Zombucha

About three weeks ago we went to Baltimore for the entire day. Upon arriving home, I was exhausted. I could not get myself together for days and still felt completely off. We then went on vacation to Universal Studios foe a few days. I tried my best to do everything. By the evening of the second day, I had had enough. I am still feeling off. I feel the need to sleep all the time. My asthma feels…

Have you seen the exciting news?? General Mills is making their Lucky Charms gluten free!! Yay for highly processed sugar filled junk!!!! And, they supposedly have a way of removing the gluten grains from the oat groats… I’m not sure I would trust this process. Lucky Charms Going Gluten Free I am getting so tired of these large companies making their current products into gluten free products and…

Hubs and I were headed out to run on the island this morning when I received a Facebook message from a friend saying she had a friend running a race at the local high school and asked if we were going. What? There is a local race today??? If we can make it in time, I am in!! Hubs and I head over to the high school to find out we are on time to register and run the race. Lucky for us we were…

“Fixing” Hubs

I try to run every other day. I had been running 2.5-3.5 miles each time. I signed the hubs and I up for the Navy 5 Miler in September. This means I have to up the mileage a smidge. It is easily doable, unless an ijury happens. Hubs tries to run at work during the week on the same days I run and then we join up on his days off. A few run days ago, he was trying to push it and found his hip…

I was at the grocery store this morning, picking up things. I generally meal plan, though I have been rather “off” lately. I have an idea what this week will bring for dinners and it most likely won’t be any new stuff. I usually like to try a new recipe at least once a week just to add variety to the meal rotation. While at the store, I perused the organic poultry section. Some of the packages…

I hate it when I have to buy a new loaf of bread because my regular bread is not available. I can only tolerate a couple of breads: Schar’s Hearty White and Canyon Bakehouse Mountain White. That is it unless others come out. Either other people are in the same boat as I am (tolerating only those two breads) or they think those two are the only ones that taste “normal”. I don’t know, but we are…

I wrote this post earlier in the week. Enjoy! I am always up for super easy lunches. Leftovers are always a good option, if you have leftovers…. When the thermometer rises, I like cold lunches. Today, I made some spring rolls!! I picked up some spring roll wrappers at the grocery store a few weeks ago. I had romaine lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, and sweet peppers in the fridge. I also made some…

I went for a run this morning. It was a rather nice morning. The humidity was not too bad. It was mostly cloudy. There was a nice breeze, too. The smells from the flowers and conifer trees were wonderful!! However, I just wasn’t feeling the very beginning of the run. I do not know what my deal was. I have had a lot on my mind recently and when thoughts spill over into my exercise, they can make…

There are times I feel I can not control my cravings. I feel if I have a small portion of what I am craving, the craving would dissipate. Sometimes that works. Other times, I want MORE! There are food items I absolutely can not have. I know this. I still get the desire to have them. Like pizza… not the frozen gluten free, dairy free stuff in the stores. I have yet to find a replacement one that…

When Ghost Gallbladders Attack…

A spike is running through my body from sternum to back. I feel nauseated. My body wants to vomit. *I* do not want to since once it starts, it won’t stop for hours. Follow that with diarrhea and BOOM!! my gallbladder is attacking!! Except, my gallbladder was removed in September 1998. The attacks started when I was pregnant with my daughter. We were living in Sicily so we had marble floors and…

During Saturday’s “run” through a field, I kept worrying about ticks. I probably have an abnormal fear of ticks, but it is for a good reason. I had Lyme disease back in late Spring 2010. I was misdiagnosed as having Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis (I do have the RA gene, but not RA), and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. My first test, finally ordered by the military doctor after asking if I had…

Saturday, the hubs and I went on an adventure. It was an interesting adventure full of many different experiences. While out, we encountered a zombie village!!! I didn’t see any zombies out, but they had to be there… Notice the “empty” store fronts?? I am sure there were stirrings somewhere in the backs of these dark stores. We also found a last century relic: No dial tone, however. A close up…

We went to the movies today. I LOVE the popcorn!!! Popcorn *should* be good for you since it is grain. BUT, theatres pop the corn in nasty, though very yummy, oil. Guess what?!?!?! I STILL had some, even with the fake “butter”. No dairy products whatsoever in the popping oil and in the extra “butter”. I also had some Coke. Yummy, bubbly brown chemicals to down the chemically popped and flavored…

Sometimes a race ends up not being what you wanted. Like when you find a “color run” you can actually do because it involves bubbles of color instead of powder packs. Powder packs and my lungs would not mix well. Enter Bubblepalooza! The closest one was just outside Philadelphia, at the Salem County Fairgrounds in New Jersey. It would take us about three hours to get there which meant leaving…

Tomorrow we are making a road trip up to New Jersey (just outside Philadelphia) for the Bubblepalooza 5k!! It is similar to color runs in that color is used. However, we supposedly go through pools of colored bubbles and under bubble showers. Hope so anyway. My lungs can’t take the powder… So, what am I going to eat? I always have to plan ahead. I can not just stop at a fast food place. Not out…

Been a long day…

It’s only 10:30 am… I am waiting on some people to clean our ducts… And waiting. And waiting. We figured we might as well have it done while our system is down. Once they are here, it is another three hours of waiting while the furries and human kids are squished in the rec room to stay out of the way. I want a Coke… Being unable to do much right now, because of waiting, I want a Coke. It is oh…

Is there *really* no sugar added?

Rant ahead. I’ll try to keep it short. A friend of mine inspired this one this morning… Do you click on recipes that say “No Added Sugar”? When you read through them, do you a sweetener as one of the ingredients? If you do, SUGAR IS ADDED!!!! One of the biggest offenders used for “No Sugar Added” is honey. Guess what, honey has a similar profile to table sugar (sucrose). Sweetness factors vary by…