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Trying Something New – Oil Pulling #PataksMom

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One of the cool things about being a Patak’s ambassador is that they ask us to do some really fun stuff. They’ve asked us to try new restaurants, and to check out films and this month they asked us to try out something Indian we’ve never done before. I decided to try oil-pulling. What can I say? I’m a lemming going off the cliff with this month’s latest craze. I also decided to give meditation a go.

In case you haven’t heard, oil-pulling is the practice of swishing oil around in your mouth for 20 minutes before spitting it out. It’s an ancient Ayurvedic practice that claims to improve oral and body health. Before I started I investigated what type of oil to use and I couldn’t get past the suggestions of sesame or olive oil and decided to give organic, cold-pressed coconut oil a go. So what did I think? It certainly takes some getting used to but coconut oil dissolves very quickly in your mouth and takes on a watery consistency as opposed to a thicker oil. Do not, I repeat do not try this with coconut butter. Not the same. Trust me. *gag*

After three weeks of doing this almost every morning, I have to say I’m a complete convert to the oral health claims. My teeth are significantly whiter since I started oil-pulling and I like that I don’t have to use harmful peroxides to do that. My mouth just feels better too. Cleaner, I suppose. I remain skeptical about purported health claims on everything from allergies to migraines but frankly if I’m doing it for my teeth and other benefits happen to fall in to place behind it then so be it. If you’re on the fence about it, I think the bottom line on this is it can do you no harm. Many of the products we try for our teeth these days can’t say that.

So what of the meditation? This task was a complete and total bust my friends. There is simply no way I can quiet my mind. I tried, I really did, but every time I’d try to shut my mind down and just be my brain would be racing off to bills, and blog posts and dinner ideas and my grocery list. Maybe I need to go to India to really master it?

While I was off trying new things to make my life better, Patak’s was making it easier by taking dinner off my hands. My current love is their Butter Chicken Curry Paste. In under 30 minutes I can have a gourmet Indian meal on the table. I can’t emphasize how easy this makes my life, especially on nights that the girls need to be out the door to cheerleading before 4pm! Since the beginning of starting this ambassadorship with Patak’s their sauces and pastes have saved us from bad drive-thru food at least once a week. Have I mentioned how much I love being a #PataksMom? 🙂

Doesn't this look 1000 times better than food from a drive-thru?
Doesn’t this look 1000 times better than food from a drive-thru?

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Filed Under: Food & Drink, Sponsored Posts, Uncategorized Tagged With: Butter Chicken, health, India, oil pulling, oral health, Patak's

About Candace Sampson

Candace is founder and editor-in-chief of Life in Pleasantville which isn't half as fancy as it sounds. You can find her sharing travel stories on What She Said Radio and on CTV Ottawa Morning Live.

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  1. @LaCuisineHelene

    March 26, 2014 at 8:41 pm

    I have never did oil pulling before but I love to meditate. This month I will talk about belly dancing.

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  2. peady

    March 26, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    Did the oil-pulling not make you a wee bit gaggy? The coconut oil sounds more appealing than olive, mind you, but *shudders* I dunno.

    Meditation would be so good. I need a silent room like Claire Huxtable!! 😀

    Yummy recipe!

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    • Candace Derickx

      March 26, 2014 at 9:03 pm

      Seriously, the coconut butter totally made me gag because I thought it was basically the same thing. The oil dissolves almost instantly and like I said, once is dissolves it’s like water.

      yes, a silent room. I’m going to put Mr. Bill on that.

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      • peady

        March 26, 2014 at 9:10 pm

        Cool!

        Wouldn’t that be dreamy? I laughed at Mr. Bill because it made me think “Oh no! Mr. Bill!”

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  3. Tara

    March 31, 2014 at 1:31 am

    I’m very intrigued by oil-pulling, but I don’t know if I could last the twenty minutes! The whiter teeth is intriguing though… I wonder if I’ll get the guts to give it a go.

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