1 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup cornmeal
1/4 cup liver powder (available at
health food stores)
2 tablespoons brewer’s yeast powder
1/4 cup bone meal powder
3 tablespoons powdered milk
2 eggs, lightly beaten
3 tablespoons wheat germ oil (you may substitute bacon drippings)
1/2 cup water

This healthy and economical treat is reserved for your four-legged friends only!  Your dog will thank you if you make a double batch.Preheat the oven to 325°F. In a large bowl or in the food processor, combine the flour, oatmeal, cornmeal, liver powder, brewer’s yeast, bone meal, and powdered milk (may also add beef or chicken bouillon cubes). Stir in the eggs, oil, and water and mix thoroughly. The dough will be very stiff and dry (much like dog biscuits!) Remove the dough to a lightly floured surface or pastry cloth. Roll or pat it into a rectangle 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into bone-shaped biscuits with a small knife, or use a bone-shaped cookie cutter. Re-roll the leftover scraps of dough and cut into shapes until all the dough is used. Place on a lightly greased baking sheet and bake for 40 to 50 minutes until brown and dried through.  Cool on a rack.Yield: About 12 large bones or 24 small ones.

Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a saucepan, boil egg noodles as directed, drain.
Using the same pan, add cream of chicken soup, tuna, and peas; stir together.
Transfer to a buttered casserole dish and top with shredded cheese.
Bake until cheese is melted.
Serve.
Great With Brown and Serve Rolls.

3/4 c. cocoa
1 1/2 c. milk
1 c. granulated sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. soda
3/4 c. brown sugar
2/3 c. shortening
3 eggs
2 c. cake flour, sifted
1 tsp. baking powder

Measure and sift cocoa and brown sugar together. Add milk gradually, stir until smooth. Cream shortening, add sugar and eggs. Sift flour, baking powder, soda and salt together. Add to creamed mixture, alternately with the cocoa mixture. Add vanilla and beat until smooth. Pour into 2 (9 inch) cake pans and bake at 350 degrees about 30 minutes. When cool, spread with boiled icing. Spread thickly with coconut before icing sets.

Medicare has what they like to call a ‘coverage gap’, where they won’t pay for medicines, although the beneficiary (Medicare recipient) pays for the premiums.  Anyway, once you AND your prescription insurance plan have reached the total payments of a bit over $2,000.00; they won’t pay again until the total cost of medications reach just over $4,500.   Hm, does this sound good?  Makes me wonder what all the people on Medicare are doing to be able to afford that gap.  Do they just give up taking their medicine for the rest of the year?  It’s true that you can get ‘extra help’ but that isn’t for everyone and those who are eligible have a really low income.  The extra help is just for the prescription plan premiums, not help in being able to afford medicine during the coverage gap.

I recall my Mother telling me that one of her prescriptions, the top antibiotic, cost $500 and she telling my sister not to buy it.  She was in her coverage gap period and she was not about to pay that much for one prescription.  I’ve got to find out how much my medicines cost for one year and see how long I’ll have to go off of my medicine.  Although, being bipolar doesn’t mean not taking medications will kill me, it might drive my family insane instead.

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis often have inflammation of the tissues and surrounding joints, but can also have more complex deformities of the hands.  It can also effect other organs of the body.  Patients with osteoarthritis often develop lumps or nodules around the knuckles of the fingers.  Early treatments of finger and thumb arthritis are focused on managing the symptoms in an effort to avoid surgery.  Joint Pain Relief is hopefully the end result.  Arthritis causes a great deal of pain in sufferers, no matter which kind of arthritis they have.