From the monthly archives:

September 2008

PETA asks Ben & Jerry to use human breast milk. SRSLY.

September 30, 2008 by hollie In The News

I thought this had to be a joke. PETA really wants Ben & Jerry’s to use human breast milk instead of cow’s milk in their ice cream? In fact they do. The press release from PETA states:
“The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a [...]

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Eat to Live update

September 21, 2008 by hollie Learning to Like Veggies

Greg is out taking his walk. He goes for a two mile walk every morning now. He’s stuck to the diet flawlessly, and it shows. He’s lost weight that I can see (although he says it’s only about 4 pounds), and his blood pressure has gone down, from 150/100 to 130/80. I am stunned, and [...]

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Fifteen pounds of pears!

September 18, 2008 by hollie Questions for the Audience

If you had a 15-pound box of rapidly ripening pears, what would you do with them?

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The Mocha Medic

September 16, 2008 by hollie Posts with Photos

A few weeks ago Jason and I took Beth to the local fruit stand, and that’s when we found the best idea in coffee since coffee cake:

As we were driving up, Jason said, “Is that a refurbished ambulance?”, and sure enough, it was. TEN KINDS OF BRILLIANT.
We asked the woman how she got the idea. [...]

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Green Goddess Hummus

September 15, 2008 by hollie Posts with Photos

One of the best ways I’ve found to get veggies, especially greens, into my diet, is to blend them into things. This works with smoothies, and it also works great with dips and spreads. While looking at Fat Free Vegan to find something yummy, I came across a recipe for something called Green Goddess Hummus, [...]

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Greg’s blood pressure inspires us to start Eat to Live (again)

September 14, 2008 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

Back in April of this year, I (just me, not Greg) decided to try Eat to Live, a book and eating plan by Dr. Joel Fuhrman. I wrote about it in my personal blog, Days of Thundercheese:

If I’m eating to live, why do I feel like I’m gonna die?
Reassurances about my six-week experiment
Day 3, in [...]

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My particular sort of eating disorder

September 12, 2008 by hollie Posts with Photos

The last 24 hours demonstrates perfectly an eating problem I’ve had for years. A friend of mine just moved into a new place, and to celebrate, since he’s too far away to visit in person, I thought I’d send him some of my very delicious whole-wheat and barley flour chocolate chip cookies. I started them [...]

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Tweaking the Kale Smoothie

September 9, 2008 by hollie Recipes

A lot of people taste the smoothies I make and think they taste too “green”. I can handle the flavor because I’ve gotten used to it over time. But there are ways to tweak it:

Make sure your fruit is very ripe. Maybe even overripe. You can toss some pretty funky bananas into those things, and [...]

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Kale smoothies FTW

September 8, 2008 by hollie Posts with Photos

I know what you’re thinking, believe me, I do. If someone told me ten years ago that I’d someday be enjoying smoothies made from kale, I’d have told them they were a couple bulbs short of a box, and they needed professional help.
But here it is, in all its considerable non-glory:
Hollie’s Favorite Kale Smoothie
3 C [...]

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Hee hee

September 4, 2008 by hollie Hahaha

At dinner tonight, the kids didn’t want to eat their green beans. Admittedly they weren’t the best beans, they were from one of those microwave steam packs that seem to work great with corn but not so great with other vegetables. Still, it was either that or having nothing with our Orange Chicken (Trader Joes!) [...]

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