I’m a sucker for trying things ‘as seen on t.v.’, and last week there was a show called ‘Get Fresh with Sara Snow’ where she was showing all kinds of things you could do to eat better. The oddest thing was a completely vegan chocolate cake – no eggs, no milk, no butter. It looked ok, but I don’t think I’d crave it.  She went surfing with the owner of Kashi, and they made a cool-looking rice snack on the beach later, but I’m too cheap to buy all the ingredients for that.
So instead I bought some yerba mate (really pronounced – mah-teh) tea.  The people who are hard-core drinkers of it put it in a gourd with a metal straw to steep, then drink it from that. It looked like they were drinking drugs! (They’re not – it’s just tea.) Anyway, it’s supposed to be energizing without giving people the bad side effects of coffee. Since I drink SO much coffee at school, I thought I’d give it a try. (Less jittery.) The taste is awful – like drinking brewed cigarette butts. But hey – put enough sugar in it and I’ll drink anything.