It's easy to eat cheaply in Paris.
Eating out in Paris does not have to be an expensive or an extravagant thing - you can eat well and very cheaply if you know where to look. Whether you want to eat al fresco in the parks and quiet places of the city - or whether you prefer to sit and laze the day away in a cafe or bar or bistro - follow the great ideas and tips you'll find here. Paris does not need to cost you the earth and - with some local knowledge - you can eat cheaply in Paris every day.
In Europe in general - and Paris is no different - it's a good idea to make lunch your main meal of the day. Almost all cafes, bars, bistros and restaurants offer fixed price menus at lunchtime and will often throw in a glass of beer or wine for free included in the price. Even at dinner time if you look around you can find restaurants with menus offering three courses for less than fifteen euros.
Students who have an international student card can use the dining facilities of the Paris university campuses - and the local student food caterer called CROUS also provides food outlets around the city. Just search for CROUS Paris online for a list of addresses. You can also buy a copy of the necessary card at any of the CROUS outlets - provided you have your student identification with you.
Good places to eat include:
Cafe Berthillon on Rue St-Louis-en-I'lle. This is the most fantastic place for ice cream and sorbet with flavours and styles like you couldn't even imagine. Expect long queues for the most popular ice cream shop in Paris.
Cafe de la Mosquee on Rue Geoffroy-St-Hilaire provides authentic mint tea and middle eastern flavours in it's savouries and cakes.
Cafe Very is in the famous Jardin des Tuileries right in the very beating heart of the city. This is the best of several cafes in the gardens and delivers the most perfect toasted croques you'll ever find.
For a more restaurant level nosh up then try some of these great places:
L'as Du Falafel - no prizes for guessing what the dish of the day is here! The falafel is the most famous of all middle eastern treats - look out for the pitta special - with pitta bread, cabbage, aubergine, hummus and tabasco sauce - wonderful.
The Foyer Du Vietnam is on Rue Monge and is a very popular purveyor of vietnamese curries and noodle dishes. Popular with students and locals alike.
Goldenberg Restaurant on Rue des Rosiers is the best known Jewish eating place in the city. You can stuff yourself on borscht, blinis, strudels and - of course - chicken soup! Great food in an authentic atmosphere.
These are only a few suggestions on how to eat cheaply in Paris. The main tip is to remain flexible and - if you can - chat with the locals and ask for their advice.
Enjoy your trip to Paris.
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Running for weight loss
Lots of people, including myslef, start running because they want to loose weight. Becuase running is probably one of the hardest cardiovascular exercises you can do, for most people it is an very good way to burn calories and start shedding the weight.
You need to remember that healthy eating should be part of your weight loss program because you will only loose weight if you burn more calories than you consume. So, for example if you loose a pound in weight then you have to burn around 3500 calories, which means you should think about running AND healthy eating to loose weight efficiently.
If your running, like mine, turns into a more serious sport for you, then you could consider racing in 5K or 10K races, or even look into training for a half marathon or even full marathon distance, which is 26.2 miles. I'd recommend that you first start building up you weekly training program and see if you can run up to around 10 miles. Of course the longer distance you run, the slower your pace should be.
Anyway back to healthy eating! Runners sometimes start to eat more food and load up with too many calories, putting on weight even though they're training! If you think you might be falling into this trap then have you ever though of keeping a food diary? The best thing you can do is look at how much you're eating, when and where.
The other main point with running to loose weight is that you really need to run on a regular basis. By regular basis I mean every day if you can! If this isn't possible, certainly to begin with you will need to ensure you rest adequately between training runs, then I suggest 3 times a week or more.
Finally, after your body becomes used to your training program and you're finding that running 5 miles or so, 3 times a weeek is fairly comfortable for you, you need to start mixing up your training. A good way to do this is to introduce speed training to your routine - this sounds like more pain!? Speed training is essentially running very fast for short period of time, having a similar short resting period where you jog or walk, and the run very fast again for the same period of time. You should repeat this process so you are running fast for 4 or 5 times, resting inbetween each fast run. This is called interval training, and it will help you burn more calories, plue increase your slower, long distance running pace, over time.
You need to remember that healthy eating should be part of your weight loss program because you will only loose weight if you burn more calories than you consume. So, for example if you loose a pound in weight then you have to burn around 3500 calories, which means you should think about running AND healthy eating to loose weight efficiently.
If your running, like mine, turns into a more serious sport for you, then you could consider racing in 5K or 10K races, or even look into training for a half marathon or even full marathon distance, which is 26.2 miles. I'd recommend that you first start building up you weekly training program and see if you can run up to around 10 miles. Of course the longer distance you run, the slower your pace should be.
Anyway back to healthy eating! Runners sometimes start to eat more food and load up with too many calories, putting on weight even though they're training! If you think you might be falling into this trap then have you ever though of keeping a food diary? The best thing you can do is look at how much you're eating, when and where.
The other main point with running to loose weight is that you really need to run on a regular basis. By regular basis I mean every day if you can! If this isn't possible, certainly to begin with you will need to ensure you rest adequately between training runs, then I suggest 3 times a week or more.
Finally, after your body becomes used to your training program and you're finding that running 5 miles or so, 3 times a weeek is fairly comfortable for you, you need to start mixing up your training. A good way to do this is to introduce speed training to your routine - this sounds like more pain!? Speed training is essentially running very fast for short period of time, having a similar short resting period where you jog or walk, and the run very fast again for the same period of time. You should repeat this process so you are running fast for 4 or 5 times, resting inbetween each fast run. This is called interval training, and it will help you burn more calories, plue increase your slower, long distance running pace, over time.
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