Kristina Carlton wrote:

>It has taken me a long time, but I am completely off any sugar, including artificial sweetener. I don't really crave it anymore like I used to, even when I was using Splenda only, but I do feel there is something missing after I am done with a meal. Today for lunch I had tilapia and cauliflower sauteed in coconut oil. It was very good but I was done and felt like there should have been something else - I don't think it was hunger so much as it was looking for something with different taste and/or consistency. Does anybody else experience this and if so, how do you handle it?
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For me, a meat-and-vegetable meal is more satisfying with two vegetable
choices that are
a contrast.  For white fish and white cauliflower, choose something
green, like a fresh salad.
Contrast in color, contrast in flavor, cooked vs noncooked (though in
the spring I'm happy with a meal
of all raw veggies).  Use a little salsa, curry paste, lemon juice,
etc., to jazz up the flavors.
Chinese medicine and Ayurveda like to have all the tastes represented in
a meal: salty, sour, bitter,
sweet (such as carrot), pungent.  It makes a meal more satisfying.

    Lynnet