Like Dessert

So, I was just eating some raspberries--one of the most amazingly delicious things on the earth. Eating raspberries just makes me happy. I'm pretty sure that it's just like eating dessert to me. It got me thinking about last fall. I was participating in an 8-week health challenge. One of the rules was that you could only eat dessert/sweets one day a week. This was very doable, but I do have a bit of a sweet tooth, so some days I really wanted something sweet, so I found non-desserts.

For me, several fruits can satisfy my sweet tooth. Raspberries definitely can, along with peaches and strawberries and mango and pineapple. Sometimes apples and oranges can. I just really love fruit, so it makes me pretty happy to eat it.

Something else that is like dessert to me is sweet potato. I just would cook up a sweet potato like a baked potato, and then I add a bit of butter and whichever spices I'm in the mood for, and it is heavenly. Squash can be eaten similarly and is delicious.

Avocado is not as sweet, but it is so good to me that it is like dessert. I'm pretty sure I could be happy about eating good avocado daily.

One thing that I also love is smoothies. I have a Ninja blender, so it chops things up pretty well. I would typically add lots of fruit and sometimes some greens and sometimes milk, and I would have a heavenly smoothie. One day, I decided to try to make a new type of smoothie. Yum! I used a little milk and added frozen fruit (I think I used  a blend of fruit from Costco). I then added just the littlest bit of vanilla. It ended up tasting like really good ice cream, but it was so much healthier!

I just was thinking about how my sweet tooth can totally be satisfied by healthy deliciousness and how that makes me happy!