On RealAge.com there was an article about eating seaweed helping to block the absorption of fat. Now I won’t take fad drugs or weight loss drugs that claim the same thing, but eating seaweed to block fat – that doesn’t sound like a bad thing.

So, excited about this idea, I went to the Asian market down the street to find toasted nori. There were two problems with this plan:

• I don’t read Japanese or Chinese and most of the products in the store had very little English on them.
• I have no idea what toasted nori looks like or where it would be.

I walked around the store for a while – totally conspicuous as the only non-Asian person there. I looked in the snack aisle (I think it was the snack aisle), I looked at cookies, crackers, and other treats, then I saw tons of different types of noodles, there were lots of packages of green stuff that could have been seaweed, but the only nori I found was a jar of shredded seaweed that might be for cooking. I bought it.

After getting it home I popped a big handful of shreds into my mouth. The texture wasn’t bad, but the taste – fishy! I don’t think this is the “snack” I was looking for.

I’m not giving up. I’ll try again and next time I will ask. In the meantime, I might try putting the seaweed I have into a soup – a fish-based soup.

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