Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for May 17, 2021

Well now there’s an other Government USDA bean counter opportunity. Individual labels for fruit and vegetables noting the calories, vitamins, minerals and chemical composition/exposure on all fruit for sale in the USA and it’s territories. …they may be a bit small on blue berry’s but a QR scan would be acceptable.

For once, Cathy has a good thought. The difficult part would be only eating what you harvest. Most of us can’t grow enough food to eat only that. So when I want to eat healthy, I will pretend that I am a farmer and think “can I grow this (or the ingredients)?” and if I could, then it is usually a good choice.

Hello Cathy friends! Happy Monday! Have a great day, all!

And we will see how long this new regime will last.

Good plan, Cathy. For my part, I’m on a new lettuce diet.

I can eat anything/everything except lettuce.

Most of us in temperate climates would starve if we could eat only what grows locally when it is in season.

My husband subscribed to a fruit and vegetable delivery service. We are eating more fruit, but the vegetables are largely going to rot.

The key there is ‘as close to home as possible’. For a lot of the “fresh” fruit and vegetables we can get here – close is several thousands of kilometres away – like in different countries even. jbarnes is right as local food for us is only available during the harvest season. Most of what we eat, especially in winter, comes from the southern States or Mexico. I always got a kick out of some of the labels on “fresh” vegetables – like Canada #1 Carrots – grown in the U.S.A.Note the “fresh” as most of our fresh fruits and vegetables are picked not yet ripe and ripen on the truck as it travels – often from Mexico to Canada. For us eating locally grown food would mean asparagus only in the spring, berries in the mid summer, green vegetables during the late summer and fall, and nothing but root vegetables all winter. no citrus or tree fruits ever. Not a good diet.

I am moving a little slowly today – spent a lot of the weekend using a small jack hammer to remove the two layers of bricks that formed the hearth for the basement gas fireplace. Took longer and a lot harder work to remove the hearth than the rest of the wall. Once the new fireplace is installed it will definitely NOT be surrounded by brick. Ah well, it was good exercise. I hope everyone has a great Monday today.

Hey—if the diet works, the diet works. More power to ya, Cathy, for trying it.

HI, MOM. Hello, Clan.