Busy Beeter

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I had a really busy day yesterday.  It started off by being trapped and chained to my desk reading and answering emails, doing blog-related computer tasks, and trying to keep my inbox under better control than the ever-growing national debt.  My inbox can relate to the ever-growing part.

Apple computer


Then I went to the post office and mailed package to a friend.  She wants to start brewing her own kombucha and I am helping her get started.

brown package

Speaking of fermented beverages, Zukay Foods sent me some of their products to try.

fermented beverages

The Zukay beet juice was refreshing and there are many benefits to consuming beets:

Information from Zukay Foods:

– Beet juice can help to strengthen both the liver and the gall bladder; even more so when mixed with other juices such as carrot or cucumber.

· Beet fiber such as Pectin, binds toxins, heavy metals, and excess hormones that build up in the liver, and removes them from the body, as opposed to being reabsorbed.

· They are a blood building herb that detoxifies blood and renews it with minerals and natural sugars.

· Beets have been found to have a regulating effect on blood pressure

· Because beets are so beneficial to the bloodstream, it has been found that they can also protect from heart disease and help to fight off anaemia

· The folic acids found in beets are especially helpful to pregnant women, as they are known to prevent birth defects.

· After long, tiring days, raw beets have the ability to reenergize and rejuvenate.

· Beet juice reduces the uptake of oxygen, thus allowing an increase in endurance and stamina in those physically active. It allows for longer workouts because of less fatigue.

· And of course, Zukay’s Beet Kvasses (and other kvasses) are all fermented and probiotic, so they have all the natural enzymes of the veggies intact, and are naturally probiotic and low in sugar

This Carrot Ginger juice was sweet with a bit of heat.  Tasty stuff.

fermented beverages

And although I am not a fan of onions at all, Scott seemed to really enjoy this salad dressing.

fermented salad dressing

salad

I’ve been dipping all my veggies in Spicy Doritos Cheezy Dip

Spicy Doritos Cheezy Dip

The dip is really fast and easy to make I use it as either a salad dressing or as a veggie dip.

green beansIf you like nooch or Doritos, make that dip.

After errand running, it was time to fix Skylar a snack.

Skylar
She requested a Microwave Blueberry Banana Oat Cake

Microwave Blueberry Banana Oat CakeSmart choice.  For her and me since I was rushing around and the microwave saves me.  Not a fan of it?  That’s ok, I am. Just a tool that I use as needed.

From my previous post, Learn Something New Every Day, can you believe that about koi fish?  200 year old “pets”?  Crazy but true!

Questions:

1. Do you like beets?  Ever tried beet juice?

I love beets and have a recipe post coming soon with them but until about 6 years ago, I used to think I didn’t like them.

It wasn’t until getting my first CSA share and learning how to roast them properly that I fell in love with beets.  A little too in love and I gave myself an unintentional liver cleanse but I survived and was, ahem, cleaner and purer, afterward.

If your only experience with beets is from a can or something that’s been pre-cooked and is a strange plastic container or can, and the texture is really ahem, unique, yes, I can see why you wouldn’t like them either.  Ick!

Real beets, prepared properly, are amazing.  As is beet juice if you’re so inclined to juice them.  I am such a crybaby about juicer cleanup that I almost never juice anymore.

beetsI captured the shot of those gems at the Farmers Market over the weekend

2. What Busy Beeter Busy Beaver tasks have you crossed off your list today or recently?

Yesterday I also hit up the grocery store

Cleaned my shower

Changed the sheets on Skylar’s bed

Went for a great run

And oh yes, went to my paid job.  The rest of that list is just unpaid manual labor.

3. Do you get sucked into your computer, your email, blogs (reading them, writing your own, maintaining your own, etc.), websites, and just things that keep you sitting at your desk and staring at your screen?

I sure do!  Some days it just seems never ending the sheer volume of computer work I need to plow through!

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Comments

  1. I absolutely ADORE beets, and I love juicing them as well.

    I have cross SO many things off my busy-bee list lately … with school winding down, there are things to cross off each day. It is a good feeling!

  2. I LOVE beets….especially the greens! My MIL always plants them in her garden and I secretly think she does it for me b/c I don’t see her eat beets much. ;) That carrot juice sound really tasty! I’d love to drink more juice like that but don’t own a juicer and most products that you can buy have apples in them. Can’t do apples so the juice stays on the shelf….Bummer.

    1. yes it’s west elm, good eyes!

      my entire house has been phased in with west elm over the past few years :)

      and i dont clean it, per se. I guess I am just really careful with it and I have spot cleaned it with water on a towel but Ive never had anything horrid happen to it. I would use an upholstery service honestly rather than try to do it myself if i ever really needed a major cleaning…

      1. Gotcha. Yeah–I’ve been afraid to clean it myself. I have a dog and so I have some little spots on it that I wasn’t sure how to get out. Thanks!

  3. I enjoy eating beets, but have never tried the juice.

    Crossed off my list: paid job, travelling to/from my parents, paper / computer work for the paintball field, answering the phone for the paintball field, cleaned the bathrooms, made dinner, did laundry (ours) and started the laundry for the paintball field … oh, and mowed the front yard.

    My computer & I spend WAY too much time together. My paid job, my unpaid job (paintball field), reading blogs, personal email, facebook, etc. Good thing I unplug during the weekends – WiFi is terrible at the paintball field this year.

  4. I think you have completely read my mind with this post.

    1. I was going to answer that I hate beets until you explained getting them fresh and not the gross mushy canned stuff. I don’t think I have ever tried a fresh beet in my life! So I bet I’d like them.
    2. JUST yesterday I tackled so many chores around the house that I have been putting off for weeks and weeks. And now everything looks so beautiful.
    3. And finally, yes, yes, and YES! I can totally get sucked into e-mails, blogs, and Facebook. Where does the time go??

    1. canned and fresh are NOTHING alike so you will like properly made beets, i promise.