the guy called grapes "Nature's candy."

Hands up everyone whose mind immediately filled in the rest of the scene from that one episode of Daria here.

(HITLER ate chocolate!)

Also, dates are natures candy. Grapes are delicious but hardly candy like. Though I’ve had some that are supposed to be super sweet and they are very weird.

Went to the dermatologist! She barely glanced at my skin it seemed, but pronounced me without any troublesome looking spots. So yay that, checked off the list!

I'm sorry to hear that, sj, I had one of those last week. They suck.

I just leave cilantro and parsley out of anything I cook, and it's all good.

We've been getting Cook Unity prepared meals as my methadone for all the ordering out and not cooking I did the first quarter. It's really good and not too pricey, on balance. Problem I forsee is that they have a limited number of low fat recipes, and that is, sadly, what I need for my effed up system, so I'll probably get bored. But, it's surprisingly good!

But that's OK, because the next step is to start making my own stuff again. Baby steps.

There's a B. Dylan Hollis video about making Date Cream; he holds up a date and says something about "if you've never had a date, I'm sorry, you must be very lonely"

And I'll substitute parsley or mint for cilantro, but it's mildly annoying, since a good portion of the population can't tolerate cilantro. why not suggest the substitution?

I need to go back to cooking from scratch, since at this point most of my diet is over processed. sigh ....

I've decided to have a burrito for lunch because always choose burrito and now I'm vaguely wondering if it will be ultra processed or merely processed.

I have a whole list of things I need to do and I convinced myself I couldn’t do any of it until I managed a shower. And of course I couldn’t get myself in the shower. I finally showered but with only enough time to get dressed and get in the pick up line for ltc, where I am right now, but at least I’m not late for pick up? The other night ltc was telling me she hates her brain, and today is one of the days I hate mine too.

A restaurant near me used to have DUCK FAT FRIED DATES with labne on their menu. They were SO DELICIOUS, but you could get a heart attack by just looking at them.

Tom, that sounds amazing.

The thing is that cutting meat off the bone (plus disarticulating the body to begin) and cutting vegetable is processing food. Cooking? Totally processing. So ultraprocessed food is pretty rare and has been since at least Neanderthal and Denisovian times.

So maybe we need some way to differentiate between a Sausage McMuffin with Egg (And I love me a SMcMw/E. I got one on a recent road trip but they forgot the egg which is a crime. The least processed part of the mess. I was sad.) and applesauce.

all in the group chat.

You are my hero.

because always choose burrito

Words to live by.