Black and Decker Flavor Scenter Steamer Plus I've
been trumpeting the virtues of the Black and Decker vegetable steamer
for over 10 years now. I think I'm personally responsible for selling
at least a couple of thousand of these babies. If you have
trouble eating vegetables at dinner because you don't like the taste,
the Scenter Steamer Plus makes them tasty, or almost tasty, depending
on the intensity of your animosity towards veggies. Even
broccoli and Brussels sprouts taste okay when they're steamed. I don't
know why it should be so much different when they're prepared this way,
but it is. Simply pour a little water in the steamer, throw in an
assortment of sliced vegetables, and set the timer. After about 30
minutes, you've got a gourmet blend of vegetables. Throw them into a
bowl with some meat, douse it with olive oil and sprinkle with salt,
toss, and you're good to go.
The Black and Decker steamer sexes up vegetables. The Black and Decker Scenter Steamer Plus costs $36.99 and you can buy one here.

Biotest's Superfood™ Even
if you do get a Black and Decker Steamer, getting in 5 to 8 serving of
fruit and vegetables every day is almost an insurmountable task. You
can fool yourself into thinking that your Greens Plus is somehow
bridging the huge nutritional gap, but it's not bunky, it's not —
unless you think some seaweed and some often allergenic grasses are
going to do the trick. Luckily, after two year's of research and work, Biotest has come up with Superfood,
a freeze-dried, powdered mixture of about 30 different fruits and
vegetables — fruits and vegetables you've heard of, too, like tomatoes,
broccoli, spinach, blueberry, etc. All you do is take about
five grams — about a teaspoon — of the pleasant berry-smelling product
(it has no artificial flavor or color or scent) and mix it in water,
juice, or Metabolic Drive. The flavor is subtle, like that of a good fruit tea. The cool thing is, the ORAC rating of this stuff is off the chart! In
case you haven't heard of it before, the ORAC rating (Oxygen Radical
Absorbance Capacity) is a method of measuring antioxidant capacities of
foods when exposed to a free-radical challenge. The method
was developed by the National Institute on Aging, a division of the
U.S. National Institutes of Health, and measures the effects of both
fat-soluble and water-soluble antioxidants. An ORAC value of 400 is
equivalent to the antioxidant capacity of one serving of fruit or
vegetable. Well, a five-gram serving of Biotest's Superfood has
an ORAC rating of over 3,000. That means it's roughly equivalent to 8
servings of fruits and vegetables! You can buy it...oh wait, you can't buy it, at least not yet. (I know, I know. I'm a bastard. While we've nailed the product, it won't be out for another month or two.)

Vita Mix 5200 Blender Tired
of trying to make a Metabolic Drive protein shake and having the motor
start smoking when you add so much as a few frozen blueberries? Want to
make soup out of an assortment of vegetables? Want to dispose of a body
by grinding up the pieces and feeding it to your dogs? If so, the Vita Mix 5200 Blender is your boy! I
used to go through a blender every 6 months or so. They'd usually start
smoking and make noise like a cat stuck in a blender (don't ask) before
dying a whiney death. Not so with the Vita Mix. It can take
anything you can dish out. Sure, at $449.95, it's expensive, but it'll
last ten times longer than a generic hundred-buck blender, not to
mention making really tasty shakes. (When you add a handful of
ice and a little bit of cocoanut milk to your Metabolic Drive and milk,
you get very close to ice cream.) I should also mention that
it's incredibly easy to clean. Just add a few ounces of water, a few
drops of dish detergent, and turn it on for about 20 seconds to allow
it to clean itself. Slick. You can buy it here.
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