My mother served me some proper meal today, just some roasted eggplant, sweet potato greens (tops), fried fish, a left-over pork stew, and sweet bananas as a simple desert (bananas cooked with sugar and #Pandan leaves) and of course some rice.
I just ate a piece of fish with the left-over pork stew (boiled pork hock) because it has lettuce and soup although I am really not a soup kind of person as it fills me fast because I have to contend with my loss of appetite until now.
I also had the side dish of the roasted eggplant and seasoned it with the fish sauce that my mother gave. I am also not a dipping sauce kind of eater unlike my father which the food has to make a route until a small saucer of fish sauce before entering his mouth. Unfortunately my father has an allergy with the fish sauce which is why he coughs while eating and that is every time he does have his meal.
I washed it all down by half a cup/mug of my left-over Almond milk. To be honest I do not like the almond milk because it doesn't taste like milk nor the nutrition that milk gives. It is just I have to avoid extra phosphorus that milk have which also it is high on so it is unfortunate because I am missing the goodness of milk, the taste of it, and the nutrition that gives but I have to go for an alternative so I can eat it with my cornflakes from time to time.
It is one of my preferred beverage, next is cold water, and then some brewed #Liberica coffee, and sometimes some 200 mL Sprite which I drink slowly from my Thermos.
I also have to eat a serving of fruit, maybe an equivalent of two servings which is enough for me to get the dietary fiber that I needed for a healthier gut plus also sometimes I would drink some #Yakult especially if I had some vegetables so that I can basically acquire a more efficient digestive system.
Good bacteria has a function to eat your food and then release the nutrients when they die for your intestines to absorb. They are like your second stomach plus they reduce the toxins in your digestive tract.
Anyway I also have to supplement my diet with "Nepro" milk, a high nutrition milk with low phosphorus and no lactose milk preparation especially designed for dialysis patients. It can be a supplement to help the patients add more nutrition to their bodies or a sole source of nutrition in times that it is had to eat.
The only disadvantage of this supplement is its price and costs $5 per can but this second box of two boxes that I bought last December had cost me of about more than $3 dollars at that time because it is on sale. Even though it is on sale it is still expensive because as advised by my doctor this food has to be taken three times per day.
But I am ending-up taking this almost twice per week, during that time when I know that I will not be able to eat or it is a day before my treatment session or if I know that I have not eaten enough on a particular day especially near my next session.
But I must say that Nepro is an essential food alternative because I needed so that I will not suffer a malnutrition. It is unfortunate that my my mother is not a good cook because originally she was not taught to cook back from her province because her duty in their home was to mill the rice, cook it herself, collect wood, look-out for her other younger siblings, and all that house and field/farm work and not cooking, my grandfather apparently does all the cooking especially the viands.
So knowing that I just did all the cooking here in the hose when I was still able but I also learned cooking because of my mother. She made me help when she cooks when we were young until I took the fun chore of doing it after I had the spare time usually after school days or in the weekends and then all the time after I stopped going to college cold turkey.
So it is a complicated matter even with my diet, it is still a burden made bad because of my appetite that never returned.
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