Why I've lost 15 pounds since I started learning to cook:

Tonight I tried another recipe, this one called for 2 cups of tuna, but noted that other fist would work fine, too. Tuna is just fine, but wild salmon contains less mercury, so when I saw cans of it, I grabbed a few! (I also always worry about getting, say, snowed in with no power. Cans of fish will keep for longer than the meat in the freezer...)

There are many differences between canned tuna and canned salmon, but tonight I discovered the only one I really cared about.

Canned salmon has BONES in it. Ew.

Ew. Ew. EW.

Not just a few virtually-nonexistent ribs, either. VERTEBRAE.

Now, I used to be a vegetarian because I didn't like the idea of eating things with spinal columns. Yes, I pulled them all out, but... ew.

It took me an hour after I took my finished fish patties out of the oven to actually eat them. And then I could only manage one. The rest will go into the freezer for some time when I'm less grossed out.

Ew.

I'm telling you - the greatest glory of civilization is that we don't have to eat the icky bits. Or at least, we don't have to *know* that we're eating the icky bits!!!