I recently made a gluten free fruit crisp. I don’t usually eat a lot of desserts but on this wheat free diet I’ve fixed several. My reasoning is that I don’t want to start feeling DEPRIVED. That’s often/usually a death knell for new ways of eating or living. Although the results so far have been so […]

Several years ago I got into a spat with Comcast. We dropped their service and went to AT&T and they claimed we owed them a substantial sum for a DVR that we had never received. We had no need of the box since we had TiVo, at the time. Comcast claimed their driver 'remembered' delivering […]

I don't have a scale so I have to use someone else's. So Thursday morning I got on the evil thing (OK, scales aren't evil if they give me good news :-) and was amazed and happy and thrilled and ecstatic and … well, you get the idea. I don't know exactly what I weighed […]

Before your kids pile in the car to go to a Disney park or Six Flags, you might want to show them this Library of Congress picture of the world's first-ever roller coaster. It opened at Coney Island in New York in 1886 and cost $.05 to ride. It had to have been a thrill […]

Since I’m experimenting with the wheat free diet, I tried to make peanut butter pancakes. This gluten free pancake recipe couldn’t be any easier – unless somebody else would make them for me! :-) I’ve put my verdict below. The Peanut Butter Pancakes Recipe I started with Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Pancake Mix. The […]

I’m having a lot of fun with my wheat free diet. Experimenting with new recipes is mostly fun – except when they turn out to be terrible. And gluten free wraps are biggies with me because I love and adore wraps, so let me share a recipe that turned out well. It’s from the Wheat […]

I am devoting the month of June to being a guinea pig for a gluten free and wheat free diet. So I have started this ‘diary’ to help anyone else who might be interested in doing likewise. It’s important to note that I have NOT been diagnosed with any wheat allergies or celiac disease. Actually, […]

The most popular prescription sleeping pills on the market today are Sonata, Lunesta and Ambien. And with the current economic crisis in the world, insomnia has skyrocketed as a health problem. Millions upon millions, desperately worried about their futures, have turned to these sleeping aids as insomnia remedies. And they DO seem appealing. A woman […]

There is no doubt that we humans are awash in a sea of dangerous, hideous chemicals. It's also certain that nobody – NOBODY – has a clue about the long term effects of this chemical bath. So if you're interested in safe skin care, you definitely must consider natural skin products. In fact, our report […]

Our local Quik Trip sells a wrap that I really love. They take a spinach tortilla and fill it with chicken salad that includes cranberries and nuts. Since I’m (mostly) a vegetarian, I wanted a cheap vegetarian recipe that I could substitute and I found it with this “mock” tuna salad made with garbanzos. It’s […]