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Junk foods are usually, by definition, high in fats, sugars, salt, and calories. But more often than not, they are delicious! Junk food day is the perfect day to treat yourself. On National Junk Food Day, you get to eat anything you want. Eat any amounts that you want, too. Tomorrow, however, it’s back to a healthy diet.
It doesn’t have to be candies either. Like bacon? Eat so much bacon! Like chili cheese dogs? Eat all the dogs you want. Onion rings, yes please. Pizza? Have it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. National Junk Food Day is all about indulging in your favorites.
Please Note: Junk food may be hazardous to your health. After all, mom knows what’s best for you. Do so at your own risk. That risk includes having too much and Mom saying: “I told you so!”
Learn about National Junk Food Day
National Junk Food Day is a day that allows you to chow down on the foods that you usually would not. Junk foods, by their definition, tend to contain a lot of calories, salt, sugar, and fats, and they offer very nutritional value. You may think that it doesn’t do anyone any favors to have a day that is dedicated to junk food.
However, if you follow a healthy and balanced diet, there is nothing wrong with having one day of the year whereby you can eat anything that you want to. In fact, this is encouraged, because it means that you are more likely to eat healthily the rest of the time, right? Of course, it is up to you whether or not you decide to fully embrace National Junk Food Day, but we know that we will be!
History of National Junk Food Day
Upon searching for the history behind this food filled day, we found no information on the origin of this day. It was most likely created by a diet conscious individual or group who desired to eat junk food, without guilt, at least one day a year, sounds like a great idea to me. For it to become a “national” day it requires an act of congress. I don’t mind celebrating it anyway.
But, what about junk food? When did this start to come into our lives? Well, this coincides with the advent of packaged foods throughout the late 1900s. Of course, for decades, home-cooked meals were still the standard. However, after WW2, junk food really started to take off.
The population was traveling more and eating out more, and this resulted in fast food chains and the frozen food aisle really taking off. There were so many different foods for people to choose from. However, it was not until the 1970s that junk food started to get a bad name. This was when microbiologist, Michael Jacobson, actually coined the phrase. His aim was to try and curb our appetite for high preservative, high salt, and high sugar foods, which we were eating at a worrying rate.
Since then, there has been more knowledge and information about junk food, and a lot of food manufacturers have tried to make healthy versions of the junk food that we love the most! Nevertheless, if you have junk food now and again yet you generally maintain a healthy diet, it should not do you any harm! After all, we all deserve a treat now and again, right?
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JOKE OF THE DAY thanks, Bev
new ferns in the brush help to keep him cool (and hidden)
WORD OF THE DAY
heart-whole
MEANING:adjective:
1. Unattached: not in love.
2. Sincere; wholehearted.
ETYMOLOGY:From heart, from Old English heorte + whole, from Old English hal (whole). Earliest documented use: 1470.
USAGE:“And Myra had charmed the hearts out of many men, while remaining herself heart-whole. She was still heart-whole although she was engaged to be married to Tony ... ‘Yes, I’ll marry you, Tony, but I don’t love you ... I’m going to marry you because Aunt Clarissa insists I must marry a rich man, and you happen to be the least objectionable rich man who wants me.’”
Juanita Savage; Bandit Love; Dial; 1931.
“[Wolfgang] Stange’s performers work with a heart-whole involvement which gives his productions a true theatrical force.”
Clement Crisp; Dance; Financial Times (London, UK); Jun 2, 2007.
grandma thinks that this hat is funny...
1. Unattached: not in love.
2. Sincere; wholehearted.
Juanita Savage; Bandit Love; Dial; 1931.
“[Wolfgang] Stange’s performers work with a heart-whole involvement which gives his productions a true theatrical force.”
Clement Crisp; Dance; Financial Times (London, UK); Jun 2, 2007.
TODAY'S ARTIST thanks, Natalie
was a Northern Irish landscape artist, figure painter, and surrealist. Middleton's prolific output in an eclectic variety of modernist styles is characterised by an intense inner vision, augmented by his lifelong interest in documenting the lives of ordinary people. He has been described as ‘Ireland's greatest surrealist.
ya think???
IDIOM OF THE DAYWhat does 'by hook or by crook' mean?
Meaning: If you are prepared to do something by hook or by crook, you are willing to do anything, good or bad, to reach your goal.
aha, blackmail!!!
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(Not So) TOTALLY USELESS FACTS OF THE DAY
The Half-Cent coin is the smallest denomination of US currency. The coin, originally minted in 1793, would have five different designs before it was pulled from production in 1857.
On average, the popcorn you buy at movie theaters is sold at a 1,275% markup.
According to an American Psychiatric Association sponsored survey, Florida is the most stressed out state in the United States.
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Wine Substitutions (Non-alcoholic) For deglazing pans and savoury sauces...
Ingredients
1 c. beef stock
1 t. red wine vinegar
***
1 c. chicken stock
1 t. white wine vinegar
***
1 c. vegetable stock
1 T. lemon juice
***
1/2 c. apple juice
1/2 c. water
1 T. lemon juice
***
1 c. boiling water
1 T. mushroom powder
1 t. black vinegar
***
1 T. nutritional yeast (not baker's yeast)
1 t. mushroom powder
1 t. dark vinegar / lemon juice
Optional, for sauces:
1-2 t. corn starch
1 T. butter / vegan butter
Recipe
Use homemade broth, or make stock with a teaspoon of powdered base or liquid concentrate to one cup of boiling water.
Mix your selection in a cup before deglazing your pan, being sure to scrape up the tasty bits as the liquid reduces.
If making a sauce, add corn starch to a little cold water to make a slurry, ensuring no lumps before adding to your stock, then stir in the pan until thickened. Adjust seasoning, and stir in the lump of butter before serving.
PATTERN BOOK FRIDAY
Wine Substitutions (Non-alcoholic) For deglazing pans and savoury sauces...
1 c. beef stock
1 t. red wine vinegar
***
1 c. chicken stock
1 t. white wine vinegar
***
1 c. vegetable stock
1 T. lemon juice
***
1/2 c. apple juice
1/2 c. water
1 T. lemon juice
***
1 c. boiling water
1 T. mushroom powder
1 t. black vinegar
***
1 T. nutritional yeast (not baker's yeast)
1 t. mushroom powder
1 t. dark vinegar / lemon juice
Optional, for sauces:
1-2 t. corn starch
1 T. butter / vegan butter
Recipe
Use homemade broth, or make stock with a teaspoon of powdered base or liquid concentrate to one cup of boiling water.
Mix your selection in a cup before deglazing your pan, being sure to scrape up the tasty bits as the liquid reduces.
If making a sauce, add corn starch to a little cold water to make a slurry, ensuring no lumps before adding to your stock, then stir in the pan until thickened. Adjust seasoning, and stir in the lump of butter before serving.
PATTERN BOOK FRIDAY
the healthy alternative
PICTURES OF THE DAY
A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved a sufficient size and may have amalgamated with others, and that falls through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. Each flake nucleates around a dust particle in supersaturated air masses by attracting supercooled cloud water droplets, which freeze and accrete in crystal form. Complex shapes emerge as the flake moves through differing temperature and humidity zones in the atmosphere, such that individual snowflakes differ in detail from one another, but may be categorized in eight broad classifications and at least eighty individual variants. The main constituent shapes for ice crystals, from which combinations may occur, are needle, column, plate, and rime. Snow appears white in color despite being made of clear ice. This is due to diffuse reflection of the whole spectrum of light by the small crystal facets of the snowflakes. This macro photograph of a relatively large snowflake, 4 to 5 mm (0.16 to 0.20 in) in width, was captured with a backlit glass background.
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Yosemite National Park
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knit
knit
5,830-year-old timber causeway, Sweet Track - well preserved & still going
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KNIT PATTERNS OF THE DAY
Basketweave Baby Blanket
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crochet
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crochet
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Both vegetarian and vegan diets may provide health benefits, including reduced body weight, lower cholesterol levels, and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, it is important for vegetarians and vegans to ensure that they are meeting all of their nutritional requirements.
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COOKBOOK FRIDAY
ADULT COLORING
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CHILDREN'S CORNER thanks, Betty
PUZZLE
WORD SEARCH
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SUDOKU .. very hard
solution:
this lady crochets cats to keep busy!!!
What Is The Dumbest Way You’ve Been Injured?
QUOTE thanks, Helen
old dogs need their siestas after a meal, even the human ones....
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