The Word in My Ear whispered that the word this week is “VIBRANT”. I searched my files and found vibrant flowers, and vibrant butterflies, a vibrant peacock, and even some very vibrant fabrics from my favorite fabric store. But I couldn’t resist choosing the vibrant red of juicy, just-picked-this-morning fresh Michigan strawberries.
My favorite way to eat these beauties is over a warm baking powder biscuit, with a big scoop of creamy vanilla ice cream, and topped with a mound of lightly sweetened berries. I’m being successful with my weight loss so the biscuits will wait for another year and instead I topped unsweetened berries with some greek yogurt and a sprinkle of the Splenda/brown sugar mix. I thoroughly enjoyed it – and was without guilt!
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Yummy!
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Oh, yes! I remember those Michigan strawberries! Beautiful photo, Pat.
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Very inviting photo… healthy food can be as tasty as unhealthy food… for sweetener I buy unprocessed local honey at the farmers market… a little dab of honey goes a long way!
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And helps with regional allergies, too! Thanks for commenting. 🙂
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Aaaah well, maybe the strawberries… the other stuff won’t fit too well with the budget… er, the diet! 😉
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Beautiful photo of those strawberries – you’ve got the focus on just the right part.
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Thanks, Vicki.
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Yum! I am freezing my berry crop for jelly!
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Pat – Looks inviting and shot so well.
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Thanks, it means a lot from our resident artist of food photography. 🙂
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I just shoot more food, that’s all. That was one nice looking strawberry short cake.
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Wonderful. Now I’m craving strawberries at 9-40pm. 🙂
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First you tempt me with rhubarb pie, and now it’s strawberries. I see a trip to the farmers market in my future for plenty of both of these! The strawberries look absolutely delightful. I bet they don’t even need much sweetening.
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They are really sweet. We just went to get three more quarts. Lindsay pick out a quart with a humongous berry for her lunch.
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Now that is vibrant indeed and even my tastebuds are having a vibrating effect on my tongue now! LOL! Great shot and entry for the challenge. 😀
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Thanks. 😀
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Vibrant & DELISH!
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That photo is just too delicious – 🙂
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Glad you you enjoyed it for your breakfast. 🙂
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Ooh, my mouth is watering just looking at that image….we don’t get such ripe berries here.
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Beautiful photo! You sound like you are taking good care of yourself and eating healthy.
Here is some unsolicited advice about Splenda – (I hope I do not offend; if so please delete and say no more!)
I’ve been told by a doctor that Splenda (sucralose) is a neurotoxin……….please feel free to look it upon the web. Try “stevia”, try that for a sweetener. I think it’s awful by itself, so I mix Stevia with coconut sugar (organic), and Xylitol; Stevia and Xylitol are both natural sweeteners. Mixing Stevia and Xylitol and coconut sugar makes a nice sweetener that I use for tea.
That berry dessert made me hungry; alas, no Michigan berries in the house…..will have to settle for yogurt, but I don’t think it will be the same. Dang! Enjoying your blog……….nice post!
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I am glad you mentioned it Office Diva. I heard it on tv too just this week. Good thing I haven’t gotten into the habit of using stevia or other substitute sugar but who knows what’s in my coffee creamer.
I love the strawberries by the way Pat.
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Thanks for the heads up. Actually I would like to avoid all artificial sweeteners and sugar so I have gotten used to using less and what little I use I use different ones. That way I get less of any one toxin. I have eliminated diet sodas from my diet almost completely and reduce the amount of sugar in recipes. It sure takes a lot of work to keep our bodies toxin free.
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They look so good! I’ll have sweet dreams. 🙂
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This looks so wonderful!
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🙂
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Oh this looks so good! Love those vibrant berries!
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I’m going up to the local stand tomorrow first thing so stop on by and I’ll fix you a bowl. 🙂
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