Orange juice vs. mango juice is hard to tell the difference when squeezed. But easy to tell when tasted. Mango is also much thicker.
This is fresh mango juice. 🥭
And today orange juice is making waves and not much juice. The OJ shelves are not full like they’ve always been. There are always grocery food item shortages, but this one was a shocker!
Or is it?
That’s up for debate.
And that doesn’t change the grocery shelves.
With orange juice on the tight squeeze, a refreshing juice alternative option that’s affordable is mango juice that you can easily squeeze at home.
The NEW debate can be orange juice vs. mango juice.
Both these are mango juice and not orange juice.
Yes, FRESH mango juice in seconds.
Mango has the same color as orange juice in a glass and looks like orange juice with extra extra pulp.
But this is such a refreshing and sweet beverage.
You may never go back! 🧡
It’s also easy to tell when a mango fruit is ripe. Because it’s soft when ripe. And when unripe, hard like a softball (…btw, why do they call them softballs?). ⚾️
Anyway, when the mango turns soft to the touch where you can push your fingers into the mango, then it’s SWEET and ready for your eating OR DRINKING enjoyment!
Don’t worry, mangoes aren’t bruise sensitive like apples.
The tricky part is getting around the slippery fruit after the skin is peeled off.
There is always an irregular shaped flat seed in the middle. You’re best off to use a butter knife just in case the mango slips away from you.
Cut off small chunks and slivers and add to your blender or Magic Bullet that I use.
And then as you get closer to the seed, you can leave the fruit alone and enjoy for yourself like corn on the cob before it slips away from you! 😋
And if that doesn’t appeal to you, how about squeezing your own ORANGE + JUICE. I think it tastes so much better and without added sugar.
There’s nothing that screams luxury breakfast more than freshly squeezed juice.
When’s the last time you saw that on the menu?
So, lesson learned: a fruit juice shortage is an opportunity to seek abundance and make your own fruit juices like juice from oranges.
Or mangoes that are healthy fruits with Vitamins A, C, K, beta-carotene and minerals to name a few nutrients.
Whether it’s orange juice vs. mango, both are great! And maybe you get used to no-added sugar as a bonus. 🎉
Brain fog is a way to describe the forgetfulness nature that Ayurvedic Vata minds commonly daily express that we accept as part of us.
Brain fog accumulates in our daily lives.
In this article, you can learn all about brain fog from our daily environment and simple things we can tweak. You’ll also learn how brain fog isn’t always bad like when it’s from spiritual sources.
Brain fog is the general symptom description for not being able to think clearly.
Often this is when you want the mind to work for you.
Brain fog moments often shows up as confusion, lack of focus, or forgetfulness.
So brain fog would make sense as an explanation for simple memory blips.
But there’s more to this from a spiritual lens that I explain further below on how you can see it as a benefit and a blessing at times.
Because usually brain fog only has negative connotations in our practical culture.
And this article provides some healthy lifestyle tips to eliminate those daily negative brain fog aspects, plus presenting the balancing Vata brain fog positives (that’s a common built-in feature in our Vata mind nature).
In either positive or negative case, we don’t often sit around and analyze what’s going on with brain fog when our minds are in the clouded mist.
And what we experience is usually harmless, like forgetting eye glasses on our heads and looking everywhere for them.
While that can be comical, it’s extra minutes of distraction when the answer was sitting on you above your nose.
For daily routines and tasks, Vatas often create forgetfulness habits to set reminders and purposefully not forget.
High Vatas have active minds of worry-anxiety, more so than Pittas and Kaphas that can have other brain fog distractions.
This btw happened to me when I baked a healthy dessert for the morning and next morning. And the next morning, I forgot about all about it in my mind’s distraction.
A simple scenario like that happens to all of us at some point.
Peach biscuit. Recipe is below. 🍑
…And when I remembered the forgotten cool peach dessert, it was actually when I would appreciate the bite more after lunch so it could be an enjoyment positive experience.
In your daily life, if someone ever asks you why you didn’t do something and you answer I forgot, you often don’t get a lot of out-of-the-ordinary questioning.
Because forgetting is so normal.
Forgetting can also be healthy for us who like to control ideas. You let go of controlling your mind or the device in front of you that you’re tethered to.
This can invite in creativity inside us and help us let go of rigid ways.
But then there are also negatives such as cognitive decline brain fog instances we want to help prevent. It’s the “elephant in the room” but a diagnosis growing in our world, and that’s something we can be aware of and doing something about in our lives today.
Preventative Healthy Living Helps With Brain Fog
Brain fog can grow when we have these elements in our daily lives: high-processed foods, pesticides, phthalates, non-purified air, and mold, to name a few culprits in our modern lifestyles.
They alter our bodies and that affects our mind in the body-mind connection and in our mental health.
Processed foods for example become whole nutrient-stripped in the plant process (as in factory plant 🏭).
Organic plants 🌱 are better options where we don’t find the same trace levels of pesticides that are found in non-organic foods.
If you garden, you know what natural sprays you’ve used or not used in your care. And when you bake like I do, you know what ingredients you’ve added. You know the wholesomeness details.
In grocery stores, we see the ingredients in our carts we’ll be using to cook with or eat. And we can read labels.
But we don’t see the processes in-between, so this makes comparing foods an apples to oranges experience.
Cheese is an example. Rennet that is found in some parts of the world isn’t the pasteurized cheese process found along the shelf rows in our American grocery stores.
The goat and sheep’s cheese that the Sardinians farm and eat isn’t what we find in our guts.
And for daily coffee drinkers, switching to organic is good for preventative health as coffee is naturally high in mold.
Mold is a brain fog offender.
Organic coffee is considerably more expensive and more difficult to source, but it’s out there when you look and put your health first.
You can get resourceful and save money by buying whole roasts and then doing the grind work yourself. You can feel much more grounded like your coffee when you do. 😊
Daily clean air is also going to be healthy preventative help against the brain fog cause. Developing daily hayfever-like allergy symptoms is one common sign.
And building in more wellness habits and healthy intentions to your life is going to help you most in your sleep, health conditions, and mental fatigue. Yoga is one way to bring in more self-awareness intention.
When you calm and relax your mind and self that also brings down your stress and anxiety levels that help Vata brain fog.
Calming and Relaxing the Mind
Good answers and thoughts show up when the mind is calm and relaxed, and not anxious or worried like when running with high Vata brain fog symptoms.
When our minds are under stress, often we can’t think of the answer when put on the spot.
If we’re asked a Family Feud game show question like what is the first thing you do in the morning?, we can usually come up with an answer. And maybe one that lights up on the board.
But when someone asks us the same question in an interview where we know others will put judgment on what we say, we can’t come up with the answer under mind stress.
We could just give a safe answer.
…Or you may surprise yourself by blurting an answer that surprises you.
Those answers that pop up in memory unexpectedly often come from our spirit.
The answer that pops in our mind come from our deeper wisdom inside us.
We didn’t rack our brain for the answer. They just entered out of no where.
Those thoughts can be blessings when you connect-the-dots.
I’ve had a lot of time and spiritual experiences to teach me wisdom lessons learned to show me this.
Over time, the lessons gave me a different perspective to gain the deeper meaning behind those memory moment lapse blessings.
Once you know you can’t go back to not-knowing and wouldn’t want to as cracking the code secrets toward a happier life.
And you can notice when thought lapses land in aligned perfect timing.
That’s when it’s a spiritual miracle and blessing.
An example is we forget what we were going to say from our rational brain from losing our train of thought.
We get other thoughts that enter.
In groups I attended, we called these other thoughts: popcorn thoughts. These answers come from our heart as though we didn’t process the thought first.
If it’s a helpful suggestive thought, it’s often helpful for others to hear who need the suggestion.
If you can get over what others will think or any insecurities you have in those moments, and blurt out what you’re thinking, often it helps someone else.
You don’t necessarily know how it will help, but it does when you dare to stay vulnerable in sharing.
They are spiritual collaboration opportunities that are expressed when you speak them aloud. You can feel good about showing up.
In the same token, sometimes others blurt out something you needed that sticks with you. It’s the same when purposefully listening to a podcast or a message that you need.
So we’re giving back in a way.
We can all contribute and give back in the energy of life in this way and without much effort.
If you want more of these opportunities to show up and are willing to have your day rearranged in some way, ask quietly aloud or in self-talk: what can I do today to be helpful?
Then be prepared to be useful to others. 😊
And in daily life, these prompted thoughts and memories will show up more frequently if you pay attention (that’s an active move).
You could ignore and override those thoughts to stay on your linear agenda.
That’s how I was until I knew better.
As a planner, we don’t prefer going off course. But over the years, I grew to embrace impromptu thoughts entering, seeing this new spiritual perspective.
And maybe that would help you.
Spiritual impromptu thoughts help you align and redirect to a better way, day, and life. They lead to a life of more purpose, happiness, meaning, and fulfillment. 🎉
So you can be curious next time and openly ask yourself: why did I have ____ particular thought? And see if you get anything back as a thought.
Most likely you won’t immediately.
But that makes you consider another way of thinking and living that can be spirit-filled and coming from deeper inside of you that knows deeply what you want.
And you can stay curious and wondering until something clicks like it finally did for me.
So if we wonder about those spiritual impromptu thoughts, that opens the door to our exploring our spiritual wisdom inside us that isn’t brain fog.
This can be our new norm.
And for our daily mattering lives, we can invite in ad hoc thoughts in our mantras, meditation, and centering to help advise us on what to do next.
And as you can tell, I enjoy baking meditation where this dessert was dreamed up and you can enjoy making.✨
Vata active mind runs in high Vatas and imbalanced Vatas.
The mind overruns when we want to be done with our thoughts and the turmoil emotions that anxious, stressed, or worry thoughts can create in the mind-body connection.
This looks a bit like Pacman eating pellets that was a happy memory for me. And this low-sugar very Greek yogurt berry cheesecake recipe is one you can re-create. 🫐
This article is about how to deal with a Vata active mind that isn’t serving us.
When we’re confronted with ingested stress turmoil, we want to run from our mind especially when our ego dials up high fear trying to protect us from the world and our repeated hurt past experiences that have semblances in our current situation.
It’s not that severe, but our minds can overreact if we allow it to.
Because the ego serves us repeated warnings that can grow into anxiousness from our fearful thoughts.
The problem grows and can fester when our fear and associated negative thoughts have no where to go unless we successfully get them to take a hike and that satisfies our mind… or we get the feelings from I got this!
Otherwise we ride the trapped ego wave with our evolved human heads spinning in a brain fog cloud until exacerbated ego goes away or some other message distraction comes along to switch up what’s important.
We want to change our channel that can stubbornly stick around on its own.
The default is: we allow our ego to build drama in our lives until we exercise our right to put away the anxious thoughts.
We don’t have to delay our balance for more than a day or more than a few moments. We can practice shutting down our ego and getting better at our practice.
I didn’t start off as the poster child for this as I let repeated thoughts get to me.
But these days I recognize the offender right away and shut it down as soon as humanly possible.
You and I get to celebrate progress in us! 🤸🏻
The progress motivation can be as simple as wanting to enjoy life as much as possible.
We can do this if we know how to recognize and change the thought trajectory when an anxious triggering thought arises from a triggered situation or trauma.
Getting rid of a Vata active mind means having a new way with your new or current situation to get away from anxious thoughts and worry.
Developed fear or insecurity could have come from a past trauma situation, thoughts, or memories.
We can start practicing getting rid of unwanted emotions stirred up by an Vata active mind.
This is how it can go in a typical scenario…
A day can go by where we’re busy and caught up with those nagging thoughts as an under current theme.
We can delay doing something about it until the next day where we’ve confirmed we lost sleep because of the active mind in Vata.
We stayed up way too late in anxious-worry thoughts that’s now confirmed as stuck in our body’s energy.
So now we’re paying for it the day after feeling tired and bad in some way.
We want to get rest and sleep. We know that’s the formula to a healthy life that we want and productivity for our day.
And if we’re healthy, we can be more happy. If we’re happy, we do more in our lives that fuels more happiness. Plus, happy people live longer.
So ridding of an over active mind vs. calm mind isn’t just about feeling rested and better. It’s a protocol for a healthy well-being lifestyle.
It’s easy for us to tell others to not worry or be anxious. But when we’re confronted with our situations, we’re intimately wrapped up with our mind, the emotions, and thought implications of what if the worse happens?
This can show up in all kinds of other ego feeling-defeated flavors.
In those cases, one way I know that works is to have a backup plan so that the best happens coming from Plan A and you don’t have to resort to any backups.
Just having a backup plan shuts the ego down. (Remember: I got this!)
The best time to handle this is right now in this moment.
The tip again is coming up with a backup plan that satisfies you.
It’s not what you’re actually planning to do.
But things do happen in life, that you and your ego know from the past experiences and history that you have no control over.
So having a Plan B in your mind puts you and your (ego) mind at ease at the moment, as not putting more energy into worry, what-if, and other time sucking thoughts.
And in the rare instance that the situation outcome you don’t want to happen actually happens, you have a trampoline to fall on (your Plan B).
If you do this mental exercise for your Vata active mind, this puts your mind at rest.
And when you rest a Vata active mind, then you feel calm and can get on with your day.
You can enjoy the next moments instead of leaving worry on the table to be seen again later on in your thoughts without any real life evidence you need to be alarmed.
There’s no reason to be anxious or worried about anything not alarming, as it solves nothing and is unproductive.
Breaking this down: once you know what the anxious thought is about and determine it’s not clear and present danger, you can move into active mind management, such as having a mental Plan B.
The second thing you can do is have a specific mantra that becomes your outlook.
When anxious thoughts loom, you can refer to a mantra like: I know tomorrow will be better. It always is.
How can you convince you and your ego that’s true?
You have so many examples in the past of that truth. Find a supporting example in your past where the worry you had didn’t pan out, and you actually turned it into something better now that you have hindsight.
Remind your mind.
Because there’s 3 of you on your team: you, your mind, and your body.
When you have positive belief and conviction like “it always is” you’ve defeated ego because there’s no debating “always” in ego language. It’s like calling ego out.
That was ego’s ploy to turn “always” into a negative position such as it’s always going to be like this or it always will be raining.
But you’ve turned the always statement upside down on its head to a positive thought and belief that shuts ego up.
That’s how you fairly head wrestle with ego.
And, here’s how you can practice this:
Let’s use the weekend or your work days off as an example since you have more control over what you get to do or think on those days.
Say, today is Saturday and you’re stuck indoors with lousy weather and you had planned to relax today.
You didn’t sleep well because of anxious thoughts circling from the week before, so all that compounds and adds to your feeling deflated or defeated in some way in your day even though it’s your day off.
This isn’t how you wanted to spend part of your day.
But you can’t plan your thoughts and feelings in advance. What you can do now is prepare your better thoughts and feelings for tomorrow with these steps:
Start re-setting today. Think and repeat: tomorrow will be a new day.
Go to bed earlier tonight so you can get a good’s night rest (as you didn’t sleep well the previous night).
Plus, going to bed early keeps you from scrolling on your devices, overeating and overdrinking, and watching shows that make you feel bad or worse the next day.
So to recap: you’re productively going to bed early and you anticipate a better day tomorrow. And the next day (or Sunday), you wake up better rested compared to the lousy night you had before or on Friday.
That’s because you put a good intention the day and night before.
On Sunday, you’ve reset yourself and your thoughts. And hopefully you got more sleep.
You keep the mantra running in your mind: it’s a brand new day.
You have a new chance to feel productive and happy.
Plus, our minds loves to compare. And fresh-in-mind-memory was that yesterday wasn’t so great. Yesterday is over. So this new day is victory in comparison. 🎉
You could enjoy a cup of tea in peace and that makes you feel much better than turmoil yesterday.
Keep focusing on re-centering yourself in the moment.
The anxious fears of yesterday are put in the dust. Re-focus on your built-up love intentions today.
When the clouds lift, celebrate with singing, dancing, humming or whatever fancies you so you create a new recent happy memory.
Bring out more of the happy, creative person within you. Remove and lower unfocused Vata tendencies.
Keep doing this even if it takes a few days. Sometimes we need more than a night. The more you practice, the shorter the time becomes to bounce back.
You can choose to get out of self-pity, feeling anxious. or sad in a healthy and graceful way faster.
We can shorten the duration of regurgitating thoughts that don’t serve us. We can put them to bed after we realize they serve no helpful purpose and rob us of time and energy.
Robbing can show up as depressed moods, procrastination, self-loathing, blaming others, self-pity, etc.
I spent way too many seasons feeling self-pity. Especially if my seasons didn’t measure up comparing myself to culture’s standards, those around me, and the high-elated feelings on the flesh level.
Those created my next season lows in the hangover effect when they didn’t measure up.
I had the wrong set of wants that weren’t aligned with what would actually make me happy… me.
People, accomplishments, or things were crutches. It was me that could make me happy.
And it’s you that can make you happy.
If that doesn’t resonate now, know it’s now in your system to digest.
Welcome in your curiosity and questions that wonder about this idea. Maybe you wrestle with this a while. But by processing this, one day, you may find yourself happy with authentic you and who you’ve become that started with practicing quieting a Vata active mind.
Baking in a healthy and happy dessert like a berry cheesecake can start your daily happy.
Plant-based breakfast ideas encourage our better low sugar healthy habits that help our bodies protect us against inflammation and preventable lifestyle diseases like Type 2 Diabetes.
Plant-based can be delicious and filling like a Three Sisters dish where the trifecta effect is proteins, carbs, and fiber.
Net healthy plant-forward 3 Sisters dish with butternut squash, corn, and black beans. Imagine starting your day with this trifecta!
Eating more plant-based foods also help our warming planet and climate change causes.
And when we align all of those intentions with farm-to-table delicious eating and seasonal food preferences, we’re restoring our Ayurvedic body balance…
Some simple examples are: we want to eat and drink lighter, cool foods like cereals, smoothies, and cold brew beverages on warm days. And prefer comfort, warm porridge and potato food on cold days.
With rapid climate change these days, we often flip flop back and forth daily and seasonally. We use our internal body cues and external clues to keep us balanced.
It’s good to be aware how all this healthy information helps us.
And the good news is there’s a plant-based fix for all of us.
Below are some plant-based breakfast ideas that can get you excited about your health, energy, and planet with unusual climate changes… plus help you lower your sugar intake.
Like an Earth Day layered drink helps us appreciate all the constantly changing stratospheres in our planet. And this is a metaphor for our lives where nothing stays the same.
Lowering Your Sugar in Breakfasts
Firstly, if you started out like I did as a sweet tooth (or still are one 😋), you know there’s definitely hope if you want to change your tastes from sugary sweet to lower sugar, healthy plant-based breakfast ideas…
Many years ago, I had a guest coming over for the holidays that I learned was diabetic. I knew I had to come up with a sweet option for this special guest. That was the only option for this former party planner (where finding a way was the only way and “once a food planner, always a planner”).
I sympathized because I couldn’t imagine going through life without sweets! 🍭
So around town I drove and picked up a bag of diabetic cookies (substituting refined sugar with maltitol). If you’re not familiar, monk fruit sugar is commonly used today as the new maltitol ingredient. I use monk fruit sugar often out of healthy preference. You don’t have to be diabetic.
And anyway, I fell in love with those diabetic cookies. I figured the guest would be as excited as I would to have an after dinner dessert with the rest of us.
Those were the days when AllRecipes was one of the very few online sites you could find recipes besides OG Martha Stewart and offline cookbooks that never grow old.
There weren’t diabetic recipe sites.
…And so, when the holiday dinner rolled around, I mentioned the cookies to the diabetic guest, and I learned something very profound I’ll never forget when he declined the sweet offer…
💡The sweet taste was no longer even a category for this person who hadn’t had a sweet bite since his diagnosis.
That was an eye-opener. Because previously I thought people were born with a sweet tooth or they weren’t (and could do nothing about their sweet sentence). And I definitely was in the first category.
When I started upon my own journey to reduce daily sugar intake, I was reminded of those lessons.
I then knew I could gradually wean off of sugar as others had (like the diabetic guest) from changing habits.
And if I knew that sooner, I probably would’ve done so sooner.
And that’s like how most of us are with our areas we want to change: we don’t know what we don’t know. 🤔
When I gradually took in less sugar, I found I craved sugar less.
I didn’t have to do the heavy lifting all myself.
My body helped me and it helps all of us when we don’t keep overfeeding our sugar cravings.
…A light cookie with a sweet tea flavor without extra sugar will do the trick. It doesn’t have to be the portions served at restaurants.
And baking your own sweet goods can save you because you don’t have a large box sitting around tempting you.
You can simply make less and then you’ve taught yourself that working for a sweet is a reward.
You satiate your sweet craving with a tiny bite that’s also the most delicious bite.
💡In economic terms, that’s: the marginal utility wears off with each bite.
💡In nutrition terms, that’s: intuitive and mindful eating helps you appreciate your food as part of daily joy and helps build a healthy relationship with food.
And in my first tries, making it through those habit forming days where I reached for a low-sugar cereal over cookies was sobering but still doable. One step forward, two steps back.
But I knew deeper down I could go a day without sugar.
And the opportunity arose where I chose to fast from sugar with a church-wide fast event. This was for our spiritual growth. We could choose anything that was addictive to us.
I was in a Bible book club then studying the book of Isaiah and learned that the people in that day were addicted to idols that caused their problems.
And without a moment’s hesitation, I picked sweets as the first thought that came to mind.
From the sweet fast experience, I learned I didn’t even crave sweets when I had an intention and was determined for a desired outcome.
But I was still stunned at what happened.
Because that was a new concept to me: what… not desire sweets!?…that would’ve shocked all my closest friends as I always had a piece of candy or something sweet on me even when I wasn’t aware.
It’s no surprise that when I was younger, I was a sucker for mosquitoes that loved my sweet blood.
And then in 2021, I started baking weekly. I added less and less sugar into my bakes. And sometimes not using refined sugar or monk fruit sugar at all and only using whole fruits, spices, and other healthy natural powder ingredients.
It was hard for me to add spoonfuls of sugar when I knew how harmful sugar is for both the body and mind.
And that became my healthy way out of sugar when my skin became inflamed with eczema during the uncertain early days of the pandemic when I was also building up a pantry and starting to home cook more.
Eczema was my wake up call.
It was my body’s warning to me that I took seriously.
And the effect was a much lighter consequence than a destroying gut microbiome outcome, Diabetes or other chronic disease diagnosis.
I used healthy teeth as one of my motivators for a comeback to heathy eating.
…As a kid I loved eating spoonfuls of white sugar straight out of the glass sugar jar. I always had cavities, and that thought alone makes me run to celery or carrots.
And yeah that was many decades ago, but that’s pretty much what we’re doing when we buy processed sweets or sugary sodas. It’s not our fault because they’re in our face all the time.
And in America and the Western world cultures, that’s just a gimme.
Plus, Vata bodies love sweets! Others do too, but it’s a given with a Vata. We were born with this desire that we can turn into a healthy one.
And you and I can survive on fruit and natural powder only sweets that are loaded with polyphenol antioxidants. I haven’t met a fruit yet that didn’t have antioxidant vitamins. 😊
This works over fighting willpower that never works. Because what you tell yourself “no” to only builds energy more toward the thought.
If you’re jonesing for southern-style Devils Food Cake, you’re not going to head for white cloud Angel Cake without a higher intervention. ☁️
Distraction and replacement are sweet answers for sugary and processed snack food cravings.
You can turn to plant-based foods, like popcorn for potato chips… and get into an activity that takes your mind off food, like a fasting habit or gardening.
If someone tells me they have a sweet tooth craving they think they could never satiate or change, I know that’s not true. It’s all made up in the mind.
You can live with a lower, healthy amount of sugar every day. That starts with your first meal where you break the fast or breakfast.
Easy Low-Sugar Plant Based Breakfast Ideas For Starters
For starters, opt for a protein. You can start with a protein shake if that fits your preferences like a layered drink that has protein powder.
As you age, your body need to increase your intake of essential amino acids to compensate for muscle loss.
Add a healthy fat like avocado that’s great when you break a fast, first thing at breakfast, or if you’ve been fasting overnight or longer.
During my catering work days, we always had a Crudite platter available for vegetarians. Raw veggies are a great way to prime the stomach first and add some roughage fiber that the gut needs.
Raw carrots, bell peppers, cauliflower, broccoli, celery, and asparagus are great examples.
They’re easy to put together on a plate. And if you need a dipping sauce, you can always use a Greek yogurt with dill as a savory healthy beginning.
And if you take vitamins, you do better taking fat-soluble Vitamins A, D, E, and K with some fat in your body. So it’s better to take those after or with your meal where you’ve had some avocado, oil, nut, or seeds in your system.
Black bean quinoa cereal. Both ingredients have protein. Add cocoa powder if you want brownie bite tastes and top with chia, flax, hemp, sunflower, etc.
Greek yogurt sundae. Add your whole fruits like banana and berries.
Sprinkle with your favorite nuts like sliced almonds, walnuts, or pistachios. Don’t be shy with your seeds. Cantaloupe and melon seeds loaded with vitamins are a nice vitamin addition too.
Oatmeal with apples or applesauce. If you’re leaning toward a little sweet taste, add Ceylon cinnamon (our Ayurvedic Vata go-to spice). This will set you up for a sweet bite without tipping the scales.
Chocolate avocado mousse. This is a great one you can blend up in seconds with dark cocoa and a ripe avocado.
Main Points
Be easy on yourself.
Be open to give the plant-based breakfast ideas a try. Pick a few more of your favorite healthy ingredients such as a banana or an avocado and let your creative breakfast imagination go wild!
Don’t give up. Not creating a deadline or rules can be the magic formula that eliminates the pressure.
Change your words and thoughts. Say, “Yum this tastes great even when it tastes odd to you.” That helps your mind to agree with you when you’re trying to be healthy.
Then next time, introduce a new healthy food or spice. Let the odd new tastes take over until they win you over.
And if you want to learn how to add fasting to your sustainable healthy habits to eliminate snacking, sweets, and extra pounds, check out the free IF guide.
If you still have a sweet hankering, you can enjoy your plant-based breakfast ideas with a decadent aroma tea like the chocolate mint black tea I’m sipping on. 🧉 And you can pair with a healthy start.
unsweetened 70% cocoa (natural, not dutch processed)
raspberries
shredded coconut
Instructions
Blend milk, avocado, and cocoa.
Zhugh with raspberries. These are anti-inflammatory ingredient pairings.
Notes
To make this healthy version is 3 main ingredients: ripe avocado, almond milk, and unsweetened cocoa (garnished with raspberries and shredded coconut).
Layer and freeze each layer before adding another layer.
Layer 1: milk
Layer 2: layer with black cocoa, gluten-free flour, and milk (or cream) that's more creamy and good for beverages.
Layer 3: cold blueberry tea
Layer 4: cold brew coffee (or coffee of choice)
Layer 5: milk
Add a few blueberries if you like.
Make plant-based pandan ice cube. Add pandan mixed with water and freeze
Add the ice cube to the top frozen layer.
Bring drink out to regular room temperature about 10-15 minutes before you want to consume if semi-frozen and 30 minutes or longer if frozen solid. Watch your planet beverage change before your very eyes! For kids, you can swap cocoa or chocolate milk for the coffee layer.
