What did you eat today?

[spokewench]

B: 1 piece raisin bread, grapenuts with milk, coffee
snack: 1 banana
L: 2 chicken tacos
D: salmon, brown rice pilaf, asparagus, salad, 1 glass white wine
1 orange slice (candy)

[Catrin]

B: last of the current baked egg fritata/casserole/whatever it is, coffee, bacon
L: shrimp, a bit of roasted mustard glazed chicken, and some broccoli salad
500-swing kettlebell workout
D: (early) last of the chocolate sweet potato chili (more in freezer) over spaghetti squash.
S: as early as I ate dinner, will probably have a small snack of the pulled pork that is currently brazing over some baby greens. Or some roasted kale (that stuff is like crack!)

Currently LOVING hot peppermint tea with 100% cacoa powder mixed in - as there is no sugar at all and full of antioxidents it is a guilt free treat! No other chocolate for a time, need to resist this growing sweet tooth.

[Crankin]

Where do you get that tea?
B: Irish oatmeal (haven't had that in over a year), with half a cup of almond milk, half a banana, walnuts, cinnamon. 2 turkey breakfast sausages, coffee
L: curried apple chicken salad in 2 butter lettuce leaves
15.4 mile hilly ride
D: fresh tuna, sauteed with red and black pepper, sauce of red peppers, mango, red onion, lime juice, a little brown sugar and arrowroot, cauliflower rice. 2 squares dark chocolate

[Catrin]

Where do you get that tea?

I make it Whole Foods sells Navitas 100% Cacoa Powder and Nibs, I get both. It is actually cheaper at the local Whole Foods than from Amazon - the nibs are a bit more expensive, I get the 8 ounce size. I've experimented with how much to add to my hot peppermint tea, and sometimes I toss in a few Cacoa Nibs as well, they are a little chewy I mainly use the powder for tea and coffee, but I've a few recipes that I use it in as well. The 8 ounces, even though I use it daily, lasts me roughly 6-7 weeks. Perhaps a bit longer if I don't make the chocolate chili very often as I use more than the recipe calls for.

The tea is very satisfying, but if you try it don't be shy about how much you put in. I use far more in my tea than I do coffee - about twice as much. If you do decide to try the nibs, look at the label carefully as they do sell a sweetened version. To me that defeats one of the purposes for using it! I've never seen a sweetened version of the powder however, which is good. I've heard of some grinding the nibs in a hand-coffee grinder and treating it as coffee - but of course that is the nibs (they look like shavings of the bean), not the powder.

[Crankin]

You know, I have never been in a local Whole Foods; in fact, the only one I've been to was in Boulder, in 2002, when we took DS #2 to look at CU. There is one in the next town, so I guess I'll head over.

[Catrin]

You know, I have never been in a local Whole Foods; in fact, the only one I've been to was in Boulder, in 2002, when we took DS #2 to look at CU. There is one in the next town, so I guess I'll head over.

Whole Foods charges just under $10 for 8 ounces of the powder, and I think I paid $11 for the nibs (though you probably just want to start with the powder). You might be able to find a lower price that would justify the shipping online - I live about a 15 minute drive so I just get in the car.

On the subject of nibs. These are roasted pieces of the cacoa bean, and I am here to tell you that a few in hot tea or coffee makes them soft and yummy-chewy. I am going to grind them for some "choffy", basically treat them like coffee. We will see how it works I suspect the nibs will work even better in my chili and a dry rub that I already use the powder for!

[spokewench]

B: rice chex, strawberries, milk, coffee, 1 piece wg toast with butter
L: 1 piece wg bread with peanut butter and cherry jam
S: tortilla chips with salsa
D: roasted chicken, leftover brown rice pilaf, peas, roasted butternut squash w/ sprinkling of parmesan, 1/2 biscuit, 1 glass chardonnay
2 orange slices (candy)

[Crankin]

half a banana before boot camp
B: tuna in olice oil over sliced tomato, melted low fat cheddar, small amount of whole wheat flakes with almond milk, blueberries, coffee
L: left over chicken, broccoli, quinoa, an apple
S: Lara Bar
DL chick peas in curried tomato sauce with spinach, one 6 inch whole wheat pita, 2 squares dark chocolate

[Crankin]

rest day
B: egg white omelet with avocado, sprinkle of cheddar, left over mango salsa with red pepper, an orange
L: 2 chicken salad/walnut/dried cranberry butter lettuce "wraps", an apple
S: hard boiled egg
D: whole wheat shell pasta with kale and white beans, garlic. an orange, 2 squares dark chocolate