With all the news lately about the salmonella outbreak sweeping the country’s eggs the NY Times takes a look as to why our eggs aren’t safe.
1 lb Italian pork sausage
1 lb medium sized cooked shrimp tails removed (we used already cooked frozen shrimp which we just defrosted quickly under cold running water)
2 zucchini squash sliced
2 Japanese eggplants sliced
1 small red and yellow bell pepper diced
1/2 can coconut milk
Black pepper to taste.
In a large soup pot brown the Italian sausage over medium heat. While the sausage is browning, defrost your shrimp (if using frozen) in a colander under cold running water and chop your vegetables. After the sausage is browned, add the diced vegetables and saute with the sausage for about 5 minutes. Pour in the coconut milk and bring to a simmer. Add the defrosted shrimp and cook for about 2 more minutes, just until the shrimp are warm. Season with black pepper and serve in bowls.
Enjoy!
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This disturbing experiment comes courtesy of good.is. Check out the whole article for more pictures and info.
McDonald’s Hamburgers Don’t Age
Things that are made from organic material age and decay, especially when they stop being alive. A piece of home-baked bread, say, left on your kitchen counter, will get moldy relatively fast. Lord knows what some ground beef would smell like after a week. But the artist Sally Davies has been photographing one McDonald’s hamburger and fries every day for 137 days. They look basically exactly the same.
Post copied from Orange Coast Crossfit
Are you sore after some of our workouts? Do you eat only grass fed meat? Do you want to get stronger? Do you want to take off that layer of fat on you stomach?
I cannot stress this enough. You need to supplement with Fish Oil. How much? .5 grams per 10 pounds of bodyweight. I weigh 200# that means I need 10 grams of Omega 3s per day. How many is 10 grams. The Kirklands brand from Costco is one of the most pure varieties out there and thats the one I take. Make sure to keep it in the fridge and take it with food. (Its perishable) Each capsule contains 1000 mg but only 300mg is Omega 3. You want to only look at the Omega 3. The rest is well… fishy parts. So to get 10 grams I need to swallow about 33 capsules. I take take 30 caps as its a nice round number. 10 with each meal. Sound like alot? Well it is alot of capsules but it is not alot of Omega 3s. Why do we need Omega 3? Because not long ago all of our meat used to feed in the wild off of grass. As nature intended. But now we feed our beef/chicken/pork/farmed fish (yes I said fish) grain and corn. Grass contains high levels of good fats/Omega 3s. Grain and corn do not. So we are Omega 3 deficient. Big time! Omega 3s contribute to:
One they left off here which is most beneficial for us CrossFitters and the type of intense training that we do. That side effect is: reduced muscle soreness. Since I have upped my fish oil quota to 10 grams I have had very little soreness. Virtually none.So go buy the fish oil and start taking em. Not one a day either. Thats like working out once a month and thinking that will take you to the promised land. No. Sorry. Ain’t gonna cut it. Man up. Take the oil at the required dose and report back to me in two weeks how little soreness you have after your WODs.You guys dont need crazy supplements. Nature gives us everything that we need in our food. If you are following a mostly Paleo diet you do not need anything else besides the oil. Dont be a bodybuilding meat head. We dont have mirrors in the gym for a reason. I dont want this crazy creatine, zyamine, HGH, NOXPLOD, crap in my gym. We are athletes not lab rats. Remember world class fitness begins with eating meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and NO sugar. One of the beautiful things that brought me to CrossFit was the pureness that surrounded their philosophy. Anyone who reads Greg Glassmans What is Fitness or World Class Fitness in 100 words can see this. CrossFit started as a garage gym because we were fed up with the inadequacy of the Globo gym and our best athletes are fed at the local farmers market. NOT GNC.
Today’s meal again came from Whole9, as they attempt to squeeze more vegetables into their early AM breakfasts. Many of you have the same issue – cramming plenty of veggies at lunch and dinner is easy, but who wants to roll out of bed to a giant, steaming bowl full of broccoli and spinach? Fruit is far more appealing first thing in the morning, but a plate full of berries can also start your day off on the wrong sugar-foot. A chilled bowl of mango gazpacho is a nice compromise – sweet enough to get the taste buds excited, and vegetable-y enough to make it actually count towards your daily veggie intake.
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