Sin happens

I’ve been bad. Really bad. Not only have I not written here in almost a week, I never wrote to give something up this week! To make myself feel better, I’ve decided that giving up corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup in one week was a big enough task to spread over and count [...]

Corn is king

I assigned myself the movie King Corn a while back and rented it from iTunes. Well, you can only keep your digital rental for 30 days and today was the last of my 30 days, so I guess the assignment came due. Way to go me, leaving everything to the last minute! So I watched [...]

Cheater, cheater, cornbread eater

Last night we went to Matt’s vegan chili party. I was stoked to know that the chili was corn free, but Matt was sad to say that he made cornbread to go with the chili and that, of course, had corn in it. I wasn’t too bummed about that since cornbread isn’t my fav thing. [...]

Goodbye to some, hello to others

This no corn syrup/high fructose corn syrup thing has been hard, but not as hard as I had expected. Maybe it’s because I have already been trying to cut back on my processed food intake? Either way, I haven’t had to say no to too many things that I would have otherwise wanted. Of course, [...]

Giving corn the silent treatment

Today is day 5 without corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup. It’s been an interesting week. I went shopping with the boyfriend at Trader Joe’s on Monday and we had a pretty hard time finding him some tastey chocolate snacks that weren’t made with either syrup. After he gave up and started to pout [...]

Run, corn, run!

I’m a bit late with this post. It should have gone up yesterday, but I was a bit winded after my other marathon-length post on the New York Times Magazine article. As per usual, Sunday marked a new week and another corn product elimination. This one was tricky. I’d run out of all the obvious [...]

Oil is One of the Most Important Ingredients in Our Food, Oh My

My friend Matt kindly alterted me to the New York Times Magazine food issue that came out last week. As you can see from the cover, many topics discussed in this issue of the magazine were relevant to my PSP. The main article within the magazine is an open letter to the President-Elect titled Farmer [...]

One step forward, one step back

I regret it’s been a long week of not posting. Midterm week came along and gave me a swift kick to the a** so it’s not entirely my fault. It’s been an interesting week in the life of cornless-ness. First of all, today is the boyfriend’s birthday. Seeing as I am a very poor grad [...]

Off the Bandwagon

This week is brought to you by: CORNSTARCH. Really, it’s brought to you by the elimination of cornstarch, but I was feeling reminiscent for Sesame Street. So cornstarch. First a video featuring cornstarch: Yep that “non-newtonian fluid” is cornstarch and water and you too can walk across it if you make a batch big enough. [...]

To cheat or not to cheat?

I’m not really sure if I’ve cheated, but I know that I have tried not to. Make sense? Probably not. Wednesday to Thursday was Yom Kippur. For all you non/lapsed Jews out there, it’s one of our biggest holidays of the year when we atone for unkept promises and such. Part of this includes a [...]