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Man, That Was Easy
Today is not about food, nutrition or cooking. After a few years I have decided to replace my aging IMac, 2008 model, with a MacBook. Since I last did this little evolution, the state of the art in transferring files … Continue reading
Dont Sweat The Future
Boy is to girl as bee is to flower. They are not opposites They are complimentary… You cannot have a boy without a girl Any boy will do Any girl will do Essentially they are all the same… … Continue reading
Nothing Lasts Forever
I am going to die– Could be any day. But I am pretty sure It’s at least a minute away. I’m gonna live like crazy, Until that minute’s passed. Then I’m gonna live the next one As if that … Continue reading
Hard Habit to Break
It’s a good thing that I am not on a diet, that I am not counting calories, that I don’t have to start my sugar-free day-counting over if I eat sugar. Since I am not counting days or ‘quitting’ anything, … Continue reading
Eat Your Meat, Since You Can’t Eat Grass
Animals that eat things that we cannot should be in our diets. We cannot eat soil, so plants that can get nutrients from the soil and convert them to a form that we can digest are also in our diets. … Continue reading
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Tagged beef, grass fed beef, mushrooms, omega 3, omega 6, pork, sausages
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Fertilizer Kills Lakes and Rivers
Lake Erie is enjoying a terrific growing season …for algae. Toledo, Ohio had to stop making drinking water recently, because of the ‘bloom’ of a form of algae that gives off a toxic waste product, which can’t easily be gotten … Continue reading
Sounds Like a Plan
Today in my town there are farmers who have gotten up extra early, packed the products of their fields into their trucks and drove to town. They set up tables at the farmer's market, and wait for me to arrive. … Continue reading
“Meets All FDA Requirements”
“Meets all FDA requirements” is probably one of the most meaningless statements that you can read, when it comes to food ingredients. Here is a quote from yesterday’s news: Although the Great Value ice cream doesn’t quite melt, the ingredients … Continue reading
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Tagged FDA approved, food additives, Food Safety, food science, great value, ice cream, ice cream sandwich, Indestructible
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Data Points
If you go to this website, http://beefretail.org/wholesalepriceupdate.aspx, you can see that one year ago beef was about 30 percent cheaper than it is this week. About a 25 to 30 percent increase in every cut of beef in one year. We … Continue reading
Don’t Toucha De Mango!
Or, do toucha-de-mango. I am a recent convert to mango-eater. We went to Hawaii and got a papaya and mangoes to bring to the room. Mangoes were much easier to eat without a full kitchen to prepare them in, if … Continue reading
One Small Change at a Time 