Nom nom nom!

So I've been on this recent health kick. Or more like health-kick-when-Liv-feels-like-making-an-effort. Anyways, so I've been trying to make the stuff that I put into my body as healthful as possible: fresh, homemade (if not homemade, knowing exactly where it comes from!), good for me, and as well as all of that, delicious!

For breakfast, I've been drinking mango lassi's, and having peanut butter on whole grain toast. Mango lassi's are kind of a fruit smoothie made out of fresh, non sweetened, plain yogurt (I get mine from the Greek place down the street), milk, ice, and mango pulp (fresh, or canned. I use unsweetened canned; so much easier, and the consistency rocks). You blend it all up in a blender, and put a dash of cardamom or instead, I put a little bit of mint. Super yummy and super filling.

I made homemade pesto one night as well. I was babysitting in an hour, was hungry, and was sick of the plain pasta we'd had laying around the house. So I got out our Cuisinart and pulsed up some fresh basil, garlic, parmesan cheese, olive oil, and pine nuts until it tasted right to me. So easy, fresh, and all good for you. Poured over pasta it was great, plus some red cherry tomatoes sliced up. Another great option for pesto is putting it over tomatoes, mozzarella and arugula on a sandwich on ciabatta. Yummy AND vegetarian.

As well as eating stuff like that, I've been cutting out caffeine. Not for me, persay, but the future me! When I need caffeine to get stuff done next year I want it to kick in and work really well, so I'm stopping while I'm ahead now, even though I love my 4 pm cappuccino and dessert. I've also been running to train for cross country. Seoul has some great trails to lace up on and just go; it's especially great for interval training, where I run for time, not for distance.

Woo! Go fitness!

L