Food meant for kids

I rarely buy any food or drink outside: I much prefer buying it at Market Basket (my favorite grocery store!) and then taking whatever I need with me. Obviously I can't do this all the time but I do it when I can, for 2 reasons: I save money and I get to eat what I want to eat which is generally a healthy choice. 

This doesn't mean I don't eat 'junk' food, but it does mean I look carefully at the nutrition label of every thing I buy and choose what I believe is the best value for something that is low in saturated fat, sodium and sugar and no trans fats. I don't want to get side tracked from my topic for today so I'll save my transfats diatribe for another post :-)

So we were out and Gerard wanted something to drink and since I was getting coffee for myself I allowed him to choose what he wanted. He wanted a strawberry drink which turned out to be a Garelick Milk Chug. I looked at the label and could not believe that it had 48 grams of sugar per serving. The second ingredient was that scourge of our times, (well not as scourgy as trans fats but still) high fructose corn sugar.

How does anyone design a drink meant for anybody that has that much sugar in it? And that too for kids? It's mind boggling. And Garelick is probably patting itself on the back for creating a healthy drink. Nutrition in general can lead me down so many different paths that I'm going to stop here, happy with the fact that I've restarted my blog.

Before I go, I have to throw in one little thing about high fructose corn sugar: check this link out http://www.foodsdatabase.com/LinkedLabel.aspx?FoodId=6660. The second AND third ingredients! Alright, good night

Changes

Ok, so clearly I havent been blogging on anything remotely like a regular basis. So, here's a list of topics that I will be writing on in the next few days:

- nutrition as it relates to children (Garelick Milk Chug)
- mountain biking, my latest passion
- got to go right now so I'll continue this list and/or expand on the above later, hopefully tonight!

HD radio and music in general

Vendor Etiquette

I just replied to a post at Mathew Diehl's SEM blog. You can read his blog and my response here

Not happy but lucky

Woke up this morning to find out that someone broke my car window presumably to rob something. I say presumably because nothing was taken. There were two pairs of sunglasses that the perp clearly saw because he kept them on the seat. I also had a GPS in the glove compartment and it seemed like the glove wasnt even opened.

So I was ticked off because I was on my way to a breakfast meeting and got delayed because I took a few pics and had to clean up the glass (amazing the amount of glass from one window) before I could leave. I couldnt get it fixed today which means I have to wait till Mon morning and drive around with the driver's window open.

All of which is inconvenient but I am glad that nothing was stolen.  

My must have iPhone apps

Here in no particular order are my must-have iPhone apps. All of them are free - so far I havent felt the need to pay for an app, but I'm willing to, if there's value.

These are on my home screen:
Fake Caller - just cool to show friends. I haven't actually used it ;-)
Pandora
iTV - I dont watch TV; this is more for Gerard's programs on the weekend
Quitter - tracks how long I've quit smoking and is a good motivator for me to stay stopped
The Weather Channel
Zenbe - nice To Do/Lists app; there could be better ones in the App Store, but I havent looked that hard
Linked In
Facebook
Say Who - phone dialer; havent used it for a while, since I got my new Bluetooth

Other screens:
Mobile News - headlines from AP
Easy WiFi - auto log into AT&T hotspots
Word Wrap - word game, very addictive, you have to create words using 6 letters and have to have at least one 6 letter word to move to the next level. My highest score is 5960. I could beat that but it gets too easy/boring after some time
If found - call xxxx
yelp
Snap Tell
iChess
SOS Torch
Mini Piano
Pac Man Lite
FSS Hockey
Apple Remote
Guitar Chords

Games that Gerard likes:
Armado Lite
Tap Tap
Light Sabre - cool Star Wars thingy you can play sword fights with
Trace
Whoopie - a fart thingy - Gerard's 5 y/o - enough said

More snow?!

I may be wrong but it seems like we havent had much snow the past few winters. Whether that's the case or not, you certainly can't say that about this winter. We had two snow storms in the last couple of weeks of 2008, one more in early Jan and in the middle of our 4th storm today.

Because I don't live in a single family I don't have much shoveling to do - I still have to shovel in front of our building, but that's shared with the other two owners in my building. But there are two other factors that snow storms add complexity to: one is I live in the city and park on the streets, which means that parking spots are limited to begin with and more so when there's a lot of snow on the ground.

The other, more *interesting* aspect is that my car has rear wheel drive and a very skittish rwd at that. so before I get into a parking spot I have to consider whether I'll be able to get out of it! All of which means that I should probably sell my car, which is a dangerous position for me to be in! Buying a car, I mean!