Dinner Review

Dawn made a great dinner. I don't think she needed the pasta, even if it was a healthful brand; I think that spaghetti squash was so darned good that it makes pasta redundant. I just had that and the delicious homemade tomato sauce, and a little of that ground parmesan cheese on it.

I don't feel like counting certain vegetables in my diet; it's just plain too much hassle to figure out the calories in salad, assuming that one sticks to the veggies on the so-called "negative calorie" list. I don't believe that some foods have negative calories, but then, I also don't believe it's WORTH figuring out how many cups of lettuce I ate, or radishes or mushrooms or whatever. If I'm to keep up a 600 calorie diet for more than about two days, I'm going to have to make it as easy on myself as possible.

I will obviously count everything else-- tofu, seitan, fruits, dairy, eggs, oils, etc etc, AND higher calorie vegetables. Just not the really puny stuff, such as spinach and celery and so on.

We'll see how that works for a week or two. But one thing is for sure: As I ate my salad today, I thought about the number of people in the world who don't get such luxuries. And then I remembered the Keyhole Gardens again. Everybody should see this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjcjCCx3BWY