Onbei a farm -And o bazar Joyce B Be prepared Good advice for Boy Scouts, Good advice for anyone. Especial ly good advice if you must travle in the unpredictable weather of this first quarter of 1994. Looking over the situation at hand, how glad I was to have heeded that advice. My three inch-hihg-hcclcd dress shoes were not going to be much protection in the six inches of heavy, wet snow covering the airport’s parking lot But just three stretching, chilly steps should put me at the car door. And on the other side of the locked door waited a pair of calf high boots. A heavy winter jacket Sweatpants, gloves, earmuffs. In the car’s trunk was a shovel and salt The door and lock were only wet, the heavy snow barely crust ed with a seal of ice. The key slid in easily and the door swung open. Within a few minutes, more ade quately booted and bundled up. I had cleaned the heavy wet snow from windows, hood, and head lights and thankfully headed home. 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I’d hunted the one tool that would help dig through the ice crust and snow cover while the car’s heating system began to warm the interior. The ice scraper fished from un der the front seat is a heavy-duty one, with a curved shape for a bet ter scraping angle and a wide five inch blade edge. I began carefully chipping away at the snow, frozen mess enveloping my little car, re membering a news article on the recent epidemic of broken wind shields from overzealous, ice scraping efforts. That ice scraper was my lone tool and security blanket for the task. By the time most of the thick layer of snow lay on the pavement below the car, the inside heating was beginning to slightly loosen the undercoating of ice. After some 20 minutes of scraping and heating, the windows were clear, ice removed from the hood so it wouldn’t crash into the windshield headed down the highway, and the wipers safely swept from side to side. Funny, I’ve used that scraper only twice this winter, both times on that airport parking lot And on the day before leaving home that first time, I’d gone' to the car for my ice scraper always kept under the seat. It wasn’t there. See, it’s also my tool of choice for scraping away the layer of sil* Don’t Let Fast Food Devour Your Diet CREAMERY (Montgomery Co.) Did you know that about 40 percent of all American food dollars spent on eating away from home go to fast-food restaurants? The speed and convenience offer ed by these inexpensive eateries are tempting to lots of families with children involved in after school activities. With the restau rant industry increasingly catering to health-conscious consumers, an occasional fast-food meal need no longer blow an otherwise health ful diet out of the water. You can still order a high calor ie. high-fat, high-sodium meal, but some new menu items are of fering more healthful choices. 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I’d gone looking for the scraper on that day in late January to clean a row of bam windows. And the ice scraper lay on a shelf in the bam office, right where I’d left it nearly a year ago while planning to do more windows later. So much for being carefully prepared for winter driv ing. making this product 53% fat. The new dietary guidelines suggest we aim for 35% fat making (he above sandwich a poor choice. The same hamburger minus the ounce of cheese and without the 1 table spoon of mayonnaise has 310 cal ories and about 10 grams of fat providing 29% fat. (Keeping it within the 35% guideline.) To keep the fat and calories down choose: * pizza with vegetable toppings such as mushrooms and green peppers instead of pizza with pep peroni, sausage, or extra cheese * broiled burgers or chicken on a whole-wheat bun instead of su persized double burgers, fried chicken, or fried fish * lettuce and tomatoes instead of tartar sauce, mayonnaise, or specialty sauces * lowfat or skim milk instead of shakes and soft drinks * lightly buttered English muf fins instead of Danish pastries or pie * plain baked potato with small amount of margarine instead of CLASSIFIED ADS> t- PAY OFF! I . But why? On the very afternoon that 1 most needed to discover that my ice scraper was not in the car, why was I moved to undertake the disliked, messy cleaning job done at best once a year that would direct me to where it really was? 1 know what I believe. And it gives me goose bumps every time I think about it. “twice-baked” or topped witn cheese, sour cream, or bacon bits * vegetable salad with low-fat dressing instead of vegetables mixed with croutons, cheese, nuts, and bacon bits topped with full-fat dressings Checking the nutritional infor mation charts or pamphlets now available at many fast-food restau rants can be a real eye-opener. Use the fat, calorie, and sodium tables to make sure you’re getting what you think you are, especially if you eat at fast-food restaurants frequendy. Often people pick chicken and fish sandwiches thinking they’re more healthy than a hamburger, but if they’re deep fried and serv ed with tartar sauce or mayon naise, they can have significandy more calories and fat than a plain ground beef patty. But what if you just can’t resist the taste of all that fast food? Go ahead and order a double cheeseburger with fries, but split one order between two people. 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