A solution for my sweet tooth – Raw Kiwi Tart

I have to admit, I have a sweet tooth, a very sweet tooth. I love to eat sweet deserts and at my best/worst times – the perception is changing – I could it a pint of ice cream, a 200 g bar of chocolate or a role of chocolate biscuits in one batch without any problems. My body somehow coped with the overload of industrial sugar.

I thought drinking Green Smoothies will change my cravings for sweets – see Green Smoothie – The Elixir of Health. It has, a bit, but still not enough. I thought, yoga will help to discipline my mind and to control the conditioned cravings. It has, a bit, but still not enough. Still, I experience this moments where I am overwhelmed to buy processed sweets and get this overdoses of refined, bleached and with residual chemicals contaminated white sugar.

With time I learned that we are programmed to eat sugar to prepare for the next winter or time when not enough food is available. Furthermore, eating sweat – or gat food – is one strategy of the body to neutralize an unhealthy amount of stress hormones, Cortisol among others, in the body. Last but not least we are made addictive to sugar by the food industry that is putting sugar into almost every processed food and is creating by that an addiction – check the food labels. And who has not been “rewarded” by parents or friends with sweets when we have done something good…

Remembering the “satisfaction” I could get from a high sugar load especially in stressful or sad times, I have been going out to restaurants or bars, on the quest for some deserts which could give that “happiness” feeling. The first bit might be tasteful, but soon I realized that almost everything was too sweet, eventually resulting in a feeling of guilt that I ate that unhealthy food again.

What to do?

One day to long ago I saw a post in Facebook with a deliciously looking, mouth-watering kiwi tart. You see a lot of food pictures in Facebook. But this picture was posted by a friend who I know to be a very committed raw foodist. Hence, I contacted him and got the recipe.

I couldn’t wait to prepare the tart, brought the ingredients described or replaced a few of the original ones were not available. My wife wondered what happen with me and her eyes showed an impression somewhere between suspicious, scared and doubtful about what I will present this time.

The preparation was quite easy and after less than an hour only the tart was done. My wife wondered why it could be so fast and doubted that a cake could taste well if I didn’t bake it. But her doubts switched to curiosity when she saw the result.

When we both tasted the tart it was quiet. I was optimistic about the result but it still surprised me. I felt a wonderful and delicious mixture of sweetness, lightness and freshness on my tongue. And here it was, the short moment of “satisfaction” I was looking for before. What a difference to so many other cakes and sweets I have eaten before. My sweet tooth was more than satisfied and at the same time my health-conscious mind was pleased by knowing what the tart was made off 🙂

And my wife too was enjoying this first experimental approach to an alternative healthy art of sweet deserts. I will see what my kids think about it this afternoon. It would be the final approval 😉

No more processed cakes in future, I hope!

Curious for the recipe? Here it is: Raw Kiwi Tart recipe

Is that something for your sweet tooth? Just try it and make your raw kiwi tart 🙂

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Have a great day 🙂

Volker