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So, I had to read a little about this and see exactly how alkaline this alkaline water really is. 8.8 -- is that correct? Our tap water is a bit higher than that. We live in the Central US, where we have limestone-based soils. Over millenia, that leads to water that's a bit....alkaline. A few years, an Extension Master…

I'm just chuckling here, because back in the day, when us girls had to take Home Ec in middle school, our first "cooking lesson" was spreading peanut butter on apples and bananas and setting them on a plate. Geeze, I was already making lasagne in 7th grade, and here I was, getting graded for spreading peanut butter on…

Detox isn't necessary and can make you feel awful while you're doing it. Don't bother. Ditch the supplements too. That's all marketing gimmickery. Your liver and kidneys cleanse your system 24/7. That's what you have them for. So eat, eat healthy, and enjoy your meals. So-called detoxed aren't doing anything your body was…

Amanda is right. Stay within your calorie goal and don't fuss about the sugars unless, like me, you need to watch them closely.

I am in horticulture. There are no more nutrients in organics than in non-organics. The science is very clear. The only difference is price, and even though I can afford organic, I never buy it. There are so many websites spreading hysterical misinformation about this. Organically grown food is, ironically, the most…

I absolutely love to bake and I'm really good at it. Now with the diet and having to watch my sugar intake for medical reasons, I really want to bake. So once a week, I make peanut-butter-pumpkin dog cookies. Boy, the dogs really love me now.

Not weighing and measuring your food is like never weighing yourself and just relying on one old pair of jeans to indicate what you weigh. I did that for awhile. I learned that one pair of old jeans can span about 20 pounds.

I'm not the biggest fan of the State of Kansas, but it's where the job is, so we're here. And the water is absolutely wonderful where we are. It wins awards for purity and taste. In Chicago, we bought bottled, and in Kansas, we have it from the tap and we love it.

I need to outlive our dogs who are 2 and 3 years old. It's bad enough when they grieve while I'm out mowing the lawn. My husband would starve to death without me, and our grieving dogs would starve because he never thinks to feed them. We have three acres, much of it landscaped by me. For the last few years, it's been a…

I wouldn't worry about the sodium if you are eating that cleanly and don't add a lot of salt. Look at the sodium in one egg -- something like 70mg? Crazy. If the only thing you go over on is sodium and you're drinking enough water, you're doing great! I envy that you are harvesting and eating your own tomatoes this time of…

Okay, you lost me at Marmite, but if you had calories left and you're in that part of the world where crumpets and Marmite are popular, its a lot later in the day than it is here in the American Midwest. Try not to do that too often.

10 million Android downloads, who knows how many from the App Store. Not really a secret.

Yes, too many crumpets, yummy or not. What did you slather on them? You could cut down on everything else for the rest of the day, but if this were me, I'd be in a coma-like sleep state right now.

Rest. Eat healthy. Sleep, and drink water. I came down with the flu on the third day of my diet. I pushed myself pretty hard one day (running errands, doing my normal routines), then I slept the next day, only ate 500 calories and had little water (because I slept 20 out of 24 hours) -- and then I got up at 5am the day…

I think the world is pretty aware of MFP. I thought I was doing a service to my FB friends when I posted about it, and about a dozen of them, including my stepdaughter in England, said they use it. One friend even said her doctor recommended she begin using it. Now, why didn't any of my friends tell me about it ages ago??

I pre-log most days, mostly dinner and breakfast and then I check my macros to see what I should have for lunch, and maybe a snack. Some days I don't snack at all. Yesterday....well, yesterday was kind of a washout. I call it a "craving day", and I kind of blew it. Back on the wagon today though. I have two apps, one for…

BTW, I do know about weight fluctuations from day to day, and I don't weigh daily. I weigh when I'm curious, always at the same time of day, before shower and breakfast, or when I think I might be avoiding the scale. Scale avoidance tells me my brain is preparing to begin lobbying me to "give up that dieting nonsense".…

That last question? Hahahaha -- do you really want to know? One of these days I will log a typically really onerous day from my compulsive eating days, and then Ill delete it all after I get a total. I wouldn't be surprised if I did close to 10K calories on some days. >:) Thanks so much for your reply!

I have enough friends on Facebook. I didn't join MFP for the social aspect of it. I'm not antisocial, but I'm not too keen on amassing a long list of friends here. I think I have three, and yes, I've declined some. I am accountable only to myself, and although I like to encourage the friends who really need a kick up the…

It's a game I've been playing with myself for years. I'm really good at estimating ounces on the kitchen scale. So when we had to play a "guess the weight" game at a Christmas party, we had to pick up items from a table and guess. Guess who won? Still, I religiously use my kitchen scale.

I want to know how they sucked all the fat and calories out of blue cheese, because I could have it on every salad I eat.

Rolling it very thin isn't really the answer to getting a thin and crispy crust. I finally learned that last year. Letting it rest in the refrigerator for 24 hours improves both the texture and flavor. Give it a rest -- then roll it out thin. I make six crusts at a time, half bake them and then freeze with parchment paper…

I agree. All the pizza makeovers just disappoint and make me want the real thing -- especially that weird cauliflower crust pizza that feels like a fruit roll-up. I make a homemade pizza that is very very similar to the Palermo's Supreme Ultra Thin Crust frozen pizza, which is really good. It has sausage, pepperoni, green…

It's basically a banana omelette. I made it once, tasted it and chucked it in the trash. Waste of a perfectly good banana and two eggs. It isn't a pancake if it doesn't contain flour and baking powder, sorry.

The first rule of goal setting? Make them realistic. Thirty pounds in one month is unrealistic.

I've baked with this all my life, also made hot chocolate and chocolate syrup for ice cream with it. I can't believe unsweetened cocoa powder has been a secret from anyone. By the way, Ghirardelli's is better.

Yeah, it's crazy expensive, but it's a seasonal thing, so that's what happens. I think it's $2.99 here now because it's springtime. In a month, it will be back up to $5-6 a pound and I won't buy any vegetable at that price, just like I won't pay $5 for a half pint of blueberries right now. Yikes!

I learned that margarine is evil. My mom refused to cook or bake with butter because it was sooooo lethal! She didn't know any better. That was the conventional wisdom in the 60s. Then I left home, began to appreciate and bake with butter...and I guess I loved it a wee bit too much. It became my favorite food group.

Wow, bookmarked, recipe imported, 108 cal/cookie after deleting the peanut butter. I don't want peanut butter on mine. that will also be a good thing to have with plain ogurt for breakfast, as I'm watching my sugar for medical reasons. thanks!

I blame Oprah for Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil. What little regard I had for her totally evaporated after she unleashed these two snake oil salesmen on the world.