Comments on: Ashes and fasting http://www.meganlindholm.com/2009/02/25/ashes-and-fasting/ Authoritative Archive Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:26:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: katogden http://www.meganlindholm.com/2009/02/25/ashes-and-fasting/comment-page-1/#comment-34 katogden Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:40:44 +0000 http://www.meganlindholm.com/2009/02/25/ashes-and-fasting/#comment-34 <p>I bought a cookbook based on the Little House books and I remember reading in it that her descriptions of food in FARMER BOY were born in part of the extreme periods of low calorie, low variety subsistence eating she experienced in her own childhood. The food descriptions in FARMER BOY are especially detailed. </p> <p>So take that equation from yesterday, add cold and hard labour to it and I can't imagine that anyone would have been left standing. I read on Fitday.com that I use an average of 2000 plus calories just running up and down the office steps and because I walk to work sometimes. Imagine what farm work adds to that. Or (I shudder to think of this) the intense, primal hunger one experiences when you're nursing a child? </p> <p>Chilling to really think about.</p> I bought a cookbook based on the Little House books and I remember reading in it that her descriptions of food in FARMER BOY were born in part of the extreme periods of low calorie, low variety subsistence eating she experienced in her own childhood. The food descriptions in FARMER BOY are especially detailed.

So take that equation from yesterday, add cold and hard labour to it and I can’t imagine that anyone would have been left standing. I read on Fitday.com that I use an average of 2000 plus calories just running up and down the office steps and because I walk to work sometimes. Imagine what farm work adds to that. Or (I shudder to think of this) the intense, primal hunger one experiences when you’re nursing a child?

Chilling to really think about.

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