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, [...]
Read More..>>Sweet and Sweetener
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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 [...]
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 quickly [...]
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, you had [...]