A friend of mine recently gave me a free trial of Blue Apron. Blue Apron is one of a number of delivery services that have popped up that provide you with recipes and all of the ingredients that you need to cook them. In this case, you get three meals, all selected by Blue Apron. The only choice you have is whether you want that week's meal, if you want meat/fish or vegetarian, and how many servings you want. If you are paying for the service, it is $9.99 per person per meal. Most important conclusion: the food was fresh and all of the recipes tasted good. Of the three, one was good but I wouldn't want again, one was good and I'd be happy to eat it occasionally, and one was good enough that I actually plan to use the recipe card … [Read more...]
Eat all the things Wednesday
Really, it was eat.all.the.things Tuesday, but the sentiment is the same. It was just one of those days when all I wanted to do was eat. The day started with an early breakfast, so lunch was eaten at about 11:15. I headed out for a run (that I really didn't want to do, but I have some crazy days later this week) around 1:15. I came back from my 4 mile run absolutely ravenous. What? It's not like I ran that far. Or that I ran on an empty stomach. But I just wanted to eat and eat and eat... Did I eat more calories than I burned? Absolutely. Would I call it a binge? No. The weird part is that it felt like hunger, rather than "oh, I'm eating because I'm bored or I'm sad or I'm stressed..." I did end up drinking quite a bit of … [Read more...]
