vowing to not eat like white trash

[BADGE OF HONOR]

i found out last week that dr pepper has 66% of the calories compared to most cola brands (except the ones with artificial sweeteners, of course)

That doesn't mean it's not still horrible for you. 


Horrible, but delicious.

[Triple Zero]

especially with rum.

[Xebra]

Why has no one mentioned ORGANIC FOOD? Go to your local markets, get some nice fresh veges. You can buy organic meats too, of which havn't had yuckys injected into em.
Or is it not like that in your guys country?
I dunno. Fresh is the way to go if you wanna be healthy.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

It's often a question of what one can afford, unfortunately.

[Xebra]

Yeah =/ But fresh veges and a bulk bag of rice is alott more cost effective than pop-it-in-the-microwave frozen meals.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

I try to eat as much organic/fresh veg as I can afford,  and try not to eat preprepared meals.

Mostly cos my *entire* family is on the chubby side,  and I have a disgestive system prone to bouts of painful rebellion.

and I used to miss Dr Pepper... but all that fizzy drinks actually dont taste so good anymore after many years on a caffeine ban.

[Eater of Clowns]

Organic food - not that awesome.  Big organic industrial farms aren't much of an improvement over big non-organic industrial farms, especially for the cost.  If you can find it, you're better off eating a local non-organic vegetable than you are an organic one shipped 5000 miles.  Of course, local and organic is pretty ideal.

I toured a certified organic farm whose practices were less healthy for their land and the food than most of the non certified places.  Certification costs money, and a smaller farm might very well be organic in all but name.  Not all certifications are the same as well, so one agency could essentially say that as long as you put in your best effort to be organic, you are organic, in the event that organic seeds or pesticides aren't available to your farm.  The place I toured would grow it in *REDACTED* and sell it at farmer's markets in/outside *REDACTED* at an insane price, then turn about a 150% profit over non-organic farms.

[Xebra]

Then get some buckets, fill them with dirt, and grow your own veges in your laundry or something. Not hard.

[Corvidia]

Pixie--a caffeine ban? I'd die. I pretty much live on coffee.

A good rule all around is "buy local" and buy what's in season when you don't shop local.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Pixie--a caffeine ban? I'd die. I pretty much live on coffee.

A good rule all around is "buy local" and buy what's in season when you don't shop local.

caffeine free since 2006. luckily I hate coffee.

altho at quarter to 7 on 4 hours sleep. I wish i liked coffee and that it didnt make me ill.

[Richter]

I went caffeine free once.  Switched to Xanthine.  It wasn't bad, but I was horrible.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

I'm basically caffeine free since high school, I consume like a half cup of Dr Pepper maybe once a month.  And hoo boy is it effective.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

i sweat caffeine

and i love my farmers markets.
they sell meats that aren't pumped full of hormones and water
wish i knew where they came from.

[Eater of Clowns]

I try to be careful with caffeine.  One dose a day, 99% of the time in the form of coffee.  I'll drink it daily for about a week or so, then stop for two to five days and get back on again.  I don't like the physical dependency aspect but I goddamn love coffee, so this is the nice little system I worked out.

[Corvidia]

I drink at least one cup a day, every day. If I don't have my coffee in the morning, the only withdrawal I seem to get is feeling really, really sleepy around 2:30 in the afternoon. No headaches and no more irritable than usual.

In the spring, summer, and early fall we usually get vegetable and whatever fruit is in season from these great little roadside stands. The field in which the stuff was grown is right behind the stand, too. My friend's brother has one and he doesn't use much in the way of pesticides or weird fertilizers. You can get flowers there, too. Sweet pea, usually.