Perpetual Healthy Eating and Fitness Rant & Rave thread

[merigayle]

love the emoticons

We headed home yesterday actually. I am not sure if the migraine was just sleep deprivation + my MIL or something else i am feeling ok, but have that migraine hangover feeling. I just hope it stays away. I even drove the whole way home, but every time we stopped at a rest area, the lights of the rest area made the migraine rage, but once in the car it was manageable, but once i got home it was a 10/10 on the pain scale. If it was not so late and we had not been in the car all day, i would have gone to the ER.

rain here, bummer. I hope your weather holds out.

gotta go thru pinterest soon and plan our weekly menu

[debbatx]

C25K this morning. Forgot my inhaler - oops. Yesterday's eating... 

[merigayle]

C25K this morning. Forgot my inhaler - oops. Yesterday's eating... 

but yeah for C25K!!!! boo to inhaler.

[teetime]

Crossing my fingers for you, too    Do you head home today?


We're having a few families/friends over for brunch this morning.  I did some of the prep last night.  Having bagels with tuna salad (already made), egg salad, nova cream cheese (already made), edamame, red cabbage slaw w/ carrot dressing (teetime's recipe) and assorted fruit and sweets.  The weather is looking iffy; if it cooperates we'll picnic in the front yard and let them ride bikes and fly kites.  Apple orchard visit later this afternoon.

Hope it comes out well!

I need to join you all for a couple weeks after a slow slide into bad habits (no breakfast and pm snacking for example) capped off by a really overly decadent* weekend with my sister in town.  I haven't felt truly gross since the winter holidays...until now.

*Most decadent ... homemade tahini honey ice cream.  I'd been mulling over recipe ideas and my sister's friend (who owns every kitchen gadget known to man including an ice cream maker) had us over, so I had to try it.  I'd share the recipe but it was dangerously good and not appropriate for a healthy eating thread

[Run Amok]

Well I ended up running today, hoping the exercise would help. I think it did. Lovely morning for a run. Had the normally crowded trail mostly to myself.

[merigayle]

Well I ended up running today, hoping the exercise would help. I think it did. Lovely morning for a run. Had the normally crowded trail mostly to myself.

Yeah!

[diablita]

RA, that sounds heavenly.  I was hoping to get in a trail run this weekend but it's pouring today and I'm still exhausted.  So yesterday's pavement pound may be it.


Teetime, the red cabbage slaw was OUTRAGEOUSLY good.  Oh my goodness.  If I weren't full and trying to eat reasonably today, I would the rest of the leftovers.  One of my friends ate a whole plateful and everybody wants the recipe.  And it was so easy to make with few ingredients.  A keeper for sure; thank you.

[merigayle]

I don't.  I don't think we have a shredding blade (at least not for the really kick ass old school processor we use most often) and I actually like longer but thinner strips than you get from the processor ... but with a good knife and a large cutting board it really doens't take much time.

Here is the recipe that I followed the first time I made it.  Since then I've modified to add more ginger and sugar only if the carrots aren't super sweet (usually they add plenty sweetness).  I also double the recipe and save half for salad dressing throughout the week.

http://www.washingtonsgreengrocer.com/recipes/red-cabbage-slaw-carrot-ginger-dressing/detail.htm

Oh, do follow the pre-salting step.  Comes out much more tender.  And it is great the next couple days after being made.

pinned it for later

[merigayle]

not healthy but delicious
http://vegandad.blogspot.com/2008/10/chocolate-pumpkin-pudding-cake.html

i cut the sugar back A LOT and it was still amazing. My first pudding cake!

[diablita]

Yay!  Pumpkin time!  Are we still under the Great Pumpkin Drought?

[teetime]

Teetime, the red cabbage slaw was OUTRAGEOUSLY good. 

YAY!

If you want to post your mock chicken salad recipe, I'd like to give that a try in return

[merigayle]

i have a case of organic canned pumpkin hoarded in my cupboards.....

[debbatx]

Had a hell of a time sleeping last night - I think our a/c is dying. I kept waking up. So no workout this morning, but I have the gym tonight.

[Run Amok]

Ran again this morning. Then I actually felt good about eating a bit of breakfast.

 Not my photo- but this is my new running route. 18 unterruped miles in the city and like 50+ total. My little segment runs from a beach along the ship canal and out to the lake. 

[merigayle]

very nice, RA!

No running for me either, had a patient emergency and did a house call! Atleast i made some extra $$

[Courtney]

Hi y'all!  I'm back from a weekend in Napa.  I didn't worry too much about calories, and just enjoyed it.  I'm sure I'm up a bit, but I suspect a lot of that is due to not drinking much, and eating salty foods a lot.  I had the most delicious spinach salad with bacon and goat cheese, with some sort of dressing I wish I could figure out how to recreate.  Mmmm. 

[Courtney]

Ooh, this is the place we went:

http://www.sugarcafesf.com/html/sugar_cafe_san_francisco_bar_b.php

I had the BMFJ salad.  I don't know what bacon marmalade is, but it was freakin' amazing.

[diablita]

welcome back!  how was it?  I've always wanted to tour napa/sonoma.  We'll be in Southern Cal from Friday through the following weekend but no time to head up.
We really should just hit one of our local wineries (NC wine = not bad); maybe i'll try to find one for the fall and ask my dad to do a sleepover with Jessica.


I ate the rest of the cabbage slaw today.  yum.  On the downside, my ears are totally stuffy; I think my allergies are starting up again.  boo!

[Run Amok]

I'm glad you took a break and enjoyed Napa!

[Courtney]

Napa was BEAUTIFUL.  The weather was great, like fall.  We spent one day going to wineries on the main road, and then the next day to wineries on the secondary (less busy) road.  Hands down, we enjoyed the 2nd day more.  The people really make the experience great.  There was one place (Rutherford Ranch, I believe) that did a wine/chocolate pairing tasting, which was really fun.  We had some white chocolate lemon bark with our chardonnay.  Now, I don't like which chocolate OR chardonnay, but this was pretty amazing. 

We had great food while we were there, too.  We ate at a place called Farmstead one day for lunch, and it was really good stuff.  My friend had a bacon bloody mary!  It's a really neat place to visit, and I would totally go back.  We stayed at a resort that was lovely, and even tho I only knew one of the girls we went with (bridesmaids' trip) it was awesome.  The other girls were so great, and welcoming to me.  We are all ready for our reunion at the actual wedding!  Eating out was tricky at times, trying to avoid gluten, but I ate salads and burgers without buns and got by just fine.   Oh, and cheese.  I probably ate too much cheese.   

I'm definitely all wined out for a bit.  But I'll be back to it soon, I'm sure.