Cooked T-bone steak for tonight

It was great. When I don't have access to barbecue I just fry it in a large pan with butter, and after browning all sides add some teriyaki sauce.

People should not totally eliminate red meat from their diets. The problem is the daily doses of meat like burgers which like all extremes is not a good idea. Steak should be like it was when I was growing up, a "treat" food. Contrary to what vegetarians believe humans would not be as healthy as they are today if humans had gone "vegetarian." There is a lot of essential nutrients (think of iron in red meat for example) essential to good health that really are not properly provided via popping food supplement pills. Meat, not grazing, allowed humans to live and thrive. However, like I said, moderation is the key. The ancient Greeks had an expression "the beautiful mean" or the "golden mean." By "mean" they meant average, the way of moderation. A good steak ought to be part of everyone's diet, who wishes to, but on a sensibly moderate basis.

As dessert I'm having Murray Old Fashioned Ginger Snaps (traditional cookies) and they are very good.

Another thought to share about good nutrition. It is important that you be responsible parents in shaping your own and your children's taste for healthy foods. For example, when I was growing up "relish trays" of celery, carrots and pickles were loved by kids along with their meals. Now people let their kids develop tastes that are over sugared or trashy simply by not providing great basic food when kids are in the process of developing food likes and dislikes. Many kids my age would eat raw carrots happily but were not crazy about cooked carrots but hey, at least they were eating one of the healthiest foods known to humans happily. (Did you know that ancient Chinese lore praises the carrot as one of the healthy blessed foods? They had discovered its wonderful nutritional value thousands of years ago and considered it almost magical, since they didn't know why it was so beneficial, nutriants being unknown then). So let your kids develop taste for healthy vegetables by providing them as routinely as they were when I was young. They need the fiber, the juice, and the nutrients of foods like celery and carrots, and pickles are great for astringent effects against bad bugs.