81: i'm hungry

it's kinda late for me to be eating but i'm hungry.

i don't like to eat after dark cuz i know it's not really a good practice. but i do it sometimes. i try to eat fruit at those times tho, cuz i know it's easy to digest. except i usually like nuts with my fruit. something about the crunching... it feels good to my teeth, i guess.

so i'm gonna open a can of pineapple tidbits, chop up some watermelon, add a few dashes of pecans, then sprinkle on some good ole oat bran to help it all flush properly.

speaking of flushing, i was reading that edgar cayce book earlier. talk about a man before his time and you're speaking of edgar cayce. his nutritional advice was right on the money. i just happened to skip ahead a few chapters to the good part. i saw something about a 3-day apple fast that will do a body some good. i've gotta do a bit more research on that.

not that i don't think it's legit cuz i do. if a person can totally abstain from food and live, i'm sure eating only apples for a few days won't kill me, right?

hell, i can remember a time when i lived on pure junk food, crap that tasted good but had not an ounce of nutritional value.

before my daughter was born, i was totally anti-salad and i'm not exaggerating. i thought salad looked weird (especially cut tomatoes--yuck!) and tasted worse. i never ate them growing up (even when my custodial parent became a veg-table-terrian) and i didn't eat them as an adult living on my own.

back when i was barely past 20, i got my first full-time admin. job. the organization had an annual holiday party at a local restaurant who's owner was friends with our head honcho. i was excited to be part of such an outing (my first of its kind). i wore my nicest professional-yet-festive clothing and had my hair and make up done just so.

we arrived at the locale cold but jolly. the old timers were talking about how much fun the previous year's "party" had been, how much so-and-so drank, who ate what, etc. not one person mentioned the word "salad".

imagine my shock and surprise when salads were presented to each guest, with our choice of dressings. huh? what the heck did i know about salad dressings? i'll tell you: not a darned thing. i played with mine, twirling my fork in it and making faces at it. somehow everyone noticed that i was the only person not eating it.

i was put on blast and a waiter was summoned. to force feed me salad. it worked too. he was mucho mucho fine and even tho the darned salad was NAS-TEE, i ate every forkful that he fed me while gazing into his beautiful eyes. :-)

after that, it was years before i ate another salad. 10 years, i believe.

now i'm a greens girl. i still don't eat a salad a day but believe me y'all, i know the importance of getting my veggies in. eating a veggie salad (with spinach instead of lettuce) is still my favorite way to get most of my goodies in at one sitting.

actually, i prefer a fruit salad but the green salad is right up there at number one for the veggie side of my list. my fruit salads usually consist of two fruits--pineapple/watermelon, pineapple/strawberries, or watermelon/white seedless grapes--sprinkled with nuts.

my veggie salads pack a lot more nutrition (i hope!) with spinach, cucumber, carrots, mushrooms, a bit of cheese, and italian or balsamic vinegrette dressing.

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