Every Day Life – Work (Browsers | Web) – Ironman Training
This candy bar — jour et nuit by Bernachon — my sister brought back from Paris was pretty darn great. I need to figure out how to get more of this, might be the best chocolate bar I've ever had.
The other chocolates and pate de fruits from Patrick Roger were pretty good too.
Just goes to show that "caviar taste on a beer budget" is genetic.
This is our box for the week from Eatwell Farm. We've got apples, oranges, lemons, strawberries, lemon balm, parsley, sugar snap peas, green garlic, spring onions, spinach, carrots, mixed greens.
We're on the 12 week program (13th week is free) w/ a half dozen eggs, which comes to about $29 a box. Considering we get our box next door, the fruits and vegetables are organic AND they're picked the week of delivery, it's a no brainer value — and ridiculous from a freshness standpoint.
You also get things you might not normally buy at the store like romanesco, daikon, rainbow chard, jerusalem artichokes, rutabagas, and watermelon radish. And you learn to eat seasonally, which makes you realize we actually do have seasons in Northern California.
There are a few drawbacks. It's not always easy to eat everything in a week, and you do have to cook. You might get weeks of weeks of something you might not like for example red cabbage or kale. You might not have enough of something to finish a recipe — need one more eggplant or one more onion, so you'll have to supplement that at the store. You'll also never get bananas (obviously) and probably some other "non-standard" vegetable.
Sign up with Eatwell if you're in the Bay Area or I'd encourage signing up for another Community Support Agriculture (CSA) program like Eatwell Farm. A lot of them are popping up all over California and the rest of the United States.
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* Hard to say whether or not CSA is scalable, I'm sure less than 1% of the country subscribes to a CSA. But it would be great to see because in practice we feel healthier and feel better knowing where our food comes from and the knowing the people who farm it.
I've been making these Acai bowls for breakfast or lunch and they're delicious. First had these at Lanikai Juice in Kailua and then had them again when I was in Los Angeles at a couple places.
Really simple to make, just need to buy or order the frozen Acai pulp, I get mine from Berkeley Bowl but can also get from Amazon.com. The fuzion is good but I like the original blend.
To make it, just two of the smoothie packets, some soy milk (or apple juice but I like soy milk) in the blender and blend away. Put it in a bowl, add fruit like: blueberries, raspberries, bananas, strawberries, and then add some granola. I've seen some with a little bit of yogurt too but maybe too much. I like Cafe Fanny's granola but also Blue Bottle's granola. It takes at most five minutes to put it all together, which is great too.
This bowl is maybe 300+ calories but if it's breakfast or lunch it's not bad. I like eating it post workout too — just tastes good and looks pretty too.
Nice infographic from Transition Four
I'm #813, for this second year of Ironman St. George. While I swore never again to do this race — it's that hard and miserable, I ended up signing up again.
A few reasons:
We'll see how it goes. Last year I did this race in 15:42:17 (fifteen hours and 42 minutes). I'm going to see if I can do it in under 14 hours, but I'll be happy to just finish and get my t-shirt.
Oakland has some pretty good drinks. A few that I really like:
Haven't really tried Numi tea, another Oakland company. We want to but just haven't pulled the trigger we have so much tea in the house. I get tea from Teance in Berkeley, their ba bao chao and pu-erh teas and we also get tea from Republic of Tea, Ginseng peppermint and several other kinds. We've got a lot of tea. We'll try Numi eventually.