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I was feeling a little bad for a couple of weeks. Not terrible, just kind of like I was fighting a little virus or something~ bit of a headache, less energy, skin looking bad, vague sense of un-well-ness. After about a week I started thinking, wait a minute, this feels like gluten! But what could it be? My diet has not varied much lately and I rarely eat out and the symptoms were persisting, telling me I was taking it in continually but it seemed in low doses because of how stealthily the…

It's that time of year again, and waking up to the rain this morning confirmed it even more so than the kids climbing aboard the big yellow bus again~ it's fall and soup weather has taken over for the next 9 months. This weekend my soup looked liked this: warmed one chopped yellow onion with olive oil, added a leek, broccoli, carrots, potatoes, and 3 cloves garlic, all chopped into small bits and stirred for a couple of minutes. Then I added a splash of balsamic vinegar and another splash of…

This week there have been three disturbing stories in the news concerning food. Here is the first I heard: Death by Bacon? It basically says that eating red meat every day increases one's risk of all kinds of bad things, such as cancer and heart disease. Is this really news? How many times can that be said and reported and studied (thanks, Harvard, for that…

I have a dilemma that is not exactly worthy of dear Abby, but it bothers me all the same. My younger son eats very few foods and most days doesn't like eating at all. (Can't say I can relate to that!) What he does like is sugar, in any form and lots of it. In fact he's the biggest sugar fiend I've ever seen and he reacts to it too~ gets crazed right away. While at Whole Foods last night, and yes, that is indeed where I spend many a Saturday night, I noticed a new cereal~  it was by…