I put out a Costco Cheeto to see how he liked it. I did not expect him to react like this.
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New federal guidelines insist that we should “Eat real food.” I could not agree more.
A couple of months ago, I stopped at a beverage store to pick up some beer for a social event. I was in a hurry, and picked up non-alcoholic beer by mistake. Fortunately, there was a recovering alcoholic in the group, so it didn’t go to waste, but that stuff should come with an obvious warning label.
I am a recent convert to the coffee club. I keep it simple, but understand why the more sophisticated might grind their own beans or use a more exotic brewing method. I don’t understand the point of decaffeinated coffee. That’s like having chocolate without cocoa.
While in the camper today, I was reminded that the wood stove is a campfire in a box. I grabbed the pie iron, but waited until Sparky had eaten dinner to make a pie with apple pie filling and a chunk of dark chocolate.
Sparky doesn’t beg or whimper for food, or try to snatch it. His polite and courteous manner makes him unbearably sympathetic.
I don’t blame him, Sparky lives in the moment.
I made a batch of cocktail meatballs yesterday. Since it’s Thanksgiving, I gave Sparky a meatball this morning after his morning toilet. He isn’t even done licking the juice off of his snout, when he is wondering what I’ve done for him lately.
For decades, every Thanksgiving, one of NPR’s founding mothers, Susan Stamberg, would give her “Mama Stamberg’s Cranberry Relish” recipe. It wasn’t interesting, but like a batty aunt telling a boring story about the time her husband wore bowling shoes to Christmas mass, she retells the story every year. Everybody feigns interest, and nobody complains, because it’s your batty aunt, and she’s earned the privilege
Two things have changed since last year.
Effect of cocoa flavanol supplementation for the prevention of cardiovascular disease events,
I’ve been buying this nutritional supplement from Aldi for years.
Cocoa extract supplementation did not significantly reduce total cardiovascular events among older adults but reduced CVD death by 27%.
Finally, nutritional science has some good news. The study looks legit.
The study was conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital. There were 12,666 women over 65 years old, and 8776 men over 60 years old in a double-blind, placebo controlled study. A 27% reduction in death by cardiovascular disease is substantial.
It’s apple picking time, and Sparky isn’t excited. Sparky is concerned for my safety because I am climbing a ladder wearing crocs.
While making split pea soup, I’m watching The Conjuring. The movie is super-creepy. A carrot this twisted, may be possessed by an entity who once walked the Earth, but not in human form. The movie doesn’t specifically mention demonically possessed vegetables, but why take chances?
Sparky has every reason to think that good things are coming his way. Poor dog, it’s not going to work out this time.