So, I know that this isn't exactly a dollar *per* meal.  Because the dinner obviously costs way more than the breakfast & the lunch.  But if I were on food stamps, there's nothing that says that I have to spend evenly on each meal.  Of course, you also can't buy stuff the way I do on food stamps.  

Therein lies our problem.  It's a big one.  It's faced by tens of thousands of people every day.

I love this inspiring story of how one family avoided the processed food trap on almost no money for food: beans, greens, & cornbread two meals a day, every day but Christmas.  And in Nina Planck's great, fun book on Real Food, she reiterates something important - if you can't afford real, organic food, choose real over organic.  Roast beef over organic canned beef stew.  Green beans over "lowcarb" french fried onions.  Just real food.

Well, ( here's day two... )

I'm taking up the SF Food Bank's Hunger Challenge: a dollar per person for each meal this week.  Now, this is going to be hard to prove, b/c I add up my food budget yearly, not weekly or daily.  I guess we're on the honesty policy here.  :)

( Here's today ... )</div>

Years ago, a teacher in Wisconsin conducted an experiment with her class (p. 31).  They took 6 normal mice, put half in each of two cages, and fed them different diets for 3 months.  One set ate whole, natural food - you know, stuff you can imagine growing, like fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, whole rice or oats - and the other ate the stuff from the cafeteria.  The article doesn't specify, but I can imagine they mean pizza, American "cheese", Coke, hot dogs, candy, cookies, fries, mac & "cheese", white rice/noodles/buns, "riblets," waffles, canned fruit in heavy syrup, chicken patties, tater tots ...

Those mice went berserk.  While the "real food" mice continued to sleep & play normally,

( Well, what did the school do? ... )

( We've known for years that real food is best ... )

We know what we have to do.

HRH the PoW is right!  He says that genetically modified foods (or GMOs) bode poorly for future generations.  While the companies behind GM foods (foremost of which is Monsanto) claim that they are crucial to help us feed "an ever-increasing global population," the crown prince is correct in saying that relying on "global corporations" for food would result in "absolute disaster."

(Put aside for a moment that hunger in our world is nearly always a result of corruption & incompetence - not insufficient food.  And that GM crops are not necessarily higher yield.)

Good riddance.

Six years ago, the first blow was dealt: A New York Times piece dared to ask, What if it's all been a big Fat lie?  It came after more than a decade of banning all fat, including those now recognized as "heart-healthy," like almonds, avocados, & olives.  Gradually, we began to realize that *some* fats were okay: namely, unsaturated ones.  Then, they started to tell us that butter was better than margarine.  Now, the truth is coming out that it's trans fats & partially hydrogenated oils that are killing us.  We're even realizing that saturated fats are not the devil - Crisco & margarine are.  After decades of trial, most fats - the natural ones (butter, lard, coconut oil...)  - are finally exonerated.

Did I just say lard?  You bet I did!