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.

Happiness is Natural Delights' Coconut Date Rolls

A naturally sweet dessert, just $4.99 the package of 17 at Meijer.

Happiness is a grilled hamburger with pickle, butter and onion

You slice a yellow onion into a sauce pan using a mandoline, add a tablespoon of butter and simmer over the heat until the onions are translucent.

Spoon the butter and onion onto your bun, add a hot grilled hamburger and top with a few of these babies.

Simple and delicious, done the old Wisconsin way.

Happiness is the sunshine today after this weekend's big rain event in Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Needless to say, the outdoor wedding in the red area of the map had to be moved inside. She got married in a pole barn, and still nearly got flooded out.

Happiness is the little old bird woman, calling to you: Feed the birds, tuppence a bag

Video here.

Happiness is the compulsory scientific measurement of all adult male knees so that we can find out who's really English around here

And more importantly, who's not.

Roderick Spode, here, to his brother blackshorts.

Happiness is a musical cartoon history of Christopher Columbus from 1960

Watch the five minute video here.

Happiness is politically incorrect soap ads

Happiness is Norm Crosby, the Master of Malaprop

Watch him in action, here.

In Alaska happiness is a cake from a mix

From a delightful read in The New York Times, here:

“Cake mixes are the center of our little universe,” said Cynthia Erickson, who owns the only grocery store in Tanana, an Athabascan village of 300 along the Yukon River in central Alaska. “I have four damn shelves full.”

Happiness is this little fella takin' a ride on The Fun Slide

Video here.

In August 1944 happiness was the RAF Short Sunderland flying boat and U-boat killer

A Sunderland takes off after retrieving three airmen in the Bay of Biscay

"We had been flying all day long at one hundred fucking feet, The weather fucking awful, fucking rain and fucking sleet; The compass it was swinging fucking south and fucking north, But we made a fucking landfall in the Firth of fucking Forth."