Mom went out the other day and found herself near a health food store, and she ended up buying a jar of coconut oil. She'd heard it was good for you, so what the heck. She then went on an internet search to find out all the different things a person could do with it, including cook with it and putting it directly on skin, but so far I think she's ( Read more... )

On Fridays during Lent, good Catholics tend to not eat meat. For some reason, we are allowed fish. This has always confused me, but whatever. I should have been paying attention in my religion classes, I suppose. Anyway, so in past years this has meant tuna in some form or Van de Kamps. This year, we got wild and had shrimp. Whoa. Except ( Read more... )