Musings on eating & moving

Grilling season's a great time to share some know-how on brewing up super fine barbeque. For that, and to help you get to know another of the great local chefs in the Power Supply chef network, we turn to Jeff and Kat, co-founder’s of Fire Breather BBQ, one of Southern California’s top clean eating-friendly catering companies.  

Reminder, if you're eating Power Supply in LA, you can get your name in the hat for a private tasting with Fire Breather for you and 5 friends by sharing your small eating and moving wins in our #mypowermoment campaign (easy and fun to do). 

Anybody else feeling the need for some new bits of inspiration, some fresh how-to nuggets right about now on the eating and moving fronts?

The structured stuff of the New-yearsy period has come and gone. School will soon let out. Summer life is on the brain, but still pretty far out. All in all sort of a tweener spot in the calendar when it comes to doing stuff that’ll help you feel great.

High time we think for getting a little shareapalooza going on small wins. Those little steps each of us takes that might lead to bigger changes… steps that if shared might spark something for a fellow traveler looking to shake things up too.

Here's how to play…

Hard to think of something that fires our engines more than stories of folks who’ve dialed in their eating and moving, seen great things happen in their lives as a result, and provided some inspiration for others along the way.

None better in that category than the one we want to share today… the tale of Bike Like a Girl, an awesome group of cyclists setting out to become just the second 8-woman team to conquer the 3,020 mile (yes, thousand) Race Across America from Oceanside, CA to Annapolis, MD.

One of the things I missed most when I started avoiding flour was that paragon of versatility… the soft tortilla/wrap. From crepes, to burritos to soft tacos and enchiladas, a good wrap opens up so many tasty and easy to prepare goodies.  

Ridiculously fast and good new entry into the no gluten, no dairy breakfast routine.. try this, seriously.  3 minutes to yum in even the busiest of morns (like mine this AM getting 3 kids and us two old folks out the door).  Speaking of kids, good reviews from them too... "THAT is super good!" Egg, banana, dark chocolate. 

This time of year lots of folks are thinking anew about what they eat, trying new ingredients, removing others, maybe jumping in on a nutrition challenge to add some structure to their cause.

So beyond the DIY resources we love sharing from our own cooking exploits and those of chefs in the Power Supply network, we thought it’d be helpful to share a few tips for how our site and meals can make your ingredient shifting easier:

We hope you find these resources helpful for sharing with your people as they embark on a 2015 nutrition challenge. Just pick the links that are most relevant to your crowd and the specific challenge you're running, and share on your social media, blog, etc., throughout the challenge. The goal for us is simple… help your people eat the best real food possible. And a reminder that for those who have an interest, nutritional info is available for every meal.

Here's another installment in our Power Profile series where we ask folks with something to say on nutrition and fitness to share a bit about their experience.

This time it's yours truly, me Robert, gabbing a little on my food/fitness journey...in all its pound-losing, fitness-gaining, career-changing glory. Plus a cereal replacement for a little variety in your breakfast giddyup.

In celebration of summer's arrival and with it the advent of online nutritional info for every PS meal, here's another installment of our Power Profile series where folks from the local food/intentional fitness community share their experiences, tips and takes.

The May addition features Megan Brown, co-Founder of Mind the Mat Pilates & Yoga, as well as Doctor of Physical Therapy, Pilates/Massage Therapy/Yoga pro and intentional eater. Megan shares tips and tricks from her own successful eating well journey, including the role of nutritional info, food logging to get a handle on where you are and, yes, managing indulgences like chocolate and ice cream. Take a look. Thanks Megan!

Google “super foods” and you’ll get a gaggle of lists…top 10, top 16, a top 7? But what about actually putting these punch-packing ingredients to practical use in the everyday maelstrom? Particularly if you're new to this business of going sans gluten and dairy? Here are 5 Power Foods I rely on to fuel my generally time-starved, working out, three-kid-chasing, company-building life. Some of these also showed up in Washingtonian's Food Diary post of a day of my meals, a good quick look at real world day of eating this way.

• Almond Milk – Easy and fast to make from scratch. It takes 10 minutes, a standard blender and a nut bag (little mesh bag you use to strain the pulp for this and other nut milks…bout $7 on AMZN, nifty little thing, name notwithstanding). This milk alternative is super healthy, tastes great and can power everything from a cereal replacement for gluten-free folks to the best chocolate smoothie shake a sugar-free eater can buy.