full life And when Jesus took me home 🏡. I wanted her to be waiting with arms wide!!!! Mommy gave me a faint smile 😊 and had a tear rolling down her cheek “😭🫶 I whipped her tear away I said Mommy be strong 💪 I promise I will be okay 😘📖🙏 She squeezed my hand 🙌 

I said Mommy how much do you love me she had humor still even before her last breath she squeezed my hand so much!!!!!!! She didn't want to stop lol!! 🤣🤣 she tried to laugh and so did I !” 

I said Mommy I'm so grateful for all that you have done for me and for me and Rob! I will never ever forget memories !” 

Mommy we will see each other again when Jesus calls.Me Home. In His timing! Mommy gave me one last squeeze. 

   

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The next day.  Rob didn't have any work. So he wentsee Mommy by himself. I was home resting and napping 😪 I was emotionally drained. I told him this could be our last time she was at the very end of her time “ Rob let me sleep And Rob spent time with her rubbing her arm as she laid the other way facing the wall holding the sweet bear we gave her says I love mom !” 

Rob shared what was on his heart to her he told her I love your daughter so much I will be here for her for the test of my life and we will take care of your home 🏡  grow old together in it “ 

Rob gave her a esr Bud music 🎶  to listen to worship music 🎤  in her ear yes it was Phill Wickham palms 23. 

It is such a beautiful song!!  He told me Mommy was moving her lips 💋 to the words!!!! That was so precious to me !”  to here that there is a photo but that'd for us only 

I will give you a video of the artist “ 

https://youtube.com/shorts/bIpu_mn3wrY?si=IlVJ_8WZAi3Xjj6f

The staff at Chelsea was amazing during this time some even sang to her and read her Bible to her!!  ❤️✝️📖  my heart is so thankful for those who care that much about there jobs !” 

 I remember wanting to go in that sat. Aug 2 0 but aunt Vickie came over and told us Jesus took Mommy home “ It was very early in the morning I believe Mommy was waiting for Rob to come see her !” Then she was ready to be with her Savior ✝️🫶📖   

I told Mommy we will always be a great team she will always be my secret joy 😊. I've learned so much about her on her beautiful service I'm so proud God gave me her as my angel 😇 now she is forever in my heart and will be with me always 

Here some fun memories of mommy 

 No matter what mommy we will always be a great team!!!