Great Golly, Granola Jollies!

Christmas is always a time to add some healthy snack recipes to our diet. So come join us on Saturday 10 December at 12:30 PM for 2 hours of shakin' and bakin' with some hot herbal tea on the side. Bring a container to take your share home and bring two ingredients as follows: (call me to see what we still need at 278-2018)

Large bag of walnuts or almonds (unsalted)
Vanilla flavoring (the real deal)
Safflower oil (Ingles sells it)
Brown Sugar (1 box)
Sunflower seeds (out of the shells) 2-3 cups
Ground Flax (Sam's sells it, probably at Walmart, too) 2 cups
Craisins in the large bag
Raisins in the barrel

Remember we shall reap what we sew. Think about a sewing or needlework project you'd like to share for our February meeting and bring a friend with you. January is just too cold for us to meet, so we are skipping that month to meet and allowing y'all to lose all those extra holiday pounds before coming out in public--teehee!

RSVP if you're coming to make granola--it's way better than the stuff you buy!

Your Spartanburg Facilitator,
Dr. Linda B. Greer

Tea Time, Ladies and Gents!

The April FMS meeting will be delayed to the 16th and at a later time: 2:30 PM. We will be having high tea with whatever sides for tea you bring. We'll get out the good china and do it up right for Easter and Springtime!

Be sure to wear a nice dress and comfortable shoes. Don't forget your wide-brimmed hat as well. Show off your recipe for dainty and tasty tea-time morsels and share your recipe if you like. If you bring a guest, you will earn a prize.

RSVP to Linda Greer very soon. 863-278-2018. Hope to see you then at my home for a "cuppa tea".

March 13 Christian Support Meeting

Hello FMS Friends,

I hope you are staying warm and out of the cold weather this winter. Perhaps it will let up for Spring soon. It makes me want to hibernate like a bear! As you know, our nutritionist chose wisely not to brave the snow from Seneca, so we will see her at our April Meeting.

I am attempting to reschedule Dr. Randy Kale for our Saturday, March 13, meeting at 12:30 PM. Dr. Kale was scheduled for January but had to cancel. He had asked about 8 months ago to come and make a presentation. I still don't have a confirmation yet, but I have it on my calendar to call again tomorrow. I left a message last Friday on their main number.

If you have suggestions on who you'd like to have for a guest from a medical or licensed therapeutic profession, please send that to me by email at drgreer@charter.net .

 

If you haven't visited the NFA http://www.fmaware.org/ web site yet, please try to do this periodically as there are new research articles and information updated each week on this site. It's a great resource along with others listed on this blog site. If there's an informative and reputable web site you'd like added to our blog, be sure to send that to me, too.

Your Volunteer Leader,
Linda B. Greer

This Saturday's FMS Nutrition Meeting

Come hear Nancy Taylor, MS, RD, LD,  of NuCommunity, LLC speak to us about foods that help and foods that hurt our Fibromyalgia. I know with Christmas and Valentine's Day so close together, and then Easter, it is so difficult to stay away from the chocolate. I can't remember the last time I ate a real piece of iced cake either. I've given up popcorn, too, because I love it really slathered with butter.

Anyway, you will learn something if you show up at 12:30 PM at my home address. Bring a small plate of healthy finge foods. Call me if you need directions at 278-2018!

Happy (without chocolate) Valentine's Day!

Dr. Linda B. Greer

Volunteer Support Group Leader

Welome to the Upstate's Best Support Group

For our first post, I would like to introduce our group. We are small but very caring. We keep in touch between meetings even if we can't always be at our monthly meetings. Each meeting has the following general agenda: light, healthy lunch with non-caffeinated, non-sugar drinks; share a sentence praise and prayer; program (facilitator or guest speaker leads); discussion; closing prayer.

For 2010 we are hoping to raise enough money from members and their friends and families through online shopping through the http://www.igive.com/ portal. So far we have about $14 accumulated in our account for the Spartanburg Christian FMS Group. If we earn another $12 before May1, we will be able to get our money out in time for our Awareness Seminar. You can earn money just by searching for online purchases even if you don't buy anything. Every penney counts!

Last year's FMS Awareness Seminar featured Dr. Charles Lapp from Charlotte who is one of the foremost researchers and clinicians in the study of FMS and CFS. His presentation was very enlightening. This year we need to have committees for advance advertising, refreshements, and for program set-up and clean-up.

Please join us on the second Saturday of each month at 12:30 to 2:30 PM at my home in Raintree on the west side of Spartanburg. Our theme is "Caring by Sharing". Hope to see you soon.

National Fibromyalgia Support Group Leader
Spartanburg, SC
(864)278-2018 (use of this number for soliciting is prohibited)