Pot Luck Ideas?

I am going to a family party/ potluck this weekend, and i have been instructed to make a main or side dish for 8 people....

these are non-nutrition loving, namely meat eating folks. Other people were specifically instructed to bring green, potato, and pasta salads, and deserts.

Any suggestions on what I should prepare??

Copy Writes?

Hello Blog world that I have ignored for so long,

You know what has been missing in my life that has been preventing me from blogging?

Homework....

I discovered I blog much more efficiently when I am procrastinating from homework.

So this post is not 100% food related, moreso blog related. I am currently taking an Online class about Online Nutrition Education, and the first assignment is lots and lots of reading regarding copywrites!
I thought this was especially pertinent since I am always afraid of using out peoples pictures on my blog, and always link back to their original source.

I know as an RD, I will eventually need to make teaching materials, and even as a TA I find myself question what I am allowed to use... It's all very confusing! and it doesn't make sense to have to reinvent the wheel everytime you want to teach on a certain topic.

So here's a link for some copy writing myths that may come in handy!

Also Useful is this article on copywrites of internet links! And good thing for me, it is not a copy write violation to link a website, since I do it all the time!

Best of luck blogging and not getting sued hahaha...
I'll hopefully be back soon.

J.

P.S I know I need to locate my camera because my last few posts have been very lack luster.

Vitamin E

So here is my recap of yesterday: its not nearly as interesting without the pictures....


1000 iu vitamin d
b-
8 am
1 cup nonfat plain yogurt
1 medium apple
3/4 medium mango
2 fo low fat milk
1/2 cup raisin bran
1 cup high fiber trader joes cereal

20 fo water
2 cups coffee
1 fo low fat milk
2 twin sugars

L-
12 pm
1 cup white spaghetti, no fat no salt added
1/2 cup plain no salt added tomato sauce
1 cup tossed salad (ice berg lettuce, grape tomato, cucumber)
1 packet balsamic vinegar
1/2 packet salt
2 packets Mrs. Dash

2 cup regular black tea (1 bag)
1 fo milk
2 equal
1 cup water

s-
3pm
7 grape tomatoes
2 slices multigrain bread
3 oz tuna salad- tuna, onion, celery, broccoli
honey mustard
mayo (full fat)
8 lorna doon cookies

1 cup decaf tea
low fat milk
1 twin sugar

1 calcium supplement (600 mg Ca, 400 iu vitamin D)

9pm
5 oz original frozen yogurt
2 tb strawberries
2 tb pineapple
2 tb fruity pebbles
1 tb chocolate sauce

10pm
2 glasses red wine charles shaw
3 fo vodka
8 fo light cranberry juice

I didn't do so good in regards to eating more vegetables...
I did analyze my food record for the 19th and 20th (up until the 3 pm food). I did pretty good on getting enough of most nutrients but I am always low on Vitamin E! (Which is sometimes surprising to me considering the sources are some of my favorite foods!)

Vitamin E is one of the fat soluble vitamins and is an antioxidant. It is important for immune function, cellular function, and is said to help protect against heart disease and some types of cancer.

Some good sources of vitamin E include:


Wheat germ oil (1 tb = 100%DV)
almonds
sunflower seed and oil
peanuts and peanut butter
spinach
broccoli

One of the main reasons I started drinking Almond Milk instead of soymilk sometimes is that it is 50%DV in 1 cup. My favorite kind if Almond Breeze unsweetened vanilla, only 40 calories in 1 cup! Though it is full fat... I just bought a new kind today thats Organic and low fat, so I will have to review that after I give it a try.
Some people are not the biggest fans of almond milk since it is a lot lower in protein in comparison to soymilk or other alternatives, but I generally get enough protein through other sources so I am not usually terribly worries about that.


For more info check out the fact sheet.

Whats Good, G?

Sometimes I like to be a little ghetto- Its the dirty woo in me.

But the real topic at hand is, yesterday I made myself a new email address, on Gmail. Namely because since I graduated from BU, it doesn't seem appropriate to go on using my school email address. Also, many people at work tend to use G-chat- and not that that is the best use of a government funding, but why should I be the only one to not be doing that?
i haven't actually tried it out yet, but I will be tryng out the various applciations of Gmail etc- so check me out-
jamieldoherty@gmail.com!

I was also talking to Jessica yesterday and we were discussing our binge eating problems and that writing down what we eat (or in my occasional occurrences photo-blogging!) And she had the idea to make a google document of the foods, since then you can access the document from any computer.

I thought this was a super idea- so I started mine this morning. We'll see how it goes!

Here's my recap from yesterday:
06/19/09

1 vitamin d 1000 iu

b-
1/2 cup yogurt
1/2 peach
1 small apple
1/2 cup raisin bran

s-
1 small danish with apricot? fruit filling and small drizzle frosting
1/2 cup cantaloupe
1/4 cup grapes

2 cups coffee
1 fo milk
2 twin sugars

l-
2 slices wheat bread
4 oz "chik'n"
1 packet dijon mustard
1 packet mayo

1 oatmeal apricot bar

s-
1/2 pound baby carrots
20 grams peanut butter

1 cup peach ginger tea
1 twin sugar

4 cups water

d-
1 medium banana
2 tb cashew butter
2 tb semi sweet chocolate chips
2 tb butterscotch chips

s-
1/2 cup nonfat plain yogurt
1/2 cup low fat vanilla soymilk
1/4 apple
1/4 mango
1/2 cup frosted mini wheats

2 calcium chews

I did pretty good with fruit- but my veggie intake was struggling! I guess I'll have to try to increase that today.
I also ate a lot of dairy etc. I don't know if its just me- but when ever I work out I alwasy get extreme dairy cravings, does this occur to anyone else? I don't know if its cause by some sort of weird electrolyte imbalance due to sweating. No idea.... But at least I'm working on my bone density!
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Let me know of any other fun G- features!

and until next time, keep it gangster- Holler!
(as a very white Bostonian - I like to over pronounce my R's so I don't get taken to seriously in my quest to be thuggin haha)

Map My Run

I have again been a horrible blogging slacker!

But without further ado-

Several things have occured: I turned 22, I moved to Cambridge, ... and that might be it?

Tonight is Friday Night, as of course as your standard 22 year old, I had a wild night planned! O wait- thats right- I work at 7 am.
So instead of wild parties- I decided to go for a nice little run.

I ran from central square, down Main Street in Cambridge, over by MGH, over the esplanade to Cambridge Street, and down prospect street.

I went about 5 miles, which for me is quite good. I'm not much of a runner. I have a lot of friends that are crazy runners, one of my old roommates was a marathoner so I became a bit disillusioned to what was actually a good distance to run, since she would be like, "O it was my light day, I only ran 10 miles..." and I would be so proud of myself for finally running 3 miles in a row haha. But We all have our own things. I am generally more of a gym person and like more variety - I love group exercise classes! but alas, my gym membership with BU expired, and now that I've moved its not in the most convenient location for me. I'll probably try out a gym around here eventually but for now I guess i can stick to running.

I like to use the website mapmyrun.com to plot out routes and see how far I go (also because I have absolutely no sense of direction and would inevitably get horribly lost without any sort of mapping tool.

Its also convenient just for mapping various distances, such as I've mapped how far my general walks are such as when I lived in Allston it was about 0.4 miles from my apartment to the T stop, and it was 0.6 miles from MGH to government center, so I knew on days I worked I generally got in at least 2 miles of walking from my commute, so I didn't feel quite as bad about sitting at my desk in front of a computer for 10 hours straight.

It also lets you save your routes, check out other routes people in the area have saved, look at races in the area, and calculate rough estimates on calories burned etc. Its a pretty nifty site, I suggest ya'll check it out if you have not already.

Do any of you guys use other mapping/ calculating of exercise tools?

Hi Ho Hi Ho off to work I go!

Yesterday, I actually had to work (7 to 6!). I surprisingly enjoyed my 4 days off despite complaining that I was going to be bored in lonely.

Work started with coffee. A lot of coffee. With skim milk and twin sugar.


Then I had some cantaloupe, pineapple, strawberries, and nonfat plain yogurt. I had let the frozen fruit defrost in the fridge over night with the yogurt so it was all runny and delicious, which sounds kind of gross- but its tasty I swear.

Lunch was a big old salad with mixed greens, frozen green beans, frozen mixed "ranchero" veggies, a tomato, raisins, sunflower seeds, and a packet of kraft light done right!
I love using frozen veggies in salads, one of my old roommates got me into it. It lets you have a much wider array of veggies in your salads since you can keep frozen vegetables for so much longer.

I was re-certified in CPR and the AED yesterday at work, but please, no one crash on me anyway!

After work, I was hungry! Again, I haven't been allowing myself to really go grocery shopping since I am trying to move out- so I decided to go to Subway. I usually do NOT eat out this much!

But I love Subway. I keep forgetting to take pictures....
I had a 6" on honey oat with every veggie except onions. I hate raw onions. Mostly because I have a bit of a tooth brushing compulsion and I can always taste the onion in my mouth for about ten days after I eat them. Ironically, for the condiment, I get the sweet onion sauce.


The rest of the evening will be in the post to come....

Lobster, anyone?

SUN BLOCK FAILURE!

Warning: This is alot more of me than any of you have ever wanted to see, but it gets the point across:


I am burnt!! I made the attempt to put sunscreen on, especially around my tattoos- I have this nice random not burnt patch up by my wing- but I managed to miss most of the tattoo any way haha. Today has been painful.
At least I have gotten a sufficient amount of vitamin d!

So my beach trip yesterday was fun...
The other night when I said I was going to hit the hay early.... yea that didn't happen. I couldn't sleep and then to top it off one of my friends kept drunk dialing me every 5 minutes, and I needed to keep my phone on for the alarm clock.

At 3 my friend Andy said since I still wasn't asleep I might as well go hang out... so I did. But first, around 3:07 am....
I realized I was starving! which is why I hate staying up so late since I wind up eating ten more meals. So I made some fruit and yogurt, with frozen strawberries, pineapple and fresh kiwi, and trader joe's nonfat plain organic yogurt.


Andy picked me up and I wound up in Worcester around 5 am, where I finally got to go to sleep, then up at 7 to head to Gloucester!

For breakfast I hada Chex Mix Chocolate Chunk Bar, since I was at my dad's house.. and that was really the only thing I could grab. It was delicious though.

We stayed at the beach from about 10 am til 3 pm. Then headed out to Framingham, where my friend Ari who I went with works. We decided to get dinner at the restaurant she waitresses at.
Joe's American Bar and Grill. Since we hadn't eaten since our Chex Bars we were starving! and we man handled the bread they gave us.

I then had the Asian Chicken Salad - chicken on the side- which I gave to Ariane. Their menu was very vegetarian friendly. Every salad had meat on it. Normally I hate buying food at restuarants without the main component since it seems like a jip- but since we got Ari's sweet discount- and she wanted some extra chicken- it worked out.

The salad consisted of spring greens, tortilla shreds, carrots, lime vinaigrette, and peanut sauce. It was very good, and enormous, I was pretty full after the bread, but I managed to eat it all- It would have been more filling I suppose if I ate the chicken. It was a bit overly dressed, I probably should have gotten the dressing on the side.