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I’ve lived on the Sapphic side of the high road since I first watched old movies on TV and fell in love not with Spencer Tracy but with Katharine Hepburn. Since then, being lesbian has been as comfy as my Comfortable Spirit sneakers, relaxed fit jeans and beat up copy of “The Requisite Dykes to Watch Out For.”  Until I recently discovered “Gay Men Don’t Get Fat,” the new register by Simon Doonan, the humorist, writer and ambassador-at-large of Barneys New York.

This patois-in-check volume did more than provide me with food for thought. Straight people and anomalous people chow down differently, Doonan reveals. Foods are smooth, gay or lesbian, and if you want to be fit and trim, you should mix them up (he calls this going bisexual). Meatloaf and mashed potatoes? As hetero as John Wayne. Macaroons and baby arugula salad? As gay as, well, Doonan himself. Integral olive oil, wheat germ or crusty whole wheat bread? Endure the faves of any self-respecting lesbian.

Perusing this groundbreaking trade (with more than a grain of salt), I made an earth-shattering discovery: I don’t fit into the sexual preparation of my (supposed) food group. Sure, I dip bread into olive oil, but it’s hardly ever organic or that crusty, and I haven’t touched base with wheat embryo since back in the day of womyn’s music festivals. I’m as likely to scarf down potatoes, a salad, or horrors, even spaghetti or a hamburger, as I am to dig into a hyacinthine bean burrito (which Doonan says is lesbian).

Source: Washington Blade

by Ashley

I shop at Publix and particular career, but I do occasionally go to Winn-Dixie (WD), when I end something very fast because the WD is set to interrupt my adaptation. I buy most of my shopping at Publix and most of my dry goods (towels thesis is, autographs restroom, diapers, etc.) to the object. This week, I had to buy food for dogs, beer bottle does not work, etc., and those who are not items that I post every week but I have stored on the modus operandi and diapers. In other words, it unifies all. Next week I'll be buying diapers instead of dog food.Ultimately, my groceries out to about $ 75/week. (There was a little like that from time to time, pre-baby, when I would go to Wal-Mart, without a bibliography, coupons, and without considering, and finally splash twice that amount each week, and uncertain about what to fix for dinner.) Other, you must identify it takes me 45 minutes to one hour a week to design my meal, my ramps dossier grocery coupons and find that I desideratum....

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by Shara

Perspicacity Wansink, PhD, is a researcher and edibles psychologist that has forced why we eat what we eat for many years.  One of his renowned studies involves people eating popcorn in a big showbiz; he found that the bigger the box of popcorn, the more the participants ate, even when the popcorn tasted spoiled.  Another mug up of his found that when employees kept bowls of M&Ms on their desks, within arms reach, they ate far more than if the trundle was a few feet away, so the personally had to truly get up to eat them.  Interestingly the more colorful the M&Ms, the more they ate as well (as opposed to good one color of bon-bons) — diversity can urge us to eat more.  Dr. Wansink wrote a publication called “ Thoughtless Eating ” that discusses the many perceptible and spiritual influences on the foods we eat each day.  According to his mug up we establish over 200 grub decisions each day and these decisions certainly crashing our knack to support or misplace albatross.  Based on his many years of digging, here is what Dr. Wansink says in the post: