CarbSmart Podcast Episode 23: Refusing Holiday Food and Staying Low-Carb can be tough at first but you can do it to avoid the Food Pushers. The holidays are straight ahead, and with them piles and piles of carby junk, and worse, people nagging you to eat the stuff. Why so many people think that saying things like "But you have to eat it! It's traditional!" and "I worked all afternoon making it just for you" constitutes an expression of holiday goodwill, I have no idea, but sadly this behavior is all too common. You need to think ahead about how to respond to this sort of thing.
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August & September in Texas signals an end to the summer's crop of fresh tomatoes. This is our signal to stock up on hearty, rich tasting, vine ripened tomatoes - and do that voodoo we do so well with them before the tasteless winter imposters make the scene. Susie T. Gibbs tells us that now is the time to freeze, can, make sauces, soups, pastes, juice, and chop these prize tomatoes and provides us with a host of recipe ideas.
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