Happiness is a low-sodium breakfast starring Post Shredded Wheat

Two of these whole wheat biscuits have 0 mg sodium and 6 g of dietary fiber all by themselves!

Here's how I make them:

1 cup 1% milk, heated in a soup plate (105 mg sodium)

2 biscuits, placed in the heated plate of milk (0 mg sodium)

2 tsp. butter, one on each biscuit (63 mg sodium)

1 cup blueberries, sprinkled all over (0 mg sodium)

honey for drizzling on top (optional, 0 mg sodium).

That's just 168 mg sodium.

Add a hardboiled egg with paprika or other non-sodium seasoning (62 mg sodium), one tablespoon of brewed espresso coffee with two tablespoons of half and half (20 mg sodium), and two mandarin oranges (2 mg sodium), and you've got a complete breakfast with just . . .

252 mg sodium.



h/t 'Nita

Everyone's out shopping today, but I'm happy to be at home instead

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution."

-- Samuel Johnson: Rambler #68 (November 10, 1750)

Happiness is that even with 1% milk you can make a decent froth for coffee with one of these

Happiness is strange sometimes, as when a cold piece of cobalt-chromium helps keep the cockles of the heart warm

When a thing goes wrong with me, this is what I do

The inimitable Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, here.

When you get right down to it, happiness is domestic independence

"How small, of all that human hearts endure,

That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,

Our own felicity we make or find:

With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,

Glides the smooth current of domestic joy."

The poetry is Oliver Goldsmith's, but Samuel Johnson wrote it.

Oat muffins with dried Montmorency cherries

Oat Muffins with dried Montmorency cherries

This recipe is adapted from the POST 100% Bran Muffin recipe of old. The only substitution is the oats for the bran cereal. The only addition is the cherries. The yield is about 15 muffins. Calories per muffin are about 194. Total fat is 2g, total carbs 38g (dietary fiber 3.2g), and total protein is 6g. 

Ingredients:

1 cup unbleached flour

1.5 teaspoons baking powder

.5 teaspoon baking soda

.5 teaspoon ground cinnamon

2 cups whole rolled oats

1.25 cups 2% milk

1 egg 

.5 cup unsweetened apple sauce

.33 cup brown sugar

.66 cup dried cherries

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

2. Whisk dry ingredients together in one bowl.

3. In another bowl whisk together the wet ingredients, and the sugar and cherries.

4. Add the dry to the wet, mixing well with a wooden spoon.

5. Lightly grease 2 8-bay muffin pans with Crisco.

6. Add .25 cup of the mixture to each bay.

7. Add water to the last unfilled bay.

8. Bake 15-20 minutes on the center rack of the oven.

Happiness is the gumption of Stephen Willeford, the National Rifle Association instructor who in his bare feet stopped the Sutherland Texas church shooter

“I think my God and my Lord protected me and gave me the skills to do what needed to be done,” he said while choking back tears. “I just wish I could’ve gotten there faster, but I didn’t know. I didn’t know what was happening.”

Videos and stories here and here.

Happiness is the Bic pen, made in France since 1950

There's over 100 billion out there. You can write a tome with one of these, for just 16 cents.