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Hi Folks,
I don't like just fading away. Silly as it sounds, it seems...rude, somewhat disrespectful to you folks. You have all been great online buddies. With that in mind, I am letting you know I am taking a break. I just am not able to keep up with everything right now, and meeting you folks here is taking a back seat to other things.
I hope to check back in with you folks in the future and hear about all the wonderful things happening to everyone.
Here's to healthy eating,
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Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! Working a long middle today, but it's not supposed to be quite as hot as it's been earlier in the week.
Spent a big chunk of time yesterday working on name change, some done online, some via phone call, some requiring submission of copies of papers. Most are being quite reasonable about it as it's just adding a hyphen and appending J's last name to mine, but some are still insisting on all the legal paperwork, which I suppose I shouldn't complain about as it IS more secure.
Dishwasher is going now.
Later gators!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Saturday! Working a short middle today, and need to get a small half ham into a slow cooker before leaving, so it will be all done for sandwiches for a few days. I guess I'll mix up some kind of glaze for it, but a light one. It shouldn't really need anything but being heated.
I need to water indoor plants today too, before I go.
But first, finish this tea.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! Again, already! I have a long middle today, but will spend most of it in the air conditioned comfort of my kiosk.
Need to go eat some ham now and get this big crock pot of beans going with the ham broth from yesterday's ham cooking.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Working NOT AT ALL today, but do need to run by the bank with some papers. Right now I need to eat some ham for breakfast.
My bean soup yesterday came out absolutely delicious and there IS some leftover, naturally, for additional deliciousness.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Closing tonight, and it's a short shift. There is a decent chance of thunderstorms though.
Not much else on the agenda for today.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Working a long middle today. Not much else on. Lilo said NO SLEEPING IN this morning.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! No work for FOUR glorious days, but we are going camping this weekend.
Breakfast today was tomato and roasted red pepper soup, with some cheese and crackers. No clue what lunch will be as yet.
I need to water all the indoor plants soon.
The name (change) game is still going on. One bank seems to have gotten it ALMOST right but has omitted the hyphen for a space, which would not be showing the correct last name. I sent a note to customer service and hopefully they can correct that without my having to visit the branch again. It was a 25 minute discussion and paperwork when I went on Monday and the guy assured me that the hyphen was in the system even though it seemed to be missing in some places on the paperwork...
But my legal last name is S...-M... now, not S... M..., which would look like my last name is actually M... so I hope they can get that fixed.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! No work today, but need to get all the food prepped for the Lilo and the treats for both cats, etc, before we leave. Ariel's food is on an automatic feeder.GardenKatGardens wrote: »Ed, 4 days off!! Great! Camping in the mountains I hope, too hot down here in the lower levels!
Was your Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper made by Pacific? I used to love that soup in the winter!!
Sorry about the name issues. Don't you just 'love' incompetence. I think I'd be looking for that guy, and let him fix it again.
Camping IS indeed in the mountains, or at least hills. Don't know that we have anything around here I'd call actual mountains.
The bank responded to my online query saying they'd fixed the problem but I still don't see the hyphen online. I'll wait and see if the credit cards and check books look correct before I complain any more...and then it WILL be in person.
I don't even want to think about getting the name change fixed with the pharmacies and insurance...hopefully the retirement office will take care of all that, or at least most of it.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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For those pondering updating to Windoze...er Windows 10, well, if you are on 8 I'd say do it as 10 beats 8 out, but it's still Windows...I'm on it now in a virtual machine. I played with some of the preview builds as I like to keep my hand in, and then got the full upgrade when available, but am glad I didn't have to pay for the upgrade...I'll still stick to my Macbook mostly I think.
No windows were harmed in the posting of this message, though it was posted using Google Chrome, from my virtual machine, running Windows 10.
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Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! We've been back from the hills for some time. Not quite to the mountains but close. Hilly enough that after walking the trails Friday and Saturday, my calves are KILLING me.
We've been back since about 11:15 or so but I got busy doing most of the laundry from the trip, along with putting things away and taking a good, long nap with my precious Lilo! There is still some laundry left but I think it will wait until another day. The bulk of it is finishing in the dryer now.
Back to work tomorrow. Bleah.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Working a long middle today. Yesterday I got the bulkiest part of the laundry done after we got back. I guess I'll finish up with that tomorrow.
Wednesday maybe I can go and work on getting my replacement drivers license.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Lilo has been fed. I need to get the rest of the laundry done today, and suspect that D left some of his junk in there. I distinctly told him to clear the laundry but he tends to hear things, acknowledge them and then promptly get distracted by a shiny squirrel and forget. If his stuff is still there, he'll find it ... somewhere...maybe.
Lilo has been fed and my kielbasa is nearly blackened enough for my taste, so that, and a sweet Georgia peach and a little bit of pepperjack will be breakfast.
Lator, gaters!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! I've been up for a LONG time but busy getting Lilo fed, getting Clyde to the vet to be altered, getting Bonnie medicated, getting me to the doctor so they could pull enough blood to clone me, then finding food and then getting to the department of driver services to get my new drivers license ordered.
Busy morning! Clyde should be ready to come home this afternoon, all going well.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Home made vegan pasta e fagioli for dinner. Must be good as J is on his second helping and says that it's really good! I, of course, had one small bowl...and I thought it was pretty good myself.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! Working a 5 hour middle today in the middle of scattered thunderstorms. Nothing much else on the agenda though.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
GardenKatGardens wrote: »Tell how you made the pasta e fagioli, please? I found this strange sauce 'Vegan Cheese Sauce" at the Midtown WH yesterday. I opened it and it tastes pretty good. It does have a list of ingredients, but no other info on it...makes me think it was made at Whole Foods... and in my Wednesday charge thru Publix they had Publix pasta on sale for a buck a box, so I got 3. I was almost out of penne, and had been wanting a cold farfalle salad, etc.....
Have been missing cheese for awhile, and if J thought your fagioli was good, I'd love to give it a try!
Well, I started out with about 5 or 6 cups of vegetable broth, into which I put some finely chopped spinach, some diced carrots (maybe...half a cup? More if you like a lot of carrots in your dish), some Italian seasoning, Spike seasoning, a little black pepper, just a LITTLE bit of salt as the broth was already salted. Then I added some minced onion and garlic (I really don't measure any of this stuff. LOL.) and a generous shake of red pepper flakes for some heat, a good shake (maybe half a tablespoon) hot Hungarian paprika along with about a quarter cup of extra virgin olive oil. Added some white kidney beans (cannellini? beans - heck this is one of those "use what I have" dishes and any bean really is fine, whatever you have on hand and like - my "usual" recipe actually calls for pink beans) and cooked it all for a while to get the carrots and beans done. Added some elbows as I didn't happen to have any ditalini, which is what I usually use in this dish and cooked it until the elbows were pretty well at the consistency I wanted and then stirred in a small can of tomato sauce, mixed it in thoroughly, brought it back to a boil, checked seasoning and adjusted a little, and served it.
I made it a bit hotter, spicewise, than most people do, I think, but J likes it that way and so do I. Since I had plenty of spice in the mix already I omitted the optional spiced olive oil drizzle on top. It didn't need it and I felt it had enough oil in the dish as made.
If he ever gets up from his nap I'm baking him some mozzarella sticks for appetizer and reheating the last of the pasta e fagioli for his dinner.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! Welcome back Millie.
Working a long middle today, but the rain is supposed to be mostly over so that may be a plus. It's not supposed to be quite as hot today, which is a definite plus! Only 88 expected for the high in my area. I'll take that over 98 anytime.
I need to get J up so he can help medicate the sugar gliders. Bleah.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! We have orchid judging photography this afternoon, and then a party this evening. I need to make black beans and rice (vegan) in between but I think I can manage that...the hosts are providing Cuban sandwiches but J won't eat that, and guests are providing sides and chips and such, so I am making sure to bring something for the other half that is tasty and has no meat. Potato salad would have been a good option too, especially if I added lots of eggs, but I don't think I have time to make that in such a short window.
Needless to say, he enjoyed the last of the pasta e fagioli for dinner the other night, though he did say that with the mozzarella sticks appetizer he felt rather stuffed.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! Working a five hour middle today, so it shouldn't be too bad.
Got a little grocery shopping to do after working.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
GardenKatGardens wrote: »Meanwhile since I was very near Whole Foods, I went there after lunch, and picked up my non-GMO corn, and a box of seitan, and my "I've been to Whole Foods Vegan Chocolate Chocolate chip cookie" Sorta my 'reward' for not spending the entire bank acct.
I think I'll make a Walmart run shortly, its that or a nap. I am in need of my Sobe Water. And afraid if I wait and go tomorrow, there won't be any. May not be any today, but its worth the trip to check it out. And then it WILL be dinner time, and sleep will come soon after!
So goes my day.
Oh, lunch was at a Mediterranean place, and I had a really good falafel wrap. It was good! Could only eat half of it, so I think it will be lunch again tomorrow, and dinner tonite will be the seitan stirfry that I cooked last night.
So, no cooking til.....
Ed, hope your shift has gone well....I'd guess a few peeps pump gas for the coming week? Hope your shopping goes as well as mine did today. I made it out of WF for less than $30 bucks!!! Miracles do happen!!
Shift went well enough. I thought it might storm but it blew over.
Groceries...well, for me less than $30 at Whole Wallet...er, Whole Foods, would be a miracle! This was a pretty major grocery run, which I don't often do as I'm at Kroger several times a week and it's easy to buy just a few things at a time, but today was nearly $90! At Kroger! I did get quite a bit of stuff though, so I don't feel like I really overspent. And I got myself a really rare treat. One package of fresh, HOT, spicy, Italian sausage links, which did contribute to my dinner and probably will contribute to breakfast and lunch tomorrow. I cooked the whole package at dinner so the remaining links just need to be warmed up in the microwave. I can't even remember the last time I bought a package of something like that so it is, indeed, a rare treat. I have some lamb chops and ground lamb thawing in the refrigerator to make use of a little later in the week.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! No work today, but I do have orchid society meeting tonight, so at some point I need to slice up the cheeses and summer sausage for that, and might do some laundry too, but somewhere in the day I foresee a nap with Lilo!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Working a 5 hour middle today, which shouldn't be too bad. I do get the regular Kroger discount for using the Kroger card, and the employee discount of 10% off all Kroger brand (and there are several Kroger brands) products. Needless to say, I buy mostly Kroger brand products when I can, unless there is some compelling reason to buy the name brand of the same type product, like maybe a coupon that makes it even cheaper or maybe I just think, for once, that the name brand is actually better...
Sometimes around holidays they'll have a brief, several day period where employees get 20% off on Kroger branded products. So if it's Kroger, and on sale, and you get an additional 20% off, that can be a really good deal!
I do wish there was an Aldi that was convenient to me. I used to shop there often in Memphis. You need to bring your own bags or boxes (or buy theirs for a small fee) and you have to bag/box your own groceries. You also need a quarter to "rent" the shopping cart, but you do get that quarter back when you put the cart back into the rack and lock it back into place. I think this is an excellent idea as it reduces the number of carts out in the lot to pretty much ZERO as the type of people who want to save money at Aldi also are the type that will get that quarter back!
Their produce is sometimes great and sometimes so-so, and there can be long lines at the checkout. Why build a store with 5 checkout counters and never open more than one or two (usually only one)? Beats me. Maybe they are hoping for even greater business at some future point and the cashflow to hire more people.
Most of the products are NOT name brand but are some Aldi brand. Clancy's (really Aldi) for the chip type snacks, Happy Farms or something like that for the dairy. L'Oven Fresh for the bread and baked goods. I forget what all. At a glance you'll just think they are "off" brands that you never heard of but when you read the fine print, 99% of the stuff they sell is manufactured by (and distributed by) Aldi, though they do make up clever "brand" names that often sound somewhat similar to the real name brands. There is usually only one size of a product, and only the one (Aldi) brand so you don't have to waste time deciding which brand or size to buy. They've already researched that and only produce/stock the one most popular size.
And once in a while they must get a great deal on a name brand because they might have REAL Oreo cookies or some such for a brief time in the store.
Staples tend to be always available there but I found that "specialty" items would come and go. I'd find some really great frozen dish or food that I loved and buy a few and then after a couple of weeks (or sometimes days) it would disappear and never be seen again. So if it's not a staple and you never saw it before, don't fall in love with it because it might not be back. And buy as much as you think you'll want on that trip before it disappears!
I found that most all the Aldi branded products were quite acceptable to me, but sometimes walked in and saw the line and just said "forget it' and went on home or to Kroger...
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Working a semi-long middle today. Not much else on the agenda.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! Have to see one of the doctors today. Maybe they'll show me how well my clone is growing.
Other than that, get some boneless, country style, pork ribs into a slow cooker with a little water and ponder side dishes. These came pre-seasoned with lemon pepper seasoning, which I've never tried on pork but I've found it to be acceptable on chicken (though not a favorite) so they should be fine. It's not a combination I would necessarily have chosen but they were in the manager's special bin, since the sell by date was yesterday, and I bought them on the 11th. I figured at that low price I could give them a try. If I love them, I may try deliberately seasoning some that way in the future!
At some point I'll probably need to take J to pick up his vehicle, and if there's a space in there for a nap, that may be in the books too!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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My doctor said ALL my numbers looked great! Cholestero (total and good/bad ratio) were great, triglycerides were normal, A1C was 63 (I'd like to get that lower, but that's acceptable - we'll see what my endo thinks) and basically keep doing whatever I'm doing! And he says he wishes I could come in and talk to some of the "younger" patients and help teach them that they can't just keep pretending that taking their meds for their conditions is optional!
Well, maybe when they go blind or worse...but let's hope it doesn't come to that!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's finally Friday! Short middle today, and hopefully it will be nice and easy...my right arm is really sore from the pneumovax shot yesterday. But at least now I'm all caught up on my "over 50" vaccinations. I keep telling them I'm only 39 but they don't listen and insist on all this folderol.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! Working a semi-long middle today. I need to water the indoor stuff too.
Later, gators!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! Closing tonight, a relatively short shift. Sunday closings are usually not too busy. Usually. There are always exceptions, but I hope tonight isn't one.
Had some pulled pork for breakfast with barbecue sauce. If I'd added rice it would have been a lot like that old NS dish (though the NS dish was beef) but I always found the NS dish a bit too strong on some flavor that I wasn't totally fond of. Never did identify exactly what that was, and I did enjoy it on occasion.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Working a long close tonight, and it's supposed to be stormy but maybe that will cut into business.
Meanwhile, for your Monday enlightenment, here's a piece I wrote for Facebook this morning:
Why do I NOT GET UPSET when I read articles with scary headlines like
"500 Other Foods Besides Subway Sandwich Bread Containing Yoga Mat Chemical
Your grocery store shelves are crawling with them."
Because it's usually (not always, but USUALLY) someone getting upset (or just trying to create news where there isn't any) about something that's NOT A PROBLEM AND NEVER WAS. Many ingredients in food also have non-food uses. Vinegar and baking soda are used for cleaning. Just because an ingredient has a non-food use does not mean that the ingredient is dangerous if found in food. So the "yoga mat chemical" that is found in food? Meh...
Case in point. I could write a VERY SCARY article about ... let's say... a chemical commonly found in many de-icing products and also used in many industrial processes and even in exfoliants and shampoo. SODIUM CHLORIDE.
COMMON CHEMICAL DE-ICER FOUND IN FOOD!
Did you know that SODIUM CHLORIDE is in the large majority of the foods and drinks you consume?
Yes, a chemical that is made from caustic SODIUM and CHLORINE (yes, the same chlorine found in BLEACH) is in almost all the foods that you eat and most of the beverages you drink.
This same chemical compound is used in many de-icing products, many industrial processes, such as making tires and drilling for oil, and is also found in shampoos, exfoliants and many other non-food items!
Whatever you had for lunch, it's very likely that you ingested some sodium chloride! Sodium! Chlorine! And you ate and/or drank it!
Sodium chloride has long been know to cause water retention and has been implicated in high blood pressure in humans, though studies on the latter are still being conducted.
The food industry is very clever in hiding this potentially lethal ingredient in the products you buy and consume. They will often list this as something that sounds innocuous, like salt, but it's really sodium chloride, and is often found in staggering amounts in the foods you eat!
Write your congressman TODAY and demand more regulation on sodium chloride in food! Why hasn't the FDA done something about this?
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0
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