Food and lifestyle ideas to keep you healthy
Do you say I’ve gotta get back on track with my food? I sure do, because life has a way of keeping me from consistently eating in a simple whole foods way.
The solution to getting back on track is to do a 7 day seasonal cleanse which will restore balance in your body and make it very easy to resume a simple whole foods diet afterwards - fresh fruits and vegetables, preferably organic, nuts, whole grains, seafood, antibiotic free meat, eggs, etc. - with an occasional treat.
One of theist parts of travel is the chance to try foods from different regions. On this recent trip our first stop was Barcelona, Spain where for was fresh and delicious.
Pate, salmon, sardines, salami raisins, nuts, and bread were recommended offeringsVegetables were hard to come by
We visited Cadeques, the hometown of Salvador Dali on the Northeast coast of Spain, and enjoyed a beautiful dish of baked lamb chops with vegetables on the shore of the Mediterranean.
Cadeques, Spain lamb chop and vegetables
From there we traveled up the coast to the city of Arles, France and visited the vineyards in Provence. By chance we found a beautiful hotel , Les Florets, where they are well known for their gourmet food. We had an exquisite meal of roast and vegetables and finished with a yummy indulgent dessert. I didn’t take o photo of the main meal but did get one of the squash soup I had earlier in the day along with the dessert from Les Florets.
Squash soup on Provence, France
Dessert at Les Florets in the Provence region of France
There were some beautiful lunches we had while in Provence. Here are a couple of samples:
Quinoa bowl with fresh vegetables
Caprese
We had a brief 2 night stop in Monaco and found some delicious food there.
Sprimp, avocado, greens, hard boiled egg and tomato in Monaco
From there it was on to Lake Como, Italy where we enjoyed an all day cooking class with Moreno in the village of Varenna. He showed us the authentic way to make pasta and regaled us with stories (and wine) throughout the day.
Tortaloni with tomato
Moreno at work
Our next stop was Cinque Terre, where we stayed in the village of Monterosso. There we found some fresh fruit and vegetable stands and I was amazed by the size of the lemons, for which Cinque Terre is well known.
Lemons in Vernazza, Cinque Terre region of Italy
Florence was our last stop and there I especially enjoyed a classic Tuscan winter soup called Ribollita.
Ribollita Tuscan soup.
If you stepped back and looked at how you spend your day, what would you see? Most of us see a fairly predictable routine, with a few unexpected but manageable events peeking into our routine on most days.
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