Life does need balance, to avoid prolonged stress as much as possible. I try to know what my soul wants. You can probably see that I mostly try to live a healthy lifestyle.
But life is life. We can't lose pleasure. If we eliminate pleasure, our minds will create a different mechanism, and make the body hate living a healthy life.
So I work around that by not avoiding sweet things at all. I just have a different mechanism for now. Instead of avoiding sweet foods one hundred percent, I enjoy sweet foods once in a while.
Excessive or lacking is also not good. So I try to apply full awareness. What I eat in a day, a week, and so on.
Today my schedule is upper body workout. I work out for almost half an hour. It feels quite tiring but makes me fresher all day.
Then, I also do yoga to close my workout. I do yoga for quite a long time while practicing breathing techniques. I added some time with meditation to calm my mind.
So, on this hot afternoon, I didn't mind stopping by a local dessert stall that is famous in my place.
In fact, it's been a long time since I ate sweet desserts like this. A kind of banana dish served in sweet coconut milk sauce.
In fact, this place has been open since I was little. In the past, they only sold it from a small cart. But now their business has grown and has its own building.
Front of the shop, screenshot from Google Maps
Now they don't only sell desserts, but they also serve other traditional foods. Like satay, and meatballs.
I ordered banana coconut milk dessert. This dessert consists of many tempting fillings!
In addition to boiled bananas, there are black sticky rice, cassava tape (fermented cassava), tapioca pearls, and pieces of bread. Well, there is also a filling of red, chewy palm fruit, similar to jelly.
Coconut milk tastes quite sweet with a combination of brown sugar. With the addition of ice cubes, the overall taste is not sweet and that's good because I don't like it too sweet.
With a combination of various fillings that complement each other, it creates a delicious taste. From the past until now, the taste of this dessert has never changed. That's why their customers are increasing, and they have to enlarge their sales area.
After I ate the delicious dessert, I took the time to walk to an area that caught my eye! A green corner. There is a mini garden owned by the owner of this dessert seller.
The green corner, the mini garden is planted with ornamental flowers, and grapes! What amazed me more was that the grape trees were already bearing fruit! There were green grapes and red grapes!
All of this looked very comforting to my heart. Even though it was quite hot today, the green corner here made me happy.
Well, the most important thing is don't forget to accompany it with exercise, so that we can still enjoy the food we want. With reasonable portions, not excessive. Always healthy for us!
Best Regards,
Anggrek Lestari
Anggrek Lestari is an Indonesian fiction writer who has published two major books. Now She is a full-time content creator. She has a goal to share life, poem, and food content that makes others happy and can get inspiration.
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Following a routine is important alongwith the exercise....but completelly cutting on food intake is bad...it is good to maintain a balance ....
step by step, and it all takes time :)
Paying attention to healthy eating is very important to protect against diseases of this era.
We have to pay attention to our diet, also our sleep pattern :)
Thanks for sharing.
oh, thank you so much for reading
Stay healthy
In our place, I think we call that food"binignit." It's sweet and delicious.
Woah, how I wish I can see a real vineyard in my place.
Eating sweets can make you in a good mood, but we should balance it through exercising daily.
Balancing is key sis :)
You are so right about what you say about food, so as not to tire out the body, you should always have an allowance of sweet things, you should enjoy life with those pleasures
I loved that delicious dessert plate
You also do very well to walk after dessert
Have a beautiful morning dear friend @anggreklestar
yes my friend, keep balance
have a great day
It's true, sometimes we focus so much on avoiding pleasures that we end up stressed and not enjoying life. It's great that you have that exercise routine; yoga and meditation are wonderful for keeping the mind and body in harmony.
We know about ourselves and don't push ourselves too much to start a healthy life, slowly but consistently :)
Here in Tuscany we have a lot of vineyards in my region are very popular I think vineyards are very beautiful ❤️❤️ well the cold dessert looks super ❤️💯❤️
There are rarely any vineyards in my place, because the weather is hot here and it needs extra care for the vineyards
I'm glad to hear that you can enjoy many views of the vineyards there. :)
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Indeed avoiding sweet stuff is good and always pay attention to the calories added is important to maintain a healthy and balanced diet.
It's okay to enjoy sweet foods for pleasure and enjoyment once in a while, but keep an eye on our physical exercise. :)
Wow that’s beautiful vineyard! Miscast here in the Philippines are kinda pricy, I only eat it once I top it on my yogurt. You're snack looked delicious too. Thanks for sharing your experience ♡
Grapes in my area are also quite expensive. When growing them yourself in the garden, the weather here is hot, and it will affect the taste of the grapes to be more sour.
Same as here in the Philippines. But we have some towns which have colder weather like Busay or Baguio. I guess on areas like those grapes thrive. They would love the cold weather
the food looks delicious, very suitable for hot weather like this... and it's very interesting when buyers can go around and find vineyards like this
all combination just perfect :)
This desert looks quite tasty, even though there are some ingredients that are unknown to me.
Best regards.
Most of them are local ingredients produced in our country :)
I love sharing unique things :)
Woww... Is the dessert a kind of traditional food or is it original creation of their business? I haven't found this kind of dessert in my area. The combination makes it looks unique and so tempting! I wanna try it😋
And i agree with u, exercise is important to keep our body fit, but we shouldn't fully avoid the sweets. Sweet foods like this always brings us happiness. Positive feelings can make our body healthier 😄
Thanks for sharing!
In our area there are many of this type and have been around since I was little :) similar with 'es teller'.
This dessert made with various fruits is very tasty. This sweet meal is called Faluda in our country. It can also be made at home. Now I ate at the outside restaurant. Even now I am under the pressure of an academy exam.But I think I will eat this sweet meal after finishing the exam.Now this dessert looks very tasty.
Then, you can enjoy a sweet dessert when you finish your exam later.
Good luck for you
The sweetness of life is in moderation. That “fruit cereal” looks really good.
Grapes are one of my favorite fruits and I just realized it's been 3 years since I last ate one.
ehehehe, at first glance it looks like a cereal dish, the difference is that this one uses coconut milk, plant-based milk :)
Binjai has a lot of food related stuff. Ah, I will try it!
you should, sis :)
The dessert looks great (and yummy). It's very nice what you're doing to make yourself better, @anggreklestari. Keep going on this way.
Stay healthy, my friend :)
You too. :)
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