This is brilliant.
Honey Baked Ham is good, too, but that’s an entirely different product. You can buy baked ham in the grocery store, although it’s not quite as good as Honey Baked. Country ham is nothing like that. It’s a cured ham, actually a close relative of proscuitto. It just doesn’t exist in New England. I’m pretty sure that Cracker Barrel is the only place in New Hampshire or Massachusetts that sells or serves it.
I used to get my father to buy it at a Piggly Wiggly in South Carolina and send to me for Christmas. I thought I was set when I found the online place in NC that would mail three packages in a priority mail envelope for $22, but I went to order another shipment and their website was gone.
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Are you talking about Hart’s Turkey Farm in Meredith, right by Lake Winnipesaukee? </p>
<p>[Hart’s</a> Turkey Farm Restaurant and Gift Shop](<a href=“http://hartsturkeyfarm.com/]Hart’s”>http://hartsturkeyfarm.com/)</p>
<p>I will confess I’ve eaten the Jumbo Turkey Plate in the past (“Over a pound of turkey!”)… I don’t think I’d try that now.</p>
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<p>That sounds like the place. Meredith is the right town - there’s a road that we used to take to head east from there.</p>
<p>Hmmm. Meredith, huh? I could eat turkey after hiking!</p>
So D2 finally sat down and showed me where her foot is hurting her. It is not the top/side where I thought she had pointed to but rather the bottom of her foot by the heel. She went to run after work and had to turn around due to severe pain. Any ideas??? Plantar facisitis…or whatever??? She has been running 20 miles on Saturday, off Sunday and then around 9-10 on a daily basis for the rest of the week. Don’t think it is a stress fracture at that spot!
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<p>Yep. Probably. Mine first showed up running in soccer shoes in high school and plagued me for my entire life in a variety of footwear: ski boots, hockey skates, tennis shoes, Sorel winter boots. Stabbing, intense pain. Like someone sticking a knife into the bottom fo my foot. Enough to make me wince and hop and do anything possible to shift wieght to the outside edge of my foot. SuperFeet insoles completely solved the problem. Easy thing to try. Most running and hiking stores have displays of pre-cut demos in all sizes. Just pull the insole out of the shoe, put the SuperFeet in, and a walk around the store or run on their treadmill.</p>
<p>Having said that, I think more people than not will deal with chronic injuries trying to run the kind of mileage your daughter is racking up. One of the things that separates a successful distance runner from the pack is the genes to withstand that kind of mileage injury free. It’s far from a given…</p>
<p>If you’re going to Meredith, it would be nice to do it while it is light out. Meredith is a beautiful town.</p>
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<p>Ask her how it feels when she gets out of bed in the morning. If it hurts like crazy, then it is probably PF.</p>
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<p>Yeah. Plus bacon, pepperoni, keilbasa, proscuitto. No matter how you cut it, I’m pretty much a goner. The way I look at is that every day without lung cancer after smoking for 38 years is a bonus day. I’m playing with house money at this point.</p>
<p>You can get uncured bacon but it costs a few more bucks. Not sure about the other stuff.</p>
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<p>Yeah. It’s really close to the two hikes on Squam Lake, the Rattlesnake Mountain and the Percival/Morgan. I’ve also got Mount Major, down at the south end of Lake Winnepesaukee on my to do list:</p>
<p>[Mt</a> Major photo](<a href=“http://www.littlefieldnh.com/photos/towns/MtMajorCouple.jpg]Mt”>http://www.littlefieldnh.com/photos/towns/MtMajorCouple.jpg)</p>
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<p>[Mt</a>. Major map](<a href=“Google Maps”>Google Maps)</p>
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<p>You can cure country ham with just salt, but I suspect most commercially available ham has sodium nitrate in the cure. It’s listed as an ingredient on the Cracker Barrel packaging.</p>
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<p>Do you think the altra’s would be a good racing flat?</p>
<p>I’ve been experiencing a little localized pain/tenderness on the front top part of my left shin. I’m going to hunt for a 5k this weekend and if I can get under 20 then I might shut the running down for a couple weeks and go into a strength/swim/bike routine for a couple weeks.</p>
<p>Being a definite <em>non-food expert</em> I have no idea what’s the best way for anyone to eat, that is for sure. I mentioned the timing of my eating because it’s quite a contrast to yours, iDad, yet it may be what works for someone else, too. Nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble. I dunno. It’s just what I do.</p>
<p>Enjoy your ham and lobster. ;)</p>
Multiple small meals/snacks spread throughout the day seems to be the most common nutritional advice, to the point where people have been told that they can’t be successful if they skip breakfast and only eat two meals per day. It’s pretty clear that the two meals per day thing also works for a lot of people. It even has a trendy new name: “intermittent fasting” and initials: “IF”. The “theory” espoused by its advocates (I don’t think anyone REALLY knows anything about nutrition, for realz) is that you eat two meals in an eight hour window and then don’t eat for 16 hours, which puts the body in a favorable situation to burn stored fat. It seems to be popular among “paleo” advocates.
My thinking is that it doesn’t really matter. It’s all about finding what works for you. I actually do have “breakfast”, sort of. I have a couple mugs of coffee in the morning with half and half, which is giving me some calories and dairy fat. I think how often you eat may also depend on what you eat. Carbs are a short-lasting fuel; protein and fat a bit slower digesting and longer lasting.
<p>Well, tomorrow I will be very paranoid about what I’m eating all day long. Think positive bonk-free thoughts for me, okay? I’m hoping all my paws choose to cooperate…</p>
<p>Temptation of the day: someone left a big bag of popcorn in the kitchen today. Artificially flavored butter though. Nobody touched the popcorn.</p>
<p>Of course those 3 dozen donuts and box of muffins went in a few hours the other day.</p>
<p>because of the rest yesterday, I felt pretty refresh today. 2 lap son the track before went on the road for 2.4 miles. Came back to track and did two more laps. Not stop and not slow down during the whole run. </p>
<p>Feeling pretty good right now.</p>
<p>Or you can hope they trample the skinny chick. Any which way of it, I’ll give it my best shot. Thanks for helping me get this far. </p>
<p>NMinn, glad you’re feeling better and back in the saddle.</p>
<p>Dad II, good to hear you’re taking care of your body and it’s paying off.</p>
<p>What time is your race, Deborah? We’ll all be cheering you on…</p>