Thanksgiving is almost here. This year we are going over to my cousin’s house for the big family get together. Ellen and I like to come up with unusual and unique foods to bring to these affairs as they are pot luck with the hosts providing the turkey. I will probably bring several things like […]
I was at Costco yesterday picking up some food items when I came across a new product, edamame spaghetti. This was non-gmo, organic, and even Fair Trade sourced. The numbers looked good with 25 gms of protein, 11 gms of carb, and 11 gms of fiber per serving. The only ingredient was edamame – green […]
Doughnuts joyfully embrace their role as one of the most toxic fresh foods on the planet. Nobody in his or her right mind even pretends that eating a doughnut is good for you on any level. Doughnuts are basically bleached white flour, sugar, and rancid oil – yum. Why oh why do they taste […]
There are some new players out there in the battle for pizza lovers’ hard earned dollars – Blaze Pizza and Pieology. Why is that relevant to this newsletter? Because both new players are offering gluten free pizza, and according to the Internet, they offer dairy free cheese to go onto that pizza. Dairy free cheese […]
Creation according to my son: In the beginning God created man and provided him with the bounty of the earth to sustain him and God was pleased. Man wandered in the garden and partook of the fruits and vegetables and life was good. But man felt an emptiness and a deep hunger for something more. Man […]
Every year the children, grandchildren, and now great grandchildren of my maternal grandmother get together for a Thanksgiving feast. The location of the feast rotates around between the various households with this year’s feast appearing at my mother’s house. Since she is 85 years old my sisters decided that she needed help with the feast […]
I love chips. I love the crunchy, salty, wonderfulness of it all. The evolution of all the flavors and styles has been amazing. I am dating myself when I remember the only choices were straight and wavy cut potato chips. Barbecue flavor was an amazing discovery back then. Now entire isles in the grocery store […]
Ellen and I were cruising Whole Foods last week looking for a crunchy snack we were told about by a friend that was actually good for us. Most crunchy snacks, even those in the health section of the store, are toxic because most are fried in oil. As soon as you heat oil up it […]
This is the third in our series on health priorities. Before we get started I want to talk a little about change. All of us have survived to this point by developing the various skills we have today. We have practiced them thousands of times. These skills include our eating and food selection skills. These […]