[Homestead] Stocking up on food

Don Bowen don.bowen at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 3 16:10:28 EDT 2004


At 10/3/2004, you wrote:
>And potatoes - in chunks - and throw out half the chunks that will have 
>absorbed at least some of the sodium that makes all packaged food so tasty.

A recent trip to Trader Joes, I rejected most of the pre packaged foods 
because they all had huge qualities of salt.

>I am serious about this - you can also counter the overload of 
>salt-and-preservatives somewhat if you *faithfully* eat a banana-a-day. 
>That 'presentation' of potassium has worked to lessen and even control the 
>ankle-swelling I am subject to because one of my 'comfort foods' is 
>packaged Polish sausage ...

I have to take a potassium pill because the BP pill robs the body of 
potassium and bananas cannot make up the difference.

Don Bowen
Awl Knotted Up Woodworking
Valley Center, CA             http://www.braingarage.com





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