We watched a few episodes of Diagnosis Murder this morning and ate a substantial brunch. I’m beginning to get used to this relaxation, though I’m definitely going to have to curb my portion size.
I am going to be on bean salad tomorrow, and can only guess at the horrors that will open up as I start eating “sensibly”. That, in my experience, means eating things you don’t like because they are good for you. It’s good, because you eat less of it if you don’t like it. However, would you rather live to be 70 on a diet of chips, pies and chocolate, or would you prefer to live to 80 on bean salad and virtue?
Seventy is a bit close now, so I’m thinking of interlacing a certain amount of salad with the pie and chips.
Tonight it’s home made beef pie. Tomorrow it’s seafood spaghetti and the day after it’s fishcakes with rice and vegetables. Wednesday is sweet potato and chickpea curry.
I’m starting overnight oats for breakfast again and salads for lunch.
I’ll give it a week. I can mange the healthy evening meal, with the odd takeaway, and the overnight oats. But a week of lunchtime salads will be plenty. Man is not meant to function without cheese and pickle sandwiches and pork pies. But he’s not meant to function in shirts that strain at the front with the curve of a galleon in full sail.
Overnight Oats with Fruit
Try the tins of mixed beans in chilli sauce from Sainsbury’s. Fortunately, I like beans more than pork pie, though I do appreciate your sentiment.
I like those tins of mixed beans. I can manage beans in cooked meals – it’s the healthy lunchtime salads where I have trouble.
Glad you’ve found them 😊
I can be good at times! 🙂
Why are the things we love always so bad for us? Definitely a what-the-heck kind of thing. Quercus, I sympathize.
🙂 Yes, an eternal conundrum.
What the heck! Why can’t lima beans be bad for us and chocolate cake be healthy?
It would definitely make it easier to eat a healthy diet.
You bet!
“However, would you rather live to be 70 on a diet of chips, pies and chocolate, or would you prefer to live to 80 on bean salad and virtue?” Does there have to be a choice? I would be quite happy to live to 80 on chips, pies and chocolate.
It may well be an option for you with all your exercise but I fear I have to make a choice…
That’s tough. Good luck.
Thank you. The foundation of my day will be oats, so we will have something in common. 🙂
We have lunchtime salads – including pork pie quite often. Would that count?
Sounds a bit sophisticated, but I might give it a try. 🙂
🙂
🙂 Never let it be said that I’m afraid of fancy Southern ways… 🙂
The best pork pies are to be found in Newark – but I expect you know that
I will think about that – I’ve had some excellent pies around the country, but never really sought them out in Newark. Next week I will go for a prowl around the butchers of Newark.
We used to mark them out of 10 – taking into account both filling and pastry
Pastry is important on a pork pie. You only need to try one of the so-called “Scotch Pies” to appreciate the importance of pastry.
I forget who said “eat 80% well, 80% of the time”. They knew human nature well. 🙂
Sounds fair. And achievable. 🙂