The Unofficial Granola Box Tomato

Behold, the Tye-Dye Tomato from the Burpee seed company. Although I suspect it’s somehow genetically engineered (is that what hybrid means nowadays?) it looks really cool, and probably tastes good too. The Queen of My Universe says their seeds suck… but admits that their marketing is top notch.
I can’t [...]

What I Accomplished on my Seven Day Fast

So in my seventh day of not eating I’m looking around at a dirty house, overgrown lawn and myriad other things which, if not done, will bring chaos and disorder to the universe. I want my food energy back… I want to get up and do normal things again.
I started to [...]

Things People Ask When You’re Not Eating for a Week

A lot of people have been asking me this week why the Queen of My Universe and I are fasting for a week. So here, in no specific order are some of the questions along with unscientifically and likely erroneous answers.
1. WTF?
Fasting is a great way to clean out your system both [...]

Another Liver Flush Weekend

I’m just going to whine today. That’s what I do on Liver Flush weekends… at least for the first part of the weekend. We got an early start on this one by starting Friday. The only restriction the first day is that you can’t have anything with fat in it. This [...]

Food recognition 101: The Backyard

Earlier this week before my surgery one of my last two-handed tasks was to make a very crude map of our small plot of land. This is the time of year when we need to order food bearing trees to plant throughout the yard. But before we ordered trees, we had to have [...]

Liver Flush Part II: Blasting out the Stones

Time was when blasting out the Stones meant playing “Sympathy for the Devil” at high volume in the car. Now at my advanced age it means blasting a whole bunch of little green globs of toxins into the toilet as a result of the latest liver flush.
Last night’s epsom salts and water [...]

Liver Flush Weekend

As part of my revolutionary new taking-care-of-my-body revolution, this weekend I felt like it was time for a liver flush. With all the stress in my life the past few weeks, I’ve been eating like crap.
My wife said people love reading about other people’s liver flushes. So here ya go folks. [...]

The Organic Free Range Egg War is On

Last week I wrote about the beautiful organic eggs from reasonably free range chickens offered in the local grocery store. Now, heaven bless them, Bob and Irv’s now offers THREE different kinds of organic eggs, although not usually at the same time.
I know I’m tainted by regionalism, but I think the [...]

Is an Egg is an Egg is an Egg?

The old me: How can there possibly be a difference between eggs other than some are bigger than others, and some are brown. Obviously the brown ones are healthier, simply because they’re brown. Growing up, we actually had an egg-man. Mr. James used to come every Friday night with a couple [...]

Making Nutritional Amends

People who go through successful 12 Step programs for drug and alcohol addiction usually complete a moral inventory, which details all the terrible things they’ve done throughout their life and then figure out how to make amends to the people they wronged. As I go through the process of changing my nutritional habits, I [...]