Product Placement: Lose weight eating organic foods.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 2 comments link this post
Before you go off on me because of the title, hear me out. Just sit down you conservative ankle-biters.
::Did I really just write that?::
I'm not vegetarian, and certainly not vegan. I like to eat meat and drink milk and have scrambled eggs on occasion. However, I've no qualms with people eating vegan (notice I did not say eating a vegan - Woody Harrelson is still safe).
At a recent trip to the health and natural foods store in Grand Forks, I discovered a new cookie that I hadn't seen there before.
::What is it about health food stores? There's always some kind of light jazz or Indian chanting music playing in the background. What, Chopin would defile the chemical-free aura? Would the sounds of Beethoven soil the 7th Generation toilet paper? And the store is always staffed with either a severly aged braless bun-wearing hippy throwback woman, a gay man, or a thin young woman with the look of perpetual "whaat?" about her face.
"Do you carry food-grade hydrogen peroxide?" I asked her.
"Whaaat?"
"Never mind."
I always feel guilty if I'm caught wearing, I don't know, mascara or a brightly dyed shirt or something equally artificial because I feel like I need to dress like the gay guy in all dull green and brown hemp clothing.
But you can't beat the food and products in the store.::
Being the chocolate maniac that I am, I do not check out to see if there are any new tofu products, new stevia options, or soy milk. Nor do I check out the new supplements. I head straight to the bakery section and see what's new in the cookie department.
You gotta have priorities. I figure I'm already in the health food store.
A nicely wrapped set of two "Cowboy Cookies" caught my eye during my most recent excursion. Made by Liz Lovely (don't even start in on the name), these delicious cookies screamed to be tried out. You don't know how unnerving it is to have cookies screaming at you.
::And I wouldn't visit the Liz Lovely website if you're prone to getting angry at naturalist vegan folk who wear John Lennon glasses who have a detailed social mission for a cookie web site. Trust me on this. Just don't go there. Don't click around and look at photos.::
Totally vegan, the cookies use fair trade ingredients. And Vermont well water.
::Vermont. No surprise there.::
They looked completely tasty, and were tied with an attractive raffia string.
My theory on how vegan and organic foods can help you lose weight is very simple. They cost more. These two cookies cost me $3.25 and so I did not go home and snarf them down thoughtlessly.
These were $3.25 cookies.
I broke off a bit and ate it. Maybe a few hours later, I tried another bit. This progressed over two days until the two cookies were finally gone. I'm telling you, these were some darn fine cookies. If I were prone to swearing, I'd say damn. Crunchy, nutty, yummy.
Had I bought a package of cheap E.L. Fudge cookies from a regular grocery store, I would've hogged them down in no time flat, barely tasting them as crumbs flew out of my mouth.
Thusly, vegan and organic foods help you lose weight because you can't afford a lot of it and so you eat less.
Genius.
Now go get some Lovely cookies.
Labels: chocolate, food, product placement
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 10/13/2005 12:15:00 AM
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2 Comments:
You are cracking me up. I have to be careful not to eat or drink anything while reading some of your posts; very dangerous.
"Cowboy Cookies" - they do look darn fine but that name really needs to change.
By 
Jim, at
13/10/05 09:26
Mercifully, Albertson's here carries the Seventh Generation paper products; they're one aisle over from Pepsi-Cola.
By CGHill, at
13/10/05 19:07
