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| Arnold is a good example of why we should abstain from steroids to build muscles. |
I stopped at the largest Walmart in Arkansas. I was there on opening day and felt lost in its vastness. The opposite is true now when I get groceries. This is how I react to various areas. The most profitable are the most useless for food.
Pharmacy -
Nope. No meds except for eye drops. Shots? My response to "free virus shot" was a loud "HA HA HA HA." I used my outdoor voice. Vegetables, greens, fruits, and nuts are the best medicine.
Fresh Fruit -
- I would rather have too much than too little, some variety all the time. My favorite is apples, and I eat about four a day.
- Blueberries are daily habits now, mixed with the vegetables for lunch, which are often repeated for supper. Chicken is an alternative three times a week.
- I buy pineapples and oranges, but gave up on pomegranate juice, which exploded on me and made me look like a hard-working butcher when I opened the bottle at home. I asked for a refund.
Frozen Vegetables - Small Selection
- Green/red peppers and onions.
- Riced cauliflower
- Sweet peas in large bags
- Broccoli
- Frozen chopped greens - spinach, kale, turnip
- Asparagus
- Mushrooms
Beans and Tomato Paste
Canned chick peas are my favorite (when washed thoroughly in a strainer). I have tried lima beans and three beans, but the main issue is salt. Many canned beans and vegetables are loaded with salt, which pushes high blood pressure (antihistamines do too).
Tomato paste is the best form of the nightshade. Various kinds of sauce are watery and often very salty. The paste is lacking in skin and seeds, and loaded with low-cal nutrition and flavor. My watery mix becomes just thick enough when mixed with tomato paste, which is quite inexpensive.
Pasta? Flavorless white flour in many shapes
I shelved lots of pasta when I worked at a Walmart plantation. Two things appalled me -
- why bother with shapes? and
- why pay money for pressed flour?
Salad Dressing - An Essential Part of the Fat Selection
The amount of fat sold in various forms is quite appalling, remaining a major part of the entire food section.
Butter, margarine, eggs, and all cheeses are massive purveyors of fat, which goes right certain parts if not burned up from work and exercise.
Butter, as I explained to one doctor, is a gateway drug for me. It is supposedly harmless, but leads to buttered toast, buttered rolls, and butter added to many good foods to make them better - like the helpless vegetables which already have their own oil. Redundant and potentially harmful.
Once I stopped buying bread, my butter supply stretched out much longer. I eat limited amounts of rolls with chicken.
Milk, skim milk, cottage cheese, all cheeses are fat products, often with a good dose of salt.
Sweets and Fake Sweets, Equally Bad
Opposite the frozen vegetables is a gigantic aisle of candies, fairly expensive and somewhat tempting. High blood sugar made me eat large amounts of hard candy. I no longer buy them and seldom have chocolate.
Rich sources of sweets include sugarless but just as damaging forms of the following:
- Hard, soft, and jellied candy
- Chocolate
- Juices, including orange and apple juice - all sugar or fake sugar
- So-called energy drinks and special lose-weight gimmicks (ha ha ha).
- Gum, throat lozenges, mints
- Donuts, danish, pies, puddings
- Who invented statins and made billions?
- Who created almonds and walnuts, which sell for very little?
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| Katy Perry was the star of a Walmart Annual Meeting. I did not get a chance to ask her about Ski and Glende. |
