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Week Fifteen Roundup

By John | Published: April 19, 2010

Wow, fifteen weeks. Time is chugging along. This week’s numbers: Waist size is 41 1/2 inches, that’s up an inch from last week, something that I’m going to blame on beer gas. Maybe this week will appear to have a huge drop because of that. We spent $225.93 on food this week. That seems kind […]

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Chickpea, Pork, and Mango Tagine

By John | Published: April 12, 2010

After reading Mark Bittman’s Minimalist column An Expedited Tagine the other day, I thought I would try it myself. The New York Times was kind enough to provide his recipe for Chickpea Tagine with Chicken and Apricots, and I adapted it for myself. I had been going to use a piece of pork that was […]

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Week Fourteen Roundup

By John | Published: April 12, 2010

Here we go, fourteen weeks in and here are the stats: Waist size: 40 1/2 inches, dollars spent this week: $254.77. I actually think that there’s an accounting error and $75 should be attributed to last week, but I’m not trying to be scientific here, so I’ll let that slide. How are things? Generally good. […]

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Sweet, Sweet Honey

By John | Published: April 11, 2010

I went down to Atwater Market today and got some natural, local, unpasteurized, clover honey, then came home and enjoyed really good honey & butter on my bread.

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Pistachios are really good, except…

By John | Published: April 9, 2010

The other day I tweeted “Just hit my gross threshold for the day.” So, what happened? Here’s the answer. I was eating pistachios. They’re a good, healthy, snack. In fact, Dr. Oz says they’re his top high-fiber pick. All was going well until I went to put this nut into my mouth: That’s right, there’s […]

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Business Meetings that Matter

By John | Published: April 9, 2010

I spent yesterday in an all-day meeting/conference type of thing at a corporate office downtown. The invitation said that there would be a light lunch served, so I didn’t bring any food or anything and tried to eat like food matters using what was served. It was surprisingly easy, except for one thing. The easy […]

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Photos of the Amazing Pasta

By John | Published: April 8, 2010

I while ago I posted that we had made an amazing pasta with squid rings, fresh basil, and more. We’ve made it twice since, the second time we made it it wasn’t so amazing, we kind of messed things up, however, last week we made it again and it was even better than the first […]

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Bread-making Continues

By John | Published: April 8, 2010

I’ve continued making bread, improving, (usually), on my original attempt. I’ve discovered that I had started putting too much liquid in the dough, which made the bread overflow the pan as it cooked. there are now oddly-shaped burned chunks of bread on the bottom of my oven. However, there have been some real successes as […]

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Week Thirteen Roundup (a bit late)

By John | Published: April 8, 2010

Well, it’s Thursday and I’m posting information that I wrote down on Monday, and should have posted on Monday. Oops! Anyway, here they are. Monday’s numbers: waist size of 41 inches, (up 1/4 inch – yay easter candy, ham, beans, and also Chinese buffet). Money spent: $152.09, pretty much in line with how things have […]

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Early Spring Gardening

By John | Published: April 2, 2010

One place to get fresh, tasty, and healthy vegetables is from the garden. The apartment where we’ve lived for the past few years has a garden, and I’ve planted vegetables ever since we’ve lived here. We’ve had tomatoes, peas, radishes, potatoes, hot peppers, and more. However, this year we’re moving, so as of July 1 […]

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  • What is Choices That Matter?

    I'm a guy named John, and I do most of the writing around here. I went from a really active lifestyle to a really inactive lifestyle very quickly and my body is noticing. On top of that I'm worried about what's happening to our planet, so, I'm trying to do something about it.

    For Christmas I received the book Food Matters, which I found very interesting and inspired me to start changing. Check out my first post for the beginning of the story.