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Monday's Swim Report - Even More Video Of Lochte's Abs!

Lane 1 - The Baltimore Sun posts (w/video) "Phelps, Maryland's Olympians to be honored at ceremony today.  Swimmer will also serve as honorary captain of Ravens game tonight."

Lane 2 - ABC News post via youtube "Ryan Lochte Shows Off His Abs on 'Good Afternoon America'.  The 11-time Olympic medalist sits down with Lara Spencer and Josh Elliott."

Lane 3 - Shoreham Herald posts "Herald reporter gets into the pool for Olympic challenge.  The Herald team have been soaking up some of that inspiration, with reporter Alex Therrien taking on a swimming training session...WATCHING Michael Phelps power home into the history books by becoming the most successful Olympian of all time, I was inspired to grab a pair of swimming goggles and get into the pool."

Lane 4 - UT San Diego posts "Kostich sinks competitors in elite swim contest.   Sunday was the 82nd annual La Jolla Rough Water Swim in the cove. About 1,600 people from age seven to 85 took to the water, braving a strong current and competing in either the 250 yard, the one mile or the three mile Gatorman event. Don’t expect elite swimmer Alex Kostich of Los Angeles to don an “Old Guys Rule” t-shirt anytime soon.  At 42, Kostich can still beat the Speedos off his competition."

Lane 5 - AGI.it posts "Pellegrini can't wait to get back to work.  Swimmer Pellegrini said she has other projects for her future and can't wait to get back to work. "I have other projects in my life. I'm looking forward to getting back to work", Federica Pellegrini told a press conference shortly before joining the jury of tonight's first event of the 2012 Miss Italia beauty contest in Montecatini Terme.  Pellegrini, who was wearing an elegant sand-coloured long dress, will act as president of the jury tonight."

Lane 6 - GMA posts "12-time Olympic medalist Natalie Coughlin proud to be Pinay.  In a report of Oscar Oida for GMA Network's “News to Go” program on September 7,  Coughlin said, “My mom is half Filipino, my grandma is from Cavite and they raised me with a lot of Filipino culture.”  “Where I went to my first nine years in school, kindergarten through eighth grade was primarily a Filipino school. I was very much exposed to the Filipino culture,” Coughlin said."

Lane 7 - Team USA posts via youtube "Quick and Easy Ways to Boost Your Snacks: Start Like A Champion With Summer Sanders.  Join Olympic champion Summer Sanders and USOC dietitian Alicia Kendig as they explore some quick and easy ways to spice up every day snacks."

Lane 8 - Daily Mail posts "Meet the lifeguard of the future: Japanese designers create swimming robot modelled on Olympic athletes.  The days of human lifeguards watching over us on the beach are numbered.  Or at least they will be if the Japanese have got anything to do with it."

Eamon's Kitchen: 130 robust no-fuss recipes for everyday and entertaining

Eamon's Kitchen: 130 robust no-fuss recipes for everyday and entertaining.  This is a collection of the dishes I love to cook and eat.  From comfort food to new takes on old favourites. There's a great mix of healthy and more indulgent recipes.  All big on flavour, low on time.  Enjoy. Free recipe from Eamon's Kitchen by Eamon Sullivan, Berrylicious Pancakes, page 21. (penquin.com.au)

There's no doubt these are the healthiest and tastiest pancakes around, so don't feel guilty about having pancakes for breakfast. The two flours give you low-GI long-lasting energy for the day, and the LSA mix (linseeds, sunflower seeds and ground almonds) provides multiple sources of vitamins and minerals used to detoxify the liver.

Berrylicious Pancakes, page 21.

2 ripe bananas, roughly chopped
1 1/2 cups (375 ml) milk
3/4 cup (100 g) brown rice flour
3/4 cup (100 g) buckwheat flour
1/4 cup (30 g) LSA mix
2 teaspoons baking powder
vegetable oil, for greasing
1 cup (250 g) ricotta
1 cup (130 g) strawberries, hulled and sliced
1 cup (150 g) blueberries
2 passionfruit
honey, to serve

MAKES 12
Place the bananas and milk in a blender and blend until smooth. Add the flours, LSA mix and baking powder, and blend until the batter is smooth.

Lightly grease a non-stick frying pan and heat over medium heat. Spoon in 3 tablespoons of the mixture to form rounds. Cook for 2 minutes on each side or until golden. Set aside on a plate and keep warm while you cook the remaining pancakes.

To serve, spread the ricotta over each pancake and top with the berries, stacking into four layers. Spoon the passionfruit pulp over the top and drizzle with honey.

A Hard Day's Plate: Start Like A Champion With Summer Sanders

Join Olympic Champion Summer Sanders as she explores how to build the perfect plate for a day of hard work or training. Along with senior USOC sports dietitian Nanna Meyer, Summer talks about the USOC's plate system, which mirrors athlete's training days. A hard day consists of a day full of several demanding workouts, where an athlete burns a large amount of calories. A plate that caters to that type of strenuous day consists of half carbohyrdrates and half lean protein. An example of a breakfast plate is a bowl of cornflakes with milk, fruit, honey and yogurt. A lunch plate consists of protein and vegetable, including chicken and broccoli, as well as a carb, like pasta and meat sauce.

Nuun All Day Hydration

Nuun All Day Hydration (www.nuun.com) delivers the same high quality, self dissolving and easy to carry hydration that you are already familiar with, but formulated more to help you and your family drink more water throughout the day, the healthy way.  In other words, it's the perfect substitute for soda, juice and caffeinated beverages to keep your mind and body going from post workout to the office to even school pick-up. 

Nuun All Day Hydration is:

• All Natural
• Contains Zero Sugar (Sweetened with Stevia)
• Under 8 Calories
• Enhanced with 17 vitamins and Minerals
• Available in Four Refreshing and Delicious Flavors:  Blueberry Pomegranate, Grape Raspberry, Grapefruit Orange and Tangerine Lime.

disclaimer:  Nuun All Day Hydration has provided me with samples to try and review.  i will be trying Nuun All Day Hydration and reviewing them in the next few weeks.  - joel

Frozen Chocolate Cheesecake Bites!

Snack Time!  I'm going to a little party tomorrow and need to bring something.  So I went online and found a recipe for Frozen Chocolate Cheesecake Bites!  Mind you the recipe was a bit modified cuz' I'm not very good in the kitchen and I couldn't find everything in my quick trip to Walmart.  I found the recipe online that was modified from my hero of food Hungry Girl!  And on top of that modification I made my own modifications. 

The Hungry Girl recipes for Frozen Chocolate Cheesecake Bites!

(2 Bites: 40 calories, 0g fat, 100mg sodium, 6.5g carbs, 0g fiber, 1g sugars, 2g protein = 1 Point!)

Meet our new favorite use for ice cube trays.

Ingredients:

3/4 cup Cool Whip Free

5 tbsp. fat-free cream cheese; softened

1 tbsp. SPLENDA, Granular

10 tsp. HERSHEY'S Sugar Free Syrup

Directions:

Using a fork, vigorously mix Cool Whip, cream cheese and Splenda until smooth and well blended.  Evenly distribute mixture into 10 sections of an ice cube tray.  Tap tray firmly on the counter a few times to get mixture to settle flat.  Next, top each with a teaspoon of chocolate syrup.  Tap tray again to settle.  Place tray in freezer until Bites are solid -- at least 2 hours.  Once frozen, Cheesecake Bites should pop out easily (if not, run the bottom of the tray under the faucet for a few seconds to loosen them).  Makes 10 Bites!

Okay so that really wasn't what I did.  I found a modification from a few random sites and found a few other twists.  Umm..so I got a bunch of stuff...
Two tubs of Fat Free Cool Whip which I used about 1 1/2 of.  I used two cubes of Cream Cheese that was 1/2 whatever as Walmart didn't have Fat Free Cream Cheese.  I got sugar free Hershey chips.  I did buy chocolate syrup but didn't use it.  I thought the chips were better.  I used 3 packets of Splenda. 
The modified website came from a few sites and I read various comments.  People mentioned the ice cube tray didn't work to well but to use mini-cup cake trays with linings.  So that is why I shopped for everything at Walmart.  Got the tray, linings and the goods all in one stop.  Hell, I was busy today! So why are they brown.  I used unsweetened cocoa powder.  The modification recipe was for swirled cheesecake bites.  But I didn't seem to figure out how to make swirls.  So chocolate cheesecake bites it was.
I decided to go with 4 sugar free chips per bite.  3 seemed to much like a face and any more seemed like over kill.  I put them in the freezer for the nite.  Tomorrow around 6pm people will get to taste them and tell me if they like them.   Oh my recipe made 20.  Only 15 of them will make it to the event.
This morning I took them out of the freezer and onto paper plates leaving the mini cupcake papers on them.  Figured they'll be easy to handle at the party thingy.  They don't look as pretty as they should be but I'll have to try to work on my presentation.