Christina made me chocolate chip pie which is my all-time favorite dessert (besides ice cream) for Thanksgiving. Colonel Sanders had his finger licking good chicken but the Person family has its chocolate chip pie. It isn’t very open source of the Colonel to keep his chicken recipe all to himself.
I’m going to fill you in on this incredibly good dessert so you and your family can also enjoy it:
1 Cup Milk
20 Large Marshmallows
1/4 tsp. Salt
1/2 Tsp Almond Flavoring
1 Cup Whipped-Whipping Cream
1/2 Cup Shaved Unsweetened Chocolate
1 Baked 9″ Pie Shell
Heat milk & marshmallows and stir until marshmallows dissolve. Add salt & flavorings. Chill, fold in whipped cream and shaved chocolate and enjoy! OK so sharing is caring, what family recipe can you share with me (and the world)?
I love Chipotle’s brilliant marketing programs and have become a huge fan of their natural ingredients. I’ve recently been on a natural food kick and you can ask anyone at work how passionate I’ve become on the topic. This Halloween Chipotle is doing a Boorito contest. “Come into Chipotle after 6pm this Halloween dressed as a horrifyingly processed food product (think snack foods, cheese goo & wieners) and we’ll give you a burrito, bowl, salad or and order of tacos filled with freshly cooked, naturally raised ingredients for only $2. The proceeds, up to $1,000,000, will benefit Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution – a non-profit campaign working to educate people about the importance of eating unprocessed food made with simple, fresh ingredients.”
Jamie Oliver is dressed up in the photo above like a chicken nugget. I seriously can’t eat a chicken nugget ever again without thinking about the pink goo they make them with.
Why Cut Processed Food:
Processed foods are an illusion, often appearing to be healthy (with claims like low fat, low carb, vitamin fortified, no trans fat, contains omega-3s, etc.) when these foods are in fact the very thing making a lot of Americans unhealthy, sick, and fat.
Coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke and cancer – four of the top ten chronic diseases that kill most of us – “can be traced directly to the industrialization of our food” according to Michael Pollan.
Making smarter (and sometimes more expensive) food choices now may reduce your healthcare costs later in life.
Why would one want to eat a processed food-like substance that is scientifically designed to never rot?
The food industry has proven that it is not very good at seasoning our foods by adding way too much salt, sugar, and/or oil to almost everything.
When you eat white bread and other foods made with white flour (which is a highly processed version of wheat) you are basically consuming empty calories with far less nutrition than the whole-wheat or whole grain alternatives.
It is estimated that up to 90% of processed foods* in the supermarket contain either a corn or soy ingredient in the form of an additive under a variety of different names. Now how is that for eating variety?
Cutting out processed foods could lead you to experience a variety of personal health benefits such as having more energy, losing weight, improving regularity, or just feeling healthier overall.
Rather than counting calories, watching fat grams, or reducing carbs for “healthy eating”, simply eat whole foods that are more a product of nature than a product of industry. It certainly is less complicated.
It just makes plain old sense to fully understand what you are eating, be able to pronounce everything on the list of ingredients (if there is a list), and know exactly where that food comes from…don’t you think?
>> Source: * Statistics courtesy of a food scientist interviewed on the documentary “Food, Inc”
I took the day off today to rest up, and to get ready for my parents who are visiting from Oregon tomorrow. Christina’s sister was talking the other day about couch to 5k which is an iPhone app “as seen on ABC News and featured in the Best iPhone Apps book. Couch to 5K has been helping thousands of people ease into running and incrementally build up their running strength in just 9 weeks.” I tried it out this afternoon while Mr. Tyler was taking his afternoon nap and I must say I love it. Their website also has lots of podcasts which you can listen to while you run. I went just over two miles for thirty minutes and burned a little over 300 caleries. As you can see from the video, your iPhone starts giving you instructions (when to warm up, when to walk, when to run, and when to cool down). You can even listen to music from your iPhone while using it (I didn’t because I had to listen for Tyler but still really awesome). If you are into running or if you’re thinking about getting into running check it out (I paid $2.99 for it).
