I am writing a ditty every day about depression-fighting foods until the book is available here but I have to admit that since Friday, I have been living on supplements.
My mom and I attended to Expo West, a huge natural products trade show and were faced with supplement samples on every isle. Most of the food samples were basically supplements as well since they all tended to be fortified with something healthful so that the cookie, brownie, or soda could claim to be healthy as well. We drank green drink samples, liquid vitamin samples, B vitamin samples, mineral samples, and fish oil samples. We ate tiny bites of pizza and I was even bold enough to taste a piece of soy that some talented food scientist made look like shrimp. (Note to food scientist: it still tastes like cardboard.)
We were so sampled out after the first hour or so each day that we turned down samples for most of the show. There are only so many energy bars you can sample in a day when you are used to eating things like meatloaf or a green salad. As we drove home bemoaning the cookie and energy bar overdose, we also noted that we had a whole lot of energy.
We got our seventeen bags of samples out of the car and organized the bounty yesterday. (Yes, they gave us samples to take home too.) We decided we should be a little more consistent in our supplement intake because it sure is nice to have some energy at the end of a long weekend.
