Some Challenges Started And Some Achieved

I had two Spring Forward challengesthis week and a bonus activity waiting for me in my Inbox yesterday. The challenges were try a new recipe from another culture (or order takeout from a place I haven't tried before) and try an online stretch, dance, or yoga video. The bonus activity was to clean out a junk drawer or closet.

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I am an adventurous cook and eater, and there isn't much I haven't tried before, but I decided to finally tackle preparing the lupini beans I bought a couple of years ago at a local Italian grocery store.

The reason I never got around to cooking them is that when I got them home found out that unless they're prepared in a specific manner the beans are bitter and toxic due to alkaloids. The elaborate preparation involves soaking for 24 hours / cooking on the stove for 60-90 minutes / rinsing with water / putting in the refrigerator for 5-7 days and changing the water a couple of times a day / soaking for 24 hours in a salt brine.

So far I have soaked and cooked. More will be revealed on this project.

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The vast majority of days I meet my 10,000 step goal, and I go to the gym four times a week for a group class, so I really didn't feel the need to add anything. However, in the spirit of trying new things I took a look at the YMCA app and discovered they had a pretty robust selection of on demand videos. I picked a spinal mobility stretch, which was just challenging enough

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And finally, the bonus challenge was just what I needed to get around to posting the pile of things in my office to the Buy Nothing Facebook group this afternoon and make a pile of old tax papers from three years ago that I can shred on April 15th.

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