Food For Thought?

And I thought food was for eating, silly me.  I especially thought/think food was/is for eating since I have quit smoking!  Yep, I have gained, give or take, 10 TEN pounds!!!  Oh-ma-gosh.  What is really unfortunate, is that I was already 30 pounds over-limit, so now I'm 40 over.  Well, as I have said before(or did I just think it?), I will tackle that battle a little later on, but hopefully before ANOTHER 10 pounds is added to this growing-shorter-by-the-year body frame of mine.

Ok, now to the subject of this blog......Food.  As I was looking this morning for some subject ideas for my writing pleasure and I decided to write about "ways to NOT gain weight when quitting smoking", I came upon this food word, jicama.......I thought, what in the world is a jicama!  I've never heard of it before, so I did some research.  It is a South American root vegetable, similar the the turnip.  Ah-Ha, and THAT is why I've never heard of this before.  My remembrance of "turnip" goes with "turnip greens", which my parents loved and I wouldn't get near, much less eat, due to the horrific odor when it was cooking.  Ok, back to jicama....I think I will actually try this legume in a salad or something very soon.  Anyway, when wanting a cigarette, just eat some jicama, or carrots, or celery. You probably get the idea. 

Read All About It....Jicama.......click on the link below, which opens a whole 'nuther subject...football and the Aggies!!!!!!!!!!!  I LOVE college football:Aggies, Red Raiders, Horned Frogs, and beginning this year, the Arizona Wildcats, because the son of an Olney classmate of mine is playing.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/vegetables/jicama.html

Better go do something else productive...like getting dressed for the day! 

Y'all have a gud 'un!

Until later,
Kay

P.S.  Oh yeah, this evening at 6pm will be 6 weeks since my last cigarette!!!

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