November 21, 2006
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TOFURKEY?
How did they know . . .
Thanksgiving Horoscope for Aquarius
Your signature dish: Tofurky (tofu "turkey")
Your signature dessert: A cocktail
This holiday: Give in to all your freaky ideas. Buck tradition!
SNORT!!
FYI -- I will NOT be having Tofurkey!
Waiting in my refrigerator is one locally raised heritage narragansett turkey. I actually went to the grocery store first to see about purchasing a turkey, but once there I noticed that every single kind of turkey had at least an 8% "solution" added to the turkey. That "solution" contained salt, water and who knows what else. Since I'm following a low sodium diet, there was no way I was gonna buy one. Not only that, but I always feel bad buying one of those birds.
When I picked up my bird from Mike with Walter's Hatchery, it was a wonderful experience. He and his dad were able to look at the bird and tell me it was a Tom (rather than a hen) and by the color of bits of feathers still on the bird were able to tell me what kind of historical bird it was. These guys raised this bird!! And it was delivered to me by these same guys! From their home to mine!! This felt RIGHT! Was it more expensive? Yes. But I feel SO GOOD knowing I'm supporting a local rancher (are turkey producers called ranchers???). I feel SO GOOD knowing I will be eating a healthy bird.
Stormy surprised me. Her vocal teacher at school often talks about the movie What The Bleep!? (I love this movie, so I'm excited that one of her teachers "gets it".) He specifically talks about the part when positive words are placed on water vials the water forms beautiful crystals and when negative words are placed on the vials the crystals formed are fractured and unattractive. Well since the human body is made up of, what 70-90% water, the same thing happens to us. He tells them how important it is that they use nice words and that it is important that they sing beautiful songs (as opposed to some of the hateful songs that are out there right now). Anyway, back to how Stormy surprised me. We were eating a chicken last night grown by Walter's Hatchery. The girls were gobbling it down as fast as we could get it off the bone (I must mention, they never eat chicken in this manner -- they usually pick at it or it a small piece and are done). I said something like "I feel really good about eating this bird and it's so delicious". Know what Stormy said? She said, "well maybe it's like that movie What the Bleep. When you take care of the birds and are nice to them, maybe they come out better." WOW!! What an insight!! And you know what, I think she is exactly right!!
I may never buy a bird at the grocery store again.
Maybe eating foods grown or produced un-sustainably is not physically good for us. Maybe if eating animals that were not treated humanely harms their water crystals. And when we ingest those damaged water crystals, it somehow makes our crystals damaged. And we in turn feel bad on some molecular level. I don't know, but it certainly sounds plausible.
I will report back after Turkey day and let you all know how wonderful this Tom was.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. May you have many, many things to be grateful for this year!!
Comments (9)
You have a very smart little girl!
My signature dish is green bean casserole. I don't think I've ever had one, much less made one.
Happy Thanksgiving!! :heartbeat:
I am picturing you open your front door and a man standing out side with a LIVE turkey!!! and you having to chop it's head off and pluck out it's feathers. Ha ha ha!!
I didn't realize that turkey's contained salt. I'm going to have to watch John carefully and make sure he doesn't eat too much of it. Because we have the store bought turkey.
I'm and aquarius too!!
Zack is here today. I drove out to Rockford to get him. He's spending Thanksgiving with us. He's going to be 15 on Sunday. I can't believe how time flies. He was 8 when I first met him.
I hope you have a nice Thanksgiving, we will be thinking of you. Cheers!!
I love the story you told about Stormy. She's a smart girl!!
Look at you all bloggin' and stuff.
Now you are making me want to get off my re-convenienced arse and find a local poultry rancher/farmer/grower. I know there is one, and I think he has a CSA. That should kill two birds with one stone. Pun. But still an awful expression.
As a fellow Aquarian...(who also lived in OKC) I dont think I would ever cook tofu for thanksgiving either...do my own thing, yes, tofu, no. I read back in your blog...you look awesome...congrats on the weight loss! xo, QE
I hope your Thanksgiving was a great one.
Sounds like a great Thanksgiving. And in response to your comment, yes, as a matter of fact, the pattern DOES have a kitty version! (And a bunny and a bear!) It's McCall's Crafts M4541
Each blanket animal also has an accompanying small stuffed animal, so if the blanket guy is too young, then maybe a stuffed kitty?
reminds me of the book "Anger" by Thich Nhat Hanh- who spoke about eating "angry chickens" and how we are what we eat!
Hope you had a good Tday--- I really don't recommend a Dell. I have had more trouble with their customer service and computers than I ever had with Gateways. And we bought Gateways religiously- we switched due to pricing... see what I got for the pricing... :whocares:
Thank you for your note. I hope John feels better soon. I now have first hand experience on how his med's make him feel. This morning I thought I was taking my sinus medicine and I accidently took his blood pressure medicine. Whoops!! Anyway all morning I feel like I took a muscle relaxer. I have been all out of sorts. So no wonder he's been acting so tired. I'm sooooo glad I don't take that stuff. All morning I have been sitting at my desk at work today drinking tons of water and eating pretzels with LOT'S of salt to get my blood pressure back up. So much fun!! Have a great day!
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