This post is about two different things with one very tenuous connection holding them together. Bear with me.
First, I am addicted to almond butter – specifically – the smooth PC Blue Menu Just Almonds Almond Butter. Good lord it is it good. I think about it ALL THE TIME. I’ve mentioned it to a few people I know, and the responses have been either (a) have you tried it with honey? or (b) have you tried it smeared on an apple? It all went downhill from there.
How do I love thee, almond butter? Let me count the ways:
– you contain nothing but dry-roasted almonds
– you are high in calcium and vitamin E
– you are are helping lower the “bad” cholesterol in my body
– you are good for my ticker
– you taste really really good on toast. You’re not too sweet, not too salty. YOU ARE PERFECT THE WAY YOU ARE ALMOND BUTTER.
… and Sarah loves you too, a girl who doesn’t really like to eat peanut butter.
See the open-faced toast pictured above? Ya’ll probably think I went to all that trouble to make it for the girls. Well, it actually my afternoon snack yesterday. I decided that I was going to be a little kinder to myself, and eat something pretty on a plate while sitting at the table, instead of hoovering it while standing at the kitchen sink.
It does take a bit of work, but after all is said and done (and in this case, eaten) I always feel that it was worth it. And here’s the other thing: no one is going to cut my apples into happy star shapes for me, so I might as well do it for myself. I don’t feel bad about that part of it, but I do feel good when I do something nice for myself. Don’t you?
So here’s my question(s) for you. (1) Have you tried almond butter and (2) how are you going to be kind to yourself today?
