The holiday season is officially over, at least from my end, and I have returned to work. However, during this season, I pretty much had a sweet tooth for everything food and was delighted to try some restaurants while in New York . When I am not traveling, I am usually a home body and like to prepare my own meals; it gives me room for kitchen creativity! Now that I am back, I found a way to prepare my mouth and stomach for my home cooking by eating clean and detoxing for a few days. Hopefully, it would help me shed some unnecessary calories that followed me back from the holidays. So here are a few meals that I have made to retrain my palate:

My Veggie chicken burger: It’s pretty easy to make. Stir fry your bell peppers, basil leaves, eggs and chicken with your favorite ingredients (I used a teaspoon each of curry, thyme, black pepper, celery seed and paprika). I substituted the usual bun for a cabbage leaf. This delicious meal is low in carbs but is filling regardless.

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In the mornings, I prepare a veggie smoothie that consists of spinach, mint, lemon and raspberry. I was surprised it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be given that I’m usually skeptical of green smoothies.

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Okro soup: is an easy African soup to make and one can pretty much be creative when preparing it. Usually, it is eaten with a form of swallow (a type of dough made from staple foods like cassava or yam) but I just ate it by itself.

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Grilled tilapia fish: is a great dinner idea when you want to treat yourself to some good food while still keeping it healthy.

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In this past few days, my food choices have only reaffirmed that healthy meals do not have to taste yucky. I’m definitely going to try other healthy recipes.