May 1, 2009 by gregshore.

As somebody who has exercised nearly every day for the last three years, I’ve consumed a lot of water and sports drinks for recovery during that time. I can’t imagine not having clean water available to me at a moment’s notice.  I whine when it’s not icey cold. Yet, for much of the world, access to clean water is impossible.

Please join me for the first five day in May in drinking just water - and tap water at that. Take the money you save and give it to Water Missions International (WMI). WMI is a local (Charleston, SC) based non profit with worldwide impact and with national support. Learn more about them. They do remarkable work.

Drink water. Make a donation. Save lives. It’s that simple.

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November 14, 2008 by gregshore.

My friends and I have done something we call the New Food Challenge (NFC). The average American eats only about 35 different foods each week. We started out buying five new foods each week. And they had to be unprocessed or minimally processed. That usually meant produce or dried beans and grains.

I’m still doing the New Food Challenge but I usually only grab one new thing in the store each week rather than five. In the challenge, I have discovered some things I like - bok choy. Some that I didn’t like as a kid but discovered I like as an adult - corn on the cob. Some that I have always liked but found either a new way to prepare or prepared it like Mom did - cabbage. I even tried beets. My mom usually bought pickled beets for holiday relish trays - I always found them to be a particularly nasty food.

I have really tried to come up with a way to eat beets. Root vegetable - boil it like a potato - no, that didn’t work. Try my hand at pickling my own beets - that experiment ended up in the compost heap. I don’t even like pickles - I don’t know what I was thinking.

So then I tried roasted beets. 40 minutes @ 400, covered with cooking spray. Peel them when they’re cool enough, drizzle with olive oil and chopped basil and sea salt. Everything is better with sea salt and fresh basil.

There are exceptions to every rule. Beets are still nasty.

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