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Food for I heard that we shouldn’t eat meal is not easy. We also like to
brown rice for fear of arsenic eat in restaurants where we can
Thought poisoning. We had switched from have a conversation without yelling
white rice to brown in order to be over the din of screaming kids
by Valerie Nusbaum healthier. What am I supposed to and background music. Randy
serve with my burritos and stir fry wanted to take me out to dinner a
It is said that “the way to a man’s Multiply your weight by 13. This now? while back, and he wanted to try
heart is through his stomach.” I number applies whether you’re not that new barbecue place down on
believe this idea was fabricated by exercising at all or only working out I was told by my gynecologist North Market Street, so we went
a group of men whose wives or moderately for an hour or less. If that I shouldn’t eat so much chicken to Carrabba’s. The barbecue joint
girlfriends refused to cook. This you’re exercising more heavily, add because chickens are fed estrogen. had a line of people waiting for
month, I have a few thoughts on the 100 to 200 calories per additional At my age, one would think that tables. We don’t wait for tables. We
topic of eating well. hour of exercise. If I subscribe consuming some estrogen wouldn’t were very distressed to read that
to that theory, I should consume necessarily be a bad thing. So, am I Carrabba’s restaurant in Frederick
I do most of the cooking at our around 1,650 calories on any given now supposed to make beef burritos had closed its doors. Why is it
house for several reasons: I’m home day. You’re sitting there right now and stir fry? There’s also some that when you find a good place
more than Randy, I’m faster in the doing the multiplication, aren’t you? reason why I can’t eat soy, but I to eat, either the menu gets “new
kitchen than my husband, and I Does that mean, though, that if I can’t remember what it is. Goodbye and improved” or it goes out of
like to know what I’m putting in burn 500 calories on the treadmill, hot and sour soup? business?
my body. I try to feed us healthy, I can then eat 500 more calories?
tasteful food, but that’s getting That’s half of a double chocolate Eggs are a controversial subject, We were trying to figure out what
harder all the time. The age-old doughnut, and I’d like to know the too. They’re a great source of to have for dinner the other evening.
question of “What can I make for answer. Anyone? protein, and the yolks are high in Randy said that he’d see if we had
dinner?” often comes back to bite cholesterol. This reminds me of a can of soup in the pantry, and we
me where I sit. There are so many things we the egg poacher my mom had. It could have soup and grilled cheese
can’t eat any more. A new study was a neat little plastic cup that sandwiches. I told him that we
Randy doesn’t balk at cooking. says that we shouldn’t consume held an egg, and Mom put it in her couldn’t have sandwiches, because
He does all the grilling at our house, Splenda because it can raise insulin microwave for a specified amount we’d had pancakes for breakfast
and he makes breakfast on the levels, which may cause diabetes, of time and took out a perfectly and croutons on our salads at
weekends. His waffles are delicious, but we shouldn’t eat sugar either poached egg. I mentioned that lunch. And I reminded him about
and, no, they are not previously because that can give us diabetes, Randy might like one. Mom got one the doughnut he’d forced me to eat.
frozen. If I’m sick, he pitches or make us fat, which will give us for him for Christmas. He tried it We’d already had way too many
right in. Still, most of the meal diabetes. There always seems to be and it blew up in the microwave. carbs that day, so no more bread.
planning and grocery lists are on my a new study, contradicting whatever There was egg everywhere. The He looked at me blankly and said,
shoulders. the old study has been telling us. directions instructed Randy to cook “Well, that’s silly. Then it’s just soup
Can someone tell me which one is his egg for 1.5 minutes. Mom said and cheese.”
According to some expert, here’s correct? she probably should have told us to
a formula for how many calories cook it for 35 seconds. Probably.
a person should consume in a day.
With all the recipe substitutions I
make so that we can have healthier,
lower-fat food with fewer carbs,
the resulting dish hardly resembles
what it started out to be. Factor in
the things we’re allergic to or just
plain don’t like, and we’re living on
lettuce and broccoli. But, wait, not
too much of those either, because
they can cause our blood to either
thicken or thin—I forget which.

We go out to eat a couple of
times each week, but finding places
where we can get a delicious,
health-conscious and lower-calorie

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