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Jun. 24th, 2018 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI don't think my body is liking the lower levels of caffeine in the mornings. I'm having trouble waking this morning and had some issues yesterday. I slept pretty well last night.
Then again, I'm pretty sure I didn't get enough iron yesterday or Friday. I need to eat about 4.5 oz of chicken liver to get what I would have gotten from my multivitamin. I had been eating at least 3 oz of chicken liver a day on top of the multivitamin. (The amount in the multivitamin is 18 mg. 3 oz of chicken liver averages something like 13 mg.) I don't want that much chicken liver.
We can only get safe liver sausage (no nitrates or nitrites) for me if we go to Whole Foods, and that's less iron rich (about 6 mg per 2 oz) than pure chicken liver is. It just has the advantage that I don't have to prepare it or scrub anything to clean up after cooking it. It also costs three times as much as 20 oz of raw chicken liver.
Fortified cereals have a lot of iron. If it looks like I'll need to keep going without the multivitamin for much longer than until Tuesday, I'll look into those, but I find most cereals difficult to justify. Either they've got a lot of fiber that will make me sick, or they're 90% refined sugar.
Then again, I'm pretty sure I didn't get enough iron yesterday or Friday. I need to eat about 4.5 oz of chicken liver to get what I would have gotten from my multivitamin. I had been eating at least 3 oz of chicken liver a day on top of the multivitamin. (The amount in the multivitamin is 18 mg. 3 oz of chicken liver averages something like 13 mg.) I don't want that much chicken liver.
We can only get safe liver sausage (no nitrates or nitrites) for me if we go to Whole Foods, and that's less iron rich (about 6 mg per 2 oz) than pure chicken liver is. It just has the advantage that I don't have to prepare it or scrub anything to clean up after cooking it. It also costs three times as much as 20 oz of raw chicken liver.
Fortified cereals have a lot of iron. If it looks like I'll need to keep going without the multivitamin for much longer than until Tuesday, I'll look into those, but I find most cereals difficult to justify. Either they've got a lot of fiber that will make me sick, or they're 90% refined sugar.
