Wake Up With A Healthier Spread

My daughter came over yesterday and had this with some tuna on top. Love avocados.

Sue

We put avocado on BLTs and grilled chicken sandwiches.

Brencie

Avacado: on a spoon, toast,tuna, taco. Salad, it really doesn't matter always a good idea.

Susan

Want to use avocados, buy as a household of one, my problem with avocados is how do you store them when cut and you don't use it up. They never look appetizing the second day.

LindaSonia

Guess I spoke too soon - I'll try the 'leave the pit in' idea.

LindaSonia

Linda store with the pit in place and wrap tightly in plastic wrap. Also you can brush some lemon juice on it.

Sue

Avocados are like bananas as far as deterioration rate. I've never had luck keeping them past the moment unless either in the half shell w/pit or mashed with lemon juice. Even that doesn't last long enough! I love avocados halved with a spoon of salsa, wish they weren't so expensive!

Erin

I love avocado on toast, but I also want to give a huge shout-out to coconut oil on toast! I've found that if I'm craving buttered toast, coconut oil is just the thing. And there is so much research coming out now showing that it's super healthy and even helps you lose weight. So if you like coconut, try that one too!!! I also use it to make grilled cheese.

Stacie

at eat this at least twice a week, easy and good.

toasted Ezekiel sprouted 100% whole grain bread, tsometimes with a vegan mayo, half of an avocado sliced ( leave other half for next day in peel in air tight container,I will have to try leaving the pit in ) slice tomato, then toasted raw almond slices. Sometimes I add spinach, or lettuce.

lenora

Grass-fed butter actually IS good for your heart! I suggest you read Why Butter Is Better from the Weston A. Price Foundation: http://www.westonaprice.org/food-features/why-butter-is-bet…

I personally can't stand avocados, but I'm glad I can still have heart-healthy good fats in the form or real, grass-fed butter.

Cristina @ An Organic Wife

Grass-fed butter actually IS good for your heart. I suggest you read "Why Butter Is Better" by the Weston A. Price Foundation: http://www.westonaprice.org/food-features/why-butter-is-bet…

I personally can't stand avocados, but I'm glad I can still get heart-healthy good fats in the form of real, grass-fed butter.

Cristina @ An Organic Wife

one of my favorite breakfasts is toasted Ezekiel Sprouted bread with avocado, sliced tomato, spinach and a poached egg!

Cheri

looks wonderful! i hope that isn't a paper plate your toast is sitting on:)

diana

Grass-fed butter actually IS heart-healthy! I suggest you read "Why Butter is Better" by the Weston A. Price Foundation: http://www.westonaprice.org/food-features/why-butter-is-bet…

I personally can't stand avocados, but I'm glad I can use real, grass-fed butter.

Cristina @ An Organic Wife

I love avocado on toast. I usually sprinkle mine with a little garlic powder to make give my morning a little savory kick.

Mary

I do this all the time! Good job spreading the word! I also add scrambled eggs on top too! YUM!

Tanya

I LOVE AVOCADOS!! I eat it every chance I get.

Tabatha

I put avocado in our salad every night. Read it has enough fiber for the day in one avocado - or something like that. If it turns brown in the refrigerator by the next day, just cut it off - eating it brown on top doesn't bother me. We always leave the pit in and coat with lemon juice, but it still turns brown -doesn't change the taste.

Helene

Yum! I am so hungry today !! I ate breakfast, had latte, had a banana .. still hungry :-P

Monica.

Monica P

you can freeze avocado's if you need to. I also freeze banana's all the time!...good for baking or a quick blender smoothie.

a

I wish I liked avocado (and carrots and tomatoes), but I just can't get into it despite giving it a try every so often. Blech. :(

Shanna

Avocado on toast with pepper.... grew up eating this YUM!

Christina Clement

Avocados are great plain and we love them sliced on burgers and turkey burgers. They real add flavor and I can skip all the condiments

Pat S

Do you freeze the whole fruit right after you buy it? Or wait til it's ripe, then freeze it? Or do you scrape out the flesh THEN freeze it? Same question for bananas. Where I live, no one I know freezes any kind of fruit. So please enlighten me. And how do you use avocado in baking? Thanks!

Apple

After reading what you had for breakfast, I was wanting something before I went to bed, so I had the same thing....and it tasted pretty good....I would never have thought of that...thanks :)

Mona

My hubby makes an avocado spinach chocolate smoothie! 1 avocado, handful spinach leaves, 2 heaping Tbsp raw non-alkali cocoa, 2 cups almond milk, plus organic Stevia, cinnamon, and mint to taste. Yum! Adapted from Joe Cross' Juice Re-Boot.

kat

The worse thing about the breakfast you describe is the toast. I searched on your blog for a mention of Gary Taubes' book "Good Calories, Bad Calories" but didn't see one. "Wheat Belly" by Dr. William Davis is another important book.

Fat doesn't make you fat. Carbohydrates do. Especially the ones from processed foods.

Keep up the good work. Reading labels is critical. But eating real food (one ingredient) is a key to health and healthy weight loss.

You are on the right track, Snack Girl, but

Chris

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Harvz

Here in Mexico we put some lime/ lemon drops to prevent ti from becoming brown and unpleasant, you can also wrap it with some plastic wrapping and when using it again just cut the "brownish" part the rest would be green (also we leave the pit).

Gabriela Gaona