Ayurveda in the Airport - Australia here I come!

In a couple days, I'll be in Sydney - but for now, I'm starting my journey in the Philadelphia airport and I'm starving...

So many food choices. So few of them feel like they’re going to help stoke my agni.

Agni is fire... meaning digestive fire. And when we fly, it tends to inevitably go down. Some even say we should fast while flying. But I love food too much.

My choices seem to be lots of cold stuff, lots of things that look like they’ve been in plastic wrap for a long time, and lots of sweet breads. Oh how I love sweet breads:) - and if I were feeling 100% I would definitely have some. But I feel just a tad under the weather, and want to take care. The sweet breads will come later, I tell myself.

So here’s what I found, that sparked my interest as being tasty as well as helping to stoke my digestive fire, making it easy for me to digest -

Creole soup from Au Bon Pain. I’m lucky that I’m not picky about if there’s a little chicken in soup - because otherwise, I’d be in dairy-free vegetarian trouble; meaning the other soups that don’t have meat... all have milk in them. And well, as much as I prefer not to eat meat, I find that I digest it much much better than milk or cheese.

I enjoyed every bite of this delicious, slightly spicy, warm soup. It had okra, carrots, rice, lots of whole spices, capers, and peas. It feels really nice in my belly and nourishing to my tissues. I find that the warmth of what I’m eating is essential to help ground vata, which is the dosha that goes up when we travel, and needs to be calmed in order me to not feel totally depleted by the completion of my travels.

Cold drinks, ice cream, even those sweet breads or desserts create a cooling effect in the digestive system. And on these kinds of days, when my hands and feet were already feeling cold, and I know that I’m asking a lot of my body to be flying for 5 + 14.5 hours - I don’t want to go there.

Yay! I like writing while I’m traveling... This is going to be fun!.... all you millions;) of readers out there - comment! and let me know what you’re curious about.

Love,
Sally