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August 06, 2009
Advocate for avocados
Challenge Yourself for: 24 Hours
Oh, the blessed but elusive green orb—is it a fruit or a vegetable? (Answer: It’s botanically a fruit but often plays in cuisine like a veggie.) Full of “good” fats and nutrients, and packed with flavor, it’s a great substitute for butter, margarine, and other fats or oils. Today, challenge yourself to add some avocado to your diet in interesting ways, including:
- Blend it into oil and vinegar, or mix it with carrot juice, for richer dressing
- Spread it on bread in place of less nutritious toppings
- Use it as a dip for cut veggies
- Mash and mix it with popcorn
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I use avocado on my sandwiches and leave off the mayo. Delicious!
I have always only ate avocados as savory dish, but seeing some entries here I will try it with fruits now as well. Try this avocado, some cream cheese, one roma tomato, 2Tbs plain yogurt and thyme, mash it up and top a baked potato. You would not think how good this is.
yum.. I like the barely ripe ones. They are the best with tomato sandwiches!
I used them on sandwiches and salads. They are so wonderful.
Avocados are amazing!! In the last months, I have been getting this gigantic ones with my CSA and they are so sweet and packed full of flavor. I love eating them with eggs or cottage cheese. They taste really great with mangos as well! They can really make a meal and make your day extra great!
I enjoy making avocado salsa. I put it on whole wheat tortillas.
I love Avocados just by themselves(naked), sometimes I throw a little fresh lime juice and sea salt with them, but really they are great naked.
Cut up one pineapple and freeze then blend with one avocado and add vanilla taste. We call it an avacolda. A healthy twist that tastes like a pina colda
i love advocados and what i do is make toast in the mornig and mash up a quarter of one and spread it on my toast, this is good for lunch also
Mash avocados with tomatos for a fresh salsa with any herbs .
I like fresh tomatoes, onions and avocados. Just mixed fresh with a little lemon.
I like to take fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and onions from my garden and mix with my homemade vinegrette. mmmmmmm good. I also make guacamole with everything fresh from my garden. Then I freeze it in small packages. I just love the summer and all the fresh veggies from my small back yard. I use every inch. I have half barrels where there is concrete
We planted an avocado tree last year, hoping it starts bearing fruit next year! Yay for avocados in salads and on sandwiches :)
I love avocados. I add them to my salads and sandwiches. In a salad with low fat or fat free Thousand Island dressing is out of this world. My favorite sandwich is avocado and alfalfa sprouts with your choice of bacon, bacon bits (imitation) or veggie bacon on whole wheat bread.
I found out that I really like avocados and want to include them in my diet on a regular basis. YUM!!
I recently made a toasted Quinoa/avocado recipe I found on on avacado.org. http://www.avocado.org/recipes/view/24812/Toasted-Quinoa
I love being able to pick avocados from the tree in so-cal.
avacodos are soooo good on eggs!! i love them on salads too. sometimes i slice them up and eat them by themselves!!
Does anyone have a good recipe for a salad dressing using avocado as an ingredient?
The less you add to it, the more you taste the nutty, green flavor! I add just a dash of salt and a squeeze of lime and that’s it or nothing at all. Avocados are so yummy they can go with breakfast, lunch and dinner!
A healthier BLT Sandwich:
Ripe Avacado slices
Whole grain bread
Turkey bacon slices cooked
Sliced Tomato
Lettuce leaves
Low fat Mayo
Use the above ingreadients to make the best BLT ever!