Earthly Eating

• Green-Food Drink: Easily digestible, green foods are full of carbs and are also concentrated sources of protein, carotenoids, essential fatty acids, and more.

Try:

1. Naked Juice Green Machine

2. Odwalla Superfood

3. Sambazon Supergreens Revolution

• Energy Bar: Energy bars are designed to restore, well, energy. They are loaded with carbs and often contain a bit of protein to help the muscles heal after a workout. Some bars are fruit based and they have more carbohydrates, while bars heavy with nuts might contain more protein then the leading ones.

Try:

1. LUNA Bar

2. Organic Food Bar

3. Bumblebar

4. LARABAR

• Trial Mix: Combining nuts, seeds, and dried fruit gives you protein, carbs, and lots of antioxidants, which fight the free radicals unleashed during exercising.

Try:

1. All Mixed Up by Eden Foods

2. Goji Berry

3. Organic Trek

4. Or make your own

• Protein Powder: Protein powder mixed with water or soy milk is easily absorbed. Carbs an proteins are balanced so your body can efficiently refuel, repair damage, and stay healthy.

Try:

1. Jarrow Formulas Muscle Optimeal

2. Solgar Whey To Go

3. Ultimate Life’s The Ultimate Meal

4. Nature’s Plus Spiru-tein (Click the link here to receive a free sample of this product.)
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Earthly Eating Daily Recipe

Poached Pears and Juniper Berries
Makes 6

5. Place the pears into serving bowls, and ladle the warn sauce over the top of all of them.

Happy Eating!

With busy schedules and running from here to there, everyone is looking for the pick-me-up that will last all day. But, with those pick-me-ups, what price are we making our bodies pay? From energy drinks and sugary coffee, more and more people, especially kids, are consuming way too much caffeine now, more than ever.

Venom, Sobe Adrenaline Rush, Vamp, Monster, Rip It Lime Wrecker Energy Fuel, to name a few of the hundred of energy drinks out on the market. They end up getting you really hyped up then make you crash, hard. And depending on the amount of caffeine and sugar in the drink depends on the extent of the downward crash later in the day.

Over 2 billion cans of energy drinks were consumed by Americans in 2007. Kids call it buzz in a bottle-the new high-dose sugary caffeine drinks that supercharge the MySpace crowd. They are already a $4.9 billion industry, with over 100 new drinks hitting the market in 2006. Many pack double the amount of caffeine of traditional soda. Same goes for the coffee concoctions that many adults and even parents drink to help get them through their day to day tasks.

Beverage makers say they don’t market their highly caffeinated rocket fuel to kids by an means. That wasn’t the intention of making them at all, yet they are everywhere that teenagers are. Like skateboarding events, bike tours, race car sponsorship, and even concerts that are geared toward a younger crowd.

Here is a caffeine breakdown:

• 12oz. Coca Cola Classic: 34 mg

• 16oz. Starbucks Coffee Grande: 259mg
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Earthly Eating Recipe

Kids Activity
Lumberjacks

Insert 2 pretzels in the middle of the marshmallows of the man for the arms. Cut a 6-inch length of red licorice and tie around the neck for a scarf on your lumberjack. Insert a mini marshmallow into the end of a long piece of pretzel and set up beside the lumberjack for his axe.

Happy Eating!