health food
Lovely.
If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that my hippie chick ways come to a screeching halt when it comes to health food. Give me bacon cheeseburgers, cheese fries and a large Coke. And don’t forget the fried dough.
Himself, on the other hand, spent many years as a vegetarian, and even did the macrobiotic bit for a while, which as far as I can tell, involves subsisting on twigs and bark. He knows the lingo, the ingredients … he can COOK it.
So, when I came home from my physical with high blood pressure, I decided a change in diet was in order, and he was just the man to teach me how to improve my diet and therefore, my health. Yes, I KNOW I’m going to have to start exercising too … geez. Cut a girl a break.
So, I stopped at Whole Foods, armed with a grocery list, and picked up a bunch of alien stuff that I’ve never seen before:
- Tempeh, which looks like yesterday’s cat sick.
- Miso, which looks like last week’s cat sick.
- Kale, aka Leafy Green Shit
- toasted sesame seed oil, which was the only faintly recognizable food on the list
Supposedly, these are the raw ingredients of culinary magic.
I’m not buying it.
Where’s my double cheeseburger?!?!?
It sounds like Himself is indispensable for this problem – someone who can cook healthy stuff. I have no culinary skills myself, but I’ve found that 1 or 2 oz. of Worcestershire sauce added to just about anything improves – or at least makes for less bland – tasting stuff.
As an incentive to try for a better diet, do some research on colo-rectal cancer. That should scare the s**t out of anyone if they concentrate.
Hey, be well. The world needs people like you. Peter R.
Thanks, Peter. To add insult to injury, the doctor’s office called my cell on the way home … they forgot to tell me that it’s also time for a colonoscopy (sp?).
Oh joy.
Then there’s the thought that if I quit drinking, smoking, and chasing women, I might not live longer, but it sure would seem like it.
btw, the meal is recorded for posterity on flickr and it was actually quite good, considering. Dark greens are actually tasty if you don’t cook them to total slime.
I don’t do slimy food.
Hah! Congratulations – you have joined a most non-exclusive club, where the only membership requirement is the process of ageing. And as you get older still, “they” have devised more and more ways of assaulting your dignity.
The spelling is correct, and the process is arduous and exhausting (pun intended), but do it. It’s worth the inconvenience to get a heads up (more unfortunate phrasing). Be well PR
KP – Welcome to the club. Kinda s*cks don’t it.
I guess you have two alternatives:
1. follow orders
2. buy a “pill of the hour” case
Greens are great! I love greens! Kale, danbdelion (yes, the stuff that gives those nice yellow flowers), chard, spinach, etc. Unfortunately, the rest of my family hates the stuff… So I tend to hide it in other things (prosciutto-wrapped swiss chard, hidden in tomato sauces). You do need to eat as many colours as possible.