Hubby's healthy iced mint tea

Ok, so here we are post op, doing my best to provide healthy meals for hubby at home. Hubby refuses to bring a packed lunch to work and deemed it "uncool" to bring his own food. So, the loving wife that I am, I always ask him what he's been eating. He answers mostly Subway grilled chicken or turkey sandwiches on whole wheat bread (I'm hoping he's telling the truth, he he he). Imagine my horror when he told me that he usually have bottomless iced tea with his sandwiches. Whaaaat?!! Those sugary drinks are the main cause of the spare tire in the first place.

As a compromise, I make him bring Mint Iced Tea to work. Hubby's Mint Iced Tea uses freshly brewed mint tea, fresh calamansi juice and honey instead of sugar.

Honey is a healthier alternative to sugar and since hubby's unwilling to give up his beverages, this is a healthier alternative. He seems to like it.

I also make him bring fruit to work so that he can munch on them instead of chips.

I have no photo of hubby's iced tea but do have one with him in a dress :-)

ACV & Honey...Baby, this could be it!

I've been suffering for migraines for as long as I can remember. Well, maybe right after college when I found out the harsh reality of life......

Anyway, I was at my wit's end on how to cure my migraines which I practicallty have on a daily basis. It just doesn't show on my pretty face (gag!). My poor husband even had to drive me to the emrgency room on several occassions to help me, gave me nightly massages and probably prayed over me while I was sleeping (Hubby: "Please please let this woman be migraine free for my own sanity!"). There were times that I thought I was having a stroke, but no, just migraine according to the doctors who gave me shots of painkillers. No cure. Sigh. There was only one pain reliever that helped, Mesulid. Later I found out, it was recalled due to the fact that the medicine turns your liver into mush. Thank heavens I didn't take it daily! I restricted myself to just taking it once a month when the pain level reaches 8 on the Richter Scale.

I was ready to pull my hair out and bang my head on the door. Out of desperation, I googled for natural remedies for migraines (since none of the pain relievers provide lasting relief and I have no ambition to be a druggie), apple cider vinegar and honey keep popping up. So, I asked hubby to drive me to the nearest grocery store to buy organic apple cider vinegar (the clear ones already lost their healing enzymes during the distillation process). Organic ACV looks like one of those liquids found in a science lab, brownish in color with suspicious particles of web-like material and fine sand inside. Yeah, that's the one that you should get.

Apple cider vinegar (ACV) and honey are also believed to help with high blood pressure, cholesterol and weight loss. The weight loss benefit is b^!!$#!t. If that was true, all women would have swallowed it by the gallons.

Anyway, I digress....I tried drinking 2 Tablespoons of ACV, 2 tablespoons of honey dissolved in a glass of water. It was vile and putrid and just plain awful tasting. It is probably the worst tasting concoction that you could possibly put in your mouth. Yech! But it miraculously kept my migraine away, I slept so well last night. It was a friggin' miracle.

I've read that I have to take that vile concontion three times daily. When I woke up this morning (with no headaches!), stupid me, decided to take the acv straight. Like what you would do in a tequila shot, yeah? Bad idea, that thing packs a punch. It was so strong, my head hurt again! Darn. I'll try to drink it with water next time. Don't mess with the recipe, man. 2 tablespoons of ACV, 2 tablespoons of honey mixed in 8 oz of water. Got it.

Wish me luck!

P.S. Pinching that space between your thumb and forefinger works too but only if someone else does it on you and pinches it all day :-) I tried using a clothes pin, it's not very attractive but sometimes it helps (for a little while).