Easy to fix, highly nutritious recipes

Being on this restrictive diet to destroy the Candida and heal my "leaky gut" - has required coming up with interesting menu choices. Also, I occasionally have a pear or apple to help with the rocky periods.

* Here's a nice treat:

Heated pear with cinnamin, walnuts, almonds, and lime juice.

Chop up one pear, sprinkle liberally with cinnamin, lime juice, add a couple of walnuts and almonds. Heat in microwave (1-2 minutes ) or oven for about 15 minutes. Serve.
( other easy to fix recipes that take no more than 15-20 minutes - lemon soil, avocado, chicken soup, sardines... )

Happy Film Review....and an epithany about why I fell for Buffy (it's about the girl)

1. Watched the documentary Happy by award-winning filmmaker Roko Belic. And cried through most of it. It's a moving film. The filmmakers basically travel around the world to determine how various cultures handle happiness and what makes humans, generally speaking, happy.

It didn't exactly tell me anything I didn't already know - which is that community, ability to give to others, and having close relations with family and friends makes most people happy. Extrinsic items such as material goods, economic success, popularity and image don't really make you happy over the long-term. Physical activity and doing things you enjoy - creates dopamine in the brain - also providing happiness and longevity.

What I did not know...or learned from the film was:
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2. Had a bit of an epithany today. I realized two things. One why I fell in love with a tv show, to the degree that I wrote over 400 pages of meta on it, sought out others, and fell into a fandom. And two, why I fought with myself over it the entire way, made fun of my love and hated myself for loving it.

The TV Series was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And it was the first television series that I'd seen which had a girl hero. She was "girly". Small, pretty, blond, a former cheerleader, was in some respective ultra-feminine. Even her name was "girly". And the majority of the villains she fought were "uber-masculain monsters" or "the male view of what women should be" and she fought them off with a phallic stake, turning them into dust. ( Read more... )