Label Madness Monday

It’s been a while since we took a look at a food label and had ourselves a laugh. And lest this blog become nothing but book reviews, rants, and super-nerdy posts about cancer, I figured now might be a good time to resurrect good ol’ Label Madness Monday. So here goes.

Today’s an easy one. For those of you in the U.S., it’ll probably just make you chuckle. To those of you outside the U.S., let this be a lesson in the complete and total ridiculousness that rules food labeling laws in our whacked-out country. Land of the free, home of the brave, and slave to the almighty marketing dollar preying upon the complete idiocy of the majority of the population.

Here goes: Fat-free, sugar-free, non-dairy coffee creamer.

The Home Stretch!

I think I can, I think I can...

Today marks 29 days without coffee. If you had asked me when I started this 30-day experiment if I honestly thought I could do it, I would have said no. Except for a few weeks of basic training and some other military diversions, I haven’t gone a single day without coffee, let alone 30. Of course, as I mentioned in the last post, I’m not without caffeine, just without coffee*. Baby steps, baby steps. At some point, I’ll probably consider giving up caffeine for a while, but for now, it was enough of a psychological challenge just to give up my beloved brew.

To Boldly Go...

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This is some seriously uncharted territory.

Ten days have elapsed since I entered the realm I never thought I would enter. Sanity and optimism are growing thin. But my will remains strong. I am boldly going where no New York-born Jew has gone before. I am entering the sector of the universe where…there is no coffee. (What, you thought I was going to say bagels? Nah, gave those up seven years ago.)

Yes, my friends, I am giving up coffee. Not forever. Just for a month.