Nutritional Noshing

1/26/11 Kale is all the rage. The healthy chip. The most nutritional snack on the planet. Settling on the couch with my daily crossword, following my “snow day” sugar overload, I heard a "Today" show guest extolling the yumminess of Kale chips---all the crunch of a chip but obviously loaded with every vitamin and anti-oxidant known to man.

What’s a girl to do? Head to Easy Way, buy the kale, follow the easy recipe and voilà! The first 3 parts were easy but somehow the voilà never came. Hubby’s comment ranged from, “It tastes like fried air. “ to “ I feel like I just snorted volcanic ash.” Feeling guilty I ate a few more before dumping them in the trash.

Guilt was compounded as 2 days later Gina Neely showed this grand new “kale chip” recipe on “Down Home with the Neelys,” Food Network show (Pat even asked for more) Then, Monday’s “Recipe for Health” column in the Commercial Appeal also extolled the virtues of kale, giving a recipe calling for a special variety of kale, not the curly variety I had used.

Certainly there are things that are good for us, things we all need to be healthy. Yet, tastes/methods vary so what might benefit one does not exactly suit the “taste” of another. It’s that way in Bible study as well. I have friends who are reading through the Bible this year, one has actually cut her Bible into 4ths and is following a very strict calendar while the other is using a chronological Bible. Both are pleased with their chosen method. I, on the other hand, prefer this year to focus on only one book (Isaiah) through a “structured” setting that holds me accountable. Of course, I always have the option to springboard from something I read in a devotional or hear in a sermon. Again, it’s all about choices.

However as Larry and I choose our favorite Las Delicias chips, we are wondering what all the kale hype is about---we just don’t have a “taste” for that snack.