finished with a long to do list

mark bittman's book includes 75 recipes.

i started dog-earring the ones i wanted to try......

then stopped when it was every other one.

food matters: a guide to conscious eating.

in the same vane as michael pollan.....

re-thinking consumption.

discusses our nation's over-consumption.

gets into the issue of gov't involvement.

"healthy" ingredients.

sane eating.

what i love is that he starts his book with the supposition that we don't eat healthy. and when he actually changed the way he ate (as described and proposed in his book) he actually lost weight, lowered his cholesterol & blood pressure. one of the ways he does this is by eating vegan during the day..... then consumes meat & wine & cheese at dinner. he is a self-proposed glutton at dinner. while i am not sure i could do the vegan-thing so strictly, it did make me consider how many meat products i consume on a daily basis. i mean, would it be so terrible to have vegetable or lentil soup (in the winter) or a salad (in the summer) for lunch? or eating granola or oatmeal for breakfast? would that be such a terrible daily regime? of course, i would miss cheese & yogurt... but since i am trying to lose weight, perhaps it could be temporary with a slow progression back to a small amount of those things..... would this really be a bad thing? eating more beans, lentils, fruit & veggies.... well, it couldn't' possibly be a bad thing.

but i already knew that.

it was good to read again...... and now i have recipes.