Food & Exercise -- 5/4/2007

Another day of too much food and wine. Tomorrow I head home, and I'm
actually looking forward to getting back to normal!

Today was an easier day than yesterday. I visited only 4 wineries
during the day, and they were closer ones than yesterday. I had lunch
at one of those wineries, and then went to a 5th for dinner -- a
really fine restaurant.

Food:

* 9:00 (B&B): chopped apple w/ coconut, walnuts, and a little yogurt;
sweet potato muffin; oatmeal pancakes with sliced strawberries and
whipped cream; 2 slices bacon {The B&B owner told me that since I was
the only person having breakfast this morning and she knew I was
health-conscious, she'd tried to make me a healthier breakfast :-).
It's all relative, I guess!}
* 12:30 (restaurant at winery): rueben sandwich; a few potato chips
* 10:15 -- 4:00 (at wineries and driving): 4 wine tastings (~2 glasses
equivalent); a few assorted chips and crackers; about 1/2 oz. mixed
nuts
* 6:30 (another winery restaurant): 2 glasses wine; foie gras with a
little homemade mushroom pasta; roasted rabbit w/ risotto; flourless
chocolate cake

Exercise: None to speak of

Chris
262/130s/130s

On May 4, 9:24 pm, Chris wrote:
Another day of too much food and wine. Tomorrow I head home, and I'm
actually looking forward to getting back to normal!

Today was an easier day than yesterday. I visited only 4 wineries
during the day, and they were closer ones than yesterday. I had lunch
at one of those wineries, and then went to a 5th for dinner -- a
really fine restaurant.

Food:

* 9:00 (B&B): chopped apple w/ coconut, walnuts, and a little yogurt;
sweet potato muffin; oatmeal pancakes with sliced strawberries and
whipped cream; 2 slices bacon {The B&B owner told me that since I was
the only person having breakfast this morning and she knew I was
health-conscious, she'd tried to make me a healthier breakfast :-).
It's all relative, I guess!}
* 12:30 (restaurant at winery): rueben sandwich; a few potato chips
* 10:15 -- 4:00 (at wineries and driving): 4 wine tastings (~2 glasses
equivalent); a few assorted chips and crackers; about 1/2 oz. mixed
nuts
* 6:30 (another winery restaurant): 2 glasses wine; foie gras with a
little homemade mushroom pasta; roasted rabbit w/ risotto; flourless
chocolate cake

Exercise: None to speak of

Chris
262/130s/130s

Here is mine

7:30am
2 dry figs
1 cup tea, milk, no sugar

11:50am
1 Banana, 1 Apple

7:15pm
1 cup salad mix with sautee chicken
1/2 plate rice + lentil
1 cup tea, milk, no sugar

1 hour walk

"Chris" wrote in message
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Another day of too much food and wine. Tomorrow I head home, and I'm
actually looking forward to getting back to normal!

Today was an easier day than yesterday. I visited only 4 wineries
during the day, and they were closer ones than yesterday. I had lunch
at one of those wineries, and then went to a 5th for dinner -- a
really fine restaurant.

Food:

* 9:00 (B&B): chopped apple w/ coconut, walnuts, and a little yogurt;
sweet potato muffin; oatmeal pancakes with sliced strawberries and
whipped cream; 2 slices bacon {The B&B owner told me that since I was
the only person having breakfast this morning and she knew I was
health-conscious, she'd tried to make me a healthier breakfast :-).
It's all relative, I guess!}
* 12:30 (restaurant at winery): rueben sandwich; a few potato chips
* 10:15 -- 4:00 (at wineries and driving): 4 wine tastings (~2 glasses
equivalent); a few assorted chips and crackers; about 1/2 oz. mixed
nuts
* 6:30 (another winery restaurant): 2 glasses wine; foie gras with a
little homemade mushroom pasta; roasted rabbit w/ risotto; flourless
chocolate cake

Exercise: None to speak of

Chris
262/130s/130s


I haven't been keeping up, Chris, what wineries and where? I've started
really enjoying wine over the past few years, and have never visited a
winery. We have a few here in Arkansas, but I'd like to visit California
sometime soon.

Hugh

On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:56:29 -0500, "Hrk3"
wrote:


"Chris" wrote in message
roups.com...
Another day of too much food and wine. Tomorrow I head home, and I'm
actually looking forward to getting back to normal!

Today was an easier day than yesterday. I visited only 4 wineries
during the day, and they were closer ones than yesterday. I had lunch
at one of those wineries, and then went to a 5th for dinner -- a
really fine restaurant.

Food:

* 9:00 (B&B): chopped apple w/ coconut, walnuts, and a little yogurt;
sweet potato muffin; oatmeal pancakes with sliced strawberries and
whipped cream; 2 slices bacon {The B&B owner told me that since I was
the only person having breakfast this morning and she knew I was
health-conscious, she'd tried to make me a healthier breakfast :-).
It's all relative, I guess!}
* 12:30 (restaurant at winery): rueben sandwich; a few potato chips
* 10:15 -- 4:00 (at wineries and driving): 4 wine tastings (~2 glasses
equivalent); a few assorted chips and crackers; about 1/2 oz. mixed
nuts
* 6:30 (another winery restaurant): 2 glasses wine; foie gras with a
little homemade mushroom pasta; roasted rabbit w/ risotto; flourless
chocolate cake

Exercise: None to speak of

Chris
262/130s/130s


I haven't been keeping up, Chris, what wineries and where? I've started
really enjoying wine over the past few years, and have never visited a
winery. We have a few here in Arkansas, but I'd like to visit California
sometime soon.

Hugh


Sorry -- I don't make too much effort to make these posts
understandable, I guess. It's not like I really expect people to
follow my life's travels, after all :-). Anyway, the wineries I was
visiting on this trip are in the Yadkin Valley area of North Carolina:
http://www.visitwinstonsalem.com/exp.../exp_wine.html. I live in
Virginia (where we have some pretty nice wineries, by the way), so
this wasn't such a long trip for me. California, of course, has some
terrific wines and spectacular wineries.

If you'd like to know what wineries, I visited 12 of them:

Childress
Shelton
Buck Shoals
RagApple Lassie
Elkin Creek
Round Peak
Laurel Grey
Old North State
Brushy Mountain
RayLen
Westbend
Black Wolf

My favorites of these were RagApple Lassie, RayLen, and Black Wolf.
Elkin Creek has a wonderful restaurant, where I at last night and had
the dinner described above, but I wasn't that excited about the wines
I tried there. Childress has some really nice wines but they're
pricey, and the atmosphere of the winery is very commercial.

I selected one wine at each winery I visited (and bought 2 bottles of
each selected) to take back for our American Wine Society chapter's
tasting next month. I also bought 8-10 bottles or so for myself. (If
you are getting into wines and want to look for people in your area
who share your interest, you might look to see if there are any AWS
chapters near you: www.americanwinesociety.com. There are some 500 or
so chapters around the country.)

Chris
262/130s/130s

Sorry -- I don't make too much effort to make these posts
understandable, I guess. It's not like I really expect people to
follow my life's travels, after all :-). Anyway, the wineries I was
visiting on this trip are in the Yadkin Valley area of North Carolina:
http://www.visitwinstonsalem.com/exp.../exp_wine.html. I live in
Virginia (where we have some pretty nice wineries, by the way), so
this wasn't such a long trip for me. California, of course, has some
terrific wines and spectacular wineries.

If you'd like to know what wineries, I visited 12 of them:

Childress
Shelton
Buck Shoals
RagApple Lassie
Elkin Creek
Round Peak
Laurel Grey
Old North State
Brushy Mountain
RayLen
Westbend
Black Wolf

My favorites of these were RagApple Lassie, RayLen, and Black Wolf.
Elkin Creek has a wonderful restaurant, where I at last night and had
the dinner described above, but I wasn't that excited about the wines
I tried there. Childress has some really nice wines but they're
pricey, and the atmosphere of the winery is very commercial.

I selected one wine at each winery I visited (and bought 2 bottles of
each selected) to take back for our American Wine Society chapter's
tasting next month. I also bought 8-10 bottles or so for myself. (If
you are getting into wines and want to look for people in your area
who share your interest, you might look to see if there are any AWS
chapters near you: www.americanwinesociety.com. There are some 500 or
so chapters around the country.)

Chris
262/130s/130s

Thanks!