Wonders will never cease. This is probably the first time I’ve got round to using an avocado before it was slightly on the turn. Normally I forget them and remember just in time. Or cut the brown bits out. This one, however, was not ripe, and I could tell as I cut it. Eventually, having chopped it small, I did render it edible, but we put the second one out in the fruit bowl to ripen.
I always feel slightly guilty when eating avocadoes. I know I need variety in my diet and I know they have many useful vitamins. But I also know that, like many things, they have a carbon footprint and a problematic production history. However, they are good for me and they taste nice.
This morning I had a blood test, went to the jeweller (watch battery and new strap), called at a charity shop for Julia to buy jigsaws for her MENCAP group and came home for the avocado.
That’s it. Not a very adventurous day, but more adventurous than I have been for ages. I was tempted by fast food while we were out but my resolve held firm and we are fitter and healthier as a result and will, eventually, be thinner. As I told myself, it is only one small fall from grace to eat a burger, but each small fall adds up to me putting weight on again.
Each small success adds up.
It’s just like blogging. Each unlikely event, no matter how small, becomes something to write about. Even an avocado that isn’t ripe.
There is no photo, I ate the evidence and the remaining one, until I cut it, is just an avocado. Not ripe, not unripe . . .
Or is it?
The picture is from earlier times.
KFC Mapperley Nottingham – my enemy
Glad to hear you are resisting temptation and are working on better health. That is good news!
I’m making it a priority. As I lay gasping like a dying fish over Xmas I found it an easy decision to make.
KFC is my husband’s favorite fast food
Probably mine too. 🙂
I also would like avocados more if they were not so dubious and even harmful to many animals, so I can’t cheerfully put the remains out in the yard for them or for compost the way I can with many things. They often spoil in the shell, so to speak, and that is disappointing too. Oh well. We all try out best!
Yes, life isn’t meant to be easy, I suppose. 🙂
It is more fun when it is. I don’t quite understand the ‘must be hard’ part–
It’s the same bit that they mean in the “experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want” school of thought. 🙂
You gain great credit for passing up a fast food opportunity. I haven’t been at all successful at managing to eat less lately.
It’s a bad time of year to eat less. We had vegetable stew tonight, which was healthy. Not sure the dumplings were quite as healthy, but they were delicious. 🙂
I had my first KFC quite recently. I found it surprisingly tasty
They are tasty, though nutritionally suspect. I do enjoy them but like all fast food, have to regard it as undesirable despite the beguiling nature of the flavours.
True
Life can be very complicated.
Fast food is always so tempting. Good for you for resisting. Maybe allow yourself the treat once a week?
Even once a week is just the thin end of the wedge. I find that if I give it a few weeks I don’t really miss them. Better to eat somewhere with a slightly better menu nd enjoy it a bit more. Of course, when I retire there will be tea rooms and chip shops to explore . . .
Yes! My mouth is watering just thinking about those tea rooms and chip shops.
I will buff up my camera and my food review skills. 🙂