This morning I went ahead and had the coffee anyway, from habit. Added a little extra sweetener. I want to do this Green Smoothy regime but I also don't want to force habit changes on myself because they'll just make me irritable and more likely not to stick it out. I'm really hoping that as I go any changes I really need to make will just sort of spontaneously begin to move into my life, organically as it were, changing my subjective experience in favor of them.
Then S emailed me about a spice tea that she likes as a substitute for coffee, and I have to suppose it would probably go better with the smoothy than the coffee does so I'm going to keep it in mind as a reasonable substitute.
She had tried to post this as a comment on my last smoothy blog post but was unable to figure out how to do it, so I'll copy her comment here.
I don't know why but the different templates for Blogspot blogs also have different formats for posting comments. This particular design apparently doesn't allow Anonymous postings -- you have to have a "profile" or one of various accounts in order to post, unless I'm not understanding completely how it works.
Anyway, here's what she wrote:
This is probably very good advice and I'm going to keep it in mind although right now I don't happen to have any of the spices on hand. Since spices are very expensive I've had to forgo many of my favorites for a long time as it is (and the nearest Asian store isn't close), but if this diet change goes through for me I do expect to be gradually changing many things, it's just going to have to be slow.Good for you! If you want a delicious, stimulating, warming, healthy substitute for coffee, try YOGI TEA. I've been drinking it with a sprinkle of stevia and a drop of soy cream, for 20 years.
If you can go to an Asian food store you can get ingredients cheaply.
YOGI TEA
4 cups water
1 cinnamon stick
5 cloves
Large knob of sliced fresh ginger
sprinkling of cardamon seeds
sprinkling of anise seeds
sprinkling of fennel seeds
black pepper corns (optional)
simmer from 15-25 minutes
(the longer you simmer the stronger it gets.)
You can add water and reheat several times.
(Her mention of the sweetener stevia reminds me that this too is a change I expect to be making, but as with so much in the alternative health lifestyle it is controversial and I'll probably do a post on it eventually. Also on soy products -- hint: they make me sick, the very thought of soy protein turns my stomach because of a particular experience I definitely should write about).
I'd also like to rename the tea of course as I'm not into Yogis. Maybe I'll use just a few of the spices and call it Apostle Tea or Pilgrim Tea or something like that for starters.
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