I’m seeing a new type of nut bar where the producer, instead of using refined sugar, is using dates for the sweetener. Basically, the nuts are encased in dates as the wrapper.
Check out the products from Thunderbird and myAir.
Category: Food
Scruptious
If you want to treat yourself to the most delectable dessert, try the Mitica Date Walnut Cake. Got mine at Whole Foods. Probably the most delicious food I’ve ever eaten. Major dopamine rush. (So beware this could turn into a major addiction.)
Mitica also has a fig-oriented cake if you prefer figs to dates.
Nutritious Vegan Meals
Nutritious vegan meals already prepared.
Another Meat Substitute
Seitan.
Yogurt Adds
Silk Unsweet Almond Milk Yogurt with Vanilla. Add oat bran for the fiber, which will feed the bacteria, and take it with a probiotic pill as well. Boost for the gut bacteria. Stop using yogurts that have added sugar. They have so much sugar they are candy.
Relishing Food
In my old age, I’ve become something of a cook and now enjoy food much more, as I am able to produce meals that have a lot of taste. But it begs the obvious question, what is taste, what is the taste of food? If you think about it for a moment, it comes down to the tongue’s reaction to the chemicals in food. The tongue — this magical organ with its taste buds — plays the pivotal roll, especially the very tip of the tongue.
And the more you get your tongue involved in each morsel of food, the greater the intensity of the taste of that food. So it is actually possible to increase that intensity by slowing the chewing process and lengthening the amount of time the tongue has to twirl and savor the food.
And then there is something called the “aftertaste”. It is literally the lingering taste of the food after you have swallowed it. The mouth and tongue are still slightly coated with that taste so there is this faint but discernible aftertaste. How many gourmets, instead of rushing on to the next bite mindlessly, take the time to enjoy this aftertaste? Many? Any?
The bottom line about taste is to eat more slowly so that you let your tongue do it what does so well…and don’t forget that hint of the taste in the aftertaste. So mindful eating is the way to go if you can manage it — to get even more taste.
Have Fallen in Love Again
I’ve fallen in love again, but this time not with a person, but with sweet bell peppers. Love the taste both cooked and raw. Use them in virtually everything now.
Thrive Market
I’ve joined this.
Broccoli Sprouts
Cook in water for 10 minutes at 158 degrees F to get the full benefit.
Amino Acids
Interesting fact: there are exactly 20 amino acids involved in making proteins in the body, 9 of which must be acquired through food — the so-called “essential” amino acids, but there are hundreds of other amino acids as well.
They now have refined the daily requirements for amino acids down to the individual 9 essential amino acids and how much of each one should take in — and which foods have the greatest amount for each.
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