Four Ways To Keep Your Fitness Levels High This Winter

This doesn't have to be the case, however and with just a little planning, you can keep your fitness levels at a respectably high level right throughout the winter months, something which these four points show you how to do. Winter is completely the opposite, however and a great way to ensure you stay motivated is by taking out a gym membership and incorporating gym time into your day.

To finish, simply remove from the heat and blend to your desired consistency, whether that's completely pureed or thick and chunky. 4. Amend your daily routine - most of us have the ability to fit in some form of exercise relatively easily during the day if we just amend our routine. Take parking your car at work as an example.

It may look like a little sheet of syrup sticking to the pot. This is also how to tell if maple syrup is ready for a hydrometer test. Before the hydrometer, once the syrup started sheeting it was ready. A hydrometer reading will tell you what the sugar content is for your syrup, it has to be done at a specific temperature and would take another complete article to explain.

I didn’t bother with a hydrometer test as I am not selling my syrup and therefore had no desire to grade it, once it started sheeting it was good enough for me to consume. The nice thing about this process is how little waste is produced and how usable every part of the sugar beet is!

The beet pulp from cooking the beets went to the chickens and they LOVED it, but people can eat that too. The greens and tops went to both the livestock , chickens, and of course to us. The greens are completely edible - dehydrated and stored for later use in soups or Quiche or you can cook them up like collared greens. Traditional collard greens, in one form or another, have been prepared by humans for 2000 years and were originally a survival food. They are a very good source of vitamin C, soluble fiber, and other good stuff .

Here is a quick recipe I used, while not completely traditional - they sure did taste pretty good! Wash the collard greens thoroughly. Remove the thick stems that run down the center of the greens. Don’t worry about doing this to the small tender leaves. Stack 6 or 7 leaves on top of each other, roll them up, and slice them at one inch increments. Next, chop your bacon up into one or two-inch pieces and add it to a stock pot over medium heat.

Once it begins to cook, add the garlic to the pot and cook the garlic in the bacon grease until it starts to look translucent. At this point add the chicken broth and simmer for 20 minutes. So there you have it. My experience with sugar beets. Have you given them a try, Share your experience below! I will answer them as promptly as I can.

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It’s simple, free and fun! Shouldn’t it be a stiff dough, I put like half the water but I remember my mom making it and it was a really stiff dough to roll out, did I do something wrong, Anyways I’m going to leave it in the fridge til tomorrow and then complete it and see where I went wrong.

You make it look so easy ….. I always thought this was quite complicated, but from reading the steps I’m definitely going to try it. My first try was fabulous. I hope to make this for a bike sale. Thanks much. Off course I have a question. Is it ok to make and refrigerate the dough for more than two days , ’t go wrong with this recipe, great down to the last bite.