2012 Fall Fatty ChallengeFollow

Luckily I can still get Narragansett Lager for $4.50 per sixpack of tallboys.

No real fancy beers recently. I have to make a trip to MA soon to grab some Dogfish Head Punkin. They stopped distribution to RI a while back, and I'm really sad I have to drive a whole 15 minutes if I want some of their brews, especially since their 90-minute IPA was my go-to IPA. It wouldn't be so noticeable if the liquor store closest to me didn't have a massive craft brew section.

I think the single bottles of the 120-minute go for around $8 or $9. The 90-minute is around $10.50 for a 4-pack, and the 60-minute is around $10.50 for a 6-pack.

Yeah, they stopped distributing to RI because they couldn't keep up with the overall demand, and were as big as they wanted to be, from what I remember. Instead of expanding the company and whatnot, they cut back some distribution areas. So, I'm not totally surprised they're not shipping overseas.

Edited, Sep 20th 2012 4:47pm by Spoonless

Coconut water is weird. Probably doesn't help that I added iron water to it. I think it's one of the things it will take a little time to get used to, so I'm going to try it out see if it helps with my hydration levels. They've also got a coconut water with added pineapple, so I might see what that is like. Thanks for the suggestion, probably not something I'd have tried by myself.

Edited, Sep 21st 2012 8:42am by Tynuv

Rice milk is REALLY good on cereals. It is naturally sweet.

Coconut water tasted really nasty to me the first time I tried it, but I couldn't believe how good it made my mouth feel. After being on it a couple of weeks, it still tasted nasty, but my body had this Pavlovian joy - almost euphoria - as soon as that nasty taste hit my palate. After a couple of months the euphoria wore off, but coconut water started tasting really sweet to me, and not bad tasting at all.

Edit, oh yeah, coconut milk is sickening as hell to drink a glass of. It's waaaaaaay too rich. Made me ill.

Edited, Sep 21st 2012 12:39pm by Aripyanfar

I refuse to take part in this ruse. It's coconut juice, not milk.

Oh, that's not true. A soy milk latte still gets a little foamy, and honestly, was the nail in the coffin for switching to full vegan. Although I spent the whole summer drinking hot coffee because I can't do cold coffee with soy milk yet. Or lukewarm. It has to be hot.

Really, almost all cereal tastes better with any milk (rice/soy/coconut) other than cow's milk, and it doesn't make you sick to your stomach after eating it.

They're not.

A lot of things make me sick to my stomach after eating them. Milk is not one of them.

What's wrong with the bike?

Something to do with the gears, the chain was falling off if I tried having it on the first or second gear at the front. Tried adjusting the derailleur but couldn't find anywhere that didn't end up in the chain scraping on it. I think the largest gear might have a few bent teeth, so need to check for that. Also, the gear wire broke, I bought a new one but still need to fix it. It will most likely end with me taking it to a shop to get fixed, but I'm going to try and sort it myself first, just need to stop being lazy.

Sure I can: "Yum!"

Yeah sorry Guenny but you're ignoring the fact that the milk people drink is nothing like the milk that comes right out of the cow for the most part.

Besides that, at least for myself I don't use milk as a bevy, I use 2% milk as a condiment for coffee and tea, and occasionally on cereal (like 2-3 times a month)

While cutting out milk might be the right decision for some people (depending on how much they consume/their tolerance etc) for many/most people it wouldn't make much if any difference, I know it wouldn't for me.

I consume far more calories from eating sweets than having milk in my coffee - so it makes way more sense for me to cut down those completely empty calories than to cut out something that isn't, in moderate quantities, unhealthy, and that brings me a lot of joy. (I cut sugar out of my coffee but cutting out milk is a non-starter.)

In my humble opinion its a lot more sensible to ease people into making some simple changes to their diet that can cut calories than it is to be an extremist about things. Over time a lot of small changes can make a big difference (cutting the sugar out of my coffee left me feeling way better).