We are registered for a two-day class on nutrition and PD which, I hope, will give us some new insights on how we should be eating to prolong our lives together. It will be interesting to learn whether any of the foods we are currently eating are okay or if we should completely rethink our meals.

My husband is a meat and potatoes guy, liking his beef particularly well. I like to throw in a salad and a few veggies and even make a stir fry from time to time. We don’t eat fish because he doesn’t like it and we don’t eat lamb or veal because I don’t, otherwise just about everything is on the table at some time. Many of our meals are relics of the last century, the things we grew up with in the 50’s and 60’s. After all, that’s when we learned about nutrition and started to cook.

So, when I hear about whole foods, multi-grains, and amino acids, my eyes start to glaze over. I don’t necessarily need to fully understand the workings of our guts, I just need to know what we should be putting into them to make life better and easier for both of us. What would truly help would be for someone to present me with a shopping list, a menu plan, and a husband who is willing to eat what is put in front of him. Thankfully, my husband is pretty good at trying new things; if I could just figure out how to disguise Salmon as Prime Rib?