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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Weather based dietary choices. Thursday, July 27, 2006 Weather based dietary choices. After bitching about the weather so much, I feel compelled to mention that it's been lovely the past two days. We haven't needed to run the A/C at all, today's high was about 78, and while it's still slightly warmer than average, and a lot more humid than usual, it's not bad at all. We've slept in the bedroom the past two nights, and didn't even bother with the usual "box fan blowing out the kitchen window to suck cool air into the bedroom" trick last night. They're even forecasting more of the same for the next few days, which means one thing... we've got too much fruit lying around the house. When it's hot, as it was for the past three weeks, I tend not to eat very much during the day, and to want cool, juicy things when I do eat. Fruit (and vegetables, to a less succulent extent) fit that bill nicely, and during the few hellish days that ultimately drove us to spend the best $349 ever, I ate something like 10 apples, 8 oranges, 3 pears, 2 pineapples, 1 cantaloupe, a small village of grapes, some plums, and more. Basically all the fruit we had handy, and lots more bought out of need, mid-heat wave. Now that it's cooled down, I struggled to finish off the overripe pineapple and 5 pounds of grapes we had from last weekend, but the oranges, apples, nectarines, apricots and the rest of their brethren are lying around the kitchen and staring at me like the last puppy in a pet store window. I should eat them; they're good for me and they're not going to last forever and I like fruit... I just feel a bit lemur'ed out, at times, and want to move my dinner up the evolutionary ladder a bit. As for Malaya, she kind of reminds me of my mother (kiss of death?) in this (and only this) case. They don't have much in common, but they're both very ambivalent towards fruit. Sometimes Malaya will tear into a bowl of strawberries or grapes, or she'll eat an orange every day, but other times it's all I can do to get her to take a bite of my platter of sliced apples, pears, and bananas. Her fruit desires are governed by some unpredictable internal mechanism, one that's synched to something, but nothing as simple as my own "hot = eat cold fruit" process. The other problem when it's hot is that I get really lazy about food prep. No one wants to stand in the kitchen, sweating over a hot stove, as they say. I'll happily spend an hour cutting ingredients, stir frying, steaming, baking, etc for a single meal, when it's cool. When it's hot? Fuck that, let's just hit up Jack's for a spicy chicken sandwich combo, or throw in a pizza and go sit in front of the fan while it bakes. Fortunately, the excessive fruit consumption probably balances out the quick-and-easy junk food, nutrition-wise. That's what I tell myself, at least. Labels: food, weather Posted by: Flux # 7:30 PM Comments: You use your oven in hot weather? Weird. #: 12:59 AM posted by Anonymous Malaya sounds like me fruit-wise. Sometimes I'll get a huge craving for some but typically I don't reach for it. Does it give her indigestion at all? I think that's part of it for me. Too much fruit and I tend to feel a little nauseated - nothing major, but enough that it's a mild association. The acids or sugars or something. #: 4:36 PM posted by Anonymous Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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