Kombucha!

A few months ago, I had my first taste of kombucha tea and really liked it.  If you are unfamiliar, it is a fermented tea beverage which contains pro-biotics and is supposed to be very good for you.  The problem was the $5.00 a bottle (in Canada!) price tag. I decided that I wanted to brew my own and set about trying to find or buy a "scoby" which is the acronym for "symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast" which is what ferments the tea turning it into kombucha.  Local health food stores either didn't know what I was talking about or were too expensive.   So I followed instructions from the internet on the easiest and cheapest method to procure one.  I bought a plain bottle of un-pasteurised kombucha, poured it into a clean mason jar, covered it with a cloth and put it somewhere warm.  Within a week I had my own scoby which has multiplied many times leaving me with great tea and a bunch of scobys to spare.  So far no one else in my family likes the tea.  It is an acquired taste.  I make a few batches a week in various large glass containers.  

Not much happening on the diet front...I'm slowly getting back to the walking and trying to eat better.  Very early this morning, I successfully stopped myself from going to a 24 hour pharmacy to get jujubes.  But the day is young...