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3 Meals You Can Make with Farmer's Market Food

3 Meals You Can Make with Farmer's Market Food

3 Meals You Can Make with Farmer's Market Food

The farmer’s market has become a weekend ritual for many twenty-somethings. Meeting a friend for coffee and a food-truck breakfast is a great way to catch up and support local small businesses. Make a quick visit to the other vendors before you leave and you’ll have a fresh, healthy mix of local food and produce. Here are three meals you can make with farmer’s market food.

Breakfast: Ciabatta french toast with berries

Pick up a loaf of ciabatta from your favorite local baker at the market. Dip thick slices of the bread in a mixture of farm-fresh eggs and organic milk. Cook for three minutes on each side and serve with berries from your favorite fruit vendor (use what’s in season). Bonus points for using 100% real maple syrup.

Lunch: Farmer’s market salad

Start with a bed of local spinach or kale. Add in a variety of local, in-season produce. The United States Department of Agriculture has a list of what is best in each season (check here for summer’s list). Add in a hard-boiled egg (farm-fresh, of course) and top with a locally-prepared salad dressing. Many farmer’s markets sell fresh-pressed juice, which would complement this salad.

Dinner: Grass-fed beef or bison burgers and sweet potato fries

Depending on your farmer’s market, you should be able to find a beef vendor. Look for a local farm that produces 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef. Toast your leftover ciabatta for a unique bun, or pick up butter lettuce for a carb-friendly option. Serve with homemade sweet potato fries (slice organic sweet potatoes, drizzle with oil, and bake or grill for 25-35 minutes). Make your own ketchup with this recipe from Simply Scratch if you have time. Pair with beer from your local craft brewery and you’re set!

Eating healthy and local does not have to be difficult. If you’re not sure where your closest farmer’s market is, search LocalHarvest. Shopping at your weekly farmer’s market gives you a chance to connect with local vendors and eat real food grown in your area. Thanks to new smartphone software, many vendors even accept credit and debit cards. Don’t forget a reusable bag!…

Malibu Pilates Chair Workout System Review

Malibu Pilates Chair Workout System Review

Malibu Pilates Chair Workout System ReviewMy friends can see the gradual changes in my body brought on by The Malibu Pilates Chair workout system. They say that from an ugly fat duckling, I now evolved into a beautiful voluptuous swan. They cannot imagine how I got this figure in just a short period of time. Well, all I could say is its all because of the magnificent item I bought online – The Malibu Pilates Chair workout system.

The Malibu Pilates Chair workout system is a revolutionary exercising tool that makes my dream come true. I love doing workouts but because of the workload I have in the office, I have no time for it. I cannot handle hassles anymore like commuting to the gym and bringing huge sports bag in the office. Thanks a lot to Carroll Kreiff and Josef Pilates for having The Malibu Pilates Chair workout system available in the market today. With this unique and effective exercising tool, I was able to start a small personal gym in my house.

The Malibu Pilates Chair workout system is just one piece of equipment, but it allows me to do several types of exercises. It features adjustable springs that I can set depending on the kind of exercise that I want to do. From the first day that I had The Malibu Pilates Chair workout system, I started losing weight. With proper use of this exercising tool anyone can immediately have the sexy body that they are dreaming about.

Another feature of The Malibu Pilates Chair workout system that I love is the custom split-step pedals. This feature gives me the chance to have continuous calorie burning. I just followed the instructions in the DVD on how to use it properly. The exercises are centered on sculpting both the arms and legs. After using this product for several weeks I realized why celebrities and prominent people use this. The Malibu Pilates Chair workout system can satisfy anyone’s standard because of its efficiency and benefits offered.

When properly set, The Malibu Pilates Chair workout system is really a bulky item. It will occupy some space like a meter or two so that it can work properly. But, if your workout schedule is over, you can easily put it back in its box. The Malibu Pilates Chair workout system is lightweight and easy to store. If you will use it with proper care and maintenance, …

How Muscles Grow

How Muscles Grow

How Muscles GrowYou’re running from a lion, fighting the tribe down the river and hauling stones to build your hut. Your body says to itself, “this is really hard work. I could do a little better with more muscle”. The next time you engage in such activities your body has grown a little more muscle to make things easy on you.

Maybe we don’t run from lions, fight and haul things like we used to but we still have the ability to put on muscle. When we stress these muscles and give them time to relax they will continue to grow. Thus the more intensive we work out, the larger the weights we use and the more we get our blood moving the more likely we are going to be able to build these muscles.

The goal is to use the heaviest weights we can to recreate the stress we might experience while doing intensive physical labor or running from a lion. Many people wonder precisely how heavy the weight should be. The answer is so that you can barely stand it without hurting or ripping these muscles.

A trick that can be use is go get the largest weight that you can only lift with all of your strength. Then drop the about of the weight 10%-20% so that after five repetitions you are shaking to get it up all the way. Complete a few more repetitions and put it down. Give your muscles a little break before you try it again.

It is necessary to isolate each muscle as much as you can in order to get the maximum benefit. However, if you aren’t an expert in weightlifting you might consider starting with basic techniques such as bench press, squats, etc. As your knowledge of your body grows you can add techniques that help isolate individual muscles.

You will also need to give your muscles time to recover. Thus it is necessary to allow for a 48 hour break between weight lifting again. If you like to work out each day they you are going to have to isolate muscles so that you can do so. You switch around your muscles so that you can keep working out by alternating them on certain days.

Eating appropriately is also a benefit. These muscles will have a difficult time growing if they are not fed properly. Instead of becoming stronger you might …