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Beans, beans, the magical fruit...

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:00:30 -0800

8 Foods You Should Eat Everyday

By: k8t

k8t — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:02:09 -0800

Oh good. I am pretty much covered.

By: neuron

neuron — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:12:52 -0800

That's a pretty good list, but they forgot about food for warding off existential crisis: bacon.

By: gurple

gurple — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:20:22 -0800

Dang. I should have guessed that those were black beans and not coffee beans, but that picture got my hopes up.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:22:28 -0800

Meanwhile, I'm having Dominos pizza, cinnastix, and Sprite for dinner :-( Tomorrow! Tomorrow I have beans!

By: snofoam

snofoam — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:25:22 -0800

All beans are good for your heart Some would go so far as to say GREAT for your heart.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:27:23 -0800

Most excellent. But they forgot garlic. And coffee. And beer.

By: C17H19NO3

C17H19NO3 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:29:24 -0800

there weren't any animals on that list.

By: Pallas Athena

Pallas Athena — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:29:41 -0800

Most of these are great, but I will eat walnuts voluntarily when Hell freezes over.

By: DU

DU — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:30:56 -0800

The Top Grammar Mistakes You Should Make Everyday

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:32:00 -0800

No food should be eaten every day, if nothing else it causes allergies, not to mention every food has a downside in large enough doses. The key is diversity. Yes, eat lots of fruits and veggies of certain types, but keep it varied. It's a wider spectrum of nutrients and less likely to develop an allergy (there is a reason the most common allergies are wheat, milk, eggs and soy). Enter that great unknown of the veggie world and buy stuff you have no idea what to do with (if all else fails, everything can be stir-fried).

By: strangeleftydoublethink

strangeleftydoublethink — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:35:34 -0800

Along with my two beverages to drink everyday: espresso and red wine. As long as I have those, I'll eat anything.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:37:08 -0800

Spinach? Black Beans? Carrots? Sure, if you want to be Popeye the Sailor Bunny with problem flatulence.

By: wfc123

wfc123 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:40:08 -0800

8 Everyday Foods You Should Eat EVERY DAY.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:41:31 -0800

I could eat carrots every day, blueberries every day, probably even yogurt every day... but I don't think I could eat black beans every. single. day.

By: Miko

Miko — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:45:06 -0800

if nothing else it causes allergies huh? citation anywhere?

By: caddis

caddis — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:48:23 -0800

So if you have the virus, will a diet of these foods keep you skinny?

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:51:23 -0800

Spinach? Black Beans? Carrots? Sure, if you want to be Popeye the Sailor Bunny with problem flatulence. This from the pasty, anemic city guy who sweats hot chili Funyuns and gummy cheeseburgers! Boy, the longer you stay on that diet of styrofoam and grease, the easier it'll be for me and my healthy liver to drink you totally fucking retarded when we finally meet! Have a Twinkie!

By: dismas

dismas — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:52:29 -0800

This reminds me of those pictures on the back of cereal boxes demonstrating that whatever high-fructose corn syrupy-junk is part of a complete breakfast, provided you eat an entire farm. First person who can make a recipe involving all of these gets a nickel.

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:52:40 -0800

No food should be eaten every day, if nothing else it causes allergies I'm also skeptical: you don't see too many people in Asia with rice allergies. Since, until recently, a given human or pre-human would probably eat almost exactly the same thing every day of their lives, you'd think that traits like that would be bred out of the race.

By: mrnutty

mrnutty — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:53:20 -0800

I'm pretty sure my daily Diet Coke Plus will cover all these bases.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:56:11 -0800

This from the pasty, anemic city guy who sweats hot chili Funyuns and gummy cheeseburgers! Boy, the longer you stay on that diet of styrofoam and grease, the easier it'll be for me and my healthy liver to drink you totally fucking retarded when we finally meet! Have a Twinkie! Anemic? I lug crates all day for a living. And my internal organs are protected by a delicious hard candy shell. So there. And actually, yesterday I had delicious moist brisket, beef ribs, deviled eggs, sweet potatoes and pecan pie (and beer) at this wonderful place. (best brisket I've ever had), so there is variety in my diet!

By: C17H19NO3

C17H19NO3 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:58:13 -0800

yesterday I had delicious moist brisket, beef ribs, deviled eggs, sweet potatoes and pecan pie (and beer) you're my hero

By: junesix

junesix — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:58:13 -0800

First person who can make a recipe involving all of these gets a nickel. 1. Put 1 serving each of spinach, yogurt, tomatoes, carrots, blueberries, black beans, walnuts, and oats in the blender cup. 2. Blend on high. 3. Pour into glass and enjoy.

By: Gnostic Novelist

Gnostic Novelist — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:00:39 -0800

there weren't any animals on that list. Thankfully.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:01:45 -0800

you're my hero I forgot. I had a jalapeno cheeze Kreuz sausage, too.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:02:10 -0800

This list is okay, but nobody ever mentions the health benefits of bathing in the fresh blood of babies.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:03:32 -0800

If you eat too much of anything, your body can build an intolerance for it. It happened to me with peanuts - cuz I love me peanuts. I had to back off for awhile tho cuz I ate peanut butter every day for months. And I mean MONTHS. Without fail. Then one day my face was two times bigger than the rest of my head. All pinky and puffy. Process of elimination led me to the conclusion that peanuts were the culprit. I stopped eating peanuts and the pinky puffyness went away. I've since worked them back into my diet, cuz I love me peanuts. However, I try to keep it in moderation. I imagine eight foods is diverse enough to keep your body from freaking out but even if it does it'll take months or years for you to develop the allergy. Occasionally working in the substitutions mentioned in the article could keep that from happening. As for me, I'll work all eight of these into my diet just as soon as they all show up on the Wendy's Dollar Menu.

By: caddis

caddis — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:08:53 -0800

but is he your superhero?

By: matteo

matteo — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:09:55 -0800

I had a jalapeno cheeze Kreuz sausage, too. you declared a jihad on your own GI tract, man

By: C17H19NO3

C17H19NO3 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:11:57 -0800

I had a jalapeno cheeze Kreuz sausage, too. now you're just yanking my chain.

By: es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:16:26 -0800

spinach for the wang, eh. i knew i was doing something right...

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:16:31 -0800

matteo, don't knock it till you try it. This was top of the line 'cue.

By: rtha

rtha — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:19:12 -0800

No food should be eaten every day, if nothing else it causes allergies... If you eat too much of anything, your body can build an intolerance for it... Cites, please. My partner just came back from the hippie grocery store where she dropped some cash on various heirloom dried beans (like ones you can get here). Good god, they're pretty! I hope they taste as good as they look - we're making fish tacos this weekend, and wanted to fancy up the beanage.

By: dersins

dersins — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:21:27 -0800

Why are you putting beans in fish tacos?

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:22:50 -0800

Eat your honey every day.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:28:49 -0800

Huh. Excepting the copius amounts of garlic my wife cooks with (thankfully), gallons of orange juice, and the occasional steak or hunk o'liver, this is pretty much the core of my diet. Although I eat a lot of other greens (peas, green beans, etc.) and pasta (e.g. w/tomato sauce) and such, but mostly this stuff is the core. Although I did buy some Octoberfest beer, 'cos ya gotta. And I stick mice up my ass. ...course, that's off topic. I notice though the more/harder I exercise the less I want, or can tolerate, nasty foods. I came back from a long run and wanted some ice cream, but it didn't taste good to me and I felt like crap after I ate it. Normally every once in a while that "Mayan Chocolate" calls to me (it's good with blood too!) but after I hit the gym it's like pouring water in the gas tank.

By: DarkForest

DarkForest — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:57:29 -0800

I'm the god of eating the same foods for months or years at a time. My life may be pretty fucked up in lots of ways, but at least there's no allergies.

By: crossoverman

crossoverman — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:08:43 -0800

Isn't it "beans, beans, the musical fruit"?

By: Adam_S

Adam_S — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:11:53 -0800

zachsmind: I ate peanut butter every day for months. And I mean MONTHS. Without fail. I've eaten peanut butter virtually every day for almost 30 years, with no particular negative effects. So I've won twice: this anecdotal argument and because I've been able to eat peanut butter every day.

By: Lentrohamsanin

Lentrohamsanin — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:14:49 -0800

No food should be eaten every day, if nothing else it causes allergies... If you eat too much of anything, your body can build an intolerance for it... Cites, please. Probably somewhere on one of these two sites. For what that's worth.

By: misha

misha — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:15:08 -0800

I'm a dead woman. I like blueberries, but they never have good fresh ones here. Do blueberry pancakes count? Or muffins? Walnuts are great. I have oat cereal for lunch sometimes. I have yogurt when I remember, which isn't often enough. I like spinach in my salads. But I never have black beans, and rarely have veggies, other than baby carrots. Yes, I know, I'm a terrible person. But riddle me this, people: Why is orange juice not on the list?! Orange juice makes everything better! And bananas! That's my breakfast, right there, oj and a banana. Don't mess with my breakfast, you food nazis.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:19:40 -0800

Orange juice makes everything better! Yeah! vodka, rum, gin, tequila....

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:24:23 -0800

But riddle me this, people: Why is orange juice not on the list?! I don't know! I certainly can't live without my glass of OJ every morning.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:26:58 -0800

Why is orange juice not on the list?! Maybe for the same reason that, despite the all-star panel of doctors, scientists, nutritionists, and chefs (each promoting some book or TV show,) many people might leave carots off the list: high glycemic sugar jolt and not much else to it. The rest of these do seem to be on most of the short lists, though exactly which nut sometimes varies. Then there's the most recent studies that show very little correlation with diet and disease prevention, it's all just glucose in the bloodstream in the end anyway.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:37:01 -0800

Oh, and another biggie is Salmon, especially sockeye that eats lower on the food chain and supposedly accumulates less heavy metals.

By: gwint

gwint — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:38:39 -0800

Metafilter: part of a complete breakfast, provided you eat an entire farm.

By: Auden

Auden — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:41:23 -0800

hm, odd... they forgot to mention natto. Every day. (actually, I wonder if one can make natto with black beans... )

By: jason's_planet

jason's_planet — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:47:26 -0800

Let's see . . . spinach, yogurt and tomatoes pretty much every day, or at least 80-85% of the days. Oatmeal and walnuts every week, if not every day. all rightttt! i'm gonna live forever, baby!

By: swell

swell — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:54:39 -0800

4.95 for a lb of beans....sucker!!!!! Bbbbut ... you don't understand! They're magic beans!

By: aeschenkarnos

aeschenkarnos — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:11:08 -0800

I am so looking forward to the invention of nutritionally complete human chow. Genetically engineered beans may be the way to go, for minimal post-harvest processing. I do enjoy the social aspect of shared meals, but food eaten alone for the sake of satisfying hunger is of little interest to me besides being nutritious and having a reasonably pleasant taste.

By: solid-one-love

solid-one-love — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:11:42 -0800

Sure, eating those eight things every day may help you live longer, but that just means that you'll have more time to beg for the sweet release of death. Christ, I would hope to die of a heart attack before I'm 60 rather than eat spinach-clusters-o'-oats as part of this complete breakfast.

By: katillathehun

katillathehun — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:19:15 -0800

Hel-loooo, Popeye!

By: notreally

notreally — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:22:09 -0800

Why isn't Drambuie on that list?

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:32:38 -0800

All of these items are delicious when battered and deep fried. I could eat them every day!

By: fourcheesemac

fourcheesemac — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:39:25 -0800

I'm with the grammarians. Why should I listen to someone tell me what I should eat if they don't know how to use the English language correctly, every damn day.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:56:49 -0800

I wish there were some way I could do a reverse SuperSize Me movie, where I had the resources to be able to eat only these eight items for an entire month - and see what it would do to me medically and emotionally and other-ly. Have cameras follow me around all day for thirty days. Go see doctors who'd tell me if my blood had more or less carcinogens during the procedure. Actively go to different farmer's markets throughout the country and talk to people about weird diets and strange exercise regimens and come up with amusing anecdotes or funny asides about modern culture and how fast food places may be slowly poisoning the world, but eating these eight things every day for the rest of your life probably won't do ya much more good in the long run. Or maybe it will. That'd be what the anti-SuperSize Me movie would be all about. Instead of a healthy guy purposefully eating unhealthy, I'd be an unhealthy guy purposefully eating the same eight healthy foods every day for a month. I think I'd freak out in seventy-two hours or less and plead with the cameraman for a Big Mac.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:16:52 -0800

We find that a 40lb box of blueberries, frozen and vacuum sealed, lasts about a year for me. I eat perhaps a half-cup a day on average, in my yogurt. We also participate in a big fresh-dried fruits & nuts annual wholesale club. It costs us between $500—$1000 a year, but we are buying an entire year's supply of dried nectarines, apricots, raisins, figs, cranberries, walnuts, almonds, pine nuts, coconut, pine nuts, raw sugar, high-end chocolate, and another half-dozen foody items. Friggin' bargoon, given the quality and quantity. Doesn't make writing the cheque any easier, mind.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:43:14 -0800

I am so looking forward to the invention of nutritionally complete human chow. What, like bachelor chow? I seriously want bachelor chow. I like cooking, but I also like "Pour in bowl, add spoon and water, stir, eat. Spoon optional."

By: Auden

Auden — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:44:10 -0800

five fresh fish - nice to see a like mind... we freeze about the same amount of blueberries, and dry another 100lbs I'd say. Home dried blueberries (very different than those from, say, Trader Joe's) are fantastic and pair well with toasted walnuts. This wholesale club sounds great! Is it local, or national?

By: Miko

Miko — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:51:38 -0800

First person who can make a recipe involving all of these gets a nickel. OK. I'm up. Breakfast: Yogurt with oat-walnut granola (made with honey and cinnamon), and blueberries. Lunch: Fresh baby spinach salad with shredded carrots and 3 oz. salmon or chicken, with a dressing of soy, honey, rice wine vinegar, and ginger. Garnish with sesame seeds. Dinner: Black bean tostadas/tacos. Mash black beans with 1 chopped canned chipotle pepper, lime juice, salt, and garlic. Spread on oven-crisped corn tortillas, sprinkle with 1 T. grated cheddar cheese, and toast in the oven until cheese melts. Top with diced fresh tomatoes and some plain yogurt dressing (in place of sour cream, just like the local burrito joint does it). Dessert: Blueberry Cobbler: Cook fresh blueberries in stock pot with water until reduced to a blue syrup. Pour in buttered baking dish, and top with a nixture of oats and chopped walnuts mixed with a few T. of brown sugar and 1 T. of butter, crumbled together and baked. Since I try to eat stuff like this as much as convenience and time allows, I know it's not a far-fetched menu, really. And carrots - yeah, they are high in natural sugars, but also out of the park in terms of fiber and Vitamin A, so they're worth it. OJ, on the other hand, is concentrated sugar with not a lot of fiber, and not even the amount of Vitamin C you get in 1/4 of a fresh red pepper. So, not worth the calories, IMO.

By: caddis

caddis — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:52:28 -0800

Christ, I would hope to die of a heart attack before I'm 60 rather than eat spinach-clusters-o'-oats as part of this complete breakfast. posted by solid-one-love at 10:11 PM on August 21 [+] [!] "I hope I die before I get old." Roger Daltrey, 63

By: porpoise

porpoise — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:00:47 -0800

Heh, my MSc supervisor once saw a 3 or 4 yo girl who was orange - as orange as the Orange Goblin in the old dead-tree comics and the "Yellow Bastard" of Sin City. That little girl would eat nothing but baby carrot sticks and her parents let her. It was uncanny. Several months of no-carrots reduced the beta-carotene build-up in the skin.

By: Miko

Miko — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:07:24 -0800

It takes a LOT of carrots to make that happen, but it does happen. More than 3 carrots a day will do it, according to this site. There's plenty more if you Google it.

By: infinitywaltz

infinitywaltz — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:01:19 -0800

...we are buying an entire year's supply of dried nectarines, apricots, raisins, figs, cranberries, walnuts, almonds, pine nuts... That's a lot of poopin'!

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:21:20 -0800

But it's damn fine poopin'. Miko is kindred spirit! :)

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:26:35 -0800

Auden: local couple run a business where they take off through the California orchards selecting product, bring it back, and sell it at what I expect is a startlingly high profit. Even at that, though, it's half the price of the local bulk food store and negligible compared to health food store prices. I should think there's a local food co-op near you. It's mostly a matter of asking around and watching the "upcoming events" column in the paper. Too, I live in fruit orchard centre BC, so I basically get to live on fruit all summer. Next, I need to secure a source of organic meats. I got hankering for buffalo burgers. I relish being omnivorous.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:30:43 -0800

I went a little crazy my last year in college - I was a morning show radio host taking 18 credits. Anyway, I ate sauerkraut, beets and bacon every day for about six months. I supplemented it with green olives and sardines. I have no idea if this is nutritionally complete, but it made me smell really, really funny.

By: dismas

dismas — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:55:55 -0800

Miko: I meant just one meal, not a whole day. I guess junesix's shit smoothie wins a shiny nickel.

By: eye of newt

eye of newt — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:24:50 -0800

The whole tomato Lycopene--anti-cancer link was busted right after it came out (most recently here), but the tomato/catchup(ketchup?) industry had already seized it and spread the falsehood worldwide. It turns out that people who eat a lot of tomatoes also eat a lot of broccoli. So add broccoli to the list, but leave on tomatoes, because it turns out broccoli+tomatoes works has an even stronger link to reduced cancer than just brocoli. (Personally I like Mexican Baby broccoli much better than the typical mega-grocery store type).

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:59:56 -0800

Boy, the longer you stay on that diet of styrofoam and grease, the easier it'll be for me and my healthy liver to drink you totally fucking retarded when we finally meet! With the supermanic abilities I have developed as a result of my strict kimchi-centred diet, I would very much enjoy drinking you both retarded someday. Or at least dying trying. Hot diggety!

By: howfar

howfar — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:26:56 -0800

When did the aim of life become getting the high-score?

By: PontifexPrimus

PontifexPrimus — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:31:37 -0800

jonmc: "Spinach? Black Beans? Carrots? Sure, if you want to be Popeye the Sailor Bunny with problem flatulence." I'm pretty sure that's already an anime series in Japan.

By: vbfg

vbfg — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:33:54 -0800

First person who can make a recipe involving all of these gets a nickel. Using the substitutes, easy. Swap the carrot for butternut squash, use wild rice instead of oats, and use the blueberries as something to flick at the cats while you're waiting for the beans to cook. Fry a large, sliced onion. Toss some pressed garlic and shredded ginger in. Add one each of sliced red, green and yellow bell peppers and fry until softened. Add a litre of stock, a can of chopped tomatoes, a few sprigs of thyme, some dried chilli flakes and about a pound of already soaked black beans. Let that simmer for about fifty minutes to an hour. Fry some butternut squash in a wee bit of butter on a high heat. When it's starting to brown add a table spoon of soft brown sugar. Keep stirring until the sugar melts, then toss that in the pot. Use some of the stock to clean the caramelizing sugar from the fry pan, then toss that in too. Give it another 20 minutes of simmer until the squash is cooked through. Serve with wild rice. I've cooked this plenty of times, it works great. A bit of spinach for the last five or ten minutes won't kill it either. I'd probably go for kale though, we have a garden full of it and it has a much better taste, imo. Errr, fsck. Yoghurt. Pick up the blueberries you've flicked at the cat, clean them off as best you can and toss them in some yoghurt with the walnuts. Nobody need know.

By: vbfg

vbfg — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:34:58 -0800

Credit to my former neighbours from Jamaica, from whom I've nicked many a recipe - including this one.

By: asok

asok — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:00:52 -0800

ZachsMind: I wish there were some way I could do a reverse SuperSize Me movie You have a webcam/phonecam/video camera. You can do this. You don't need cameras following you around everywhere, just do a bit of a vblog. I am sure any number of nutritionalists would be on hand to interview about your project.

By: Miko

Miko — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:22:11 -0800

I wish there were some way I could do a reverse SuperSize Me movie I think that is a VERY good idea.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:42:03 -0800

misha writes "I like blueberries, but they never have good fresh ones here." Frozen berries are just as good as fresh, nutritionally, and taste-wise, they aren't bad, depending on what you do with them. Try to find wild blueberries though, because farm-raised berries are the mall rats of American berries - all fat and pasty, and though they talk a good game they have no flava.

By: MtDewd

MtDewd — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:19:17 -0800

Why is orange juice not on the list?! Possibly the Atkins/South Beach idea that OJ has almost 3 times the glycemic load of oranges. Of course, they don't like carrots, either. And I don't think the list was meant to imply you eat only these 8 items. It's just a list, like any other internet list. Now excuse me, I have to test this folate thing.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:38:52 -0800

"...think I could eat black beans every. single. day." fart machine

By: misha

misha — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:58:48 -0800

I tried Atkins. My teeth felt loose in my head. I need apples, strawberries, orange juice, bananas, watermelon...

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:57:44 -0800

All beans are good for your heart Plus, the more you eat, the more you fart.

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:27:36 -0800

You could make a hell of a salad with all those, assuming dried blueberries are legit. What I'd do is chop the walnuts into pieces and make little sweet crunchy clusters using them, the oats and some sugar syrup. The yogurt would make a decent base for a salad dressing, especially if we get to have full-fat: run it through the food processor with some garlic, some herbs and a little goat cheese. Wash and chop the spinach, shred the carrots, dice the tomatoes, and toss it all together with the creamy dressing on top and the nut clusters and dried blueberries as garnish.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:58:42 -0800

With the supermanic abilities I have developed as a result of my strict kimchi-centred diet, I would very much enjoy drinking you both retarded someday. Or at least dying trying. Hmmm...a kimchi diet supplemented by beer. That would probably make Auschwitz seem like a summer camp.

By: lampoil

lampoil — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:12:58 -0800

I grew up with loads of wild Maine blueberry bushes at my doorstep, so I have a really hard time paying good money for anything other than fresh wild blueberries--tough to come by even in Maine. The difference in flavor is uncanny. Now and then I buy some local cultivated blueberries at the Union Square farmer's market or even Whole Foods that are pretty good, though. Still there's nothing like the real thing. I love blueberries.

By: CitizenD

CitizenD — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:22:27 -0800

babybalrog, you're such a tease.