Down home cookin’ on this week’s Trim™

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Though some people might turn up their noses and stew about eating snapping turtles, there are many living near endless Iowa corn fields that think nothing of sitting down at the Country Pumpkin, putting on the feed bag over Labor Day and feasting on snapper stew and rhubarb pie, plus an extra helping of good ol’ American tradition.

I hope Don Quixote likes corn

Since pictures capture a story quite nicely and I’m windier than an Iowa cornfield, I’ll let these photos from Di’s recent trip home to visit family and celebrate her parents’ 50th Anniversary lead you through this week’s Trim™. Listen and follow along, if you please.

When slow and steady loses the race

Di's dad dangles one that didn't get away

Rhubarb pie is best to top off snapper stew

A dedicated workout helps burn away the snapper stew and rhubarb pie

Wind and pedal power is very healthy

Di gets back to her roots by climbing trees

If you meet a Buddha pear on the path, eat it

Have you forgotten your roots? When was the last time you climbed a tree? Would you eat a turtle or shape a pear? Or do you just sit there pear-shaped on the couch after a huge meal and never bother to work any of it off?

Are you always chasing windmills when it comes to good health? Will you take a little walk or go the extra mile? What will you eat, this week, to get Trim™, so you can spend more time with family and friends doing all the things you love to do?

Do it for them. Do it for you. Get Trim™.

The Kat