Blueberries are famous for their use in blueberry muffins, blueberry pie, and cardio medicine. We had a retired couple in Moline called "the berry lady." I guess "the berry couple" sounded awkward. My mother sent me down to buy whatever was in season. I had to walk uphill, both ways, in the snow.
My own berry gardening was prolific. Ask any squirrel. I did well with raspberries, because they were prolific. I often noticed something moving when I coated them with sugar and cream - my mother's recipe. Some people would get freaky about this, but the movement just came from the insect bugs that love raspberries. I tried to reason with people - "They live from raspberries, so they are the final stage, raspberries in another form." That never satisfied the squeamish.
I saw blueberry canes moving in our yard in sunny Springdale. Nothing else was moving - no wind. Then I saw the tail of a squirrel, marching away from his breakfast blueberries.
I could buy more blueberries at Walmart than harvest them outside the kitchen door, so I gave the plants to someone who really wanted them.
Buying blueberries is easier than eating them. I found the solution - merge them with the daily vegetable dish, which I warm up on the stove from frozen, inexpensive kinds of vegetables:
- Chickpeas for protein and fiber
- Onions and green/red peppers
- Peas for protein and fiber
- Cauliflower for brain food
- Mixed vegetables (sometimes)
- Tomato paste for flavor
- Walnuts for cardio
- Lost 30 pounds, still coasting downward
- Blood sugar went from - O NO! - to normal
- Blood pressure became normal
- Vision test improved - startling the eye doctors.
