Healthy Living

With the arrival of the New Year comes the hope of improving our dietary choices. Some of us will follow through with strategized plans to lose weight. But for most of us this sliver of optimism will last just until the first slider is consumed at your Super Bowl party. Regardless, we have rounded up some of the most extreme diets for you to chew on. Well, chewing may be optional in some of these cases.

“G-shot?” A tray of sleek brown vials whisked by, the scent of freshly cut grass wafting in their wake. “I don’t know…I really shouldn’t.” After just a couple cocktails spiked with liquid ginseng — the evening's ingredient du jour — contributor Vanita Salisbury's thumbs were throbbing, heart thumping. But that was only the start of her evening fun. Or, the opposite. 

Against The Grain baguettes are chewy, moist, flavorful, slightly crisp and full of yeasty umami flavor. They also have 24 grams of fat per medium-sized baguette (which I consider to be normal sandwich-sized), because it's literally bread made out of mozzarella. The ingredients listed are tapioca starch, milk, eggs, mozzarella cheese, canola oil and salt.