Dear Yogurt Companies,

I would like to suggest the following recipe for you to add to your prepacked yogurt collections.

1) Take plain, organic, lowfat yogurt, like the type you sell in big containers next to all the cute small yogurts

2) Add strawberries, bananas, or other mushable yogurt-style fruit. Pineapples, peaches, blueberries all come to mind.

3) Do NOT add sugar

4) Do NOT add Splenda

5) Do NOT add ANY sweetener of ANY sort, other than the aforementioned fruit.

6) Sell to me.

It's not that I'm even watching my sugar intake. I just think most prepacked yogurts are too durned sweet. Annoys.

Sorbet companies? A similar recipe applies. Only you can put in SOME sugar... just, put less than you do.

I'd buy that yogurt. Lately, what I've been doing is buying the big containers of plain yogurt, then putting it into a smaller container and adding a handful of frozen fruit (berries or peaches) on top. By lunchtime the next day, the fruit's thawed. Tastes so much better than the packaged yogurt -- it tastes like yogurt and fruit, rather than sugar.

I do that, too, with both frozen and fresh. But it's annoying to have to - sometimes, I'm willing to pay the overpriced cost for the convenience of small, easily accessible yogurts, e.g. when I'm grabbing something to eat in the 20 minutes between classes. The ones that come in little bottles for SUPER convenience, (no spoon required), even more so. But I can't stand to eat any of them more than once in a while.

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But then, it might be that Annabel is self-entertaining. The church nursery workers commented on that this morning -- she's eternally self-entertaining.

She really is. 95% of the time I think it's just grand and wonderful and a sign that Annabel is a solitary, thoughtful type. The other 5% I worry that she's only become this way because I expect her to be and I've really been neglecting her proper linguistic and social development. Which I'm 95% sure is ridiculous, because she is interested in people and things--she just doesn't need constant attention and interaction.

I'm so with you, Gris. It's really annoying when the first or second ingredient is high fructose corn syrup. You'd think some of the nice fancy organic ones would be more into that, but they just use sugar instead, which is better but still not so needed.

I love some of the stuff right now that has less sugar stuff--like Izze soda, or Honest Tea. Still sweet, not "diet", but YUMMY.

Oh Plei, I meant to tell you yesterday, but I missed my window of opportunity. WRT bottles, Franny loved the Avent nipples, although we later found out the bottles had some toxic chemical in them (bisphenol something) so we've switched Isaac to the new evenflo fatty nipple. It's soft and boob-like and he seems to like it. The other good bottle is Dr Brown's, but it has the bisphenol whatevers in it, so you may want to get the Dr Brown knock-off from England, which is called the B Free.

Also, Lily *will* adjust. Babies are smart. Once she figures out that it's the bottle or nothing, she'll figure out hoe to use the bottle.

Edamame for dinner is yummy and healthy.

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Edamame for dinner is yummy and healthy.

Hell yeah, it is! I love edamame with an unholy passion.

It is my new love. I bought three bags of it at TJ's tonight.

Edamame is yummy indeed.

Pictures from reunion, including Jared-the-Subway-guy--my friend wanted a picture with him just for the hell of it, and I encouraged her, because that way I got to say "oh, I'll take the picture!" and keep my dignity. Heheheh.