Leave it to Jamie

An early reviewer pointed out that she would have thought the events in Lost Edens came about because I had a very Leave it to Beaver idea of life--but then, as she pointed out, I don't cook. My first thought when I read the review: holy heck! You can tell in a short, 200 page book that I can't cook? Yowzers.

At lunch this week with a friend she said, "I'm sorry, I have to ask. If you don't cook, then what do you eat?" I've gotten that question a few times the last few months so I stopped to really think about it. Every meal is pretty much scavenging for food. The day before I had a banana chocolate chip muffin and a large carmel machiatto for breakfast (thank you Starbucks), fresh bread and a big coke (thank you Great Harvest), dinner was sweet basil fried rice (thank you Naviya's Thai) and a pumpkin beer. Oh yeah. Pretty awesome.

So I decided to maybe pay attention to what I eat and thought cutting sugar and gluten would be a way to start. I bought a pot and a pan, went to the grocery store, learned how to make an egg (there are youtube videos for this!), and have spent a lot of time wondering what the heck people eat if they aren't eating sugar and gluten.

It's funny, I started paying attention to all of the shopping I was doing and cut that out (NSFY). I feel great. But then that awareness is just seeping into my life in all kinds of ways and if I'm not shopping, not drinking delicious McDonald's coke, or eating thanks to other people's cooking (or "cooking" as it were), then I'm pretty sure that soon I'll be unrecognizable. Which is good, maybe the follow-up to Lost Edens will be quite explicit in my ability to cook an egg (a big step!).