1. Food shopping at Trader Joe’s in the suburbs is the bomb. While having the space to push an actual shopping cart has its advantages (grabbing everything that my greedy paws can reach), it has a few disadvantages (grocery bills that exceed your old NYC electric bills).
2. Actually, scratch that. DRIVING (!!) your groceries home instead of schlepping them home on the subway? Suburbs for the win.
3. Although it’s not my beloved KBBK (let’s get you guys out to the Hamptons already!), this stuff weaves its way around all your hangover pains and kicks them out. Specifically those late onset hangovers that creep up when you are about to sit in a hot, roofless car for the 3 hour pukefest road trip home. Fun times.
4. Running bores me recently, so I’m trying out the swimming thing.
Turns out, swimming is a lot of work. Try to act cool when you find yourself gripping the the end of the pool for dear life, completely out of breath after about… eh, THREE LAPS. Now I remember why 7 year old me hated swim team so much.
Don’t forget! When you get home from work, try on your new cap and goggles for your parents to show them what a success of a daughter they have made. Don’t flinch when your brother says that “you literally look like a man.”
5. Jef won the Bachelorette. I hope he’s happy. Jane agrees.
6. I’ve dusted off my beloved juicer and green jungle juice has officially made a comeback. Although this version is the non-radioactive red-vodka-gin-party punch college jungle juice (much to my dismay). I don’t think there was cucumber or romaine in that red solo cup of the college days. Que sobbing/whining.
7. Chef biographies. More specifically, this one. Read it.
8. I have made a new food discovery about myself…
Alex without gluten:
Alex with gluten:
9. “What’s gluten? You should put this on the blog.”
10. I miss the beach.
Tagged: food shopping, gluten, green juice, Rambling
hello food twin! stop buying Kombucha it’s so cheap/easy/fun to make and flavor yourself and you can spend the money on other things, like a trip to Maine!
You are SO right. Any companies you recommend that I can buy kits from?
I can mail you a scoby, and I use http://www.watercrockshop.com/classiccreme.aspx for my continuous brew container and something like http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=202985174&storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&ci_sku=202985174&ci_kw=%7bkeyword%7d&kwd=%7bkeyword%7d&cm_mmc=shopping%2d%5f%2dgoogleads%2d%5f%2dpla%2d%5f%2d202985174&ci_gpa=pla in case it’s not in a warm enough place, or put it near the pilot light of a fireplace. (sorry for the obnoxiously long links)
You have a great sense of humor! Swimming is work! That’s why the Olympic swimmers are in amazing shape!!!
How long did it take for you to start feeling better without gluten?
I am still eating it occasionally – but try to avoid it when possible. I have begun replacing my cereal, bread, pizza dough etc with the gluten free versions. I began to notice that I feel much better sans gluten, and when I eat a gluten heavy meal I feel like I could, well, faceplant.
That veggie burger looks AMAZING. I know you said it’s from the Farmer’s Market but what’s it made of (in general)??
Hi Jen – To be honest, I don’t know exactly what is in it! I know it’s all veggies and no cheese. Perhaps some breadcrumbs as well. Thanks for stopping by!