3/17/2010

Happy St. Patrick's day, though I really don't understand why we Americans celebrate it.  But what the fuck!  It's an excuse to drink and we all know we need more of those!  You do know that St. Patrick was not Irish, nor was his name Patrick?... but as usual, I digress.  Oooh, one more thing, for any Vegan's out there, along with milk (most commercial milk is fortified with vitamin D which is synthesized from pork skin) ) and U.S.  Paper Currency (it has hide glue in it) you can't drink Guinness either.  Isinglass is used in the production of it, though only trace amounts remain.

We did find an all natural corned beef without nitrites but it looked like shit, so we went with an organic flank steak, grilled over natural lump charcoal (never use lighter fluid, even if you are eating over processed hot dogs, never use lighter fluid, it ruins the taste of anything cooked over it) with grilled radicchio, red onions and red peppers.  Damn, that was a good meal!  One last thing about grilling or barbecuing;  Go buy a Big Green Egg!  Yes they are expensive but worth every penny and then some!  We have had ours for over a decade and it is still going strong.  We have a Lynx gas grill that is one of the best gas grills out there, however it goes mostly unused, save for the side burner which we use to boil corn in the summer.

A few of you have asked me about "sprouted grain" breads.  "Are they as good as regular bread?"  No, but they are not bad either.  Ezekiel 4:9 is not bad at all.  Sprouted refers to the fact that the seeds or grains have begun to sprout before being made into bread.

Several people have also inquired into the whole water intake thing.  I have to admit I quit keeping track of exactly how many ounces I am drinking per day.  I do know that it is a boatload!  At least 125 ounces.  I do pee a lot through out the day but oddly, I do not wake up during the night to pee as I did when drinking a lot of beer.  Water does curb your appetite.  You probably have read that, often when you feel hungry you are actually thirsty.  They might be onto something there.  I'm not sure I'd drink tap water, my own tap water sucks!  I could not stand the smell of the chlorine when taking a shower.  We installed a whole house water filtration system, long before this eating experiment.  Now it tastes as good as the best bottled water.  It is something you should look into.

I noticed an odd thing last night while suckling at the teet of the boob tube; when a fast food or chain restaurant commercial came on, I thought to myself  "God how much shit is in that"?  Just a week and a half into this whole eating healthy thing and already I see my mindset changing.

Eat, Drink and be Healthy my Friends!

Until the next post...

Bald Bill