Clean Eats and a DNS
Categories: Core Defender Meal, Nuttzo
I’ve been enjoying two new products!
Nuttzo Organic Seven Nut and Seed Butter: This stuff is delish. As runners I think inherently we are nut butter fans and this one does not disappoint. It’s super chunky: 7 different nuts/seeds and sea salt. No crazy hydrogenated oils. I have it with fruit, as pre-run fuel, and I feed it to the kids on oatmeal pancakes and waffles. Delicious!
Core Defender Meal: This is pretty much a bowl of oatmeal in bar form. Things can get a little hectic around here. Take today:
- Up at 5. Ate 1/3 Core Defender Raw Walnut Banana with hot tea
- Got kids up and off to school, headed to a spin class ate 1/3 Core Defender in car with travel tea.
- Headed directly to the rink for a morning coaching session. It’s competition season and the natives were restless. Ate the remainder of the Core Defender.
Real, whole food: The Raw Almond Raisin Bar contains organic whole oats, almonds, raisins, flax and ground spices. SO real it needs to be kept cold in the fridge or frozen.
Kids these puppies are calorie dense and filling! Tasty but not overly sweet, no crazy sugar spikes. Vegan too. Core bars are crafted from 5 fresh, organic plants that pack all 13 amino acids, high plant fiber and essential fatty acids.
I think my favorite was the almond raisin with the raw walnut banana a close second.
Wanna try some? go like CORE Foods on Facebook and you’ll get a coupon for $5 off any online order. You can also enter to win a free case!
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….and a DNS: We got a snow bonanza last week (yay!) Nothing like Nemo but still 9″ of winter beauty. I love seeing the kids out playing in it. But guess who had a trail race? Guess who didn’t go? Yep, after hearing from the race director about how the course was ‘treacherous’ and a ‘sheet of thick ice’ I passed. I don’t need any broken bones right now. I’m still feeling disappointed and pansyish though.
Any new food in your life? Did you shovel snow this weekend? Ever DNS due to course conditions?
I am loving Nuttzo as well (the jar is almost empty!). And those bars sound really good for on-the-go times.
Sorry about your trail race. I probably would have bagged it, too. Ours was really nice–the trails were actually dry as a bone and it made for much easier footing than last year. Loved it.
I would have probably not done that race as well. Like you said, no reason to risk injury based on the conditions.
Did they offer deferral due to the conditions? Just wondering
So want to try Nuttzo!!!
Looks amazing
I usually go to the races but as you know chose DNS and went to pilates instead! I did run there and there were icy patches which made the decision even better in my opinion. Treacherous and brutal are words that should signal danger even to us crazies!
I like Nutzo too but I LOVE Naturally Nutty almond butter. Have you tried it? Delish.
nutzo looks so good! I’ve tried the banana core bar and really enjoyed it. I was surprised on how much I liked the taste!
I don’t blame you on the trail race, I have a hard enough time staying upright when the trails are dry – no need to go back to injury hell for another year, right?!?
The bars look tasty!!
Oh I love the sound of that nut butter – will have to try it!
Sorry about your race – “treacherous” should never be used to describe race conditions! Yikes!
Ice is about the only condition I think I’d skip a race for.
I’m with you, Marcia. Any time I hear the word “treacherous” when it involves a race, swim, or run, I bow out. I have enough trouble staying safe when the elements are perfect! I sure don’t like to tangle with Mother Nature if I don’t have to
I think ice is the only thing that has ever truly stopped me from running outside…shoot I went out in the silly little hurricane we had this summer… but the word ice and I’m on the treadmill lickety split
Oh holy crap the shoveling!!! I’m glad you got your snow, though! You’ve been dreaming of it for so long
I value my limps, so I wouldn’t have risked breaking anything, either. Don’t feel bad! I am in love w/ sunflower seed butter. I can make my girls’ sandwiches with it for school (since they have a “no nut” rule) and I just eat spoonfuls of it, haha
I have never dns’d due to weather since we don’t really have anything too severe in WA. I would not have run either, don’t feel like a pansy. Icy and running don’t mix in my opinion:)
I don’t think you should feel pansyish at all!!! A lot of the other conditions you run in make me shiver just thinking about them!!! Good call to not risk any broken bones!
I tried kale for the first time last week!
I’m also loving Nuttzo! It’s so good, I had it on my sandwich today
I’ve never had a DNS, but if it were treacherous I probably wouldn’t have gone either! We got a lot of snow this weekend too, about 15 inches.
You know this comment is headed nowhere good, right? Okay. Maybe we should just leave it at that then
But did you get that shit for FREE? And is there CHIA IN THAT NUT BUTTER????? That would be a bloggy bonanza that I would HAVE to try. Don’t sweat the DNS. I do that all the time – which means it’s cool.
I think you made the right decision on the race. After seeing photos of a friend who’d gone over his handlebars and broken his arm needing surgery, I think you don’t have enough time in your busy life for an injury like that. Not a pansy – just sensible.
Sorry about the race. What a bummer.
I need to try some Nuttzo.
Nuttzo sounds delicious! I’m going to have to check them out!
Sorry about the DNS. I’ve never DNS’d because of course conditions, butI’ve also never had 9 inches of snow fall close to a race. I’m not sure what I would have done then
Both the nut butter and the bars look wonderful.
I tried a sample of a new local line of bars here on the weekend and they were similar, I think… one had hemp protein and hemp seeds. I am going to try to copy them at home.. they are so expensive!
I almost signed up for that race too, glad i didn’t! Those bars look way tasty – Matt and i are both addicted to powerbars, which has too many chemicals for comfort
Yum, that nut butter sounds awesome!! Gotta try it!
You should so not feel bad abput not going to the race. Why risk one racethat could potentially lead to getting hurt and then missing so many more things.
I love vegan bars. I’ll have to check these out. But something with no raisins for me.
That almond bar does look dense, as in you could hurl it like a weapon should the need arise.
It was tasty? Dense is good – I like that – more filling. Will check it out.
Gaye