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I love this cereal. Trader Joe’s Super Nutty Toffee Clusters. Yup. There are pecans and brazil nuts and almond slices and these crunchy toffee clusters. And flakes. But the other stuff is the more exciting bit.

I’ve been sitting here, watching episodes of “Lost” on the ABC website (I started watching season 1 on Friday night since I’d never watched an episode and I think it’s good to be hip with the pop culture. Let me say that the thing that bothers me most about the show is that I can’t suspend my disbelief that a group of this many overly attractive and photogenic people would be on one flight and all end up surviving. They really should’ve cast a larger percentage of average-looking people. I mean, really – how many guys with impossibly blue eyes could there be, as well as an overabundance of extremely fit people. There are two people who represent anyone with a BMI greater than 12%) and munching on handfuls of this cereal, dry.

It’s just tasty. If you’ve got a Trader Joe’s near you (and don’t have any nut allergies) this cereal must make it onto your shopping list.

In other food news, my friends and I made a kick-ass chili last night – and brownies. We made plans to hang out and watch Hell House, a documentary about a haunted house, called a “hell house”, put on by a fundamentalist Christian church down in Texas, and Shoot ‘Em Up, a laughably bad (and I think somewhat self-aware in that way) action flick with Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti.

For the chili, we used bison meat because it’s leaner and higher in protein than beef, and was also the only meat at the supermarket that was designated as being free of hormones and antibiotics. I browned that, and then we threw in some onion and garlic. Then, some crushed tomatoes, tomato paste and herbs and spices: cilantro, cayenne pepper, chili powder, a dash of basil, black pepper and salt. Finally, dark red and light red kidney beans, black beans, some splashes of beef broth as it reduced down… and a few squares of 70% dark chocolate at the very very end (once everything was all cooked up and soaked in lovely flavors.) We bought a loaf of whole wheat ciabbatta bread and warmed that up in the oven so it was good and toasty – and had that crusty goodness (with some butter) along with the chili.

Num-num-nums. And then we made brownies. Since the chili was from scratch, we felt perfectly justified making the brownies from a mix – but with add-ins. They were dark chocolate fudge brownies and we threw in chopped up Reese’s Peanut Butter cups. Num-num-nums.

And I am making myself hungry right now, despite having eaten not long ago. I’ll just have to cook up something tasty tomorrow.

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