Organic Half & Half

I have a top 10 favorite things to eat list. On that list is guacamole. If you can perfect the art of the Guac you are a crowd favorite at every party. I’ve been meaning to write my recipe down because to tell you the truth I just go by taste so the next time I make it I will work on an actual recipe. But for those of you who have experienced an incredible guac than you know what I am talking about. The meating avacado that comes to life as the salt and cilantro dance with chopped up cilantro. It’s heavenly.

Well, I just came across this recent report and OH&H had to share. Take a look:

Kraft Foods Inc. is being sued for misleading consumers about a chemical concoction questionably labeled as “guacamole” dip. Although guacamole has been made for hundreds of years out of avocado, Kraft’s chemical dip features yummy stuff like hydrogenated oils, starch, food coloring, and other synthetics–with less than 2% of the dip composed of avocado. According to Claire Regan, vice president of Kraft Foods corporate affairs, “We think consumers understand that [the guacamole] isn’t made from avocado.”

I honestly don’t even want to make any comments. I am just amazed that our food industry is spiraling out of control. So on to more fun things like a successful cleanse Everyone has been asking and even wanting to know how they can get their hands on the same wonderful stuff I just used. Sorry for the delay so be looking for a post tomorrow about all the details. I’ll leave this tease: I feel great, my tummy has sucked in a bit, lost the Turkey Day pounds, and it’s safe to say all things that were dark and wrong inside my belly are no more.

SB

Well what an adventure already! The “movements” have already started and it is great. I guess it’s not great that I’m running to the Loo 3 times a day but it’s great to know we are “cleaning the pipes” right now. Some have asked does it hurt, do you feel sick, and many other fun questions. So here are some not so fun details…stop reading now if you don’t want to hear about the bowel movements of SB.

During the pre-cleanse I take a pill that is full of magnesium. The purpose, to “oxygenate” and loosen harden fecal matter down in the rusty pipes. So for 3 nights I’d take this pill on an empty stomach and then go to bed. Without fail, every morning I’d wake up, drink a big glass of water…and then in about 5-10 min I would have to run to the bathroom. What came out was very pudding like. Sorry for the imagery but that is the best way to describe it.

Yesterday was the offical start date of the 10 day cleanse. 1 hour before or after breakfast and lunch I have to mix this awful powder into 8 ounces of water. Not going to lie…yuck O. And then you chase it with another glass of water and an Aloe Vera Pill. The aloe is to sooth the havac you are putting on your system. At night you repeat the oxygen pills.

This morning was day 2 and it was my first “solid movement”…and then after the solid was more of the other stuff. This is a cleanse at its best! To take this thing up another notch I have gone with an Anti-Fungal diet. The below is a list of what not to eat. Essentially trying to take out all things fungus LOVES to eat on. Take those out and you kill the bad guys. I honestly feel so good…this shall become a yearly Post-Thanksgiving endeavor.

NO processed meats (bacon, sausage, deli meat, etc)
NO beans
NO fruits except for berries, green apples, & grapefruit
NO sauces
NO sugars
NO dairy except whipping cream and butter
NO peanuts or pistachios
NO nut butters
NO oils besides olive oil & coconut oil
NO sweeteners besides Stevia

The tough parts have been to be off my beloved coffee for this past week. Caffeine headaches truly blow. And oh yeah, the whole taking sugars out…S-U-C-K. But I feel amazing. Clear head, more energy, and my stomach is starting to shrink a tad, lose some weight, and the gunk is leaving thy system.

Stay tuned for more of SB’s joyful Christmas stories!
SB

If you are like me then you probably have at least 3 email accounts. For awhile there I used hotmail for junk, yahoo for personal/newsletters, and then had 2 different work email accounts. On top of that I have one email account for OH&H that tells me when someone posts a comment and to top things off I have a gmail account for only personal emails and ZERO junk comes to it. I like that. So I have finally dumped the hotmail and formed a junk gmail account. It’s good to have a junk email so every time you have to sign up for something then all your spam and stupid emails will go to one place.

Some people have tried gmail and hate it. I personally love it. Yes it is different but I love change so maybe that is why I enjoy it. I like that all your emails are in one place and you never have to delete. If any of you out there are wanting an invite (gmail is by invite only) then just email me at sb@organichalfandhalf.com and I’ll shoot you an invite.

The reason for this post wasn’t really to start a word of mouth campaign for Google but to tell you a cool little trick I learned on gmail. Lets say my gmail account was: sb@gmail.com. Well, if you put a plus sign (+) right after sb then you can put any word you want after the sb and it will still come to your gmail account. For example: sb+organic@gmail.com. I could give that email address out to anyone emailing me about OH&H. or I could do sb+junk@gmail.com and only hand that out when I have to sign up for something. If I want an email just for newsletters or weekly updates maybe I could have sb+news@gmail.com. either way once in gmail I can set up LABELS for each particular email address that I have sent out. And when an email comes into to lets say sb+news@gmail.com then it will automatically get LABELED into the Newsletter part of your gmail. Just an easy way to keep track of all things in gmail.

It’s also great if you want to know who is selling your email address. Because if the only time you gave out sb+clothes@gmail.com is when you signed up at Urban Outfitters and then all of a sudden you get a Viagra email to sb+clothes@gmail.com…well then…you can go set fire to UO with confidence.

Happy Googleing,
SB