Healthy Eating / Healthy Living

[Stan4dSteph]

For those looking to reduce sugar in tea, I strongly recommend Good Earth tea. You can get both caffeinated and decaffeinated varieties. It's a spiced tea, and I drink it without any added sugar or milk, whereas I drink regular brewed tea with both milk and sweetener.

I also love Republic of Tea wild blueberry tea, but it's probably harder to find in CA, or even at the current time of year. No sweetener needed.

[Disneyphile]

Ya know what would be fun in place of a treadmill? A human-sized exercise wheel.

It certainly entertains my pet mice.

[Morrigoon]

BE: Yeah, water is definitely important. I've been trying to drink more water while at the office, because I don't drink much of it at home (unless I'm really thirsty). It's been a good way to resist the soda machine

[Strangler Lewis]

Fresca was popular--sort of--back east when I was a kid. In Woody Allen's one-act play Death Knocks (which I was in in college), Death asks his intended victim for a Fresca.

For anyone trying to ween themself off of a soda habit, I recommend Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray Tonic.

[Morrigoon]

I just wish the mass-produced sodas would come in a "real sugar" variety. Well, without having to drive to Mexico to get it.

[Disneyphile]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

I just wish the mass-produced sodas would come in a "real sugar" variety. Well, without having to drive to Mexico to get it.

Costco carries Mexican Coke by the case.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

I just wish the mass-produced sodas would come in a "real sugar" variety. Well, without having to drive to Mexico to get it.

Start checking the Passover displays. Soda with real sugar is sometimes produced so it is Kosher for Passover.

Also, Henry's carries several brands of soda with real sugar. Sky, and Hansen's (also available at the regular grocery store) off the top of my head, I also bought a green tea-peach soda from there (forget the brand).

[BarTopDancer]

I find it easier to drink a few large glasses of water a day then constantly refilling a small glass. I also find water tastier with a wedge of lemon in it.

Then again, ask E. I've been a frelling camel when it comes to water for over a decade.

[Alex]

Well, on the subject of ingredient replacement.

I was on my lunchtime walk and decided to get a sandwich from a local artisan bakery (Semifreddi's for those who know it). There special of the week is a vegan egg salad sandwich. "Tastes just like regular egg salad" the sign said "with the benefits of eating tofu."

I have no problem with tofu and wanted to know for a fact (as opposed to a strong suspicion) that it didn't really taste just like egg salad.

It wasn't bad by any means. Except that it tasted nothing like egg salad (though it certainly looked like egg salad). So, as an egg salad substitute it was awful.

This I don't really understand. Why lie about it? Just say "tofu salad sandwich that is something like egg salad; trust us, it's good!" These lies about it just give tofu a bad name for failing to be what the proponents claim.

But if I see it, I'd consider having it again. Though if I were making it myself at home I'd go ahead and use real mayonnaise rather than the substitute they had, that was the weakest element.

[Morrigoon]

That's how I feel about veggie burgers. Nothing like a slab o' beef, but an interesting flavor/texture and well worth ordering for its own merits.

As far as the fructose thing, I admit that makes me hesitant to use the agave.

Mexican Coke at Costco... woot! And I know a certain roommate who just got a Costco card!