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Starting Healthy

Mark's early-morning consumings and some of their health benefits -- green tea, enzymes, multi-vitamins, cayenne pepper, and so forth.

I launched my day in a fashion good for my health:

Invested time praying for my family and me.
Read this morning’s Scripture selections from Daily Light on the Daily Path. (And highlighted one verse at Panting Hart.)
Gingerly ate half a banana (too green yet to eat a whole half).
Sipped (happily) two cups of Nescafé Clásico.
Slurped (less enjoyably) one cup of Blueberry Breeze Green Tea. I’ve told you before about the benefits of green tea (but you have to drink it, OK?).
Chomped down three Papaya Enzymes tablets. They taste good and when I consume them faithfully I don’t need Tums or Rolaids like before.
Shook cayenne pepper onto the fried egg I ate.
Ate slice of homemade bread. Toasted. Under fried egg, in lieu of plate. (Yes, I ate the lieu too.)
Swallowed two Vitamin Code 50 & Wiser Men. (I suppose that’s what the cannibal said too.) 😯

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Is This Just Another Fish Tale?

I just read this at WebMD:

The benefits of regularly eating healthy fish keep piling up. It lowers blood pressure, cuts the risk of irregular heartbeats, and drops the risk of fatal heart disease by 36%.

It also seems to lower the risk of stroke and some cancers, improve your mood, and help with other conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

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Fresh Peach Pie

Yesterday Ruby made a fresh peach pie.

Fresh Peach Pie — recipe below

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El Chilito Mexican Restaurant

We got there shortly after noon yesterday, just in time to wait for fresh food:

Waiting in line, they were — I’m in the glass

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Belled Pants

I saw myself in the mirror this morning.

My reflection reminded me of a pair of pants I had long, long ago. They were light blue (if not burnt orange). The legs flared (moderately) at the feet end. I think they were the only B³ (bell-bottom britches) I ever owned.

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Busting Hunger With Bananas

Ever grab a snack but then feel hungry again 20 minutes later? Next time, reach for a banana. It’s loaded with Resistant Starch RS, a healthy carb that fills you up and helps to boost your metabolism. Slightly underripe medium-sized bananas have 12.5 grams of RS—more than most other foods. Ripe bananas give you 4.7 grams of RS, still enough to keep hunger pangs away.

Source: Bananas: The ultimate hunger buster

How Long Til Breakfast?

And will those things end up in my breakfast?

I didn’t quite spoon-feed our hens this morning. (Well, Friday morning. I didn’t finish this project then!)

But I did pick out — one at a time and by hand — some special feed for them.

Problem is, one hen pigged out.

Chickens are that way.

No consideration for their fellow fowl.

But I got sidetracked.

The special feed is high protein. And free for the picking. And slippery. And wriggly.

Personally, I don’t care for it. But some of our chickens love it!

Earthworms.

And that got me to wondering — how long til those worms that hen ate end up in my breakfast eggs?

Not that I mind. I can eat worms that have been thus processed by chickens.

(No photos this time. But maybe next…)