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3485. thoughtful - 1/10/2006 7:39:31 PM As far as the smart balance stuff, I've seen it, but I've grown such an aversion to artificial stuff that I've decided to avoid it. It may not be harmful or it may even be good for you, but I don't know how they make it or what it's made from. Just like the hydrogenated oils which seemed to have such beneficial properties but have turned out so harmful for you, I err on the side of caution, opting for real food. As Dr. Schwarzbein says, eat what you could fish, hunt, pick, milk or grow. So I eat real butter, mayonnaise and sour cream. I don't eat margarine, artificial sweeteners, or "cheese" that comes in cans.
Rather, the way I get a balance of fat is to take a spoonful of flax oil every day...actually hubby takes that...I take Barlean's Essential woman which also has soy isoflavones in it as I'm at that stage of life where a little extra estrogen boost can't hurt. 3486. alistairconnor - 1/11/2006 11:32:21 AM Ah, that's your hippie roots, Thoughtful.
Almost un-American, to prefer natural to processed foods...
and very un-French of you, Mago, to prefer the opposite...
down with stupid national stereotypes! 3487. Magoseph - 1/11/2006 2:00:33 PM I really don't prefer the opposite, Ali--I just want to replace the snacks Flex buys with something healthier, that's all. Personally, I eat no meat, only fish, fresh fruit, vegetables and unprocessed cereals. Flex's diets is similar to mine, except for the darn snacks. 3488. Magoseph - 1/11/2006 2:01:23 PM But you're correct, I am very un-French. 3489. thoughtful - 1/11/2006 3:42:47 PM Hippie roots? Hahahahahaahahaha. Hardly.
I was raised in a hard rock goper town that was so conservative that i actually remember when the town voted to no longer be dry. Up until that time, it was actually illegal to have alcohol in your house.
You are talking to a gal who marched on washington in the 60s...in a 'Victory in Vietnam' rally. Would you believe it? 3490. wonkers2 - 1/11/2006 4:40:09 PM Speaking of national stereotypes, how about tippling Englishmen--William Pitt, Churchill, Charles Kennedy and "George Brown, a labor foreign secretary in the 1960s who is once said to have stumblingly inviteed a guest in flowing purple robes at a reception in Peru to dance. But it was not to be.
"'First, you are drunk," the guest is said to have replied. 'Secon, this is not a waltz; it is the Peruvian national anthem. And third I am not a woman; I am the Cardinal Archbiship of Lima.'" More on British drunks here. 3491. wonkers2 - 1/11/2006 4:40:55 PM Does anyone think we could use a humour thread? 3492. alistairconnor - 1/11/2006 4:59:32 PM Nah that would imply that the other threads are not funny.
Carry on. 3493. alistairconnor - 1/11/2006 6:43:44 PM Tful, I thought I recalled a discussion in which you said you had reacted against your parents' hippie tendencies. I must be thinking of someone else. 3494. thoughtful - 1/11/2006 8:52:54 PM No, only thing I can think of is i remember mentioning having been raised on organic home-grown vegetables which may have had a 'commune' note to it. But it was only that my Polish father who loved gardening was far too cheap to waste money on things like fertilizer and pesticides, when you can get manure for free down the street and make your own noxious teas to spray on plants. 3495. judithathome - 1/15/2006 5:38:37 AM Hey, we have a patio...several friends came over today and helped Keoni install these stones and sand and grout and we have a patio! It's beautiful..... 3496. thoughtful - 1/16/2006 7:14:11 PM nice treat this weekend of catching a sharp-shinned hawk in the maple by our bedroom window. Magnificent bird. 3497. thoughtful - 1/17/2006 7:59:40 PM looked a lot like this one
I took a shot but it didn't come out clearly and by the time I moved to another room to get closer, he'd moved. 3498. wonkers2 - 1/17/2006 8:53:20 PM I envy you. In our suburban neighborhood we don't get any hawks or owls or other big birds except for Canadian geese and an occasional crow. Our bird feeders do attract a varienty of small and quite a few mourning doves. 3499. thoughtful - 1/17/2006 9:31:25 PM Keep the feeders going...they may attract bigger birds like the hawk or as I saw last winter, a kestrel...hungry and looking for little ones to eat. Of course it's amazing how when one of them is in the area, the birds vamoose. One little sparrow didn't get out in time and managed to hide among bushes, frozen stiff. Fortunately, (for the sparrow that is) the kestrel never saw him.
 3500. concerned - 1/18/2006 1:09:20 AM Ever have a hawk on the ground threaten you in your own front yard? I have. 3501. Ulgine Barrows - 1/18/2006 5:58:47 AM Cool birds, some cardinals have been coming around for the food we put out. 3502. Macnas - 1/18/2006 12:32:56 PM Hawks abound here, can't look to the skies without spotting one. 3503. judithathome - 1/18/2006 2:54:08 PM Troubles with the mother-in-law, Mac? ;-) 3504. judithathome - 1/18/2006 2:55:07 PM Oooops, wrong thread!
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