The Aligator Pear
There's nothing like sipping an ice-cold avocado smoothie with a good book on my day of rest.
Yes folks, my leave starts today. Till 4th July.
Having a lot of activities lined up. TDD on Sat, Avnet barby on Wed, Spa Getaway with HamSam over the next weekend.
Met up with some ol' navteen pals this evening. More on that in the next entry.
Here I'm having slurped up my glass of avocado smoothie and feeling all good and naturally healthy. So I went to google: "Benefits of Avocado".
HORRORS OF ALL HORRORS!!
This is what is said on a website: "Avoid eating large amounts of avocado if you'd like to lose weight, because they are high in calories."
*GASP*
Not wanting to believe it. I continued reading other sites.
"Although the calorie count of the avocado is large, there being 165 calories in l00g (40z), it is of excellent nutritional worth"
Ok....It gets better. Some sites cushion the fatty fact with a whole lot of other nutritional benefits.
"Sometimes the avocado will be avoided due to its reputation for being high in fat. It is important to be educated in the types of fats because some fats can be good for you!
The fat in avocados is monounsaturated fat (unsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has one double or triple valence bond per molecule) which is simple for the human body to digest and break down."
To sum up, its good if taken in moderation. (Darn...I dumped a whole avocado into my blender!)
Do try it though...Its pure heaven. I don't have an exact recipe for it, but its easy to make. So here it is:
Serves 1 thirsty slurper (or 2 diet freaks)
1. "De-seed" (DUH!) 1 avocado and scrape the flesh out using a spoon.
A little thing about choosing the avocado. Make sure its DARK green. A bright green avocado might look so nice on the shelf, but avoid those. Its not ripe and it tastes bitter. Imagine soured milk. Yucks!
2. A few teaspoons of honey (the healthier alternative) or caster sugar to sweeten.
3. A cup of Fresh Milk (low fat of course!). Try not to get the HL or Daisy kind because the vanilla taste in the milk will over-power the subtle sweetness of the avocado. I recommend Master or Marigold.
4. Dump all those in a blender and blitz it!
5. Slurp away.
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