Sunny Side Up
Posted on Feb 03, 2008 under Blog Surfing |
You are on a desert island. Happily enough, you have got a nice little cabin there, and a magic power supply, so you are not in a lean-to eating twig stew. And you have your favorite books and a laptop and whatever else you need to be moderately comfortable, not that it’s a spa or anything. You can have one breakfast, one particular meal, magically appear every morning. But you can only have that one menu - choose once, and that’s it, the magic won’t work after that. It’s a limited kitchen magic. And now you have to choose the breakfast that you could happily eat for the rest of your life. What’s it going to be?
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A glass of freshly extracted barleygrass juice.
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Salad made with a wide variety of fruit and raw cashew nuts.
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An avocado.
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A cup of chai tea.
Mmm, that avocado sounds delicious right now! Did you know that it is one of the superfoods that we should eat every day?
Avocados are an important source of Essential Fatty Acids and also have 60% more potassium than bananas. They are rich in B vitamins, as well as vitamin E and vitamin K.
A fatty triol, avocadene is found in avocado and has been tested for anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. These properties are likely related with the curative effects of avocado described for a number of ailments (diarrhea, dysentery, abdominal pains and high blood pressure).
Avocado is also thought to promote physical beauty and is used in cosmetics to this day. In fact, whenever I work with avocado, I always wipe my hands on my arms or legs, rubbing the avocado in, as it’s good for the skin!
The Aztecs ate the vegetable as an aphrodisiac and called it “the fertility vegetable”. Previously, avocados were not purchased or consumed by any person wishing to preserve a chaste image. Growers had to sponsor a public relations campaign to debunk the avocado’s unsavory reputation before they eventually became popular.
I love avocados!
If you want to know whether this weight loss and maintaining thing ever gets easier, read this brilliant post by Savy over at Shaping My Way. It’s an eye opener!
Go Workout Mom is starting a series of posts on strength training. I am all ears (or eyes, or that matter), because that’s something that I find rather intimidating at present. I just don’t quite know where to start. Read about how our great grandmothers trained!
Then, finally, I know that in the US catalogues are big. Tania at Freshtopia has a solution for stopping tons of catalogues landing in your post box every year. Go green and say no to catalogues!
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Hmmm…one breakfast for the rest of my life? Would it have to be good for me? I honestly can’t answer that question! Breakfast seems to be the one meal where I REALLY need variety. I know one thing though - it would definately include coffee!
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I love avocados too. Especially mixed in (instead of mayo) chicken salad with walnuts. Too delish.
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:10 pm
I did not know all that interesting information about avocados! Thank you for enlightening me. Do you prefer to eat them alone or in a salad or some other way? I’ve had them in guacamole and I also used them in a recipe I used to make (and I can’t for the life of me remember now what it was–something out of the South Beach Diet cookbook I think…), but I’m really pretty clueless about what to do with them.
Have a great day!
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
thanks for stopping by my blog…
love your list of items…I’m really not sure what I’d bring..I’ll give it some thoguht
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
hmmm… I’d choose quaker instant lower sugar oatmeal (maple and brown sugar), an apple, orange juice, and a few raisins.
I figure that way I can not only have one good breakfast that I could eat regularly, I could use the ingredients to add to eachother or make other things. I could also save the apple or raisins until later if I didn’t want them for breakfast, as well as adding them to the oatmeal… or I could use the dry oatmeal with the apple and/or raisins to make a low cal fruit crisp…
I’m all about beating the system
February 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 pm
I love avocados too and my neighbor has a TON of them that he has generously shared with us this year.
If you like superfoods, you’ll love the article I’m sharing with the group on Wednesday!
February 4th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
One breakfast for the rest of my life? Chocolate cake and a diet coke. If Im stuck on an island by myself who cares how fat I am. Just kidding. I have really been enjoying my hard boiled egg every morning for the last month. I think I could eat them forever. Plus maybe if there was a chicken with me I would have company?
February 5th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Yum, Avocados. I would definitely have to have a fresh tropical fruit salad every morning–Pineapples, mangoes, papaya and a little coconut thrown in to the mix. Orange juice, and good oatmeal with a pot of coffee.
Thank you for mentioning the Strength Training article.