Squash – a most office-friendly veg
Great article in today’s SF Chronicle food section
Category: healthy
First you sow the seed…
I made pumpkin soup with red lentils for dinner, and lentils always make me think of Neil from The Young Ones:
Pumpkin lentil soup:
Spices to your own taste:
curry powder
anise seed (optional)
cumin seed
ground or fresh ginger
3 TBP olive oil
2 stalks celery, chopped
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 can pumpkin (not the pie filling)
2/3 [...]
Eating well on the road
I was out of town running a race over the weekend and I forgot how traveling makes you eat a lot of junk. Maybe it was because I was running, but I couldn’t have enough pasta or Dunkin Donuts breakfast sandwiches.
It’s even worse when you’re traveling for work w/your co-workers. And I thought it was [...]
cubegourmet
04/09/2008
healthy
fast food, road food, travel
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Does this mean we’re hippies?
As a way to be frugal, we’ve been doing things that could certainly be considered hippie:
I just made a batch of homemade granola for the week, complete w/nuts and berries bought in bulk @Costco. I’ve been going to Costco to stock up on things we use all the time, plus milk, bread, and [...]
Getting more fruits & veggies in your office diet
I’ve said it before, the office I work in is a carb minefield. Not just sweets people bring in, but multiple delis (the DC kind of deli, which wouldn’t last two weeks in New York because of the slow service and bland food), bagel and coffee shops. The fruit and vegetable selection in these places [...]
Evil office sweets
I’ve worked in offices where there’s been a jar of candy lying around. But the office where I’m working now has collectively brought office sweets to the extreme. There is a “12 Sweets of Christmas” where people bring some kind of sweet. What puts this tradition over the top is that the sweets are put [...]
- cubegourmet
- 03/12/2008
- healthy
- healthy, junk food, rant, sweets
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Food marketers say the darndest things
It’s Saturday, which means I’m looking @grocery coupons and flyers to see what’s on sale. The more I look, the angrier I get. In the wake of massive ground beef and spinach recalls as well as an epidemic of obesity, food marketers are trying to put a spin for their clients: the concept that the [...]
Grocery shopping strategies
I made a Trader Joe’s run last night. I thought I was doing the right thing by shopping after dinner so I wouldn’t be hungry, but I didn’t take my margarita intake into account (no I wasn’t driving). Don’t drink and shop, you’ll never know what ends up in your cart! @least I had [...]
Make your own freaking breakfast – and just as fast
I get annoyed that things like lowfat yogurt and instant oatmeal are touted as “healthy”. Ok, they’re not Cap’n Crunch or steak & eggs, but those little yogurts and little packets of oatmeal have buttloads of sugar in them. In fact, some of those yogurts (and yogurt shakes) have almost 300 calories in a 6 [...]
The plight of the Localvore in DC
I just read an article in today’s Washington Post food section about how people are basically becoming their own food inspectors, not just reading labels but researching online etc. where food comes from. I can relate to this, as I get frustrated when I see evidence (like @Whole Foods) that healthy food seems to [...]
