Month: November 2008

  • New favorite snack pickles

    Good old Vlasic pickles have been my favorite snack of late but I am apparently going to have to cut the kosher Dill spears out. Guess I did not read the ingredients list carefully enough. I really do need to be more diligent when it comes to reading labels. Smack in the middle of the…

  • The Spaghetti Dilemma

    Well having a soy free spaghetti dinner is almost impossible. We normally make our own spaghetti sauce but we use store bought ingredients. Our recipe is simple enough meat, spices, tomato paste, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes and olive oil, sound s like it should be soy free right? Well that tomato sauce is the problem.…

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    It started out as a good day. Good food. Spent the day with my family. Then my Dad called tonight to tell me my grandmother died tonight. We were not close any more. I hadn’t seen her in the last few years. But still she was my grandmother none the less.

  • Is There Soy In Coke

    Trying to live a soy free lifestyle is hard. Much harder than one would think. (Sorry but since this affects my every waking moment you’ll see a lot of soy posts on this blog.) As I had learned from my search for Mayo when an ingredients list says “natural flavors” it is really saying soy.…

  • The InHumane Society

    A few weeks ago I helped raise money for the Berks Humane Society by participating in their Walk-tober fest. I personally was able to raise $105 (not bad since I had only decided to do the walk the week before the event). However, I am now having second thoughts. Other than all of their fundraising…

  • Star Trek Collectors

    I just got off the phone with a fan (or maybe a stalker, but he did not sound too stalkerish — not that I know what a stalker sounds like). He is a fan of my book and has been using it to get a complete Playmates collection together. I told him about PlayTrek.com and…

  • Harrowing experience on the highway this morning

    I was driving to work when all of the sudden on the road directly in front of me was a 5 gallon bucket. I was in the passing lane and said bucket was in the middle of that lane. The pickup truck in front of me was high enough to clear the bucket (it was…