My daughter’s high school is having a can drive. Through Monday, they’re collecting cans of food for local pantries in advance of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.  With the exception of canned tomatoes when local tomatoes are not available, I can’t think of anything I eat from a can. I eat soy nut butter from a [...]

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Have you ever eaten so much food you’d swear those jelly donuts were filled with lead and not strawberry jelly? I have. More than once. More than twice. More than three times. You get the picture. Well, speaking of pictures, I happened upon these wonders. According to this display, the good folks at Anderson have [...]

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(Note: When I wrote this, I forgot to mention the meaning of the title to this post. In the article, it mentions the recommended daily maximum sugar consumption here in the US is 8 teaspoons of sugar. As the NY Times article points out, you get that in one 12 ounce (340 gram) can of [...]

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It’s winter here in New England, I know this for two reasons: I just shoveled another few inches of snow. Ice Cream is on sale. I had heard a few years ago that, per capita, New Englanders consume more ice cream than any other region of the US.  Personally, I doubt it. I figure since [...]

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There is, in my experience, a bit of a geographical bias in the food plans you see around OA. Around where I live, no flour, no sugar tends to rule the roost. I have been, for the 6 years of my abstinence, a no wheat, no sugar guy. Early in my program work, I identified [...]

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On the counter in the kitchen is a Family Size package of a Wholesome Sweetened Rice Cereal. Our good friends at Merriam-Webster Online provide the following options for the meaning of wholesome: 1: promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit 2: promoting health of body 3 a: sound in body, mind, or morals b: [...]

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In a prior life, I was a Japanese Beetle. Why would a logical, science oriented adult male, like me, believe this? Give me another good reason I’m drawn to the smell of the Bug-a-Bag Japanese Beetle Trap in my back yard? These traps send out an olfactory signal which just immediately catches my attention. It’s [...]

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I woke up ridiculously early this morning. Somewhere in the 4am hour. I was in bed pretty early so I got “enough” sleep. I did my morning prayer routine. It’s not long, but it is what it is and I covered all the normal bases. 30 seconds later, I was unwilling to realize the intent [...]

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Driving my daughter to the mall a recent Friday, I was tuned, against her pleas to the contrary, to the local classic rock station. I was gently rockin’ but I couldn’t tell you what was playing until, out of the ether comes one of the great live rock classics of the 70′s, Peter Frampton’s Do [...]

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