HEALTHY LIVING

[Salukulady]

Intake & Output for 5/7/08

Gym-water
B-fast-oatmeal w/flaxseed, pecans, & honey, coffee
Swim laps for 30 min
Lunch-3 cheese & veggie soft tacos, water, 1 pkg. dark m&m's
Dinner-4oz chicken salad on 1 piece sourdough, glass of milk

[pbans]

Here's an interesting product for those of use trying to cut fat....I've ordered some, but haven't gotten it yet. It does get rave reviews from a diet board I visit (and it's gluten-free, Mal)!

You can use it just like regular peanut butter. It has 54 calories and 2.8 grams of fat for 2T verses 190 calories and 16 grams of fat for 2T of regular peanut butter.

PB2

[Salukulady]

Here's an interesting product for those of use trying to cut fat....I've ordered some, but haven't gotten it yet. It does get rave reviews from a diet board I visit (and it's gluten-free, Mal)!

You can use it just like regular peanut butter. It has 54 calories and 2.8 grams of fat for 2T verses 190 calories and 16 grams of fat for 2T of regular peanut butter.

PB2

Looked at the PB2 site....I curious, what do you mix this powdered peanut butter with? I couldn't find the answer on their site......I've always bought Laura Scudders peanut butter, let it separate and pour off the fat before using it, but it's way too thick.

[buffettbride]

(and it's gluten-free, Mal)!

You know me too well.

I actually wonder if those wafer things will be gluten-free as well. That would kick-ass.

My 'lil Tony is allergic to peanuts but not anaphylaxis-style, so we do keep PB in the house.

For me, nuts are my new chips, so I think that is fantastic. I usually eat almonds or pistachios every day!

[pbans]

Here's an interesting product for those of use trying to cut fat....I've ordered some, but haven't gotten it yet. It does get rave reviews from a diet board I visit (and it's gluten-free, Mal)!

You can use it just like regular peanut butter. It has 54 calories and 2.8 grams of fat for 2T verses 190 calories and 16 grams of fat for 2T of regular peanut butter.

PB2

Looked at the PB2 site....I curious, what do you mix this powdered peanut butter with? I couldn't find the answer on their site......I've always bought Laura Scudders peanut butter, let it separate and pour off the fat before using it, but it's way too thick.

If you want to keep it lowfat, you mix it with water......otherwise, oil of your choice. A lot of people use it to flavor protein shakes with peanut butter.

[buffettbride]

We usually do the Kroger natural peanut butter (crunchy). Not too much separation. I prefer creamy, but the majority vote in our house likes crunchy (and PB is expensive!!).

[carolinagirl]

Here's an interesting product for those of use trying to cut fat....I've ordered some, but haven't gotten it yet. It does get rave reviews from a diet board I visit (and it's gluten-free, Mal)!

You can use it just like regular peanut butter. It has 54 calories and 2.8 grams of fat for 2T verses 190 calories and 16 grams of fat for 2T of regular peanut butter.

PB2

Looked at the PB2 site....I curious, what do you mix this powdered peanut butter with? I couldn't find the answer on their site......I've always bought Laura Scudders peanut butter, let it separate and pour off the fat before using it, but it's way too thick.

You mix it with water. It's cool to me you found this site, since this guy and his PB2 is here in MY HOME TOWN:
Bell Plantation
PO Box 943
Tifton, GA 31793

I have to admit I haven't tried it yet.

In addition to inventing powdered peanut butter, Mr. Bell has single-handedly solved the energy crisis by developing microorganisms that can convert biomass into hydrocarbons. No one in the national media is paying attention to this yet, but they will one day soon. You read it on Buffett News first. But everyone here is ignoring it, too.

Here's a column about it that ran this past Tuesday:
http://www.tiftongazette.com/opinion/lo ... 13442.html

The story was about Tifton resident J.C. Bell who has found the solution to the world’s energy crisis through genetic modification and cloning of bacterial organisms that can convert bio-mass into hydrocarbon on a grand scale. Hydrocarbon = gas. Think about this next week when you are at the gas pump paying $3.50 a gallon. Think about the Tifton man who is capable of making as much gas as we will ever need — and he can make it cheap.

How cheap you ask? Well, I didn’t put that part in my article, but let me tell you I think he could probably make it for 25 cents a gallon — but the government would most likely never allow that. The reason he could make it that cheap is because the process is so simple and the materials are essentially free. All he requires is a big tank (think of a silo, maybe), a handful of this bacteria (well, I don’t know that the recipe calls for a handful) and some tree limbs, corns husks, or any of those other once-living things that we dispose of (called bio-mass). Mix the bacteria and the bio-mass together, stir around a little and out comes gas. That simple.

Take a deep breath and let this idea seep into your head. All the gas we want or need. For 25 cents a gallon. Forever. And you don’t have to modify any of our vehicles. And it is environmentally friendly. That would pretty well end the energy crisis and this country’s dependence on foreign oil, don’t you think?

Do you doubt that he can do it? Let me tell you, I believe he can do it. The U.S. defense department believes he can do it. On April 15, J.C. was invited by the defense department to speak at the World Wide Energy Conference held in Arlington, Virginia. He was up there talking alongside speakers from ExxonMobile and the National Science Foundation

[pbans]

Here's an interesting product for those of use trying to cut fat....I've ordered some, but haven't gotten it yet. It does get rave reviews from a diet board I visit (and it's gluten-free, Mal)!

You can use it just like regular peanut butter. It has 54 calories and 2.8 grams of fat for 2T verses 190 calories and 16 grams of fat for 2T of regular peanut butter.

PB2

Looked at the PB2 site....I curious, what do you mix this powdered peanut butter with? I couldn't find the answer on their site......I've always bought Laura Scudders peanut butter, let it separate and pour off the fat before using it, but it's way too thick.

You mix it with water. It's cool to me you found this site, since this guy and his PB2 is here in MY HOME TOWN:
Bell Plantation
PO Box 943
Tifton, GA 31793

I have to admit I haven't tried it yet.

In addition to inventing powdered peanut butter, Mr. Bell has single-handedly solved the energy crisis by developing microorganisms that can convert biomass into hydrocarbons. No one in the national media is paying attention to this yet, but they will one day soon. You read it on Buffett News first. But everyone here is ignoring it, too.

Here's a column about it that ran this past Tuesday:
http://www.tiftongazette.com/opinion/lo ... 13442.html

The story was about Tifton resident J.C. Bell who has found the solution to the world’s energy crisis through genetic modification and cloning of bacterial organisms that can convert bio-mass into hydrocarbon on a grand scale. Hydrocarbon = gas. Think about this next week when you are at the gas pump paying $3.50 a gallon. Think about the Tifton man who is capable of making as much gas as we will ever need — and he can make it cheap.

How cheap you ask? Well, I didn’t put that part in my article, but let me tell you I think he could probably make it for 25 cents a gallon — but the government would most likely never allow that. The reason he could make it that cheap is because the process is so simple and the materials are essentially free. All he requires is a big tank (think of a silo, maybe), a handful of this bacteria (well, I don’t know that the recipe calls for a handful) and some tree limbs, corns husks, or any of those other once-living things that we dispose of (called bio-mass). Mix the bacteria and the bio-mass together, stir around a little and out comes gas. That simple.

Take a deep breath and let this idea seep into your head. All the gas we want or need. For 25 cents a gallon. Forever. And you don’t have to modify any of our vehicles. And it is environmentally friendly. That would pretty well end the energy crisis and this country’s dependence on foreign oil, don’t you think?

Do you doubt that he can do it? Let me tell you, I believe he can do it. The U.S. defense department believes he can do it. On April 15, J.C. was invited by the defense department to speak at the World Wide Energy Conference held in Arlington, Virginia. He was up there talking alongside speakers from ExxonMobile and the National Science Foundation

VERY COOL!
Well, he's a hit with the weightloss community, that's for sure!
I freaking LOVE peanut butter, but just can't get past the high fat....hope this works as an alternative.....and I far prefer creamy PB, too!

[Capt.Flock]

I do not like peanut butter

[carolinagirl]

I do not like peanut butter

I love it! In fact, I'm going to go out today and buy this stuff and tell you how it works. They have it at Yogurt You Love and the Medicine Man Corner.

Here's more:

A "Rave" on the editorial page from Oct. 2007:

Best-kept secret?

“ A huge Rave to J.C. Bell and Bell Plantation for the new product, PB2. He has found a way to provide a healthy alternative to peanut butter. This product is very low fat and is delicious! I read about it on the Weight Watcher’s message board and know that Weight Watchers all over the country are excited about a product that is made right here in little ‘ole Tifton, Ga. Check them out on www.bellplantation.com.”

And an article from December 2007:
http://www.tiftongazette.com/archivesea ... 03234.html
Note that this guy had just 26 employees in December, and sales exceeding $600,000. Also note the length of our rush hour, 5:00 to 5:01 p.m. My husband has a 30-second commute to work at the Tifton Gazette -- four blocks away from home.

Sales of local company’s peanut products soaring
By Jana Cone/reporter

TIFTON —
J.C. Bell, who owns and operates Bell Plantation, a local agricultural research company, is the first to admit he likes to think outside the box — way outside the box. Bell’s unconventional thinking is proving to be the foundation for his company’s soaring success.

Bell could have just made another good peanut butter, but that’s not his style. “If we had decided to sell a roasted peanut butter we would have had to compete against Jiff and Planters and Skippy,” Bell said. He put his two hands together and flattened them out. “They would have squashed us like a bug.”

Instead, Bell invented PB2, a powdered peanut butter. “This, nobody has!” he said as he held up a jar of PB2.

The wonder of PB2 is that by adding one tablespoon of water to two tablespoons of PB2, you create a creamy peanut butter with all the taste and consistency of regular peanut butter with 75 percent less fat. Whereas regular peanut butter has 200 calories per serving, PB2 has only 54 calories.

PB2 was just the first of Bell’s products to be marketed. All the oil that was removed from the peanuts to make PB2 did not go to waste. “We have no waste,” Bell said. Roasted Peanut Oil, Extra Virgin was his second product to go to market. The clear, golden oil has the unmistakable rich flavor and aroma of peanuts. One of its pluses is that it has a higher smoke point than olive or vegetable oil.

What’s the difference between Bell’s peanut oil and other cooking oils? “There’s a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig difference!” he said. He said they use products that are “not for human consumption,” while his oil is made from high quality peanuts.

So far Bell has developed approximately 20 peanut-based products. His next products to market will be “super-healthy peanut snack” products. He called them the straw, the pillow, the crunchies and the thins. He has also developed 40 other products that are not peanut based.

Bell said he has gotten 45,000 new customers for his PB2 and Roasted Peanut Oil since beginning to market them in January. Although the majority of his orders come over the Internet (www.bellplantation.com), he also has his products in grocery stores in the Midwest. Locally, they can be purchased at The Medicine Man’s Corner of Tifton and at Yogurt You’ll Love.

“Our goal is to create a demand for things that we grow down here,” Bell said. He said of his ability to think outside the box, “We can get really weird.”

He didn’t start with peanut butter. He founded the company in 1991 and started with cattle, chicken and pecans. “We had a 200-acre pecan grove and a 900-acre pasture,” he said. “

“Georgia has a lot of chicken farms,” he said. The problem with chickens was they were so fragile, so susceptible to disease. He decided to figure a way to raise chickens without the chicken houses. “Everybody likes free-range chickens,” Bell said, so he put the chickens out in the pecan grove and the pasture.

He made an observation about chickens: “They don’t herd well.” Bell invented the Caterpillar, a solar-powered chicken coop made of shade cloth that sanitized the “coop” as it moved across the pasture and pecan grove.

“The chickens were always on grass with fresh air and the sun, and we had almost no mortality,” Bell said.

He made another observation about chickens: “Chickens love pecans. They will fight over pecans!”

Presently Bell has 26 employees. His manufacturing and distribution plant is relocating from Fitzgerald to Tifton. He will soon be adding another 40 employees and anticipates another 70 employees when his full-scale cracker bakery is built.

Bell plans to build the plants to manufacture all of his products. “Our business will funnel more and more money into the rural economy,” he said.

Bell and his wife, Jo, moved to Tifton via a circuitous route. “We chose Tifton,” Bell said proudly. Natives of north Georgia, they moved to Colorado and lived in a ski resort. “You can only take the snow so long,” Bell said. They decided to move back to the South and only knew they didn’t want to live in Atlanta any longer.

“We drove all over Georgia,” he said. “We were coming back from Florida and stopped in Tifton and stayed at the Courtyard by Marriott.” Bell said he asked for directions to where they could get a good steak, and he was sent to Charlotte’s restaurant. He said the whole time he was there Charlotte Marchant was “praising Tifton.” They came back several times and decided to move to Tifton. Bell said Marchant put them in touch with Charles Kent who helped them find a house.

“We are where we were meant to be,” Bell said. He said he particularly likes Tifton’s rush hour “that lasts from 5 to 5:01 (p.m.).”

On Friday, while Gazette staff members were at his office headquarters on Central Avenue, long rolls of tape were spewing from a label machine. “That’s today’s orders,” Bell said.

In less than a year, sales of his peanut butter and oil have exceeded $600,000.

[The_Polly_Roger]

I don't dig on peanut butter either but is sounds great for those who do.

Here is something my sister turned me onto. It is an excellent tasting lo-carb pasta (sorry Mal, it does have gluten).

It is called Dreamfields Pasta and although it contains the same amount of carbs as regular pasta, about 41 grams, only 5 grams are digestible.

Read about it here:
http://www.dreamfieldsfoods.com/pasta-n ... tml#sec1q1

It tastes great and there are several different types of noodles (lasagna, penne, spaghetti, etc).

This is the only pasta my wife and I buy now.

[The_Polly_Roger]

I rode my bike to work again today.

It wasn't as windy so it was easier.

Had a healthy breakfast of fruit and yogurt again too.

I hope I can keep this up!

[carolinagirl]

Well I bought the peanut butter and taste-tested it for you all.

Two tablespoons of powder to a tablespoon of water. It wasn't impressive. It kind of tasted chalky.

Maybe it tastes better spread on bread, but we were out of bread. I'll eat it because it's healthy, but I won't love it like real peanut butter!

They recommend mixing it directly into jelly for a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, so I'll try that.

$3.99 a jar, btw.

[Salukulady]

Thanks, CG. When I eat my Laura Scudders after the oils poured of it's kinda chalky too.

[Salukulady]

Intake & Output for 5/8/08

Gym
B-fast-1 egg, 1 piece sourdough toast w/butter, coffee
Swim laps for 30 min
Lunch- 3 chicken, cheese and veggie soft taco's, water, 1/2 pkg. dark m&m's
Dinner- 4oz chicken breast, broccoli, water
Bed- 1/2 pkg. dark m&m's, hot tea

Today was weigh-in and measurement day at the gym

bust 39.8
waist 38.5
abdomen 42.5
hips 42
thighs 22.8
arm 12
weight 175.2
BMI 29.2
HR 56
BP 123/81

Happy with my weight loss, now I gotta get to work harder on the measurements.

[Salukulady]

Intake & Output for 5/9/08

Gym
B-fast-oatmeal w/pecans, flaxseed, & honey, coffee
Lunch-chicken & brown rice, water
Dinner- 1/2 bbq pork sandwich, coleslaw, bbq beans, 1/2 pkg m&m's, 1 lite beer, 1 shot tequila

[carolinagirl]

Thanks, CG. When I eat my Laura Scudders after the oils poured of it's kinda chalky too.

I mixed it better with the back of my spoon, and it tastes a little better. Still haven't bought bread, so I think that will improve it immensely!

Congrats on the continued weight loss!!!

(I was up two pounds on Friday, and back down one today, so we'll see what tomorrow brings. Went to the gym today for the first time in about three or four weeks. FELT GREAT!!!)

[Salukulady]

Thanks, CG. When I eat my Laura Scudders after the oils poured of it's kinda chalky too.

I mixed it better with the back of my spoon, and it tastes a little better. Still haven't bought bread, so I think that will improve it immensely!

Congrats on the continued weight loss!!!

(I was up two pounds on Friday, and back down one today, so we'll see what tomorrow brings. Went to the gym today for the first time in about three or four weeks. FELT GREAT!!!)

My kids never got friendly with PB&J so I always make peanut butter and honey sandwiches. I bet you could mix it with honey.....might help with the consistency.....

[Salukulady]

Intake & Output for 5/10/08

Gym
B-fast-oatmeal w/pecans, flaxseed & honey, coffee
Swim laps for 30 min
Lunch- 1/2 bbq pork sandwich, coleslaw, bbq beans, 1 wine cooler, 14 hot tamales candy
Dinner-Humus with crackers, 12 fresh shrimp & cocktail sauce

[Salukulady]

Intake (way too much) & Output (none) for Mothers Day 2008

Steak, eggs, shrimp, cocktail sauce, strawberries dipped in chocolate, more chocolate, whipped cream, champagne, key lime liqueur, all in large quanities......