Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's tip is to find a food that says vacation
Speaker 2: to you and then make sure to savor and enjoy
Speaker 2: it as a way to deepen your vacation experience. Longtime
Speaker 2: listeners know that every summer, my family goes to the
Speaker 2: same beach for a week or two, and pretty much
Speaker 2: every day while we are at the beach, we go
Speaker 2: to the same ice cream parlor at night. When we
Speaker 2: first started going ice space trips out. But about three
Speaker 2: years ago I decided, what the heck? People want ice
Speaker 2: cream every night and we are on vacation. And now
Speaker 2: this delicious ice cream helps say vacation to me. Well
Speaker 2: the non dairy flavors they have for me and regular
Speaker 2: for everyone else. It deepens my sense of pleasure and
Speaker 2: distance from the routines of ordinary life. Maybe you have
Speaker 2: a similar food. It might be lobster rolls when you're
Speaker 2: in Maine, or raw oysters at a particular beachfront restaurant
Speaker 2: in Florida. Or maybe your vacation food is something you
Speaker 2: could have any time and anywhere, but don't except on vacation.
Speaker 2: Cookbook author Jenny Rosenstrauch writes about her family's tradition of
Speaker 2: getting pop tarts anytime they grocery shop while on vacation
Speaker 2: and no other time. It is just not a food
Speaker 2: the family buys regularly at the grocery store. Subsequently, she
Speaker 2: writes that buying pop tarts on vacation reminds us that
Speaker 2: the point of vacation is inserting happiness wherever you can
Speaker 2: and getting as far away from your daily routine as possible.
Speaker 2: I love the idea of finding places to insert happiness
Speaker 2: on vacation, and food is a great one. Whether it
Speaker 2: is place specific foods like my ice cream or a
Speaker 2: lobster roll in Maine, or just foods like pop tarts
Speaker 2: that you might choose not to eat at other times.
Speaker 2: I bet you already indulge in vacation foods. Doing so
Speaker 2: mindfully can amplify the happiness. Any time you are going
Speaker 2: to the beach, are pretzel rods your go to snack?
Speaker 2: You may think that is just a practical choice, since
Speaker 2: they stand up to humidity and even a little splashed
Speaker 2: water better than chips. But if that is what you
Speaker 2: always bring, then over time pretzel rods may start to
Speaker 2: say beach to you, so notice that. Reflect on it
Speaker 2: at the grocery store. I am buying pretzel rods because
Speaker 2: we are vacationing at the beach. Narrate it to yourself
Speaker 2: as you are packing your beach bag. We are at
Speaker 2: the beach, so I've got to have my pretzel rods.
Speaker 2: Reflect on it as you are sitting under an umbrella
Speaker 2: and snacking. Hm, I am loving my beach snack. The
Speaker 2: same goes for place specific vacation foods. Here I am
Speaker 2: on vacation in Florida enjoying oysters. You can document that
Speaker 2: first lobster roll in Maine and text it to friends
Speaker 2: to let them know that vacation has begun. When you
Speaker 2: pay attention to your vacation foods, you insert more happiness
Speaker 2: and have one more reminder that you are on vacation.
Speaker 2: You use more of your senses to celebrate, and that
Speaker 2: can deepen the experience and make it even more memorable.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 2: here's to making the most of our time.
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