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For What It's Worth...

Pretty sure that's the title of the Buffalo Springfield "Paranoia" song.


Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
Right?

Speaking of bread, I think I'm sitting pretty, having recently figured out how to make real yeast-based bread. The flour and other ingredients can keep a long time in the fridge. Not as hard to make as I thought--I think that because people are willing to spend money on bread-making machines, I just assumed it must be horrific, but not at all. Mainly time-consuming, as you have to allow for a total hour and a half or so to let it rise. Making my own, I get to control the flour (whole-grain wheat), and sodium content, making it "heart-healthy". Add some sunflower seeds and you've got yourself a clone of Healthnut.

I'm staying away from canned goods due to the high sodium content. But I learned in a heart-healthy cooking class that frozen vegetables have all the nutrition of fresh, so I'm packing my freezer with bags of corn, carrots, broccoli, etc.

Got a couple weeks of coffee, too. Conventional wisdom is not to refrigerate or freeze coffee, but turns out you can freeze whole beans and it not only preserves them, but seems to improve the taste a bit. I can get wired on caffeine and eat my vegetables like a good boy.

All the precautions got a bit more urgent after learning this morning I'm scheduled for a treadmill test Monday. Gave me pause, but I decided that, on balance, the risk of going into a medical facility during a pandemic is outweighed by the need to get my heart fixed. But I'm not going to like it.

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