Come on ride the grain and ride it!

Does everyone know there is a new fad that is sweeping the nation? Well it's not exactly super new but each new day I feel like it reaches a new corner of my everyday world. It is the whole grain craze! The reason I love it is because I know I am eating food that is healthier for me with lower fat, higher fiber and *sometimes lower calories. This idea that the food is better for you has also led me to religiously start eating turkey sausage, turkey hot dogs, turkey bacon, turkey burgers, turkey meatballs.

Each week I feel like something else makes the magic conversion. First it was pasta (which BTW, Barrilla Plus is the best), then it was pizza crust, macaroni and cheese, donuts, tortillas, english muffins, pita bread....but seriously, yesterday I reached a new high.

My awesome wife came home from the grocery store with WHOLE GRAIN FIG NEWTONS!!!!

Hot diggity dog I was excited. (and yes, I like whole grain hot dog buns with turkey hot dogs!)

Side note: A cookie is just a cookie but a newton is fruit and cake.

But of course there is a fundamental problem with my new pro-healthy high fiber regiment. (and no its not the toilet) That is that my brains tells me that because it is healthier for me then I can eat more. But that is not correct. So I guess its a work in progress but it's still a lifestyle change that is bound to help me in the long run.

So SO LONG white bread and other white flour products. Better join the crowd of extinct products of this world along with travel agents, VHS tapes, cassette players, blockbuster video, etc.

....tomorrow's topic, how the entire world is slowly moving towards the 100 calorie snack packs. I can't wait for the bag of 100 calorie gyros, 100 calorie vietnamese lemongrass chicken or 100 calorie Boardwalk Fries from the beach.