What NOT to eat on vacation

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Greetings from I-5 driving south from Seattle to Portland. We are celebrating our son’s graduation from high school with a trip to the Pacific Northwest. As someone who already eats lox every single day for breakfast, I am in foodie heaven – halibut last night and salmon for breakfast AND lunch today. Though lunch was with cheese on a croissant so that was, um, not the best lo-co meal…

But it’s better than what my son ate last night at Safeco Field where we watch the Pirates dismantle the Mariners. After a delicious (but way early bird) fish dinner he downed a basket of Fried Oreos …

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How I learned – well, am learning – to love salad

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Salad is a smart lo-co choice: lettuce offers important cholesterol-lowering fiber and it can be topped with fresh vegetables and topped off with the crunch of cholesterol-lowering almonds.

The problem is – I have never liked salad.

But I’m warming to it.

The reasons I dislike(d) salad are many.  First and most important, as I’ve posted before, I like my meals hot – and no matter what you do to salad, hot it’s not. Though, topping a salad with strips of hot grilled chicken – or fish – does make it a tad more enticing as a meal.  

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