A Little Bit of Everything

As a child it was told many a time around the holidays about how a large bowl of olives was placed in front of me as preparation for Thanksgiving dinner went on- a bowl fit to feed a dozen. A few minutes later the bowl was mysteriously empty.

"Blame it on Henry!" My mother would laugh. Henry, a dear family friend always picked olives off his pizza and offered them to me as a toddler. I would crawl up onto his lap, open my mouth, and he would plop them in- hmmm!

Who doesn't love olives? My mother doesn't- she doesn't like many "healthy" vegetable foods. But I did. Everything she didn't eat I would- broccoli, asparagus, artichokes and mostly, olives. Mhmmmm.

And today I discovered the lie.

Olives aren't healthy!
Far from it. I always thought- oh I shall have a nice healthy snack after school and eat a can of olives.

A can of olive is half my daily salt!
And a ridicules amount of fat!

The salt is the preservative so I can avoid that by finding fresh olives (though I've never actually seen any) but the fat! Oh dear!

What a great lie I have lived in. Hitler said the best lies are the biggest. Well olives are delicious lies. No protein, no vitamins, no fiber- just fat! *SIGH*

Future generations must be educated- some healthy foods aren't healthy! Cucumbers have more carbs then good things. And corn? Can you say calories?

At least I can count on my artichokes...