Okay, I couldn't resist posting today! Check this out! It was in TIME Boy, the writers really got descriptive in the ways they raked Atkins and others over the coals. (A little over-done on the adjectives if you ask me!) http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,33169,00.html --- Some of the critics say (of the Zone and other low-carb/non-grain-pyramid scheme diet plans) *....this diet can be boring..." We've heard that tired refrain tooo many times. If you ask me, boring is a state of mind. We didn't find a macrobiotic diet boring when we ate that way, nor the Zone Diet, nor is a Paleo diet inherently boring. It's all in how you do it....and your attitude and sense of adventure and culinary imagination! When I hear that someone says it must be boring to eat this way (or to not eat doughnuts, pasta, bread, or whatever the person's craze is) I wonder, * What do they expect of their food to do?* Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight? Bring them Saturday Night Live? I mean foods is supposed to nourish us first....it can be and is a pleasure to eat but what makes bread, pasta, artificially colored crackers, cookies, or cold cereal more entertaining than a big juicy steak with a stir fried vegetable medley or a side of steak tartare or grilled chicken breasts with a crisp Caesar salad (sans croutons!) and some ripe, ruby red grapes for dessert? Maybe its the fact that sexy actors and actresses don't promote these foods (meat leaves no mustache!) ??? Maybe it's that they don't pop out of a box? There's no paper to strip off? (I'd better stop now.) Oh, well, that's entertainment! Okay, back to serious work! Rachel :-)