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Pistachios are really good, except…

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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Too Much Pre-Prepared Food

It seems that we have taken the pre-preparation of food a bit too far this week. We made a huge pot of chili, (mostly vegetarian, with just a bit of chopped-up steak in there for flavour), and some Bacon-Potato soup, (inspired by soup of the same name at Tim Hortons – I’m still perfecting the […]

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Breakfast

So far I’ve mostly written about dinners, so I’m going to mention my breakfast today. First, it was good. It was oatmeal. I filled my oatmeal with dried blueberries, dried currants, and walnuts before I cooked it, then I cooked it in the microwave, then added a banana and some soy milk. I really enjoyed […]

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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.