Everyday Systems

My mother was diagnosed with high blood pressure when I was really young, so I pretty much grew up eating and cooking without extra salt, and with low-sodium ingredients (such as they were, in the 70s and 80s; there are a lot more of them now, thank goodness). I've had a problem with things tasting ...

I used to take rice bowls for lunch when I worked full-time. I'd steam several servings of brown rice at the beginning of the week and put them in individual bowls in the refrigerator. For work, I'd just take one and add stuff. For example:

- broccoli florets, cauliflower, shaved carrots, etc. with ...

I lurked for a long time before joining too. I had kind of forgotten about the site until the book started getting mentioned on about a million blogs. :-)

But then I read a blurb about the book in the same post that mentioned some truly ridiculous things like the alternate-day diet (you eat ...

Breakfast is actually harder for me than any other meal because for YEARS my breakfast has been a bowl of cereal (usually Shredded Wheat & Bran, but occasionally Kashi or Raisin Bran if there's a good sale at the grocery store) with lowfat milk. Unfortunately, that's not really enough to get me ...

Without a doubt, the Shangri-La Diet. You'd think that something you hear about on NPR would be a little less STUPID, right?

Also, when I was in sixth grade, my mother put us both on something that I think was a precursor to the Cabbage Soup Diet. It was disgusting. The vegetable drink (it was a ...