Mary’s Notes, June 12, 2007
Another $5880 in checks and Paypal donations has come in the door since Friday. Thank you!
Garrett Zevgetis, aka nother from the ROS community, has joined us as a summer production intern. We’re grateful for his enthusiasm and help. Watch out world, he has the makings to be a mean ol producer.
David is looking into the China stock market story for tomorrow. Katherine is researching joneden’s suggestion from the pitch thread asking whether capitalism is the right economic model to deal with climate change.
Chelsea is following up on last night’s show on Big Pharma and looking into a focussed hour on the relationship doctors have with drug companies. Have we mentioned that Chelsea is living off of the 21 dollar a week food stamp diet? She’s two weeks into it and says the free samples at Whole Foods help a lot. Here’s part of her shopping list from last week:
a bag of spinach ($1), 6 mangoes (.69 each), two jars of peanut butter (two for $4), two cans of tuna (three for a dollar), canola oil ($1.39 per pound), 24 bananas ($2.40), 16 oz. shredded mozzarella ($1.77) and a big splurge — 24 popsicles ($2). What a country!
free viagra
buy viagra online
generic viagra
how does viagra work
cheap viagra
buy viagra
buy viagra online inurl
viagra 6 free samples
viagra online
viagra for women
viagra side effects
female viagra
natural viagra
online viagra
cheapest viagra prices
herbal viagra
alternative to viagra
buy generic viagra
purchase viagra online
free viagra without prescription
viagra attorneys
free viagra samples before buying
buy generic viagra cheap
viagra uk
generic viagra online
try viagra for free
generic viagra from india
fda approves viagra
free viagra sample
what is better viagra or levitra
discount generic viagra online
viagra cialis levitra
viagra dosage
viagra cheap
viagra on line
best price for viagra
free sample pack of viagra
viagra generic
viagra without prescription
discount viagra
gay viagra
mail order viagra
viagra inurl
generic viagra online paypal
generic viagra overnight
generic viagra online pharmacy
generic viagra uk
buy cheap viagra online uk
suppliers of viagra
how long does viagra last
viagra sex
generic viagra soft tabs
generic viagra 100mg
buy viagra onli
generic viagra online without prescription
viagra energy drink
cheapest uk supplier viagra
viagra cialis
generic viagra safe
viagra professional
viagra sales
viagra free trial pack
viagra lawyers
over the counter viagra
best price for generic viagra
viagra jokes
buying viagra
viagra samples
viagra sample
cialis
generic cialis
cheapest cialis
buy cialis online
buying generic cialis
cialis for order
what are the side effects of cialis
buy generic cialis
what is the generic name for cialis
cheap cialis
cialis online
buy cialis
cialis side effects
how long does cialis last
cialis forum
cialis lawyer ohio
cialis attorneys
cialis attorney columbus
cialis injury lawyer ohio
cialis injury attorney ohio
cialis injury lawyer columbus
prices cialis
cialis lawyers
viagra cialis levitra
cialis lawyer columbus
online generic cialis
daily cialis
cialis injury attorney columbus
cialis attorney ohio
cialis cost
cialis professional
cialis super active
how does cialis work
what does cialis look like
cialis drug
viagra cialis
cialis to buy new zealand
cialis without prescription
free cialis
cialis soft tabs
discount cialis
cialis generic
generic cialis from india
cheap cialis sale online
cialis daily
cialis reviews
cialis generico
how can i take cialis
cheap cialis si
cialis vs viagra
levitra
generic levitra
levitra attorneys
what is better viagra or levitra
viagra cialis levitra
levitra side effects
buy levitra
levitra online
levitra dangers
how does levitra work
levitra lawyers
what is the difference between levitra and viagra
levitra versus viagra
which works better viagra or levitra
buy levitra and overnight shipping
levitra vs viagra
canidan pharmacies levitra
how long does levitra last
viagra cialis levitra
levitra acheter
comprare levitra
levitra ohne rezept
levitra 20mg
levitra senza ricetta
cheapest generic levitra
levitra compra
cheap levitra
levitra overnight
levitra generika
levitra kaufen
June 12th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Did Chelsea weigh herself before she started?
Jim McGovern is our congressman (article linked above)- we love him.
June 12th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Forgot to say- I was thinking Garrett might morph—-wonderful!!!
June 12th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
About Garrett — I had an intuition that this was happening. Good luck!! Also, I’ll be in touch about Edward Hopper as soon as I get my poems into the mail. But will you have any time, now that you’re basically working three jobs?
Chelsea — Honey, I’m worried about this. I’m serious. You can’t live on what you bought. You’re already petite. You can’t afford to lose any weight. And peanut butter is filling, but despite what they tell us, it’s not the best thing to eat. I give you so much credit for doing this. I’ll be thinking about you. And this will make a great show, assuming you’re planning one.
June 12th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Kate I think she will be okay if she makes some minor changes. Too many mangoes- and forget the pops- that was not wise. I do worry about the calories she needs. Buy beans.
The point it that one really needs to understand nutrition to negotiate this and the poor- for the most part I would guess- do not. The allowance as is should not assauge any guilt about caring for the poor.
June 12th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
( btw- That’s why I think she should weigh herself- to see if she is losing.)
June 12th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Have we mentioned that Chelsea is living off of the 21 dollar a week food stamp diet?
Beans are good. For a cheap quick meal look into Raman - you can even get off-brand Raman that is cheaper yet. Add hot sauce for a flavorful treat.
As far as ‘knowing’ about nutrition - I’ve been poor and I knew about nutrition. Granted I’m only a case of one but still.
June 13th, 2007 at 12:27 am
I’ve always wondered about the food market. Exactly how did we get to a world where it’s cheaper to buy a lot of junk food and deserts then healthy food?
That and is there anyway to get away from it and start making something like an apple, cheaper then a deef friend Mars Bar?
Do eat right Chelsea, life is that much better when you do eat all that you should and not an imbalance of what is just laying about.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:19 am
I’ll echo Brian Dunbar- nutrition isn’t a secret of the upper & middle classes- and beans are good (& can be delicious). Beans & rice together cover the “required” protein spectrum… and, invested with a sauteed onion & a little fat (butter, whatever… I’d be tempted to try peanut butter, but probably not the oil from the tuna- if you got oil packed, & not water) the beans can be refried and eaten with steamed rice (brown rice, short or long-grain… not the white stuff) & whatever condiment/sauce works for you. I like your shopping list- but I’m a fruit bat (could live on citrus, berries, bananas, dates, etc). When I tried the “straight” macrobiotic thing years ago (brown rice, tamari, sea salt), the only “outside” bonbon that I allowed myself was popsicles… ^..^
June 13th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Howdy,
Thanks for the nutrition advice.
I’m trying to eat mainly protein, fruits and vegetables and I’m relying heavily on the bruised fruit discounts at Stop& Shop. The main revelation I’ve had is that saving money is time consuming because it involves multiple trips to multiple stores in order to fully take advantage of the weekly sales. Saving money also means saving everything, rather than tossing a mug half full of coffee, I now refrigerate it and warm it up for breakfast the next day. I also understand why so many have to eat junk food. When you can buy 10 frozen pizzas for $10.00, which could amount to 20 meals for one person, it makes 69 cent mangoes look pretty frivolous.
Speaking of food stamp diets, I came across this diary entry during my hunt for Blogsday material.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Congrats! Garrett aka nother.
June 13th, 2007 at 11:38 am
A great book on dietary combinations to make complete proteins is Frances Moore Lappe’s Diet for a Small Plant. As well- she wrote “Recipes for a Small Planet”. Not to be too flip but I thought you could pick the dandelion greens on the way to work. Boil them for 10 minutes. Serve with oil and garlic. Oh yum.
I wonder if good nutrition is taught in the schools. School lunches used to be simply awful and a recent look at school lunch menus show that not much has changed. A show idea: get Alice Waters on to talk about this. I understand this is a passion of hers.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
I’ve had is that saving money is time consuming because it involves multiple trips to multiple stores in order to fully take advantage of the weekly sales
Don’t forget ‘free bagel’ day at the office.
Ah, you laugh. But ‘found’ food is a great way to stretch a budget.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Ehhh…I think that people have an instinctive sense of nutrition (hence all of those classic comboes of beans/rice/corn that actually make a pretty decent diet) but it’s been all but firebombed out of them in this country by advertisers, corn syrup peddlars, junk food moguls, et al. You don’t see a lot of poor people in this country buying brown rice. If they’re lucky, they have ethnic food traditions that allow for common sense, inventiveness and actual cooking (go down to Haymarket in Boston of a Saturday and watch the Chinese grandmothers haggling with the young Italian fruit vendors over this bit or that of bruised fruit). If they don’t, they’re end up the ones you see in the Foodmaster buying gallons of neon fruit drink and bags of chips as big as sacks of charcoal briquettes. And no offense, Brian, because I love the stuff, but Ramen is a heart attack in a packet. Enough sodium to keep you going for a week and a lot of fat too.
I know that boredom would be the biggest challenge for me, getting irritated by the same leftovers every day, getting tired of bananas. That said, the best bang for your buck is probably a big pot of soup. An 89-cent bag of split peas, an onion and a hambone will get you pretty far, as will a chicken, boiled up with some carrots, garlic, and noodles or rice or what have you. Good luck!
June 13th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
[...] ne of the listener/contributors, Garrett Zevgetis, became such a prolific help online that he’s been hired as a summer production intern at Open Source. For the past two yea [...]
June 14th, 2007 at 12:39 am
And no offense, Brian, because I love the stuff, but Ramen is a heart attack in a packet. Enough sodium to keep you going for a week and a lot of fat too.
No offense taken. I love Raman as well but recognize it’s not exactly a packet o’ healthy goodness. i said cheap and quick not ‘heart healthy’.
June 14th, 2007 at 1:40 am
Thanks for the link, Chelsea… it was informative to see what people had suggested to Ms. Lee to improve her buying power (I guess even the poor/ formerly poor read blogs, now & again).
It would be interesting to examine the connection between the genetically modified crops and the crops supported most substantially by the Farm Bill. It seems like there’s a parallel there… which implies that maybe the genetic seed modifiers are simply using farmers as a “pass-through” mechanism to tap into the U.S. Treasury, via crop subsidies… chow ^..^