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