Dr. Grandma shares insight regarding avoiding diabetes and a recipe for asparagus.

When we have a particular job to get done repeatedly, we look around to “hire” a product or service to help us do that job better. Pancakes for the boring morning commute rise to the top of the chart.

Dr. Grandpa asserts that tastes can evolve, palettes can become more sensitive when refined foods and sugars are replaced with healthier alternatives. He advises taking stock of ones ingrained eating habits and consciously developing new patterns that include downright enjoyment of attractive and yummy kinds of salads.

In this post, Dr. Grandpa relates his surprise at learning that the skinny kid with the sweet tooth who could always eat as much as he wanted had diabetes. He recounts the steps he and Dr. Grandma used to lose weight, lick it, and quit the medicine in 6 months — now sustained for 5 years.

In his second Guest Blogging post, Dr. Grandpa relates his lonely batchelor story of meeting Dr. Grandma on an internet singles service, and the resulting romance and marriage. Her email address was a variation on “Garden Lady”, and some garden pictures are shown.

In his first Guest Blogging post, Dr. Grandpa recounts his adventures in something he is calling “Foodland”, a term referring to the marvellous mixture of good and bad food offerings that give so much choice and abundance to the consumer, but at a cost.