New Fad Diet That's Even Faddier than Other Fad Diets!!

Are you sick of diets that only work for a month, before your weight bounces back up to where it was?




Tired of YO-YO Dieting?


Are you dying for a way to lose weight that's easy, but lasts slightly longer than other easy diets?


Stop playing GAMES with your body! 

You should stop Yo-Yo Dieting... and start... HOPSCOTCH DIETING!!


Hopscotch Dieting?? What's that??!?!??!?!?!?!?!?


It's a new, easy and effective weight loss program!


How DOES IT WORK?


It's simple--just like the game hopscotch.


Your first step is throwing your stone to create a marker (setting a weight loss goal). And then when you have your goal in mind, you hop onto the first square. There, you will enter diet phase one, where your diet will consist of cabbage, boiled water and salt (to be eaten separately).  THEN, after two and a half weeks, you can hop onto squares two and three. Step two is the one where you will eat carrots, cabbage, lemon and evaporated water (to be inhaled through a straw). Step three involves the exercise portion of your weight loss routine. Do 1000 jumping jacks a day, every day for 20 days.


Can't do them? Well, you're hopeless and should give up and go grab a double-cheeseburger meal and get to work on your next heart attack.

What's the next square?!?!

We can't tell you the other steps because we want your money! But we can tell you they're equally restrictive and even more arbitrary.

I Don't Understand....


Yeah, you get it! Now I bet you want to know how to order.


I didn't say that...


You didn't have to! Just dial 1-888-FAD-DIET for more information, or send a blank, authorized cheque to 123 Fake Street, Providence, Rhode Island.

Start HOPPING your way to weight loss today!!!!!


Disclaimer: The rules of this diet have been chosen arbitrarily. There is no clinical or theoretical reasons for doing any of these steps, other than a decrease in caloric intake and increase in physical activity. The Hopscotch Diet is not nearly as effective as a healthy diet combined with exercise.

Julie, Julia and Jason-lia Project

 SOooo I totally have a new and completely original idea for a blog: I'm going to go through every entry on Julie Powell's blog (the one on which she goes through every recipe in Julia Child's book Mastering the Art of French Cooking) and reenact every single one of her experiences.

The blog: Julie Powell's attempt to go through every one of 540 recipes in 365 days. It's eight years later.

The Contender: News Writer by day, Jason Halbauer was looking for a challenge. And in the Julie/Julia/Jason Project, he found it.

Seriously though, I'm not doing any of this.

BUT I am trying to blog more, and part of that will hopefully involve cooking, recipes and food photography. To start, here's a couple shots of the fantastic Sweet Chili Lime tofu with Wok-Steamed Collards and Quinoa. I'm new to food photography, but I think this one looks pretty damn good.

Banff/A New Beginning

I'm posting this partially as a way to "just post," to try and break down the wall between occasionally posting and being "a blogger." I supposed the picture is to be the focus of this entry, but the other part of the focus is on taking steps forward, on finding direction with my own personal blogosphere.

I know many of you have probably happened on this blog once or twice, maybe you even read and liked an entry or two. But, alas, I have not really posted enough to give you any prolonged reason to stay here or to revisit. Well, this post marks a change in the tides. No longer will I forget about this blog, or put it on the shelf for other things.

My problem, I think, was that I would only post when I have an idea for a blog. No longer. I will come up with ideas to post on my blog, rather than blogging when I come up with ideas.

This is not to say that my future blogs will be inane, and without purpose or direction (hopefully).  It means that I will know that I have to write a blog entry on (X) day, I will think about what to do for that entry I will blog and then I will sit down and blog said blog. I will no longer wait for inspiration. I will create it.

This may seem like a minor distinction, but t'is not. Fear me, oh dear readers. Fear me. I am a man on a blogging mission.