Food

What foods have I processed recently, and how? D cut many pears, from the food bank, into twelfths, used one orange to squeeze juice over them in the bowl, then dried them in the food dehydrator. Dried pear strips to carry on the road! Bananas went in food dryer also, subjected to the same orange juice treatment. Sometimes bananas go in with a final dusting of powdered cinnamon. Or chocolate with hot pepper in it.

We mixed up the following recipe for granola:
6 cups rolled oats (could be any rolled grains) (toasted in the oven on 350 degrees F until lightly browned)
3 cups seeds or nuts (sunflower seeds, wheat germ, almonds, cashews) (also toasted separately, watch the wheat germ, it BURNS easily)
1 cup dried fruit
2 teaspoons powdered cinnamon
All gets mixed in a gallon jar, and eaten with milk, nut milk, coconut milk, or yogurt over it.

Sugar, AGAIN.

I am waiting in line at the food bank. I have arrived very early, in hopes of a good supply of vegetables. Lately, I have mostly gotten potatoes and onions. Wonderful for soup, but I want to make pasta salad, and potato salad, as it is too warm for cooking during the day. As the line-up gets longer, a staff member comes out with a basket, to offer us a treat. How kind, a lollipop. They would never offer a beer, or a rum and coke, or even cocaine, for that matter. But sugar, well, we all know we should eat less sugar, but, after all, it is just a little sucker, and you can "just say no". Just say no, when I am currently feeling food deprived, panicky over money, stressed into immobility. Yesterday, I ended my day by eating half a bag of chocolate-peanut butter chips, and readimg an entire book, partly to escape the heat, partly in a sugar-abetted state of non-functionality. Just say no, to my daughter, from thousands of miles away, calling the local cupcake shop, and ordering me a cupcake for Mothers Day, wanting to give me SOME sort of treat. Just say no to the dancer offering me her trust, along with one of her favorite candy bars. Just say no to the enormous selection of sweet goodies at the food bank, offered as treats. "You don't do sugar, well, we have diabetic goodies, with no sugar". But lots of chemicals. In our evolution, sweets and meat were difficult to get. Grains and vegetables were easy to acquire, and grain stores easily. An untrained harvester can harvest enough grain for two weeks in a half day of harvesting. Vegetables for one person for one meal can be harvested in thirty minutes, and in many climates, there were vegetables of some kind available all year. Fruit was easy to get, but more limited in season, and harder to store. Sweets and meat were MUCH less available. None of us are adapted to enormous quantities of sweets, and very few of us are adapted to enormous quantities of meat. Our bodies are hard-wired to crave the energy we can get from sweets. Sugars in fresh fruits are in balance with fiber and nutrients. Dried or juiced fruits have a different balance between sugars, fiber, moisture, and nutrients, and should be eaten in limited quantities.

Solving the same problem over again

So, how DID I manage to post from the cell hone, before. I shall leave the instruction here, so I can find them, as I couldn't remember WHAT I HAD DONE. Go my blog, go to the web-version, new post, then use HTML to compose the new post.

Succes?

Oh. In the continuing battle to be able to post from the cell phone, have I finally achieved success? Yes, I have! I've been battling this since late January! Mostly sitting out on the front porch, where I can get a strong enough signal to get online. (I can't always even send texts from inside the house.) And of course, sitting on a porch in January, etc, is COLD. And I still believe that there are vacuum tubes in all these electronics. They vacuum out all of your heat! And I get so focused on TRYING TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS, and trying to remember where which set of information was, that I forget to rationally keep track of how cold I am getting. But I have conquered! Now, I can ramble on, whenever I want to. Next goal will be to post pictures directly from the camera, to my blog. Wish me perseverance!