LID recipes for dinner!

Again, I got all of my recipes from... http://thyca.org/Cookbook.pdf ---GREAT resource!!

You can have up to 6 oz. of fresh/cooked meat a day, so I usually saved this for dinner/supper (if I didn't eat any chicken salad for lunch...).  Here are some recipes I made this time...

The BBQ chicken was my favorite! Yum...Yum! It did take 3 hours, but I had nothing else to do, plus I made enough for 2 other meals! I ate it with fresh green beans, potato salad (also in cook book), or fried squash and onions. 

This was another good one. I didn't make any homemade bread, so I just ate it without...no big deal. I had no salt ketchup to dip it in and was fine. I ate this with either fresh green beans, fried squash and onions, or corn on the cob!

This was another good one. I made this the first go around with ground beef, but I made it with ground turkey this time. It felt healthier and didn't taste any different to me once I added all the other ingredients. I served this over basmati rice and had various vegetables with it. Great tasting! It also freezes well!

LID recipes for lunch!

I loved being on the low-iodine diet during the summer when fresh fruits and vegetables were readily available! You can have up to 5 servings of vegetables and 4 servings of fruit a day!

For lunch, most days, I made salads... fresh iceberg lettuce, fresh tomatoes, fresh cucumbers, onions. I made two different dressings that were easy. These are also from the http://thyca.org/Cookbook.pdf .

 The French Vinaigrette was my personal favorite and least ingredients...I usually used this on my salads mentioned above. 


The italian dressing wasn't my favorite but it was great with just cucumbers and tomatoes...not lettuce or onions. 

Some days, I also ate chicken salad with homemade mayonnaise from the book. I had chicken salad, cucumbers, and a piece of fruit. 

BE CAREFUL while making the mayo. When putting in the corn oil, it gets really thick in the blender, just like it warns in the recipe! If it is not getting thick, something mixed wrong. I had to redo 3 batches...by just pouring it all out and starting over. 

Easy! I bought fresh, on the bone chicken breasts and boiled them for about 45 minutes. I pulled all the chicken off and put in the food chopper. Afterwards, I mixed in all ingredients (sometimes, I added grapes!) and then the mayo recipe from above. Yum! Yum!

Low iodine diet recipes...BREAKFAST!

This go around, I tried a few new things for breakfast. Here are some recipes from http://thyca.org/Cookbook.pdf


THERE ARE LOTS MORE! I didn't have to do it as long the second go around...but they are all pretty easy.

 I ate the muffins most days since it made 10. (yes, it says 6, but it made 10. I ate 1 or 2 and had a banana or peaches. 

 These were easier than they sound! I used 1 potato and it made a lot! I also added chopped onions to the pan when cooking. (I put no salt ketchup on it when it was done!). I also made eggs from egg whites to make it more of a complete meal. I did not mix them together. 

This was another easy one to make. I didn't cook the potatoes long enough the first time, but it was still good! 

I beat cancer...

This morning, I went into the hospital again for my total body scan. The waiting room was very lively...more than usual. My mom came along with me since she was in town, so she got most of the fun and excitement... :) 


The total body scan was a little different (I think it was just a different machine.) than last time. It still took up most of the room that we were in, but wasn't as "new." 


The tech asked me if I was claustrophobic because it gets/scans really  close.  I usually don't, so we carried on. I laid on a "table" that slides in and out of the machine. She slid me down towards the area that scans and it all started. *By the way, she was not lying when she said it got close. I've done this once before and I feel like I was closed inside of a box 2 inches from the tip of my nose. Claustrophobic? Just a little, but I knew if I didn't do it, I would have to come back...not happening. The scan took a total of 43 minutes, give or take a few seconds. Once I was all done, I went back into the waiting room, where my mom got to know some people more than she had planned. :) After about 20 minutes, my pictures were finished and I was off to my endocrinologist. 


After leaving the hospital, I went straight to his office so he could see the report and scan. After a few minutes, he came in and started explaining that he saw "activity" in the area where he shouldn't see any "activity." Then he stepped out to talk to the radiologist at the hospital...
Once he came back, he explained that the tech did not make me lift my head up far enough and the "activity" was my salivary glands. Apparently, the tech (who had "other" things to do...?) didn't have me on the pillow properly and my salivary glands looked like they were down in my "used to be thyroid area" having a party. No worries...The radiologist said it happens and apologized. My endocrinologist said that everything turned out the way he wanted it to and would look at my blood work when it came back. The blood work is another way of confirming that everything "worked." 


Yay! Whoop! :) 


All this comes 7 days before my year anniversary of my first thyroid surgery, where I found out I had cancer. I beat cancer... Almost a year has gone by, and I have many people to thank but will give God all the glory. My faith has grown so much stronger over the past year, and I hope I will be a small testimony of how great He truly is. How can people not believe? I serve a mighty God; the Great Physician. 

This is my mom and me... Relay for Life 2012.