Originally Posted by WereBear

I’m amazed at what the combo of baking sida and white vinegar can do to clean bathrooms. And it fizzes, too!

Originally Posted by bkloots

This morning at the grocery store I picked up one of those yellow boxes in the lunchmeat section called Lunchables. You probably know what I'm talking about, as they are undoubtedly the convenience food of choice for busy parents, and probably the kind of thing kids covet at school. The contents are shocking, and so is the price. For about $2.50, you get something like 330-440 calories (depending on the items), including a Capri Sun "fruit" beverage and a candy bar, with a dab of cheese and some kind of lunch meat and crackers. Yikes! Diabetes in a box, right?

American grocery stores are miracles of abundance and choice. But the choices are the key to a lifetime of health, or not.

Originally Posted by Bob-a-rama

I've heard fizzing baking soda and vinegar cleans slow drains too. I had no luck with it, but a plunger or a snake usually work fine.

Bob

Originally Posted by Zuleikaa

Pour the baking soda down the drain dry, then pour in the vinegar. It makes an "explosion" and that clears the drain. That treatment is also good as maintenance.

Originally Posted by Grav

I'll never forget the first time I went supermarket shopping after deciding to try low carb.

When I was a child, my franchise of choice was the Transformers. I got my first toy when I was 6 and began collecting them for a number of years. I fell in love with the original cartoon series and read a few of the comics. Some kids were into GI Joe, others X-Men and so on, but Transformers was my thing.

It was in 1986 when the Transformers cartoon movie came out that I hit peak fanboy. The characters had become closer to me than many of my few RL friends. But there's an extended battle sequence during the early stages of the movie, where several of those characters that meant so much to me were actually killed. For a kid's cartoon, it was actually pretty violent looking back, and certainly traumatic at the time, being one of the very few occasions in my life that watching a movie had brought me to tears.

What it meant for me by the end of it was that the few original characters who had survived would mean so much more to me, and I was so grateful that those precious few had made it through.

And that's pretty much how I felt that day at the supermarket. It was like I was re-living my very own version of the Battle of Autobot City, where so many things that I used to eat were now off limits to me on the basis of the carb count on the label. A whole new round of characters were killed off that day: no more flavoured milk, no more ice cream, no more pizzas, no more pies, no more 2 minute noodles. The death of bread was like the death of Optimus Prime. But I was so grateful for the precious few survivors of my old diet, like chicken, tuna, sausages, and perhaps the most important of all: cheese.

It was definitely a rough ol' time emotionally, just like the movie had been. But by the movie's end, I would come to have made a few new friends, just as I would come to make a whole new group of friends with my WOE going forward. And I've never really looked back since.

Originally Posted by DaisyDawn

The meat dept. guy always gives me such weird looks-I'm that weird person who two weeks ago bought 15lbs of ground beef ($5 for 3lb chubs!!), along with every marked down meat they had, followed by my stop last week where I bought 11lbs of petite sirloin steak, because they were running a crazy $3.99lb special on it, along with all their marked down meat

Originally Posted by DaisyDawn

The meat dept. guy always gives me such weird looks-I'm that weird person who two weeks ago bought 15lbs of ground beef ($5 for 3lb chubs!!), along with every marked down meat they had, followed by my stop last week where I bought 11lbs of petite sirloin steak, because they were running a crazy $3.99lb special on it, along with all their marked down meat Both my freezer crispers are full now and I'm starting on the deep freezer

Originally Posted by DaisyDawn

I was telling them that I now eat a HFLC style of eating and pretty much just eat meat, eggs and dairy. He was totally eves dropping and kept giving me the side eye, lol.

Originally Posted by Glendora

This might very well be the best geek-out I've read in my entire life.

Bravo, sir, bravo. (tears in my eyes; standing up and clapping) 5 stars.

(p.s. That description of grief over the foods was spot-on.)