Lots of things to report, not all good. Foodwise - the partial disaster with the "rice burgers" that fell apart was the last time I made any kind of burger. For a while I was just cooking brown rice and putting curry and butter in it, but even with butter and curry I can only eat so much brown rice. Price Chopper stopped carrying (temporarily?) the whole grain noodles I used to cook, so I got a bag of the Hodgson Mills noodles. They tasted the same and somehow have 1g more fiber per serving. They're more expensive, though. Whole grain noodles with Spanish olives - still a hit.
Sadly, the yogurt and homemade granola has fallen by the wayside. I ran out of oatmeal for granola one weekend and then by the time I made another batch I couldn't get used to the taste of the yogurt anymore.
The chia! In my opinion, the chia flour from The Running Food is not better than the regular chia seed from Bob's Red Mill. I don't think it gave me any more energy than Bob's stuff, and if you're going for omega 3's, the flour somehow had less than the whole seeds. Plus, it was very expensive. I've gotten two bags of Bob's already. There's a lime or lemon juice with honey drink that I hope to make sometime soon. Haha, I guess I'll have to find where there's lime or lemon juice in the store. But I really like the chia seed - it feels healthy.
In my future plans, I'm hoping to make pierogi. I've been pan frying Mrs. T's in butter because I'm trying to keep from starving. It doesn't bother me to eat a lot of butter - I think it's healthy for Polish people. Now I'm thinking if I could make it myself so that the pasta had whole grains and the inside had more vegetables than just potatoes, it would be the perfect food. I don't have to work next Saturday, so hopefully I will try it then! When I ordered the chia from Bob's, I also got two bags of Whole Grain Pastry Flour. It was a monthly special - $1.50 for a 1lb bag! It's got just as much fiber as anything else, but when you use it you almost can't tell it's whole grain.
I've also been reading the book I interlibrary loaned about chia. The name of the book is "Chia: Rediscovering a Forgotten Crop of the Aztecs." It's by Ricardo Ayerza Jr. and Wayne Coates, researchers at the University of Arizona and it's published by the university press. It's a great book, although not all of it was the information I really wanted. Right now I've got one quotation I'd like to share: "The diet of ancient Mexicans can be classified as light. It was based on corn, which was eaten in cakes, soups, and tamales, and these were consumed along with chia, bans, and amaranth....It is interesting to note that a diet derived solely from the four grains consumed by the Aztecs meets today's dietary requirements as set out by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization" (p.63). There are a couple chapters I want to reread and I hope to share more quoations later. So, I'm envisioning working these four grains into their pierogi somehow. Although I looked at amaranth in the store and it was very expensive. Maybe that will be the last addition.
Hairwise: There was a break of a few weeks between swim seasons and so during this time I used the Aubrey's instead of Burt's Bees. At first, the Aubrey's wasn't cleaning my hair very well. Then I used a very weak baking soda solution and the Aubrey's worked really well after that. It's the GPB protein one and I love the smell. I swam again for the first time Friday and switched back to Burt's Bees. I'd like to stay with Aubrey's but I'm afraid it wouldn't get the chlorine out.
For some reason I'm having trouble commenting on Sharon's post, but I love rice noodles! My dad makes them with shrimp and clam sauce. It's also very good.
