Nutrition
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Field Goods and Healthy Greens
I recently signed up for a new vegetable delivery program! You might remember last summer Chris and I signed up for a CSA Program, where from June to October we got a delivery of fresh, locally grown vegetables from Otter Hook Farms! I really liked it, but I didn’t sign up for 2013 because I just didn’t want the commitment. Enter, Field Goods! After reading about Jona’s vegetables every week, I wanted some of my own. Field Goods is almost the same concept as a CSA, except that you pay weekly for a share of vegetables (or fruit, cheese or breads) and you can put it on hold or cancel…
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Making My Own Veggie Burgers
A few weeks ago I went to a free cooking demo at the brand new Honest Weight Food Co-op in Albany. It is a gorgeous new store that just opened, with a big kitchen space for cooking classes! I saw they were holding a free veggie burger cooking class and jumped on the opportunity to check it out. We learned the basics of veggie burger making. Buying store bought veggie burgers are convenient, but a lot of the times they contain many many ingredients and are sometimes very processed. They can get expensive, too. Lately I have been making my own and they taste great and are a lot cheaper.…
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Sports Nutrition Lecture
Last night I had the chance to go see a sports nutritionist talk at Sage College in Albany. Chris saw it advertised online and thought it would be right up my alley…he was right! The lecture was called The Winning Plate: Eating to Optimize Performance for Athletes and Active People and Leslie Bonci was the speaker, a register sports dietitian specialist who is a nutrition consultant for the Pittsburgh Steelers, among other sports teams, and even Olympic athlete Usain Bolt! She even consults for the Pittsburgh Marathon and ran it 10 times herself…awesome! She talked about common nutrition problems that athletes face, such as wanting to gain muscle, or lose…
