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Ever wondered which foods can aid in post-cancer recovery while being sustainable and easy to integrate into daily meals? On this episode of Sylvr Tea, I, Sherry, share my personal journey of navigating post-breast cancer medication with a balanced diet. Having survived chemotherapy and radiation, my focus now is on foods that not only support my bone health and immune system but also fit into a busy lifestyle. From the refreshing crunch of lettuce to the protein-packed convenience of eggs, I'll break down why these staples are essential for anyone looking to enhance their diet thoughtfully and sustainably.

Discover the top five foods that I've found indispensable, starting with versatile lettuce—perfect for any meal or snack. Next, I'll dive into the myriad benefits of eggs, showcasing just how they can be a quick, nutritious option whether you're at home or on the go. I'll even share some of my favorite recipes and tips, like a delightful egg salad with a crunchy twist. Join me and learn how these foods can make a significant difference in your wellness journey, especially if you're seeking to support your body’s recovery and strength post-treatment.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, my name is Sherry and welcome to my podcast,
silver Tea, and this podcast isabout the top five sustainable
foods I eat.
And the reason I want to talkabout these foods and why I eat
them is because they are anassistant for the medicine I

(00:21):
take after surviving breastcancer and going through my
chemo treatment and my radiation, and so these are some of the
foods that I eat to help withassisting the medication, and I
try to avoid certain foodsbecause it can actually
interfere with your bodyabsorbing the medicine to work

(00:42):
for you, with your bodyabsorbing the medicine to work
for you.
So we should have a certainamount of dairy, a certain
amount of fiber, certain amountof carbs in our body and we
should really make sure we haveprotein and dairy in our in our
diet.
Because of our bones, becausewe are taking this medicine and
this medicine is actuallystopping us from making estrogen

(01:11):
and we need estrogen to havehealthy bones.
So do you make sure you getyour your dairy in there, you
make sure you get your proteinin there, because those things
are great for healing the bodyand it's also great for your
immune system, because we knowthat our immune systems are now
jeopardized and weakened fromthis medication and even from
taking the chemotherapy.
So let me start with the firstnumber five.

(01:36):
Number five is lettuce.
Now I try to have lettuce orsomething in a line of
vegetables every day.
My mom always says to me eatsomething green every day.
So I try.
But I find lettuce easy inVersatile because I cut lettuce

(01:58):
up, I put it in a little bowl ora bag or something and I stick
it in the refrigerator andthroughout the day I'll just
reach in there and get some.
I make a little bowl or a bagor something and I'll stick it
in the refrigerator andthroughout the day I'll just
reach in there and get some.
I make a little salad, I use itas a topping.
I I do a lot of different, alot of different things with
salad.
I sometimes I think about I canmake a tuna salad, or I make an

(02:19):
egg salad, or I make a chickensalad.
The lettuce is already choppedup and ready to go in a
refrigerator.
So I really do like lettuce.
And lettuce is also a good carbfor you too.
It's a low, healthy carb thatyou can choose to have as a part

(02:40):
of your low carb eating.
Because there's so much of it.
Let me tell you I eat about 30carbs a day.
I measure everything.
Most of the time when I don'tmeasure is when I don't want to
know I'm being bad.
So but most of the time I'mmeasuring, whatever measuring,

(03:01):
weighing, counting and whatevermeasuring, weighing, counting
whatever goes in my body.
So, um, lettuce is number five.
Number four.
Number four is eggs.
I like eggs is because I thinkeggs are versatile, just like
the lettuce, and they are.

(03:21):
They're very good, easy,grab-and-go snacks.
If you want to run out the door, you're looking for a quick
meal or something, you can throwa little seasoning on there and
just eat it, or you canscramble it, scramble it and put
some cheese on it.
Eggs is versatile.
I really like eggs.

(03:42):
You can slice it up and put itin your salad.
I make about 10 eggs every fiveto seven days, or even longer,
maybe five to eight days.
I might make about 10 eggsbecause I eat about one to two

(04:04):
eggs a day and I don't alwaysjust eat an egg, a boy or a day.
Most of the time it's a boy.
I don't scramble that muchbecause sometimes I'm looking
for the quick, easy meal.
Right now we in the middle ofsummer in Pennsylvania, and is
it hot?
So it's very hot right now.
So I'm not looking to standover a stove and cook and I just

(04:28):
I can't see that, not right now, because I'm just so hot and
then I just don't.
Sometimes I just don't feellike eating.
So I want something easy, Iwant something fast, and so eggs
are there.
So I'll grab an egg and I'llsmash it up and make an egg
salad.
Sprinkle a little bit of onionand I like onions in my, my egg
salad because I love the crunchI dice up those onions, chop

(04:52):
those babies up and I will putthem in my egg salad.
Sprinkle a little seasoning,like some cumin, and just a
little bit of salt, because youdon't need a lot of salt with an
egg.
When you're making an egg salad, it's because it's the egg.
The yolk is already kind ofmaking it salty, so you don't

(05:12):
really need that much salt.
So I'll smash up an egg andI'll put it either on like a bed
of lettuce or I'll just eat itby itself.
It's wonderful.
Now I like to boil my eggs in myInstant Pot.
I watched, I follow thisYouTuber.

(05:36):
I think it's tried and true.
She showed me how to boil eggs,and in the instant pot.
Let me tell you, when you crackthat egg open, it's not even
got a cracker, you just pop itand the whole shell was falling
off, just like that.
I use this technique that I.
I will put her website downbelow I've.

(05:58):
This was when did I?
A couple, couple years, a yearor so ago, when I saw her video
on how to boil your eggs,because I boil you a bunch of
eggs at one time and so Iwatched a video and I boil you
about 10 eggs, 12 eggs.
Sometimes my nephew is hereeating on my eggs.
Sometimes my nephew is hereeating on my eggs because he

(06:19):
discovered that he was tellingme about an old home remedy Not
a remedy, he was telling meabout how you can boil your eggs
with some baking soda or bakingpowder in there and it helps
the shell come off the egg easy.
But he discovered that myprocess is even better than that

(06:40):
.
I mean it just a whole anyway.
I'm, as you can see, I'mfascinated with it.
So so I like to boil my eggs inan instant pot and I put them
in a refrigerator when theycooled off and and ready to go,
and I'll just grab one and crackit open and I'll do whatever I
do with it and and then enjoy anice egg.

(07:03):
Number three nuts.
I like nuts.
Nuts are a nice healthy fat andI like nuts in my salad.
I like nuts and yogurt.
I like nuts as a snack.
I usually weigh my nuts.
I might do about one ounce ortwo ounces of nuts.
I'll break it up and and donuts mostly almonds, because I

(07:27):
really do like almonds, so I'llI'll pop one or two almonds when
I'm ready to grab somethingelse we're not supposed to be
eating.
So this is one of the wonderfulsustainable foods that I like
eating.
It's also great for helping usfight against the cancer.
Uh, so that's number numberthree.

(07:49):
Number two number two is yogurt.
I absolutely love, love, love.
Now, protein is good for us,right?
So we all know protein is good.
Protein is good to help withhealing our bodies, help with
our immune system, so it alsohelps with our healthy bones.

(08:11):
So, again, like I was tellingyou that we have to make sure
that we have some dairy in ourdiets when we, after coming out
of the cancer, the chemo, andbeing cancer-free and coming out
of radiation, being cancer-free, you want to make sure you have

(08:32):
something in your diet to helpfight against that medicine that
is not so good on your bones.
So I I do like uh yogurt.
I will buy a little smallserving of yogurt.
Uh, uh.
Faye is one of my favoriteyogurts.

(08:54):
I'll just buy it just plain,nothing in it, because I want to
control my sugar.
So I will buy just a plain,just plain, nothing in it, and I
will mix it up again.
I learned this from the sameYouTube channel I learned how to
make my boiled eggs from.
I learned how to make yogurt inmy instant pot and as well as I

(09:17):
learned how to boil your eggsin my instant pot.
I will put her her youtubechannel below so you can go
check her channel out, becauseshe's fabulous.
I absolutely I think she'sgreat.
So I will take my yogurt andI'll mix it in and I will let it
incubate overnight for eighthours and then the morning I

(09:39):
have a nice big thing of yogurtthat will last me for maybe
about a week, because if that,it may be less than that.
As a matter of fact, I thinkI'm due for some yogurt right
now.
I got to go pick up sometomorrow, but I'll mix that
yogurt up and when it's done inthe morning, I'll put it in a

(10:02):
nice bowl and I'll just dig inthere and get my yogurt out and
I'll put some granola in there.
Now you got to be careful whatyour granola is, because that's
a part of your 30 grams of carbsfor the day, so you want to
make sure you watch it.
You want to make right choiceswhen you're talking about

(10:22):
getting your carbs in for theday.
You want the healthy carbs, you.
So you don't want those emptycarbs.
After you eat you still feelempty.
You want to go snack onsomething else, so you want to.
I just put enough in therebecause I like to get that
crunch like I like to have alittle crunch in my yogurt.

(10:44):
So I will put just a little bitof granola in there in my
yogurt, with some blueberries,with some walnuts.
I like walnuts.
I don't do almonds so much inmy yogurt I mostly like walnuts.
I'll chop them up a little bitbecause I don't want them too
big trying to bite a big pieceof walnut.
So I'll chop up my walnuts andput it over in my yogurt and I

(11:08):
will put it in the refrigeratorfor just a few minutes, so only
just maybe about 10 minutes,because I like the oats from the
granola to get heavy, from thewonderful yogurt, the dairy, the
yogurts get nice and full ofthe I'm sorry the oats.
The oats get nice and full ofthe yogurt.

(11:30):
And it's so good, it'swonderful, it's like.
I know everybody lovesovernight oats Mostly everybody
I do.
My sister sister loves it.
She just made some about threeor four days ago.
So overnight oats is delicious.
So it kind of reminds you ofthe over overnight oats.
So I'll put it in therefrigerator.

(11:50):
And another reason I I I likeyogurt most of the time is in
the morning.
It's because when I takemedicine I have to take medicine
in the morning and it doesn'trequire taking it on the empty
stomach, because you needsomething on your stomach,
because it can irritate yourstomach.
So I usually like to have someyogurt on my stomach so I can

(12:16):
take the medicine without havingtoo much irritation.
So I absolutely like yogurt forso many reasons.
Yogurt can be a sour creamreplacement.
You can put it on your potatoes, you can mix it in your booger
wheat it's very good.
Or you can just eat it byitself.
I usually, if I eat it byitself, I just put like a little

(12:38):
hint of honey and mix it up andI'll just eat it by itself,
just just so I can just get itdown, get something down on my
stomach to prepare for the forthe medicine that I'm taking.
So I absolutely love yogurt inthe morning with for taking
medicine.
So it's, it's absolutelyfabulous.

(13:00):
And so salmon.
Salmon is number one on my listfor the top five sustainable
foods in my diet, foods in mydiet.

(13:25):
Salmon is excellent because ofthe omega-3s in salmon.
The omega-3s help with hormonalbalance.
The salmon also helps with ourimmune system.
It's good for our heart health.
It's also again, I love thispart that it fights estrogen.
It's an anti-estrogen.
It also helps with inflammation.
It's an anti-inflammation.

(13:46):
So what do I hear when I hearthat?
Less pain.
So at the top of my list issalmon, number one sustainable
foods that I eat.
Number one is salmon In thereand I have some blueberries in
there and I have a balsamicvinaigrette.

(14:08):
Oh, it'd be so good with somesprinkled onions Crunch.
Hey, I love the crunch crunchy,I love the crunch.
So I like salmon as my numberone sustainable foods that I eat
.

(14:30):
So please, if you would like tohear more, I ask you to please
leave, like what you want totalk about, what you would like
to hear about, and I would putsome pictures of some of these
things that I just talked about,as well as as a.
You know, you'll see them overhere, over there.
I'll have them up for you tocheck out, and this was just
today.
I just grabbed the picture so Ican share with you my salmon,

(14:51):
my yogurt, my eggs, my, so I Iwill share that with you so you
can see it.
And and how I eat is I will eatabout 15 ounces of protein a
day, with about 30 grams, maybea little bit more, of carbs a
day, with a little butter, alittle butter, a little bit of

(15:13):
oil, with my, my meals to helpwith this feeling full.
So that's how I eat and I and Iand I would like to know how
you're eating and I would likefor you to share with me.
What do you want to hear?
What do you want to talk about?
Because my, my next podcast isgoing to be me talking to my son

(15:34):
about our relationship and howit changed when I got diagnosed
with cancer.
So I want to talk.
I want to talk to him about ourrelationship and I want to
share that with you because itdefinitely has changed.
So if you like what you hear,please hit that subscribe button

(15:55):
below the like button and thatbell notification button and it
will let you know the next timeI have a new podcast.
So until then, ladies andgentlemen oh, you know what I'm
getting ready to go withoutsaying the most important thing.
Wait, everybody already know itEarly detection is the best

(16:18):
detection.
So get your annual mammogramsdone.
If you're late, call andschedule that screening.
If you already did it, put iton your calendar for the
following year.
So until next time, ladies,enjoy your cup of tea.
And this is what is this tea?
This is Earl Grey Lavender EarlGrey tea.

(16:42):
Absolutely, love it.
Until next time.
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