Life Regenerator

As I’ve been digging into food & health the past several months/years, I discovered Dan The Life Regenerator!  You gotta love this guy.  He brings a smile to my face every time I watch his videos and I actually get some new ideas for the vitamix.  For some reason, he reminds of Christian Bell (the winner of the caption contest):

Caption Winner

“I’m crying cause my dad wants me to eat a bell pepper shake, but I’m smiling cause I just called Child and Family Services, who will be here momentarily.”

Thanks for your entries.  The winner, as you can see by the caption above, is Christian Bell.  All of the entries made us smile and laugh.  But, this one made us laugh the loudest.  No wonder he’s a successful window washing entrepreneur and internet mogul: http://www.dontdodumbthings.com/

So … what do you win?  Christian, you win a free vacation for you and your family in beautiful southern california — includes surfing, snorkeling, disneyland, and … wait for it … fruit & veggie vitamix smoothies!  You just need to get here and we’ll take care of the rest.

Caption Contest

What should this caption be?

A picture is worth a thousand words.  There’s a lot going on here.  Make up a clever/funny caption to describe what you see.  The ‘best’ caption-er will win prestige, self-confidence, admiration … and a surprise.  Submit with a comment to the post.

Eat Local?

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After watching & reading a lot about what we eat – where it comes from, who supplies it, what’s in it – we’re trying to eat more REAL food that’s found locally and in season.  The ‘WHY’ has to do with …

• Nutrition/Health
• Food Safety
• Rejecting the deplorable conditions in industrial animal warehousing (I’m afraid I might be starting to sound preachy about this one.  I’m not an animal lover.  No pets.  But, I find those two links so offensive & I’m starting to care a lot about this. Do I believe we’ve been ‘G’iven dominion over all things in the earth?  Yes.  But, I also believe there’s something called unrighteous dominion).  [Uh oh ... Dave's losing it]
• Supporting our local farmers/economy
• Protecting against childhood obesity

We are what we eat

By REAL food I mean fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, beans, dairy, healthy or lean meats.  Essentially, no artificial colors, flavors, etc.  No high fructose corn syrup.  No Trans Fat.  Look on the label.  How many ingredients are in it?  Generally, if it comes in a box, it’s full of artificial filler stuff that makes us fat and malnourished.  I’m not saying this is all we eat.  It isn’t.  But, we’re trying to substitute real for artificial/processed food as much as we can.

But, how do you realistically get that into your (and your kids’) body every day?  One hyphenated word: vita-mix.  Today’s blend: banana, whole pear (whole = peel on and core in), whole mango, whole kiwi, 1/2 avocado, handful raw spinach, 2 handfuls raw oatmeal, ice.  1 glass during breakfast.  Put the rest into the thermos to keep it cold until lunch.  When I get fired, I’ll have to go to work for vita-mix b/c it seems like I’m always ‘selling’ this baby.

I’ll give you the ‘rest of the story’ of the vita-mix in an upcoming post … with a little help from the kiddos.