The Delightfully Healthy Blog

$45 Water?!

Okay, it seems I'm on a rant the past few days.  But come on, people!  Bottling glaciers and calling it designer water?  What's up with that?

You can read more about it here.

And you can shop for stainless steel, refillable water bottles here and here, among other places.*

When my blood stops boiling, things like this make me sad.  Like the High Fructose Corn Syrup commercials claiming that "in moderation" it's actually healthy.  Or Dunkin Donuts latest tag line, "America Runs on Dunkin."  How did we get so far away from reality?  Eat food, live well.  Eat processed commercialized junk "food" and get diabetes, overweight, heart disease, allergies, asthma, cancer...the list goes on and on.  And yet most people make the second choice, because that's what's put in front of them and packaged prettily and made plentiful and "normal."

It's time to change normal.

*No, I don't have any connection to either company, other than as a consumer.  I just like them.

ETA:  Go see a hilarious video spoofing the HFCS ads here.  Go King Corn guys!

Shaking my head in the checkout line...

First I saw this:

    

Poor thing...

Then I saw this:

    

(In case you can't read it - it says "Better Than Lipo")

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Various and Sundry December Thoughts

It's December!  How did that happen? 

I spent this weekend remembering how great it is to just sit around the dinner table and talk.  I got to spend time with people I don't see very often, and it made me wonder why I don't see them very often.  So I'm going to make an effort in the coming year to make more time for friends.  Which really involves being better at planning and time management.  Because, as I discovered last month, there really is time to do everything you truly want to do.

So, now, onward to the holidays!  I'm making a lot of my gifts this year.  Which isn't as pitiful as it sounds, since, if I do say so myself, I am a pretty good knitter.  So it's a win-win situation.  I get to spend time doing something I love for people I love, and my friends and family get beautiful hand-knit items to keep them warm this winter. 

I've got some other suggestions for homemade gifts (some involving little or no skill of any kind), and enjoying the holidays without spending a lot of money, coming out in my December Newsletter.   You can sign up by typing your email address in the bar on the left, or follow that link to my archives (although you may have to wait a while to see it show up there.  I'm really not sure how it works).

How are you celebrating the holidays this year?  I'd love to hear more suggestions!

P.S.  Thank you all so much for your encouragement last month!  And welcome, Jena!

Not only am I a NaNoWriMo '08 winner, but I wrote a novel.  I am a novelist.  Whodathunk?