Avocado Toast is a Band-Aid 🍞🥑

I have always though the craze over avocado toast to be kind of silly. While some of it isn’t real – a meme over thoughtless purchases by some Australian billionaire – avocado toast never struck me as particularly healthy or delicious. It’s not to say I don’t sometimes bake my own bread or buy avocados to eat on their own – they are a very filling snack – but avocado toast seems like your just trying to put a band-aid on something rather bad, processed food known as bread.

Now not all breads are bad. But generally my view is that store-bought bread is generally bad because it’s very tasty, convenient, and loaded with carbs. Convenient food by definition is unhealthy, because it is means you can consume a lot of calories and sugar with ease. But if it’s difficult to cook or time-consuming, then you are much less to consume it. Generally, less cooked, rawer, closer to nature to food is healthier.

I am all for eating avocados at least occasionally. They are a very filling snack, one of the few sources of omega-3 fats in vegetables. But maybe not so much on toast, even if it is whole-wheat toast.