there is SO much stuff to do in our new house! I’m still not even done putting all my stuff in my kitchen! i still haven’t even hung anything up on the walls yet! once i am caught up with the house stuff i promise to really try and take this seriously. as of right now I’m also still in the process of trying to figure out how to take pictures of my food and stuff so it doesn’t look like a 10 year old took it! i hope to eventually stray away from this blog like posting system and get a real site up and going. BUT i have no idea how to do that…..any ideas?!

Last night I was eating some mozzarella sticks. As I was sitting there tearing them apart I was asking myself….why am I doing this?!

When I eat mozzarella sticks I eat the breading off of them one by one. Then I leave the cheese behind to cool and get hard. Then I go back and eat the cheese. I don’t know why I started doing this or when but I can’t eat mozzarella sticks in any other fashion. I started wondering if there were any other foods I am that way with.

Oreos. I can’t eat an Oreo with out taking it apart and then discarding the white part (I can’t stand how that stuff makes the top of my mouth feel like an oil slick!) and eating the “chocolate” pieces one at a time.

Another cookie I have a ritual with is the keebler rainbow chips deluxe.

They usually have three “M&M” pieces on the top of the cookie. I take the cookie and eat all the cookie around the outside the three pieces. As close as I can possibly get. Then I eat one “M&M” at a time leaving the cookie between the “M&M’s” intact. Then all that’s left is a little piece of regular cookie that gets eaten last! I find that if the cookie is a deformed creature with only two “M&M’s” on it…I just shove it in my mouth. Don’t know how that one started either. I wonder why we have weird little rituals with food. hmmm

that the “dehydrated” banana chips you buy at the store are everything but!?!? I decided to look it up because my husband found some sweetened banana chips at sun harvest, and I figured that I would learn how to make them since I am getting a food dehydrator soon. They are by Henerys Farmer Market.  So taking in to account that I am at sun harvest (in short a hippie health food store) and the package says “farmers market” you would think that it was “healthy”…

“Unfortunately when dehydrating bananas they lose a lot of their flavour and you are often left with a faintly sweet, spongy feeling disc of fruit.

But those bananas which have been dehydrated commercially are beautifully crunchy and taste great. However, the way they are produced is not good for those who are extremely conscience about what they eat as they are deep fried. What happens is that the slices of banana are deep fried in coconut oil and then dipped into sugar water to provide that glistening sheen to them.”

As soon as I read this a little bell went off in my head…I had read the ingredients and I seemed to remember reading coconut oil on the package. I went back and read the package and sure enough coconut oil was on there and also vegetable oil!