Today you will learn about how to overcome addictions and satisfy your sweet tooth. You will also learn how to prepare some delicious indulgences for your sweet tooth including banana ice cream, date and nut laddoos or chocolate brownies, carrot halwa, and green smoothies.
Overcome addictions
Because a plant-based diet is alkaline, it supports overcoming addictions of all kinds including caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and other types of drugs. It’s quite normal and expected to get cravings for old habits and addictions and even experience withdrawal symptoms like headaches—especially from tea, coffee, and alcohol.
Watch this video by Dr. Nandita Shah to learn about how to overcome addictions.
Key Points
- Be patient with yourself as you change your old, bad habits to new, healthy ones.
- If you are consuming alcohol, or smoking or using tobacco in any way, make sure you work on overcoming these addictions as well.
- Resist the urge to give in to your old addictions, even if you experience withdrawal symptoms like headaches and cravings. These are perfectly normal and will pass eventually.
- Appreciate and compliment yourself when you are able to let go of the old habits that are no longer serving your best interest.
Satisfy your sweet tooth
Now that you’ve set aside sugar and other refined and artificial sweeteners, you may still have cravings for sugar or something sweet. Fruit is the best sweet food for humans. And by now you may have noticed that eating fruit does not raise your blood sugar level.
Watch this video by Dr. Nandita Shah to learn about how to satisfy your sweet tooth with whole food.
Key Points
- Eat fruit or drink green smoothies to help satisfy your sweet tooth. You can eat any type of fruit and as much as you want—even if you’re diabetic!
- Don’t eat fruit with or right after your meals as it can raise your blood sugar level and cause gas. Always eat fruit on an empty stomach.
- Sweeten desserts with dried, unsweetened fruit like dates, raisins, apricots, and figs.
- Eat a small portion of desserts sweetened with dried fruit only once or twice a week.
- Eat no more than five unsweetened dates per day until you’ve reversed your diabetes. If dates and raisins do not raise your blood sugar level, you can eat them more liberally.
Today you’ll learn how to prepare some delicious, sugar-, dairy-, oil-, and guilt-free indulgences for your sweet tooth including banana ice cream, date and nut laddoos or chocolate brownies, carrot halwa, and green smoothies—but don’t have them all at once!
Guilt-free dessert alternatives
Watch this video by Nandini Gulati to learn how to prepare banana ice cream—a delicious, plant-based alternative to ice cream made from dairy products.
KEY INGREDIENTS
Banana Ice Cream:
- 2 cups chopped, frozen bananas
- Flavours of your choice such as ¼ teaspoon cinnamon powder, ½ teaspoon freshly-grated ginger, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, etc.
- 1 tablespoon chopped nuts such as walnuts or almonds for garnish
Watch this video by Nandini Gulati to learn how to prepare date and nut laddoos or chocolate brownies—delicious, dairy-, sugar-, and oil-free treats.
KEY INGREDIENTS
Chocolate Brownies:
- 2 cups raw nuts such as walnuts, almonds, pistachios, or cashews
- 1 cup pitted dates
- ¼ teaspoon clove powder, ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder, or ½ teaspoon vanilla powder.
- ½ cup freshly-grated coconut (optional).
- 1–2 tablespoons cocoa powder or to taste (optional)
Learn how to prepare dairy- and sugar-free carrot halwa (gajrela or gajar ka halwa). Carrot halwa recipe
KEY INGREDIENTS
Dairy and Sugar-free Carrot Halwa:
- 3 large, unpeeled carrots.
- 2 tablespoons cashew butter.
- Unsweetened chopped dates to taste.
- A few roasted almonds.
- Ground cardamom to taste.
- Unsweetened raisins to taste
Guilt-free snack alternatives
If you haven’t tried a green smoothie yet, watch this video by Nandini Gulati to learn how to prepare these delicious snack alternatives that can help satisfy your sweet tooth.
KEY INGREDIENTS
Spinach and Banana Smoothie:
- 1 cup raw spinach leaves.
- ½ cup water or to desired consistency.
- 4–5 small or 2 large, ripe bananas.
- ¼ teaspoon freshly-grated ginger (optional).
- 1 tablespoon lime juice (optional).
Herb and Papaya Smoothie:
- ½ cup fresh herbs such as dill and mint.
- ½ cup water or to desired consistency.
- 2 small bananas or 1 large, ripe bananas.
- 1 cup chopped papaya
Eera Arora needed a sweet after every meal. But in the 21 days of eating great healthy food her craving for sweets have gone! And eating healthy sweets make you feel good.
“Sweets have been my undoing. A day without sweets seemed incomplete. Here, I have had no sweet craving at all!”
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