For the last week or two, I’ve been biting my lip an abnormal amount of times while I’m chewing and I can’t quite figure out why. I was chewing gum for a couple hours this morning and I bit my bottom lip twice already, so I’ve since disposed of the gum. The other day I bit my lip as well while eating, and I vaguely recall at least one other instance of that happening within the last week. The frequency of this happening seems strange to me so I tried figuring it out. Aside from one of my back teeth being pulled in December, there has been no other significant change to my mouth or jaw. Maybe that has something to do with it, but it doesn’t seem like it would effect that much.

On another unrelated note, I’ve realized how low my vegetable intake has gotten since moving out on my own. I’ve decided to start adjusting my eating to remedy this. The one vegetable I do eat a lot of is broccoli, which is good because it’s one of the better one’s for you, but I still need more variety. I’d like to add more vegetable side dishes into my meals and make at least one of my dinners per week a salad of some sort. So I put the question out to you, my readers (assuming there’s anyone actually reading this); how do you prepare your favorite vegetable sides? What are your favorite kinds of salads?