shopping list for wellness nights (6 tastes)

Shopping list for the 6 tastes
(email this to the hostess before the party and this can be your party food instead of brownies and sugary punch or soda…
the choices I usually recommend are underlined in each category)
· Sweet
o Bananas, avocado, coconut, dates, raisins
o Wheat, rice, barley (whole grains)
o Butter, Cream, Ghee
o Cooked carrots, potatoes, acorn squash, artichoke, cucumber, cooked beets
· Sour
o Oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, pineapple, kiwi, strawberries
o Cheese, yogurt, sour cream
o Wine, vinegar, soy sauce, sauerkraut
· Salty
o Chips, Sea Salt, Rock salt
o Seaweed, kelp
o Salted Nuts
o Pickles
· Bitter
o Spinach, kale, green cabbage
o Zucchini, eggplant
o Turmeric, fenugreek, dandelion root
o Coffee
o Olives, bitter melons
· Pungent
o Salsa, chili peppers, garlic, onions, beets, raw carrots, eggplant, horseradish, sun dried tomato, tomatoes
o Ginger, black pepper, cumin,
· Astringent
o Popcorn
o Cranberries, pomegranates, pears, prunes, apples, cherries, mangos, dried fruits
o Beans, legumes, lentils, nuts- almonds
o Broccoli, cauliflower, artichoke, asparagus, turnips
o Grains (rye, buckwheat and quinoa)
o Turmeric, Marjoram
o Coffee, black and green tea

Have your hostess print off this page and cut the words apart- or you print it out before hand and laminate to lay next to food or tape to toothpicks to stick in it!

Sweet

Sour

Salty

Bitter

Astringent

Pungent


Pitta
Sweet Bitter Astringent


Vata
Sweet Sour Salty


Kapha
Bitter Pungent Astringent