The Countdown Begins....

January 1 begins the "Year of No Processed Foods," which makes December "Use Up Forbidden Foods" month, also known as "weird casserole month."

Our rules for next year are:
1. No corn syrup in anything. (That's just a personal thing for me because food manufacturers slip it into almost EVERYTHING and I find it highly annoying in addition to being unhealthy)
2. We are each allowed 2 "forbidden" items a week, which might very well translate into 104 diet Pepsis.
3. Processing that we could do ourselves is allowed, such as canning, freezing, dehydrating, washing, pickling, making butter, making cheese, etc.
4. No ingredients that we can't identify. Chemicals really aren't food.

I'd like to say we're trying to lower cholesterol counts or something measurable, but we both had physicals when we took out life insurance, and all our scores were actually very good. Andy's could maybe be better, so we might use him as the benchmark, but I've eaten pretty healthy most of my life and my scores were phenomenal so they don't really have much room to improve. Not that I'm trying to brag or anything, but when one makes a sweater out of bad yarn, one gets a bad sweater. When one builds a body with bad food, I think one can only expect a bad (unhealthy) body. It's the old computer thing: Garbage in--garbage out.

That being said, it is Christmas and I am SOOOOOO going to have one last fling with potato chips and Lipton onion soup mix dip. (Technically, potato chips will be allowed next year since they are just potatoes, oil, and salt, but I doubt Lipton onion soup mix would qualify and I'm seriously not deep frying anything). Still, 26 days left.....