funniculee is dredging up old memories of past literary loves

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Same workout again today. 3 months ago

I’m going to do it again on Friday, and again on Sunday.

I’ve not been eating 100% awesome (fell off the wagon briefly here and there with some honey and a few small treats at work), but overall I’ve been doing OK I think. I need to eat a lot more vegetables though; I eat a fair amount now, but I’d like them to make up a much large percentage of my diet. Sometimes I get annoyed with how much prep fresh vegetables require (sometimes just peeling a carrot seems like too much work)...and I really can’t abide a lot of store bought frozen veggies. I’d like to some up with some vegetable ideas that don’t need much prep at all, or ways that I can pre-prep a lot of vegetables at once. Oh…I REFUSE to buy pre-cut produce from the supermarket, it’s overpriced and usually dried out.

The upcoming challenge is my grandma’s 90th birthday party this weekend. There will be cake for certain…and I’m gonna have a little (I feel OK making an exception for this type of thing, assuming the cake is homemade which it likely will be). I’d really like to make sure that I stick to the plan as much as possible otherwise (no soda or chips, for instance). I really don’t know for certain what type of food will be available, though, so I’m having a hard time planning ahead. I may just hog the heck out of the relish plate. :)



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Librarian is making progress.

Honey

I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately and a number of nutritionists recommend unfiltered, unpasteurized honey as a health food! Apparently, the bees gather quite a lot of nutrients and, if it’s not been messed with too much, we get it in our honey. I’m able to get a local unfiltered honey at the Farmers Market.

I feel for you about the veggie prep. I can build up a huge amount of resentment over that. I always pre-prep salad greens with a salad spinner. That way I don’t have to face both greens and other veggies to fix a salad.

I just read that you can pre-prep and actually pre-cook, slightly, lots of vegetables. They will keep longer and are all ready to be sauteed to go with pasta or stir-fries or as a side dish. I haven’t tried it yet though.

funniculee is dredging up old memories of past literary loves

Oh yeah, raw local honey is great.

The Co-op usually has some, but the last time I shopped there they didn’t have any…so I got the non-raw stuff. Really, I’m not one bit against honey…but I was trying to not eat sweets for one month. Oh well, I’m not upset by any means!

I need to find a good method of storing lots of prepared salad greens – I just don’t have any big containers because I don’t have much call to store large amounts of food (though I do have a small salad spinner…). I eat them if I pre-prep ‘em…so maybe I should find a bigger container, eh? :)

Librarian is making progress.

Storing greens

I use these:
http://www.reusablebags.com/store/debbie-meyer-green-bags-pack-p-1003.html
Or something like them, that I get at Whole Foods.

funniculee is dredging up old memories of past literary loves

Hmmm, do you reuse them indefinitely?

And do they continue to be effective long term?

The reason I ask is that I’m trying to cut down on my use of plastic as well, and from what I’ve read most plastic bag recyclers will not recycle these due to the extra clay layer.

Librarian is making progress.

A long time

I use them until they break or something goes bad in them (at which point I assume they are no longer effective!). But it seems like they last for a very long time. And I use fewer ziplocs because I can use these for many things that I used to use those for. I do throw them away rather than throw them in recycling.


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