Deciding to change the way you eat is not an easy task. It is a challenge every day to make the conscious choose to eat healthy. Essentially you are giving up certain foods which actually make you crave them the more you have. A great example for me are salt and vinegar chips, Lays to be specific. There was never just one or a few, It was the whole damn bag in one sitting. Even when the whole bag was gone, every little crumb, my body was still craving more. In my experience that is a key indication of what not to eat. It was a chemical reaction in my brain, all reason left and I had to have more and more even to the point of feeling sick.
What I noticed first when eating Paleo was that my taste buds changed and foods I believed I did not like turned out to be my go to’s. I had never developed a taste for avocado, actually found them a tasteless, mushy mess.
It was truly a blessing to travel solo to Kauai in 2013 and reawaken the carefree outgoing JoJo. The first day was sensory overload with the abundance of fruit, the lush vegetation and the calling of the ocean.
Indulging in the flavors of fresh papaya each morning for breakfast and the gigantic avocados.
Seriously can you even. The flavor, yes there was flavor, was rich and creamy. So then and there my love affair with avocado began. Once I returned home I began experimenting with the avocados available here in Canada. Adding it to salads, BLT’s, chocolate mousse and guacamole to name a few.
Here is a simple recipe for guacamole
1 avocados cubed
1 tomatoes cubed
1 cloves garlic minced
1 Lime juiced
Cilantro fresh chopped to taste
Salt to taste
Serves 2
Combine in bowl avocado, tomato, garlic, juice of 1 lime, and generous handful of cilantro.
Dig in.
Can’t you just taste the tomato, garlic, lime, avocado, and cilantro combination. The perfect flavors of summer in winter.
For today I will leave you with a very thought provoking video on how the labels we place on each other are very limiting.
Much Aloha
Redefining Grief 