Hey Mark, What--only a half-pound?! I have trouble gaining weight (5'6", 116 lbs.) and eat a pound of the stuff plus a little jerky to top it off. Boy, do folks cringe when I tell them that--ain't it fun? ( "WE used to live in an old shoe box in the middle of the road...." "Well, WE used to work 18 hours a day, come home, eat a lump of dry poison, and my dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt...." :-) Lois Mark Labbee wrote: > I took Ray's advice and soak bacon overnight. It tastes much better to me > without all that sodium and it probably leeches much of the sugar and maybe > even the nitrates. Anyway I eat a half-pound of it every morning. Boy do I > love telling people what I eat to get their reactions. > >