When fall comes around, pumpkin gets all the press, thanks mainly to Starbucks and their sugar laden, calorie infested Spice latte drinks.  Don’t get me wrong, I love pumpkin, just not from a coffee shop spiked with enough sugar to kill an elf pulling a double shift in that North Pole sweatshop.  There are other winter squashes […]

I have a plethora of childhood memories centered around being held hostage at the dinner table, arms crossed, locked in a staring contest at an ever colder growing pile of some green mush, refusing to eat it.  I’m not sure why my parents had this occasional line in the sand forcing me to eat some […]

Diets, I think we can all agree, are stupid.  We’ve all been there.  We get fed up with our current state of being, declare loudly “That’s it, I’m never eating again” and then go on some crazy restrictive diet that cuts out your favorite foods and has you chomping on raw celery and plain tuna […]

Halloween marks the beginning of the truly scary season.  Not because of ghosts, goblins, or creatures that annoyingly go bump in the night when I just want a few hours of uninterrupted sleep…I’m looking at you, cats.  No, Halloween is terrifying because that’s the start of Eating Season.  Truth be told, most people treat every day […]

Taking foods I once enjoyed and remaking them into something decidedly more healthy – that’s how I manage to maintain the weight loss that I set out to achieve seven years ago. It’s a sustainable strategy for life, versus losing weight on a strict, plain chicken breast-and-broccoli diet or like-minded plan – which eventually people […]

Let’s face it, people in general are stupid. It’s been proven that all you have to do to convince the masses that a lie is the truth is just keep repeating it. How outlandish, improbable, or transparently made up the falsehood may be does not matter. Every two-bit con man, grifter, or politician knows the […]