Changing your palate

As we changed our menus and recipes (we hate to call it "diet" because we're not dieting – it's just the food we eat) to healthier versions, based on whole foods instead of processed foods, we noticed that food tasted kind of bland at first.

It's not the food that's bland, though.

It's our palate – the way we taste – that had adapted to the overly-salted, overly-sweetened processed foods. If whole foods taste "flat" or bland or odd to you, maybe your taste buds have just been numbed beyond...