Learning the 5 Flavors

Learning the 5 Flavors

Our weight loss club participants are learning how to use the 5 Flavors to satisfy their appetites.  Using the 5 Flavors in your meal planning will also help to keep your body healthy.  As you learn to identify these flavors, and identify your cravings, you may also learn to put attention on areas that are deficient.  Your attention cues your body to send healing energy to those areas.  (And needles sure do help, too.)  As always, work with the Doctor on diagnosis and a healing plan.

The 5 Flavors are Sweet, Salty, Sour, Pungent, and Bitter.

Here are some foods that will help you learn the 5 Flavors (pages refer to recipes in the HBC Recipe Book).

  • candied ginger (pungent/sweet)
  • dark chocolate–70% if you can find it (bitter/sweet)
  • roasted almonds (salty/sweet)
  • grape tomatoes (sour/sweet)
  • kosher pickles (sour/sweet)
  • Mediterranean olives (sour/sweet)
  • slices of cucumber with curried yogurt dip [pg 5] (sour/sweet/pungent)
  • celery with peanut butter or goat cheese/ground pepper (salty/sweet)
  • pistachio nuts (ALL 5 FLAVORS!!)
  • protein shake [pg 15, pg 16]  (sweet)
  • green drink (sweet/sour/bitter)
  • spoonful of peanut butter (the natural, no sugar kind) (sweet)
  • guacamole [pg 8]  (sweet, sour, pungent, salty)

All of the recipes in the HBC Recipe Book list the flavors of each ingredient to make it easier for you to do your menu planning.

Gillian will be in the clinic select Saturday mornings (watch our Facebook page) with GWF Baking Mix goodies and to answer your questions about 5 Flavor Eating and the Weight Loss Club.

1 Comment

  1. Alice Kelly 14 years ago

    acupuncture is good for a large number of bodily disorders, i use it to help me ease my rhinitis.

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