I always loved grapes, but I hated raisins as a kid.
It was not until I reached my late teens that I started to like and love raisins. My tastebuds changed.
Raisins are high in fiber and aid the digestive system. They promote bowel movements as sufficiently as prunes do if not better.
I love raisins plain, I love them in oatmeal cookies, and I loved them in my Uncle Sam’s Raisin Bran before the cereal went out of the market.
Many of us get a taste for something sweet once in a while if not too often.
I fall into the occasional category. I get the urge for a cookie every now and then with long intervals in between.
I even want a piece of cake once in a while but yet to have found one on the market desirable to my choice of ingredients.
Either there is too much sugar, grams of fat, the wrong types of fat, or the product is not vegan suitable, and so on.
Of course, I could make my own cake, however, I am not interested in baking desserts like I used to years ago.
I do not mind baking some delicious cornbread though!
There is nothing wrong with indulging in the pleasure of succulent pastries.
The problem is that we tend to overeat the foods we enjoy the most or that we cannot get enough of once we start to consume them.
Everything should be in moderation we are constantly told, nevertheless, the idea of moderation is disregarded when what tastes good overpowers the portions that are within our limits for the moment.
All it really takes is discipline for those who find it difficult to refrain.
I have been drinking vanilla soymilk as well as cooking plain soymilk with my oat bran when I get into the mood.
What I love about the vanilla soymilk is that it tastes like a health shake. Delicious, clean, and refreshing.
A lady I work with thought about me and brought me back a box of vegan coconut/oatmeal cookies the other day.
I had mentioned the item to her- how I had not had any of the cookies in a while- and when she returned from shopping at the grocery, she handed me the box of Steve and Andy’s organic coconut oatmeal cookies!
Ever since childhood I’ve been a fan of oats/oatmeal ingredients. I loved oatmeal cookies and oatmeal granola.
Now as an adult I’ve developed the taste for hot oatmeal cereal. I didn’t like oatmeal for breakfast growing up. When a lady where I worked at offered and made me a bowl months ago I was hooked.
Wheat farina is what I was raised up on and loved. Then, once I had gotten older and experimented with hot oat bran cereal I no longer desired the farina, and now that I have sampled hot oatmeal again in my latter years I don’t really want anymore of the oat bran cereal too often.
One of my aunts loves oat meal too, she’s always been a fan of the breakfast cereal, though. I fix her a bowl or two just about every day. She eats the instant. I don’t care for the instant oatmeal I eat steel cut oats and mix it in with extra thick rolled oats when I cook them, and those steel cut oats make the cereal all so delicious.
I don’t need or eat my oatmeal with any additives. I boil the oats with water without the use of sugar, milk (vegan) or fruit as the choice is just my preference.
My mother made some chocolate cupcakes a few days ago with cake mix. The aroma smelled so good as the dessert baked.
I don’t eat chocolate. The doctor told me to stay away from chocolate and coca cola when I was a young child. I use to get unbearable stomach aches and my physician had determined the reason was from my consumption of eating the chocolate and drinking the coca cola.
I was allowed to drink 7up and Sprite and other light colored sodas but no Dr. Pepper or Rootbeer. I never liked Dr. Pepper and Rootbeer anyway.
A paramedic once asked me if I had any allergens and I told him about what the doctor had diagnosed many years ago before and the medical technician told me that it was probably due to the caffeine in the chocolate and dark sodas.
Chocolate was my favorite flavor when I was a kid I wanted chocolate everything. Chocolate ice cream, chocolate cake, chocolate donuts, chocolate candy, especially Hershey’s kisses and candy bars.
However, I did of course, leave all of the chocolate alone. Vanilla became my favorite flavor, chiefly french vanilla.
My mother’s cupcakes reminded me of the old days. I remember when we use to bake cakes all of the time and how she would buy chocolate morsels and make homemade chocolate chip cookies from scratch.
As I was growing up I ate yellow cakes with white icing along with oatmeal, ginger, coconut, and vanilla cookies.
I haven’t been too much of a sweets eater since my teens on up into adulthood, however, I do occasionally get those natural “sweet tooth” urges, those moments when I desire to indulge in a tasty dessert, or two. I just eat health consciously, ensuring the products are made with the specific ingredients of quality and preference.
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I love potato chips and cookies and cake once in a while yet I’ll only eat those within vegan and non gmo form.
The sweets have to be made on the healthy side and a homemade preparation is usually the best suitable route on desserts when it comes to optimal nutrition since one is inserting their own actual ingredients.
Nevertheless, everything within moderation and within personal tolerance is the way to go.
What I mostly enjoy snacking on above all else is fresh fruits, I love all kinds from green apples to grapes, watermelon, oranges, bananas, pineapples, honeydew melons and plenty more.
Fruit tastes delicious and is so good and beneficial to the body and I constantly incorporate these foods into my meal plan as well as a healthy snack tip to myself when I get hungry for a quick bite. 
I’m not a big sweets eater but I do at times acquire a taste for some treats.
I love Dr. Lucy’s cookies. I have been eating them for a while now, in fact she is the only brand of vegan cookie that I’ll eat so far.
I’ve tried the lemon, oatmeal, ginger and cinnamon flavors. The lemon and oatmeal are my favorites the ginger is not gingery enough for me but I love what goes into each batch of goodness.
All natural sources and dairy free. A vegan gluten-free non gmo verified product.
The cookies include garbanzo beans, chickpeas, sorghum, fava and other acceptable ingredients that I agree with.
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