FIBER

When my children were 2 and 4 years old and my ex-husband and I divorced, I vowed to start eating nutritiously so that I would stay healthy and able to raise my daughter and son until they were grown. No more white bread or carbonated beverages and lots of fruits and vegetables. Though I must admit, I had a hard time and just couldn’t give up chocolate or sugar!

To this day, 40 years later, I still eat well, in fact maybe even a little better. A few years ago, when I learned we need about 30 grams of fiber each day, I found a cereal, Fiber One, as a good source that provides 15 grams of fiber for every one half a cup of cereal. Ahhh this is great I thought. But since I don’t like milk with cereal very well, I simply substituted the milk with ice cream – the very delicious mint chocolate chip ice cream. Unfortunately, I am lactose intolerant and milk products, including ice cream make my stomach bloated and hard. I switched to yogurt, which seemed to work for a while, but the same symptoms appeared again.

Looks like I need to search for something else to eat with my cereal. Tomorrow when I go to the grocery store I will buy some soy ice cream. It will probably work, but I just hope I will like it!

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