The featured image is a picture of my lunch – quinoa, chia, pumpkin seeds, beans, chickpeas, sweetcorn, dill and spring onions, plus a mango and chilli dressing. Since I actually read the instructions on the quinoa and found out that you can use it straight from the packet lunches have become very simple – tear open a few packets, open a few cans, chop a smidgen of veg, mix. It’s very easy.
Lunch left me full and feeling virtuous. What it didn’t do was leave me feeling like I’d had a good meal.
I suppose that persistence will eventually pay off.
Before that I’d been to hospital for the regular blood-letting. It had been a bit thick last week and they decided another test was needed. If they had to rush about before work, deal with car parking then queue for a slot before being stabbed in the arm multiple times they might not be so keen on all these tests. As the needle slid in through the bruise left by last week’s test, all these things come to mind.
Then, to add insult to injury, the bleeding wouldn’t stop.
They put the signs up on the new shop today – my first day of proper work in the new shop. It’s looking good, though if you look hard enough you can see that fat bloke with the camera who gets in so many of my shots.
Collectors World, Wollaton Road, Nottingham
The final highlight of the day was sorting a thousand crowns for an export order, including brandishing an eraser in the vicinity of a few of them to make minor improvements. It’s a funny old world…
Charles and Diana Crowns – a marital mistake enshrined in numismatic form. It’s like me having a coin struck to commemorate my diet.
The lunch looks appetising. I commiserate with you regarding the “fat bloke” hanging around in reflections in your photos. I have a similar problem.
A few more healthy lunches and he might disappear. You never know….
You’re welcome 🙂
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Love that last comment. Good luck with your diet x
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Quinoa-the meal of champions..good for you, did it for a while, and now I leave it to the girls to make for their meals. Thank you very much. =)
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I certainly think that there should be Quercus diet coin struck immediately.
d base it on the £2 coin, but leave the middle empty…
That last picture, lit up as it is, with that pithy wording, is blogging perfection. Bravo, sir. And bravo to your healthier habits. : )
🙂 Thank you. I fear I may be unable to keep up this standard of work.
That made me laugh.
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That description of the coin is priceless. 😉 The sign looks great.
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This dish should be considered the super-food salad!! Best of luck.
Thanks. I’m feeling very virtuous, and more than a little smug. Not feeling thinner yet, but it will come. 🙂
My Doc says my metabolism is very slow. I do what he says to wake it up and get it moving, but I don’t think it’s paying attention!!
I find a few minutes of shaking my hands and feet vigorously helps get me going. Julia thinks I’m mad. She may be right… 🙂
Hey – whatever works!! am I right?!!
You are definitely right. 🙂
“marital mistake enshrined in numismatic form” – I’d have been proud of that. Well done with the diet – I feel for you
Thank you.
Always good to turn out a phrase that meets the approval of the master. 🙂
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I agree with Derrick. That is one heck of a phrase!!
Thank you. 🙂
I am sorry you have to go through all the blood tests, Quercus. Seems like there should be a light at the end of the tunnel.
A good chickpea dish that can be made quickly involves 2 cans of chickpeas, a thinly sliced large sweet potato, sliced onion and chopped kale, all stir fried together. A touch of salt, pepper and tumeric rounds it out.
I think that’s the healthiest recipe I’ve ever seen! 🙂
Unfortunately there is no light at the end of the tunnel – just blood, blood and more blood. I can take other tablets that won’t require tests but there are other drawbacks to them. I just have to look on it as payback after a lifetime of careless living. 🙂