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Learning to Like Veggies

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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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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“Are you eating meat?”

August 28, 2008 by hollie Learning to Like Veggies

I asked friends and family to look over the blog and give me feedback, and the most common question was, “So are you eating meat, or what?”
At the moment, yes, I’m eating meat. Eventually I’d like to reach a place where I don’t, but making that big of a change right now doesn’t feel realistic [...]

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And so it begins…

August 28, 2008 by hollie Learning to Like Veggies

I’ve wanted to start a food blog for a long time, but I was never sure quite how to begin. Until tonight, when I was sitting at the computer and I suddenly remembered the conversation I used to have as a kid, over and over, with well-meaning relatives and waitresses and cafeteria lunch ladies:
“Why aren’t [...]

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