i'm going to try making rosemary flatbread without the salt

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I'll put in Mrs. Dash or plain potassium salt substitute and see what I get.

I gots me the most fantastically healthy rosemary bush right outside my door.

I have likened shopping for completely nontoxic food to going to the gym, and maybe it's more like boot camp. The key for me to lose so much weight is to nix the fucking chemicals first of all. Then to do the Atkinsish thing of sticking to protein and vegetables and fruits, cutting out the pasta, rice, bread, potatoes, deserts. Usually I try to just eat a banana for breakfast, some boneless/skinless chicken breast baked in olive oil with vegetables, usually string beans, with a lot of saltless seasoning, for late lunch, and a blueberry probiotic smoothie for dinner. This usually covers it, when I drink enough coffee to keep my appetite down and my synapses firing. But sometimes it doesn't, and then I have a couple dollops of lowfat cottage cheese with a bunch of pepper and/or Mrs. Dash, or a small square of Venezuelan bittersweet chocolate... that is 91% cacao and just enough sugar to keep it from shriveling my mouth. Cacao is extremely healthy. The sugar, not so much.

Point is: I can't make myself suffer so severely I'm too disheartened to keep my resolve, and cheese is totally okay for me to eat, but I'd like a little something to put it on and so did extra laps to find something completely nontoxic and at least close to the imperatives of my diet. I came face to face with this certified organic rosemary flatbread they make up in Seattle from an old time Italian recipe, and, wow, do I love the stuff. The cost turns out to be about a dollar per cracker. Fuck that. It's got too much salt anyway.

So very soon I'm going into experimental mode, and if I succeed, that's what I'm going to eat instead of bread even after I've eased up on the regimen.

You should see me. I'm the very portrait of sveltitude and virtue. Three months and over 30 pounds gone... very close to my target now, but not going to blow it by thinking I can just go back to putting any old thing that seems cheap enough to make my grocery money cover the nut. I ain't caving to the "consolation" of cramming crap into my gapingly frustrated maw.