The entire Bieber/Jones/Jefferies family- I would be living in a cardboard box under a freeway bridge eating cans of spam and not even having the social skills to share my “meat” cans with my fellow homeless compadres if it wasn’t for you. Thank you.
Bridget, Suz, Ryan, LA, Kath, JJ, MK, Casey, Lauren, Bianca, all of 18 & Co, Bryan, Joey G, Pearl, Ethan, Cody, Emily, Vanessa, and the Weeks and Urband families. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your never ending support and making my last two weeks in New York painfully exhausting but in a good way. I love you and appreciate everything you have done for me way down into my guts.
Okay, that’s about all the emotion I have in me. And since this is actually a nutrition blog and not just a space for me to display my emotional throw up I feel obligated to give you a few entirely unrelated nutrition facts/pieces of advice so you didn’t just waste ten minutes of your life reading something sappy.
1. Use spaghetti squash instead of pasta. It is delicious and way better for you. Especially when you put bolognese sauce over it. Try this recipe.
2. Use the weekend to brainstorm a goal for next week. Go grain-free for a day (or 7), up your normal intake of vegetables, or spend an extra day at home cooking than you normally would. You don’t have to change all at once. You can do this. Merriam-Webster defines habit as “a behavior pattern acquired by frequent repetition or physiologic exposure that shows itself in regularity or increased facility of performance.” Just keep doing it week after week and soon it wont be a goal, it will be your lifestyle and you can move on to the next goal.
3. Recognize that just because something says “free range” or “cage free” does NOT mean that it grazed exclusively on the land. Your meat should be hormone and antibiotic free and pasture raised, not grain fed. Your eggs and dairy should come from animals who grazed on the land as well.
4. Eat weird shit. Like liver. It’s not really weird and it is absurdly good for you. In fact, pretty soon you will be receiving an entire post about how good liver is for you. Try this liver and onions recipe or this liver chili recipe. If the idea of liver really freaks you out that much take it slow. Add a couple cubes of liver to your beef stir fry. Or buy liver and stick it in a food processor or blender. When your meat is the consistency of ground beef put it in ice cube trays and freeze. Next time you are cooking up ground beef add 3 or 6 or 10 cubes of liver. All the benefits and none of the Mr. Yuk faces.
5. Petting dogs lowers your blood pressure. And looking at pictures of puppies. And laughing. Have fun this weekend!