Some Nutritious Steps in Escaping the Sugar-Fat-Salt Diets of Prepared Foods, Desserts, and Snacks

 You were going to get a round tuit, so here it is.

The two most powerful weight additions come from fast food "restaurants" and pizzas frozen or delivered. Doubtless the ubiquitous popcorn and corn snacks add more than their share, given the rows of huge bags at WM and their small snack bag traps on the way to the cash register. The venus fly traps are nothing compared to all the small bags of potato chips and everything else, lined up, ready to snag anyone who even looks at them.

My first step was frequently marking down my weight on the Google calendar. 220 lb, etc, allows a quick search over time for lb in the magnifying glass image, to see where the poundage is going. That gives me reason not to indulge, but it takes time to lose the craving of junk food and respond to good (low salt, low fat, low sugar) food.

My vegetable consultant directed me to a masterpiece on cooking, which gave a historical biography on our well known and obscure spices - The Spice Cook Book. Day and Stuckey. I gave up on the pathetic WM spice, display so I began looking over Amazon for variety and sizes and cost.

• Cinnamon - is tree bark - live with it - good on old fashioned oat meal. Adding sugar makes us want more sugar, not a good idea.
• Allspice - has a heavenly odor, reminding me of doughnuts, also good for oatmeal.
• Anice - seeds have a sweet somewhat licorice flavor and fragrance, good in Jackson Stew.
• Basil - has a wonderful aroma when fresh, less when dried. The fragrance encourages happiness.
• Bay Leaf - I have not tried so far.
• Caraway - is often found on rye bread but it is used with many other foods.
• Cardamom - is a ginger, potent, great in Greek Easter bread, and many other foods. Very popular in India.

To be continued...