Eating right :

   I often wondered why it was so difficult to eat 'right'.

It is so much easier to open a bag of chips and a Ho Ho

than it is to build a salad.   Since I've been eating more 

salads and such lately I have developed a new respect for

the people that prepare and serve salads in the better restaurants.

Even if one buys the prepared salad mix in a bag there is

still the chopping on onions, radishes, and cukes.  Not to 

mention the opening of the bacon bits, jalapenos,  cutting of

the tomatoes and such.  And then there's the never ending 

search for a low carb,low fat, low sugar dressing that doesn't

taste like wallpaper paste.   And don't even consider croutons!

Although I did find some French's Crispy Jalapenos that add a

bit of crunch and are not too bad for ya .   Problem is by the 

time I build my salad I'm too tired to eat !   (good thing maybe?)

  

On to bread.   Bread is not just a food... It is a necessity of life as

we know it.   Burgers wrapped in lettuce leaves or egg whites

are simply emergency fixes until we can obtain real bread.  I

have gone from probably six to eight slices of bread a day to

two.   Let me rephrase that.. two slices of bread substitute. 

I really don't completely understand this complex carb stuff

but I did find that the sprouted grain breads do not spike my

blood sugar like the flour types so that's a good thing.  My

current breadlike material is Ezekiel 4.9 Flourless sprouted

Whole Grain bread.  It of course has to be kept frozen for some 

odd reason which means one must either toast it or know an

hour ahead of time when one is going to get hungry.  Now if 

you take the almost six dollars a loaf price and add the electricity

cost to toast it (alright I'm nit-picking )  it makes for a costly 

sandwich.   I can understand the cost when you figure how much

work must go into making it.  The cost alone of the slicer that

is able to cut the loaf into tiny slivers (I mean slices) must be 

huge.  And it's a miracle in itself that they have an oven hot 

enough to bake it.  When placed in my toaster and toasted 

twice is comes out warm but the color never changes. I'm

thinking it is made of the same material as the heat shield tiles

on the space shuttle except with crusts.  But it holds up the 

bottom of my burger so that's a plus!  That is unless I decide 

to have my two slices with my dippy eggs in the morning 

in which case I a am SOL on my burger.....

  Well enough for now.  I'll probably add more later.  Right now 

it is going on two oclock and if I want to eat at five I have to start

building my salad and thawing my bread.   I wonder just how bad 

a Big Mac and fries would be if nobody caught me eating it?.......