Sweet Date or Sweet Date?

Sweet dates contain a good sugar that digests slowly in the body, so if you cook with them, you'll not experience the rush of sugar refined sugar gives you. No spiking insulin. Date sugar has a flavor, however, not a bad flavor, but a flavor that could be detected in say, a cookie. Cookies made with brown sugar and oats and cinnamon would be complimented by date sugar. Cookies made with white flour and sugar, such as a sugar cookie, wouldn't be.

Okay then, Sweet Date: A man with a good smile and nice teeth and sweet breath. A man who keeps eye contact and doesn't spend the whole evening talking about himself. He holds the door for you, but isn't insistent that it is the only way things are done. You know, paying and holding the door boost his ego—or they are a sign of rigidity. No, he's just a guy who is into you and wants to help out where he can. But he isn't the type that helps you and never himself—that guy would be co-dependant. And then he'd begin to resent you because you've kept him from doing the things he wants for himself. Arugh!

Tonight I'll be having dinner with a man—he's cooking it—at his house. We've been out twice now. I hardly know him, but he seems sweet. So I guess we'll see whether he's date sugar or white sugar.

Beet sugar is another sugar used in cooking—and of course, the good old corn sugar, often manufactured into a syrup that turns off the "I've Eaten Enough" switch in your body. We're supposed to stay away from corn sugar.

In the First Time Farmer's Guide there are wonderful pictures of how to do this and how to do that on your little farm. The book was written in the 70s and suggests different poisons to use in the garden. Diotomaceous earth you know is the tiny skeletons of sea creatures. It looks like white powder and doesn't harm any thing but the bugs in your garden—shreds them. But now we know you shouldn't breathe it. Why does it take so long to figure out what harms us? White sugar, prehistoric bug skeletons, co-dependant men.

Okay then, think and speak love, and grow a garden.
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