my macbook’s monitor has been having issues, so we brought it in to the apple store last weekend. thus, i’m without a laptop for a whole week and have to draw straws with mike to try to get some time on his macbook. so i’m not sure if i’ll get to do a real post this week. but to tide you over, i thought i’d share the interesting website below, where you get to make your own breakfast cereal. it’s more expensive than oatmeal or the muesli i often consume, but it’s got me thinking about how awesome it would be to create your own cereal and have it shipped to you within a week! check it out:
Sep
30
as you probably have gathered already from my posts, i am a vegetarian who doesn’t consume much dairy. most of my friends and family members are omnivores, however, and i completely respect their eating preferences (and hope that they respect mine!) because i think that people (in general and in moderation) should eat what sounds appealing to them.
the beginnings of my vegetarian preferences go back to my childhood – i never enjoyed eating meat unless it was disguised in the form of a hot dog or potsticker. although my mom, dad, and sister are omnivores, my parents prepared many meat free meals, and thus i knew the option of not eating meat (and eating lots of yummy tofu!) was possible. around the age of 10, after many years of bargaining with me to eat just one more bite of meat, my parents decided i was old enough to make my own food decisions and to help them prepare vegetarian meals. they suggested i read the book diet for a small planet, and from this book – and them – i learned about nutrition and how to combine complementary foods to create complete proteins (like rice and beans). i chose to be a vegetarian way before i learned about how meat is produced and the environmental impact of mass production of raising animals for human consumption – but once i learned about these issues, i realized that vegetarianism went hand in hand with my personal belief system.
october 1 is world vegetarian day, and while i am not the kind of vegetarian who tries to convert people to my way of thinking or eating, i would like to challenge each and every one of you to eliminate meat in your diet tomorrow. if that doesn’t sound feasible to you, maybe try eating a lot less meat than you usually do, just to see what it’s like to eat more veggies, fruit, and grains.
as you ponder this challenge and think about what you might be eating tomorrow, i’ll leave you with the seven word quote from the fantastic author michael pollan: “eat food. not too much. mostly plants.”
Aug
13
ok, so it’s not my own cookbook and i *may* have been told which categories to enter recipes in so as to help fill out the compilation, but nonetheless, the friends of hospice’s cookbook is here, and the sentinel printed an article about it:
Jul
31
as i teeter on the brink of veganism (ie greatly minimizing but not yet completely eliminating dairy and eggs from my already veggie diet), and work my way slowly through michael pollan’s book the omnivore’s dilemma, i have been thinking a lot more about what i put into my body and why. the article below is a little long, but provides an interesting conversation about veganism, the wavy line of dietary classifications, honey, and the plight of the oh-so-important honeybee:
Jul
14
i just read a very interesting article in the new york times (thanks, dad!) about female swim coaches – somewhat surprisingly there are very few of them in the competitive swimming world – and only three who coach 2008 olympians, all of whom reside in california.
i just don’t get the preconceptions that female coaches will be “easy” or “less competitive” than male coaches, but that’s probably because when i was in high school we had an awesome, laid back male coach who created loooong, grueling workouts for our afternoon practices. but in the morning (we’re talking 6am monday-friday, people), we had this gnarly female coach who made us focus on stroke refinement instead of yardage. i believe it’s due to her that i dropped so much time in my events my senior year – as well as the reason why i was able to in turn teach swim lessons for almost a decade. i ran into her a couple of weeks ago when i went swimming with my mom at ucsc, and she’s still going strong with the coaching, setting up the next generation of swimmers for success.
ok, enough from me, check out this article:
Women Jumping in as Elite Swim Coaches
ps- is anybody else excited about the summer olympics? i don’t know bout all of you, but i plan on spending all of my free time in front of the tv, watching my favorite summer sports!
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