The
Green Thumb Diet Plan
It all began a few years ago,
shortly after the Christmas holidays. Tom and his wife were sick of all the stuffing
of the stuffing they had done during the holidays. Wifey had cooked
a 57 pound turkey and for two people who are not much bigger than
a gnat, it takes a long time to eat that much bird.
She fixed turkey croquets, turkey
sandwiches, turkey enchiladas, turkey fettuccini, turkey soup,
turkey pot pie, turkey jerky, turkey brown betty - and so many other
turkey recipes that she and Tom didn't even want to look at another
turkey. And both of them were so bloated that they had to tie weights
around their ankles so that they wouldn't float away.
It was at this point that they
both decided that perhaps fresh vegetables and fruits would be a
very nice, healthy change and would help with the de-bloating. Although
turkey in itself is a pretty lean food, all the cheese and other
goo that were part of the total recipes weren't very calorie friendly.
Tom purchased a peck of seeds that first
year. He and wifey had dieted many times in the past, so they yearned
to go beyond celery, cucumbers and carrots.
Tom went ape with tomatoes - every size
and every color imaginable. The couple made tasty salads and hot sauce.
And he even grew the peppers and onions that went in the hot sauce.
Sometimes they would dress in sombreros and frilly ponchos for mealtime
because Tom's hot sauce was a four-star dining experience that deserved
serious celebration.
One season, he took time to sun-dry a few of the tomatoes he
had grown, and he and
wifey enjoyed the best pasta salad imaginable - prepared with light
Mayo, of course.
Tom began experimenting with squash and
melons and graduated to fruit. Their massive backyard begin to look
like the Garden of Eden might have looked. There were even tiny
earth snakes roaming about to help keep down the Evil Bug Count.
Then something amazing happened!
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