Willkommen!

My friend Hannah just told me she's got her family in Germany onto this blog - how exciting! It's so great when I hear that there are actually people out there reading this thing!

I just wanted also to make a few comments about nutrition info. I found a delicious looking cake I wanted to make, a tangerine-glazed polenta cake. How good does that sound? When I entered the nutritional info provided by Vegetarian Times into Weight Watchers, it came up with 8 points per slice. A splurge, but worth it. Then I entered the actual ingredient list into WW, and it calculated 12 points per serving. That's just too much of a splurge for me nowadays. So I had to consult a third party. I found the website http://www.nutritiondata.com/, which allows you to create recipes and it calculates the nutritional info for you. That website's results for the cake were consistent with Weight Watchers (thankfully, since I'm paying them), with the cake at around 350 calories per slice, while VT claimed it was only 241 calories per slice. The fat content was also off by a similar margin. Vegetarian times may have miscalculated the serving size, but they considered a serving to be 1/12 of the cake. I haven't tested out any more recipes, but for people who are counting calories, this is significant. Also, I am disappointed in my favorite magazine. Since this information is available online and for free, I don't think they should be making these kinds of errors.

That said, this it still my favorite magazine, and I am only being critical because I really use it allot. Just kidding, wanted to make you teachers crazy.
A lot!