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Good morning everyone,
I'm munching toast and cottage cheese before heading back to bed for a while. Suspect tonight's dinner might be a bung it on a tray and bung it in the oven affair will have a freezer rake later:) or there is always LO mince but think that will be freezer bound0 -
There seems to be so much confusion on this some say pickles/olives don't count due too the high salt others they are fine. Given that preserving fruit/veg is the mainstay of so many of the lauded "healthy diets" from around the world why would they not count;). Equally some say 5/10 different fruit/veg others as much variety as possible. I get why juice/smoothies and processed stuff like tinned soup/baked beans only count as one regardless of portion size but the rest of it pfft....:mad: Me to be honest I like my fruit & veg, pickles and pulses etc. so not a chore to eat but do I eat 10 under the strictest guidlines nope do I actually care nope but think there is a real risk that the mixed messages are going to put folk off as it just seems like too much hard work.......:cool:
Steps back off of soap box and continues eating her veg laden very tasty savoury mince with pasta........PasturesNew wrote: »
You can keep that box out, I'll use it.
It is confusing - if you took it your own way and muddled through it might be doable some days - but the Internet brings in a whole raft of "smug bugg4hs" who are fitting it all in (they say) ... and will beat down anybody else with the "if I can do it you can" attitude.
I think the hardest bit is taking the list, crossing off what you don't like, then crossing off what's too expensive, then looking at the few items left and wondering how to fit them into a meal plan without radically changing everything that you eat overnight.
I just work on the method of: "Yeah, I read your list ... I'll see if I can find a quick win."
As somebody who has never had a smoothie/doesn't have a machine and really don't fancy drinking lumpy gloop I won't be force feeding myself with something nasty just to hit some target.
Others seem to eat a lot of salad - personally I've never seen the point of it, it's expensive and not filling. If I am paying money for food I want it to fill me up!
I haven't got the energy to climb up on a soap box this morning..but have plenty to say on the matter when I do!
For now I will just say I wholeheartedly agree with both your posts.'I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore'0 -
Pitta bread that needs using up, last two eggs, so breakfast was: one scrambled egg in one pitta bread, squirt of brown sauce.
0/10 .... because I'm a right maverick and I snort in the face of your 100 -
Tasty lunch of a couple of spoons of LO mince on toast, the rest will definitely be getting frozen0
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PasturesNew wrote: »0/10 .... because I'm a right maverick and I snort in the face of your 10
I shall shortly be at 0.5/10 for today; Mr LW is about to core and slice an apple, and we shall share it.If your dog thinks you're the best, don't seek a second opinion.;)0 -
Jacket spud, beans, cheese. 1/10.
I was going to have meatballs/rice, but then I realised I'm out of rice...most peculiar as I thought I had a whole new spare packet! Oh well.... it's on the shopping list... trouble is, I hadn't planned on going out for food in the forseeable future!
I have definitely got WAY too much food in stock .... but never the things I am hoping to see.0 -
Tasty lunch of a couple of spoons of LO mince on toast .........:D
I raise you one grilled bacon sarnie on fresh white bread with brown sauce
Tonight I think will be some of my £2 Morrie pie, steak with suet crust topping, with steamed fresh veg, I think it will be 5/10
Could be 6/10 if you count the raspberry jam in the doughnut that fell into my gob
And the currants in the fly biscuit at Age Concern makes it 8/10 :TEight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens0 -
I raise you one grilled bacon sarnie on fresh white bread with brown sauce
Tonight I think will be some of my £2 Morrie pie, steak with suet crust topping, with steamed fresh veg, I think it will be 5/10
Could be 6/10 if you count the raspberry jam in the doughnut that fell into my gob
And the currants in the fly biscuit at Age Concern makes it 8/10 :T
Ah, it's reached the stage where everybody's making up the numbers
Veg in a pie won't be much .... but that jam in a doughnut's definitely got to be worth something!
The biscuit ... you get extra points for getting through those; while a nice idea they ARE a bit chewy!0 -
Cream cracker with butter...0/10'I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore'0 -
Seems as though we are doing the reverse of the ten a day today LOL - I'm on 1/10 so far...... :rotfl:0
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