I'm a huge fan of Breville products. I think they make high quality stuff at an affordable price for people who want to cook like chefs occasionally but just need stuff to work the rest of the time. One of my absolute STEALS from a thrift shop in Austin was a Breville Juicer. (I recently bought one and regrettably returned it when a financial crisis conveniently reared its head the very next day, but the one day I played with it I was very impressed. Talk about a way to use up some sad-looking-but-still-technically-edible plant foods.) The juicer I originally bought was $150 brand new. I got a compact version of the same thing for $12.59 that didn't have the stupid little cup that catches the juice with it. It's smaller and fits better into a cabinet (its still a monster haha) and a solo plastic cup is the perfect size for the replacement cup.
Anyways, long story short (too late!) I finally busted it out. And despite my "oh shit I bought this months ago what if it doesn't work right..." worries, it worked BEAUTIFULLY. So right now chilling in the fridge is watermelon juice to go with dinner, along with some mint tea ice cubes currently freezing in the freezer to go with the juice.
Tonight is salad (we have a TON of greens to use up!) and leftover chicken soup, and a freezer/fridge clean out after that.
I'm pickling some carrots to make some pickled carrot snack sushi in the near future.
Lasagna, spaghetti, hamburgers, sloppy joes, broccoli tots, asian rice bowls with sushi, and ploughman's platter with ceviche are on the menus. Lunches are pretty much going to stay sandwiches or crackers with chicken/tuna, hummus, or peanut butter jelly. Breakfasts are switching to oats for... a looong while. Hahaha! I have too many!
Yesterday I ran/walked, but not very far.. I was pretty disappointed with how far away I am from 3 miles with it being halfway through the year. My hip pain won't subside, so I'm just working through it now. Today is P90X3 lower body, ab ripper (because my legs won't be punished enough) and yoga day 2.
I've never heard of hash running, but that looks fun as hell!.... Any fatties there?
It's a drinking group with a running problem.
Of course there are! And you have fake-fatties like me, who look in shape but couldn't put a mile out if a really slow bear was threatening to maul my face off.
Actually, I don't look hardly like the shape I used to be in.. I'm sitting here looking down at the tummy-that-followed-me-to-Texas and meal planning as we speak .. er.. I write.. haha.
It is a really fun way to run with a group. It's particularly popular here in NC too, so I have no doubts you have a hash house near you... But a word of warning: This can be a particularly vulgar group. Not in the "omg I touch people inappropriately" sort of way, but more in a bro-mance thick-skin way. I'm not quite as vulgar and openly brazen as the people in my group (I have an innate distrust of my more vulgar humor being around other women), but they're very kind and great people nonetheless and they did such a fantastic job giving me a social outlet in a strange new town. (I also don't drink beer, which no one really minds considering they get more beer to themselves.) Otherwise, if you're okay with some outlandish songs and some toilet humor along the way, the whole thing is really fun!! If you ever find yourself in my neck of the woods you can walk/run a trail with me. This mountain air gives me like a fraction of the O2 I'm used to