I have been trying for about a year, I think, to not eat much in the way of sweets. I've also been attempting to stay away from white, refined flour. I'm on the march for nuts and berries. Or I was.
Lately, it's just been too much of a pain to get the nuts and berries together to eat. How many dried apricots, unroasted nuts, and granola can a girl eat before she starts wanting the ambosiac relief that can be found in a box of mac and cheese or on a sandwich with Peter Pan peanut butter instead of the natural stuff. Natural is good, but oh boy, sometimes junk food is better.
I've not been very good about eating lots of whole grains. And eating whole grains really does make me less full of cravings for sweets. And now it's Christmas and there will be cookies and cakes and candies and drinks and sweet tasting breads and brunch and dessert and oh, my. So good.
I'm so happy I haven't stuck to my crunchy diet of sticks and the like. Even twigs were losing their charm. Now I'm really able to appreciate the joys of someone else's holiday baking.
Do I undo all the good I did?
Guess what I vote, my dears.
I vote no.
Posted by dotty at December 23, 2003 11:19 PMBears approve of a diet rich with nuts and berries. Cousin Erin is allergic to wheat gluten so must find alternate starches or forgo altogether. At her wedding she had something like a nut-flour cake. The cake was made out of nuts and not white flour, at least.
Bears applaud your fortitude and forsight as v. fine.
Posted by: Evan Hoester at December 25, 2003 02:13 AM