"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." –Marcus Aurelius
I’ve been temporarily living in Europe for the last few months. And two things have happened. The food is mostly bread and meat in the countries I’ve visited, leading me to miss eating vegetables. And I’ve lost about 30 pounds in 6 months. How to reconcile these two facts? The diet isn’t as ‘healthy’ according…
The modern world has come to accept something that should have been unthinkable. Many people now believe that it is a normal part of life to struggle with weight. We accept this disease as normal despite the fact that this has only been going on in anything like the current numbers for about 40 years…
Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants. These are the wise words of Michael Pollan. He’s got four books on food , and at least one Netflix documentary made from those books, Cooked. I’d like to use this article to summarize his message because I think it is a healthy way to approach food. What’s…
As we saw in our last article which dealt with expenses that included eating and drinking at restaurants and bars, the Groceries budget is a unique category. Why? Because this is a category that can be used to shift expenses from elsewhere as a result of your budgeting, depending on what you were doing before. Our…