Pop Tarts

I must have spent three hours yesterday in the California delta waterway getting tore up by all the brambles on the myriad banks of the sloughs around Thornton...but it was worth it:



I collected over three pounds of blackberries, two of which shall be eaten today, and should provide me with 1/3rd of my daily calories and over 40 grams of fiber.



I mentioned my food axiom before and I'll repeat it -- any food you eat should require a modicum of your own preparation. In this case, my preparation was getting pulverized by thorn stabwounds, raised welts and a full night of wheezing and congestion from the wild grasses I had to plow through to get to the berry bushes.

But it was worth the cost.

I will eat as much fiber from these berries alone than an American will get in four days with his standard American diet. The antioxidants, I hope, will kill all my developing lung cancers from bicycle commuting alongside motor vehicles and deposit them directly into my colon, where the berry fiber will grind them up and the high water content will flush them back to the delta.

In case you were wondering, reheating a blackberry Pop-Tart in a microwave does not qualify as your own preparation.