Inspired
So I've been inspired by 
schmoo999 to start getting better about my diet and lack of exercise. Panting my way through mowing the lawn on a beautiful 75F day Saturday enters into this somewhere, too.
I get indigestion if I drink water without also eating food, which makes it difficult to give up soda. But I figure I could start drinking hot tea instead, especially since the weather is getting colder (hey, it's totally colder than it was two months ago, even if we're still in summer by New England standards).
So I'm looking for suggestions of good, storebought, bagged teas. There are several bulk teas I get from Whole Foods, but I want something simpler for when I'm feeling lazy, which face it, is most of the time. I know the trick to decaffeinating by steeping for 45 secs and throwing it out, so caffeinated or non-caffeinated is fine. Anything with chamomile is not. I want teas that taste good -- raspberry tea, for example, smells amazing but tastes like water that's walked past a raspberry scratch-n-sniff.
I want to start eating breakfast, and healthy lunches. Had a yogurt for breakfast today. Dinners are a lost cause, because Mr. Brienze does not eat vegetables and yours truly does not cook two meals for two people. But something else I'd like to start doing is to not buy from the bakery. If I don't get to eat sweets unless I take the time to make them myself, I'll eat less sweets. I've been assembling and freezing my own garlic bread for awhile, because the calorie and fat counts on storebought garlic bread is truly atrocious.
If I stumble across any really good, healthy recipes, I'll be sure to post them. After seeing Michael Chiarello hand-separate quinoa pasta on Top Chef Masters I'm not sure I'm up for dealing with that, but I'll try to reduce "white" food as much as possible. Which, really... doomed to failure, ok? I know this about myself. Giving up bread makes me sadface. I'll settle for significantly cutting sugars and upping food with actual nutritive content.
schmoo999 to start getting better about my diet and lack of exercise. Panting my way through mowing the lawn on a beautiful 75F day Saturday enters into this somewhere, too.I get indigestion if I drink water without also eating food, which makes it difficult to give up soda. But I figure I could start drinking hot tea instead, especially since the weather is getting colder (hey, it's totally colder than it was two months ago, even if we're still in summer by New England standards).
So I'm looking for suggestions of good, storebought, bagged teas. There are several bulk teas I get from Whole Foods, but I want something simpler for when I'm feeling lazy, which face it, is most of the time. I know the trick to decaffeinating by steeping for 45 secs and throwing it out, so caffeinated or non-caffeinated is fine. Anything with chamomile is not. I want teas that taste good -- raspberry tea, for example, smells amazing but tastes like water that's walked past a raspberry scratch-n-sniff.
I want to start eating breakfast, and healthy lunches. Had a yogurt for breakfast today. Dinners are a lost cause, because Mr. Brienze does not eat vegetables and yours truly does not cook two meals for two people. But something else I'd like to start doing is to not buy from the bakery. If I don't get to eat sweets unless I take the time to make them myself, I'll eat less sweets. I've been assembling and freezing my own garlic bread for awhile, because the calorie and fat counts on storebought garlic bread is truly atrocious.
If I stumble across any really good, healthy recipes, I'll be sure to post them. After seeing Michael Chiarello hand-separate quinoa pasta on Top Chef Masters I'm not sure I'm up for dealing with that, but I'll try to reduce "white" food as much as possible. Which, really... doomed to failure, ok? I know this about myself. Giving up bread makes me sadface. I'll settle for significantly cutting sugars and upping food with actual nutritive content.