Archive for May, 2008
Kashi Granola – Mountain Medley
I love Kashi. I can attribute a great deal of my 130-lb. weight loss to their GoLean and GoLean Crunch cereals. They manage to make tasty cereals that are packed with essentials (protein, fiber, whathaveyou). For my three-plus years as a vegetarian, they were one of my favorite protein sources. Additionally, their instant oatmeal is [...]
Read More..>>Sweet and Sweetener
toothpastefordinner.com Aspartame done effed me up. For a while I was–with the exception of a diet soda every day–eating “naturally.” I wasn’t ingesting any of those silly chemicals. My diet consisted solely of fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meats, and dry cereals. So when I jumped back on the “artificially sweetened candy” train, I wasn’t [...]
Read More..>>DEAD
Okay. I’m not dead. But my car is. On Sunday, my girlfriend and I were driving down a four-lane highway (2 lanes for each direction of traffic, natch) toward my sister’s college graduation. As we were passing a tractor trailer (fully in view of his mirrors), he flipped on his turn signal. He immediately and [...]
Read More..>>Loco for choco
I used to love milk chocolate. Then I went on a crazy, obsessive diet and cut all chocolate out of my life for a period of years. When I finally decided to return to the realm of the healthy and the sane, the typical Hershey’s bars (even the Special Dark which contains more milk and [...]
Read More..>>The Egg King
Musician/author Dan Bern has posted a new short-short on his MySpace blog about intense training for an egg-eating contest. An excerpt: Still. Perhaps there is a natural human response, so far unknown to me, that kicks in when you are absolutely stuffing yourself. Maybe 10,000 years ago you found food sporadically, and when you did, [...]
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