V Reasons to Go Vegetarian

I own none of the following material although it fits into the theme of this blog. Here's a video by Take Five Nation with Five Reasons to Go Vegetarian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WQBau1_pP4

V Reasons Why Diabetes is Probably in My Future

V Reasons Why Diabetes is Probably in my Future

Reason 1. I have a sweet tooth.

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I have the dream diet of a five-year-old. I eat candy almost daily, I absolute adore chocolate, and I can
eat butter cream frosting out of the can with a spoon like yogurt. (Most people would gag if they even imagined somebody eating as much frosting as I do at once). Dessert is my favorite part of any meal, and nine times out of ten I would choose to eat a cupcake over steak.

Reason 2. Carbs.

https://www.livestrong.com/article/465629-the-best-low-carb-bread/

My love for baked good has almost a 100% correlation with my love for sugar. The only thing better than cupcakes are whole cakes with their fluffiness maximized. My friends literally buy me candy and bake me cookies for my birthday, put them in a cutesy little box or gift bag, and I feel like the most blessed kid in America. Like if you want me to fall in love with you, just bake me something and stick a ring on top. In addition to the sweet side of carbs there is the savory side. I'm talking about the breads, pastas, and starches. Macaroni and cheese is my favorite food. By far. Like it outshines cupcakes. I could probably eat macaroni everyday if my life style allowed it, alas it does not. My favorite mac 'n' cheese is my Aunt Rainey's mac 'n' cheese: sure it has two boxes of butter in it, (I kid you not.) and is probably the poster child for cholesterol, but man, it is DELICIOUS. 

*Disclaimer: I am in no way endorsing the use of macaroni and cheese as an entree.

Reason 3. I am an athlete.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztiHRiFXtoc

As an athlete of 10+ years, my lifestyle is very active and physical. I play sports and work out daily year-round so my awful diet is basically balanced out by the amount of activity I do. This is great for right now that I'm still in high school and athletics is naturally part of my daily regimen, but it will serve to be an issue once I graduate. I don't plan on playing any college sports, aside from a rec team or two, so my diet of sweets and starches will have nothing to balance it out! That means I would have to limit myself in what I eat or go to the gym for two hours daily...

https://www.masterfile.com/image/en/619-03683492/grandmother-and-grandson-baking-cookies-together

Reason 4. I'm really good at cooking.

Not to toot my own horn, but I am pretty proficient when it comes to cooking. I can whip up anything
from salads and soups to breads and pastries. This is a problem because if I cook something delicious but unhealthy, I might just keep on cooking and eating it. I have on many occasions baked cookies just for the pleasure of decorating them, and then ate my art. That's not very proactive as an athlete but I would make a really good grandma.

Reason 5. I KNOW better, I just don't DO better.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/apple-pie

The worst part about all of this is the fact that I am aware of the fact that diabetes could be in my future, yet I continue to eat the way that I do. It's like being a smoker and knowing that every time you take a puff you are drastically increasing your chances of getting lung cancer but for me it's every time I eat a piece of Halloween candy or accept a slice of pie I know that I am drastically increasing my chances of getting diabetes. I will try, slowly but surely, to change my eating habits and reduce my sugar/carb intake but it is going to be very hard with the holidays right around the corner!

IV Reasons Why Halloween is a Set-Up Holiday

IV Reasons Why Halloween is a Set-Up Holiday

Pumpkins, candy, costumes, a reason to finally wear that hideous orange shirt you purchased, and all the ghoulish and garish phantasms you could ever want to pretend to be afraid of, what’s not to like about Halloween?

Well for starters, Halloween is most definitely a set-up holiday. What is a set-up holiday you ask? I’ll start by defining a set-up. A set-up is when someone purposely arranges something to mess with another person’s success. A set-up holiday is a holiday whose sole purpose is to screw over the people celebrating it. This is V Reasons Why Halloween is  Set-Up Holiday.

Reason 1. Candy is bad for you.

Candy is pure sugar. Sugar is a carbohydrate and our bodies turn carbohydrates into lipids. Do you know what lipids are? FAT! I don’t wanna be fat! But I want to eat candy. Now after running around the neighborhood for two hours collecting it in a pillowcase I’m going to go home and reverse all of my hard work in a matter of minutes and gobble down the candy that I have! This

Reason 2. It isn’t safe.

Halloween tells us to do exactly what adults have been telling us NOT to do our entire lives!  What do I mean? Let me list the ways:

-encourages kids to take candy from strangers

-encourages kids to wander around in the dark

-encourages kids to go up to strangers’ doors

-encourages kids to accept candy from strangers

-people can hide their faces

...shall I go on?

Reason 3. Costumes and decorations are expensive.

Spending an exorbitant amount of money on costumes. Last night my dad literally spent $40 on a suit I would wear maybe once in my entire life. Okay so as it is a Mr. Incredible suit I guess I might just wear it a couple times more just to feel beasty- but that’s besides the point.

Reason 4. Scaring

We literally spend our lives trying to prove that we’re not afraid of anything and then turn around and run through a haunted house just for the sake of being scared witless.

Five Reasons Why Hot Krispy Kreme Doughnuts are the Best.

V Reasons Why HOT Kripsy Kreme Doughnuts are the Best

Before moving to Blacklick, my current place of residence, a Krispy Kreme doughnut was just a simple treat that could be easily obtained from any gas station or, if daddy was in a special mood, a box from Kroger. Where I grew up, we never had an actual Krispy Kreme

store to go to, only Tim Hortons and Dunkin' Donuts and other doughnut shops so I never had the opportunity to go to an actual Krispy Kreme store. All that changed when we moved as there was a new shop under construction right down the street from my house. Upon its opening, we were told that free doughnuts would be given out when the "HOT-LIGHT" was on. That was the moment my life had been forever changed. Allow me to walk you through the process of eating a HOT Kripsy Kreme doughnut.

Reason 1.The smell.

The second you open the door you are immersed in a succulent wave of sweet doughiness. The smell is so rich that you can practically take a full-flavor bite straight out of the air. It's so satisfying that they could sell the scent as candles, air fresheners, and perfumes, and make just as much profit as they do off the doughnuts themselves. I promise the smell is that good. If you don't believe me, feel free to go yourself and bask in the heavenly scent of it all. 

Reason 2. They are the perfect balance of sugary and savory.

You can taste the sheer deliciousness of the doughnut before you even close your mouth entirely. The sugar basically radiates off the doughnut and straight onto your tongue. The sugar dip from the doughnut stands apart from other doughnuts as the sugar isn't too potent that you will get diabetes, but it's the perfect amount that you can enjoy the sweetness of it in every bite. The dough itself tastes the way the Kroger Bread Factory smells: like the best baked good in the world! The sugar dip and the dough complement each other as well as chips and dip.

Reason 3. They have the optimal ratio of crispiness to chewiness.

As the doughnut employee hands you your doughnut, gently wrapped in a sheet of wax paper, you can feel, with your hands, the firm, but delicate, softness of the warm doughnut. It's not overly soft to the point where it's under-cooked, but it's also not stiff and over-baked: It's the perfect doughnut every time. When you pinch the doughnut you can see the layers of fluff meld into one another.

Reason 4. They melt in your mouth.

As you close your mouth, the sugar glaze dissipates like a snowflake on the tip of your tongue and then your teeth sink into the crispy/chewy sweet/savory dough. The HOTness of the doughnut makes the dough and sugar literally melt in your mouth; it feels like a solid doughnut is turning into liquid in your mouth. Your mouth starts watering and your eyes close and within three bites you've eaten the entire thing and paid for three more to go.

Reason 5. They're free.

The doughnuts were already delicious individually, but when you add in the factor that they cost you absolutely nothing (except your mom's gas money) it takes them to a separate level of greatness. Personally, I feel more places should give out free things, not because they could hold a candle to the greatness of a HOT Krispy Kreme Doughnut, but because it makes you feel happy and when you feel happy, life seems better. In the words of Sam Cooke, "The best things in life, they're free." And I can assure you, in the words of Shayanna Hinkle-Moore, "Few free things, in life, are better than a HOT Krispy Kreme doughnut." 

Photo Credits:
-http://time.com/money/4656894/krispy-kreme-free-doughnut-donut-new-coffee/
-http://potomaclocal.com/2015/12/15/krispy-kreme-doughnuts-coming-manassas/
-http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/30/krispy-kreme-is-changing-its-name-here-in-the-uk-to-stop-people-misspelling-it-6542537/
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UmDVtKqKEs
-https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/wallart/product/the-best-things-in-life-are-free-wall-sticker

V Reasons Why The Goofy Movie has the Best Food

V Reasons Why the Goofy Movie has the Best Food

Many of us can appreciate a simpler time when chips were 4/$1, Michael Jordan was the undisputed king of basketball, and Disney made excellent movies. One of my personal Disney favorites, The Goofy Movie comes from this time. The Goofy Movie, (1995) has everything a die-hard Disney fan could ever want in a movie, a catchy, memorable soundtrack, humorous characters, a celebrity in the cast, and delicious looking food. This is V Reasons Why The Goofy Movie has the most visually attractive food.

Reason 1: Cheddar Whizzies

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The first featured food from The Goofy Movie is the can of spray cheese that Bobby, the protagonist's (Max) best friend, uses to create the iconic "Leaning Tower of Cheeza". This can of cheese made every child from LA to London want to buy a can of spray cheese and make a cheese tower of their own creation. I, for one, was one of these kids. When I finally succeeded in convincing my dad to buy a can, I took it home, sprayed out a lopsided column of cheese, and was for the most part satisfied with my work. Then, in the same Bobby-fashion, shoved the mass of cheese into my mouth, anticipating the delicious flavorful “Cheddar Whizzies, (AWOOOOOOO!!!!!!)” I had envisioned. Sadly, the canned cheese tasted nothing like the way I imagined the movie cheese to, to say the least, and therefore stayed in our cabinet, untouched until my next “Leaning Tower of Cheeza” attempt.

Reason 2: Diner Breakfast

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The second food I’m highlighting is the breakfast Max and his dad, Goofy, ate at a diner during their road trip to Lake Destiny, Idaho. Max’s plate held smiling sunny side up eggs and bacon while Goofy had a very tall “short stack” of pancakes deliciously drenched in what was probably a gallon of syrup. I, myself, don’t care to have my eggs cooked sunny-side-up, but the Goofy movie made the eggs look like they would be the best tasting batch of eggs I had ever eaten and the bacon looked perfect: crisp and salty. As for Goofy’s pancakes, there were probably fifteen in the stack and it appeared that he ate twelve of them in one bite! I have the same mindset as Goofy when it comes to pancakes; drown them in syrup and the more the better!

Reason 3: Amusement Park Junk food

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The third is the tray of junk food Max brings Goofy while they spend a day at an amusement park. On the tray of food is a drink large enough to rival the gigantic box of french fries sitting next to it for the title of “biggest amusement park container”. The ketchup-drenched fries are neighbors with a chili dog so long it extends over the edge of the tray. And lastly, the most scrumptious of all, the tortilla chips swimming in a pool of nacho cheese. Oh my goodness, I would be in nacho heaven if I ever ate a container of nachos with that much cheesy goodness. (And unlike the Cheddar Whizzies, this would be gone in minutes.)

Reason 4: Hi Dad Soup

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The fourth food in the spotlight is the heart wrenching “Hi Dad Soup”. This adorable Disney favorite comes from Goofy who would lovingly make a special soup for his son, Max, when he was a little kid. As the noodles in the soup were alphabet-shaped, Max would organize the noodles to spell out the words “HI DAD”. I know, it’s soooo cute, isn’t it?

Reason 5: Motel Pizza

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/2z2jpe/the_way_cheese_pizza_looks_in_cartoons/

The final food is most definitely the one everyone who has ever watched The Goofy Movie covets: the motel pizza. (I'm getting hungry just thinking about it). The cheese stretches a mile and oozes when PJ picks it up out of the box. Then, when he’s holding it in his hand you can practically smell the melted cheese, the crispy pepperonis, and the mouthwatering crust as if you had just purchased a pizza of your own to enjoy solely for watching this scene… not that I have ever done that before.