Oh yeah, have you guys noticed the huge explosion of fancy drinks at Health Food stores lately? I mean, you must have, you live in Portland... But whenever I go to the co-op in MtV the drinks fridge seems to have doubled in size. Lots of twelve ounce bottles for five dollars. Expensive lifestyle.
I can't do pizza or coffee, but this summer I had a lavender Italian soda when I went camping on the Peninsula and it seemed so hilarious and ridiculous at the time (it sort of tasted like lavender goat-milk soap) but now I want another one of those.
I like to make exciting drinks at my house. But I don't make kombucha, because I don't drink that much of it and I literally only like the ginger flavor, oh, and grape!
You guys New Seasons is now selling original recipe synergy kombucha, remember how they pulled it from shelves like 2 years ago?--you have to be 21 to buy it! But I'm so glad to have it back. So much more vinegary and intense than the new recipe (or than any other brand I've ever tasted).
In Canada they don't have "21 up" kombucha because the FDA has no pull there. So in Montréal I was introduced to G.T.'s "Divine Grape" and at first I was like "Ew." and then on a hot sunny day I downed a whole bottle and forever since I am like "Yum.'.
The people at my local health food store said that it was because kombucha got so popular the FDA got suspicious. Have you ever met anyone who got drunk drinking that stuff? It seems like you'd have to drink so much, like a humanly impossible amount. People's bladder's would burst before they'd feel a real buzz.
Other fermented good foods Kvass--- rye Isn't there some cute hippie name for the soaking liquid from soaking grains? Like wonder juice... help UPDATE "REJUVELAC" also made with rye! Good old rye.
Thinking I have to ease off my increased caffeine intake because I am stressed out in general, and it's contributing to THE FEAR I feel especially at night. That good old tightening of the solar plexus.
From a website about rejuvelac: "If you don't like the flavor at first keep drinking - it really does grow on you." I think it is time for me to go on a sprouts kick
I quit coffee for similar reasons; initially it's depressing, but eventually you just crave "hot beverage" in the morning. A SAD STATE, but I'm proud anyway.
St. John's Wort tea sounds so medicinal and great!
I need to get into some St. John's. Supposed to be good for hormonal problems. I'm drinking a huge cup of coffee and feel great about it. But I respect the positive life changes of others, because this is America
I had a smoothie this morning. It was cold, but filled with whey protein, chia seeds, fish oil, MCT oil, peanut butter, spirulina, almond milk, and blueberries. I AM GOING TO LIVE FOREVER.
Then I had a coffee.
Then I had a chipotle tempeh hippy scramble.
Now I need more coffee.
Oh, my first coffee of the day was served to me a wizard.
I also gave up coffee (eight years ago) and my favorite warm breakfast drinks are peppermint tea and inka (sometimes a creamy brown drink tricks your being into believing it is participating in the Pacific Northwest grey days coffee love).
I had to!! I had a month-long panic attack. One day, sipping my wonderful coffee, I noticed a quickening of the already-rapid tattoo of my pulse, an increased tightening of my solar plexus. Ah-ha! I thought. I am stressed the F*** out! I am really slow at paying attention to myself..... I have been much better since this realization and its subsequent medicines. Melancholy is my worst vice, I gotta nip it in the bud, so the coffee is an easy fix. While I am recovering from brain-panic for a couple of months, my only priorities are to do good at work, get lots of sleep, and spend regular time with BF.
St. John's morning Chamomile afternoon California poppy tincture in evening
Diet Coke and Mateine are just as crazy-making as coffee!
In the beginning of quitting I would go to the coffee shop and buy a coffee but just smell it, not drink it. it was a weird decadent treat and it worked.
@LT: I would like to congratulate you on giving it up. It's hard and almost alienating. Not being able to share that coffee moment with my person, Fudge, who is a coffee nut was pretty sad. But now I am over it. Eight years later I feel like quitting coffee was a smart move. And now when I sneak a sip it tastes weird. I really loved it. But like all old loves you think you'd never be able to live without, you grow past it.
I had 4 cups today. I feel good. Now I'm drinking beer. Even though I'm supposed to not drink beer. Marathon's soon bros. I still find that I'm more productive proportional to my coffee intake.
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new atomic element
also, the shiny grease on her chin!!! she already had a PIZZA
Also, did she say I can pay with a USB drive?
what a beautiful use of technology!
But the ultimate mystery.... which is better: coffee or diet coke
let the ritualistic abuse begin!
Lyrics go: "Diet Coke Diet Coke Diet Coke"
a sick joke
play it kdawg!! SO cool you are proposing playing a song by first mixing it down from the studios.....
A Trojan Pizza, if you will.
Abandon all false pizza idols!
No conflict there!
Peace to you sister of the silver can!
I can't deal. Any accidental diet drink purchase will be spat out.
I will say, a strange taste has a way of becoming more addictive, because when acquired, it is so unique.
I can't do pizza or coffee, but this summer I had a lavender Italian soda when I went camping on the Peninsula and it seemed so hilarious and ridiculous at the time (it sort of tasted like lavender goat-milk soap) but now I want another one of those.
But I don't make kombucha, because I don't drink that much of it and I literally only like the ginger flavor, oh, and grape!
'tis my biggest vice
I tried to make it at home and it didn't work.
So in Montréal I was introduced to G.T.'s "Divine Grape" and at first I was like "Ew." and then on a hot sunny day I downed a whole bottle and forever since I am like "Yum.'.
original recipe divine grape is SO GOOD. That's my jam, that and cranberry!
It's the dumbest.
Kvass--- rye
Isn't there some cute hippie name for the soaking liquid from soaking grains? Like wonder juice... help UPDATE "REJUVELAC" also made with rye! Good old rye.
Thinking I have to ease off my increased caffeine intake because I am stressed out in general, and it's contributing to THE FEAR I feel especially at night. That good old tightening of the solar plexus.
St. John's Wort tea sounds so medicinal and great!
Supposed to be good for hormonal problems.
I'm drinking a huge cup of coffee and feel great about it.
But I respect the positive life changes of others, because this is America
Then I had a coffee.
Then I had a chipotle tempeh hippy scramble.
Now I need more coffee.
Oh, my first coffee of the day was served to me a wizard.
St. John's morning
Chamomile afternoon
California poppy tincture in evening
No diet coke
no mateine
In the beginning of quitting I would go to the coffee shop and buy a coffee but just smell it, not drink it. it was a weird decadent treat and it worked.
It's hard and almost alienating. Not being able to share that coffee moment with my person, Fudge, who is a coffee nut was pretty sad.
But now I am over it.
Eight years later I feel like quitting coffee was a smart move. And now when I sneak a sip it tastes weird. I really loved it. But like all old loves you think you'd never be able to live without, you grow past it.