Adding spice to your life

  Yes, that is a double entendre, at least. Can I make it a triple? Let's find out!
  One: In keeping with the talk of aroma, there must be a consideration of spice and other tasty bits.
  Do you know why these lemon cookies are still here? I love the smell of lemon! I love the smell of fresh lemons, uncut; lemon juice that is fresh and the grated fresh peels of lemons; I love the smell of lemon juice from concentrate; and I love the smell of lemon mixed with sugar.
 Do you know what else? I love the taste! How convenient for me, then, that lemons are good for me and relatively inexpensive. Guess what? There is a lot of that going around, in the produce aisle!
  I like to cook roasts with potatoes of varying sorts, onions and apples. Now, I used to core the apples, mix sugar and raisins and stuff the little apple holes then put some butter on them and cook them that way and they were good. Then, one day, in a fit of laziness, and after many years of having failed to bake apples so that I no longer really remembered what I was doing, I just stuck the apple in the pan with no preparation at all. The result was delicious. It was a Red Delicious apple, so, perhaps that was to be expected. In the intervening years, however, I have tried that with several different kinds of apples and I found most of them are quite delicious, baked in their own skins and there is no need of butter or sugar. They also smell really good.
 No, don't worry. I am not about to make demands that you eat apples or lemons. These are things I like to eat and like the smell of, so it benefits me, especially, to eat them.
  You need to find the things that give you more enjoyment than others and which are healthy for you. If you love avocados and you are not allergic to them, for instance, there is no reason not to eat them. Yes, that is true even if they are fairly expensive where you are or if you have high cholesterol.
  Think about it this way. Are you going to eat the avocado, now - after sniffing it for good measure - or, eat the five secret fast food hamburgers later on, which you are snarfing down in secret and shame, trying to alleviate that feeling of want? Which will cost you less in health, self esteem and pocket change?
  Eat what you love, that is good for you. Consider, when I say that, that if you are allergic to it, if it will affect your medication adversely, if you really cannot afford it so it's going to stress you out, or if it is overly processed, it is not good for you.
*ahem* That doesn't mean never eat anything processed. We'll get into that later. This is about flavor. I know I said spices, but, bear with me. It will all make sense and help you to feel better before, during and after a meal, if you keep on reading and considering how it relates to you, I'm pretty sure.
P.S: It's now been about two hours, and, yes, they all five are still here.