There’s a festival atmosphere in town tonight, as carbo-loading marathoners get psyched for the Big Day. I’m in a motel room with my ice chest and the yellow pages, mulling over my dinner options.
Electrolyte drink that tastes like watered down koolaid? Blech.
Gummy pasta with little nutritional value beyond the carbs I want to load for the [...]
Seven A.M. We’re riding the train from Union Station in Chicago west into the heartland of America, slicing through lush, green fields of corn and soybeans that lie as flat as a two by four. The dining car opens for business and, starving, we pile in. People in line in ahead of us buy coffee, doughnuts, bear [...]
You’re on the road. You’re hungry. You’re in some little town… somewhere. Do you:
A) Eat at McDonalds.
B) Get a plastic-swathed sandwich from the convenience store.
C) Buy groceries at a grocery store and make a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich on sprouted wheat on your radiator as it cools.
Hmm. Not exactly great choices, are they? Not [...]
We’d like to give a big shout out to Modernation today; Amanda’s method for enjoying MojaMix in pancake form is ingenious! Simply follow your favorite pancake recipe—be it an old family secret or the directions on the back of Aunt Jemima—and blend in about a half cup of MojaMix per serving. Voila! MojaCake!
Want to try it? [...]
For over a hundred years, people have been eating muesli, a Swiss dish originally developed as nutritional support for hospital patients in recovery. Consisting of rolled oats, fruits, and nuts, muesli is designed to be served with yogurt and fresh fruit on top of dried fruits and nuts. The original recipe contains apple and hazelnuts (a scrumptious [...]
An Englishman and a Scotsman were discussing oats. The Englishman, with his nose in the air, said “In England we feed oats to our horses, and in Scotland you feed oats to your men…”, to which the Scotsman replied “…that’s why in England you have such fine horses, and in Scotland we have such fine [...]
As sixteenth century William Butler said, “Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.” Loaded with vitamin C, strawberries are also a great source of maganese, vitamin K, potassium, iron, and folic acid. And of course, that deep red color means they are full of antioxidants too.
Strawberries are a particularly [...]
Flax is the most popular ingredient among our nuts and seeds. With flax’s high levels of omega-3 fatty acids and high dietary fiber content, it’s no surprise. Flaxseed is particularly rich in alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), an essential fatty acid which appears to be beneficial for a variety of health problems, including heart disease, inflammatory bowel [...]
We’ve gotten tons of customer feedback on our blog and our facebook page. (Thanks, everybody!) Along with all the other questions, comments, and tributes, some of our customers have created their own unique, chocolate-y MojaMix blends. To wrap up our chocolate series today, we thought we’d share a few of our faves:
Cait from Cait’s Plate would like [...]
