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After an extended period of utter skintness last year (and most of this), we imported a lodger at Christmas and, whilst things are still very tight as OH hasn't had any work for a while, we've cleared £2000 of debt and we're up to date with the bills - the bank accounts have even been in credit the week before I get paid.
However, it has come at a cost - we've been relying on whatever is yellow stickered in the shops within walking distance and, as I've been working silly hours to try and keep my job and doing lots of extra things that will hopefully lead to better opportunities in the medium-long term, OH has pretty much taken over all shopping and cooking. He tends to go for something beige in a box and I've been taking advantage of any free food at work, which generally means coming home every so often with beige snack foods.
So we're both a bit wider than we would like and quite pasty faced. I've been diagnosed with a severe vitamin D deficiency, my gums bleed quite a bit, I'm anaemic and, basically, the doctor told me I was developing malnutrition, which needs to be sorted out. OH eats worse than I do, as I will actively seek out veggies, whilst he doesn't really think much beyond carbs. I'm also intolerant of cows' milk - he's fine with it and will often live on milkshakes - but osteoporosis doesn't appeal to me in the slightest, not when I'm already a high risk group due to years of steroid treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis. I've got no energy after work and can easily go to sleep at 5pm until 9pm. He can sleep for England, but in fits and starts.
Anyway, when the lodger paid up this week, I used the money for a big shop online. We've got things like tinned toms, every herb and spice in the world, dried peas, beans, pulses and grains and about ten different types of pasta, thanks to an emergency gift of lots of food from a colleague when we had completely run out of money by the first day after payday.
Neither of us has a problem with vegetarian food - I'm quite keen on vegan meals, as it means I'm not wondering whether there's any dairy hiding in it. He isn't too fussed whether it has meat and/or dairy in it or not - but he won't deliberately get something animal free.
This is what I ordered (anything that sounds pricey was on a genuinely special offer);
1 Duck breast crown. Going to cut it into smaller portions and freeze some. Some will be for a roast dinner + mashed potatoes & veg, some pan fried, tangy dressing made & chucked on salad. Possibly including some beetroot or oranges.
2 Cod fillets. Either straight into the freezer or eaten within 24 hours. Most likely pan fried and with a hot spicy salsa-ish salad.
2 Trout Fillets. They are mine (he doesn't like anything other than white fish or shellfish). They'll be pan fried and scarfed down either with assorted leaves or doused in soy/sake/mirin, steamed and then dumped on top of a bowl of miso soup & udon noodles. Pink fish = happy Jojo.
1 pack Sheep/Goat Halloumi. Gets dusted in flour and fried, served with random salad and/or homemade tabbouleh (bulgar wheat, parsley, cucumber, tomato, olive oil, lemon juice). Halloumi makes DB happy and, as it's cow milk free, I'm OK with it in small amounts. Two meals, I think.
2 packs of cheese & bacon kievs. Yeah, well, he loves them and he has to get something he actually enjoys. They'll do him for four meals.
Some thin feather steaks. Season, chuck in pan, salad & chips, possibly homemade pepper sauce and maybe a beef rendang & rice. Again, he likes it. Should be able to get 4-5 separate meals out of the things.
So that's the animal related stuff.
Then we have the expected contents of the veggie box.
- Beetroot. Some cooked & dressed with rice wine vinegar to go with the duck. Most to get turned into beetroot soup.
- Broccoli. Love it just as it is. But I can make soup with it if necessary.
- Carrots. Not his favourite, but I can go through tons of the things raw and cooked.
- Celery. Either in a salad or another soup.
- Pointed Cabbage. Could make coleslaw with onions & carrot - it's much nicer than shop bought stuff.
- Potatoes. Mash. Mash. Mash. Or jackets with coleslaw. Or maybe some mash.
- Red Onions. There's no time when we're at a loss with onions - soup, salad, roasted, as an ingredient with tinned tomatoes...
- Romano Peppers. Salad veg, maybe try stuffing them with rice. Chuck some in with onion and tinned tomatoes.
- Vine Tomatoes. They won't last long, whether roasted or raw.
- Watercress. Essential leaves for the random salads.
- Apples. Oops. It's a veg, salad and fruit box. Didn't pay enough attention. I guess they can be chopped up into fruit salad. The edible flowers in the garden should be coming through over the next few weeks, so we get something insanely pretty out of it.
- Fairtrade Bananas. Smoothies. Fruit salad.
- Pineapple. Probably going to chop it into slices and then open freeze it, then chuck into smoothies, veggie curries and the like. Plus fruit salad.
Tinned chickpeas. Curry. Job done.
A whole kilo (2.2lb) tub of crunchy organic peanut butter. I've made a spicy chicken soup with it before, it goes on toast, on celery, out of the jar with a spoon into my mouth. If it lasts a month, I'll be pleasantly surprised.
A bag of quick cook barley & dried pea soup mix (plus boullion powder to make stock, as it's more economical than little cubes of MSG, especially when soup is likely to be on the go - and most cubes contain whey powder)
Miso soup packets with tofu. I think I'll use them either at work or to make udon soup with the trout (or we could get some chicken later in the month).
I got some chia seeds to add to smoothies/shakes made with unsweetened soya milk & bananas or chocolate oat milk. Not a bad deal - a whole kilo for the usual cost of about 300g. Got them for the protein, the calcium and the fact a spoonful will absorb water and hopefully keep me feeling fuller for longer. I quite like smoothies for breakfast, as I really can't face anything more substantial first thing - I usually have about three cups of coffee instead.
There's also a bag of quick cook barley/pulses soup mix & a big tub of proper houmous (which will probably disappear in a couple of days).
Other than that, I got some pumpernickel bread because I like it and some protein balls with spirulina - again, because I like them, want a couple of treats and can take them to work. I've also got myself some soya yoghurts because I always loved yoghurt and hate not being able to get a massive tub of normal stuff for pennies and mix it with fruit, a few nuts and a tiny drizzle of honey. Nowhere round here does pure sheep's milk yoghurt and he'd only eat it during the day whilst I'm at work, anyway. But he's not likely to eat those because anything specifically vegan registers with him as being mine first.
Obviously, a huge box of Yorkshire Teabags on special & half price decent coffee went into the virtual shopping basket. I really like iced coffee when the weather picks up a bit. Also got another pack of herbal teabags - rhubarb this time - as I can't drink tea and coffee all evening or I'd be bouncing off the walls and I really dislike squashes.
We can get some more short life veggies during the month, eggs and he's quite capable of getting himself some normal milk and any other dairy stuff he wants.
I'm hoping that, together with the stuff in the cupboard, which includes 4 tins of tuna (which I'll have on jacket potatoes or in pasta salads - I'm really counting on the weather improving), whilst I'm planning for a month, we will be eating really well for nearer two. It may be purely psychological, but I feel better within minutes of eating something full of veggies and a reasonable amount of protein - the high carb stuff, especially when it's processed, just makes me feel lousy. It's also (most likely unreasonably so) important to me that food looks appealing; I do have issues around food and was extremely underweight as a teenager, followed by getting extremely overweight when a skint single mum eating anything and everything if it was free.
At the same time, I don't expect to chain him to the stove. If it takes more than about 10 minutes' attention at any one time, I think it's a waste - I won't stand up for any longer than it takes to chop up some veggies (eating lots of raw ones as I go) and chuck them in a pan of boiling water. A proper roast dinner is way too much effort for most Sundays (the day I'm most likely to tell him I'm cooking). This could be due to low vitamin/mineral/energy levels or just my fundamental laziness. He's very fond of our new stick blender (cost a tenner and is brilliant) and I'm hoping to upgrade the £7 liquidiser at some point before it goes boom.
Oh, and we don't have enough freezer space to bulk cook and freeze - it's one of those tabletop sized ones, or it would be filled with bags of frozen fruit and veg already. It'll just about fit the duck portions, fish and steak if I take them out of their packaging and separate into freezer bag portions. The fridge is quite large, though - which is just as well, considering the amount of veg that is going to be delivered.
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Anyhow, sorry for the epic length of that - I'm looking for ideas for quick and healthy/nutritious stuff to try and keep us going, get us a bit healthier, a bit lighter and to help undo the damage the lack of good food has caused over the last 18 months or so.
Thanks!
However, it has come at a cost - we've been relying on whatever is yellow stickered in the shops within walking distance and, as I've been working silly hours to try and keep my job and doing lots of extra things that will hopefully lead to better opportunities in the medium-long term, OH has pretty much taken over all shopping and cooking. He tends to go for something beige in a box and I've been taking advantage of any free food at work, which generally means coming home every so often with beige snack foods.
So we're both a bit wider than we would like and quite pasty faced. I've been diagnosed with a severe vitamin D deficiency, my gums bleed quite a bit, I'm anaemic and, basically, the doctor told me I was developing malnutrition, which needs to be sorted out. OH eats worse than I do, as I will actively seek out veggies, whilst he doesn't really think much beyond carbs. I'm also intolerant of cows' milk - he's fine with it and will often live on milkshakes - but osteoporosis doesn't appeal to me in the slightest, not when I'm already a high risk group due to years of steroid treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis. I've got no energy after work and can easily go to sleep at 5pm until 9pm. He can sleep for England, but in fits and starts.
Anyway, when the lodger paid up this week, I used the money for a big shop online. We've got things like tinned toms, every herb and spice in the world, dried peas, beans, pulses and grains and about ten different types of pasta, thanks to an emergency gift of lots of food from a colleague when we had completely run out of money by the first day after payday.
Neither of us has a problem with vegetarian food - I'm quite keen on vegan meals, as it means I'm not wondering whether there's any dairy hiding in it. He isn't too fussed whether it has meat and/or dairy in it or not - but he won't deliberately get something animal free.
This is what I ordered (anything that sounds pricey was on a genuinely special offer);
1 Duck breast crown. Going to cut it into smaller portions and freeze some. Some will be for a roast dinner + mashed potatoes & veg, some pan fried, tangy dressing made & chucked on salad. Possibly including some beetroot or oranges.
2 Cod fillets. Either straight into the freezer or eaten within 24 hours. Most likely pan fried and with a hot spicy salsa-ish salad.
2 Trout Fillets. They are mine (he doesn't like anything other than white fish or shellfish). They'll be pan fried and scarfed down either with assorted leaves or doused in soy/sake/mirin, steamed and then dumped on top of a bowl of miso soup & udon noodles. Pink fish = happy Jojo.
1 pack Sheep/Goat Halloumi. Gets dusted in flour and fried, served with random salad and/or homemade tabbouleh (bulgar wheat, parsley, cucumber, tomato, olive oil, lemon juice). Halloumi makes DB happy and, as it's cow milk free, I'm OK with it in small amounts. Two meals, I think.
2 packs of cheese & bacon kievs. Yeah, well, he loves them and he has to get something he actually enjoys. They'll do him for four meals.
Some thin feather steaks. Season, chuck in pan, salad & chips, possibly homemade pepper sauce and maybe a beef rendang & rice. Again, he likes it. Should be able to get 4-5 separate meals out of the things.
So that's the animal related stuff.
Then we have the expected contents of the veggie box.
- Beetroot. Some cooked & dressed with rice wine vinegar to go with the duck. Most to get turned into beetroot soup.
- Broccoli. Love it just as it is. But I can make soup with it if necessary.
- Carrots. Not his favourite, but I can go through tons of the things raw and cooked.
- Celery. Either in a salad or another soup.
- Pointed Cabbage. Could make coleslaw with onions & carrot - it's much nicer than shop bought stuff.
- Potatoes. Mash. Mash. Mash. Or jackets with coleslaw. Or maybe some mash.
- Red Onions. There's no time when we're at a loss with onions - soup, salad, roasted, as an ingredient with tinned tomatoes...
- Romano Peppers. Salad veg, maybe try stuffing them with rice. Chuck some in with onion and tinned tomatoes.
- Vine Tomatoes. They won't last long, whether roasted or raw.
- Watercress. Essential leaves for the random salads.
- Apples. Oops. It's a veg, salad and fruit box. Didn't pay enough attention. I guess they can be chopped up into fruit salad. The edible flowers in the garden should be coming through over the next few weeks, so we get something insanely pretty out of it.
- Fairtrade Bananas. Smoothies. Fruit salad.
- Pineapple. Probably going to chop it into slices and then open freeze it, then chuck into smoothies, veggie curries and the like. Plus fruit salad.
Tinned chickpeas. Curry. Job done.
A whole kilo (2.2lb) tub of crunchy organic peanut butter. I've made a spicy chicken soup with it before, it goes on toast, on celery, out of the jar with a spoon into my mouth. If it lasts a month, I'll be pleasantly surprised.
A bag of quick cook barley & dried pea soup mix (plus boullion powder to make stock, as it's more economical than little cubes of MSG, especially when soup is likely to be on the go - and most cubes contain whey powder)
Miso soup packets with tofu. I think I'll use them either at work or to make udon soup with the trout (or we could get some chicken later in the month).
I got some chia seeds to add to smoothies/shakes made with unsweetened soya milk & bananas or chocolate oat milk. Not a bad deal - a whole kilo for the usual cost of about 300g. Got them for the protein, the calcium and the fact a spoonful will absorb water and hopefully keep me feeling fuller for longer. I quite like smoothies for breakfast, as I really can't face anything more substantial first thing - I usually have about three cups of coffee instead.
There's also a bag of quick cook barley/pulses soup mix & a big tub of proper houmous (which will probably disappear in a couple of days).
Other than that, I got some pumpernickel bread because I like it and some protein balls with spirulina - again, because I like them, want a couple of treats and can take them to work. I've also got myself some soya yoghurts because I always loved yoghurt and hate not being able to get a massive tub of normal stuff for pennies and mix it with fruit, a few nuts and a tiny drizzle of honey. Nowhere round here does pure sheep's milk yoghurt and he'd only eat it during the day whilst I'm at work, anyway. But he's not likely to eat those because anything specifically vegan registers with him as being mine first.
Obviously, a huge box of Yorkshire Teabags on special & half price decent coffee went into the virtual shopping basket. I really like iced coffee when the weather picks up a bit. Also got another pack of herbal teabags - rhubarb this time - as I can't drink tea and coffee all evening or I'd be bouncing off the walls and I really dislike squashes.
We can get some more short life veggies during the month, eggs and he's quite capable of getting himself some normal milk and any other dairy stuff he wants.
I'm hoping that, together with the stuff in the cupboard, which includes 4 tins of tuna (which I'll have on jacket potatoes or in pasta salads - I'm really counting on the weather improving), whilst I'm planning for a month, we will be eating really well for nearer two. It may be purely psychological, but I feel better within minutes of eating something full of veggies and a reasonable amount of protein - the high carb stuff, especially when it's processed, just makes me feel lousy. It's also (most likely unreasonably so) important to me that food looks appealing; I do have issues around food and was extremely underweight as a teenager, followed by getting extremely overweight when a skint single mum eating anything and everything if it was free.
At the same time, I don't expect to chain him to the stove. If it takes more than about 10 minutes' attention at any one time, I think it's a waste - I won't stand up for any longer than it takes to chop up some veggies (eating lots of raw ones as I go) and chuck them in a pan of boiling water. A proper roast dinner is way too much effort for most Sundays (the day I'm most likely to tell him I'm cooking). This could be due to low vitamin/mineral/energy levels or just my fundamental laziness. He's very fond of our new stick blender (cost a tenner and is brilliant) and I'm hoping to upgrade the £7 liquidiser at some point before it goes boom.
Oh, and we don't have enough freezer space to bulk cook and freeze - it's one of those tabletop sized ones, or it would be filled with bags of frozen fruit and veg already. It'll just about fit the duck portions, fish and steak if I take them out of their packaging and separate into freezer bag portions. The fridge is quite large, though - which is just as well, considering the amount of veg that is going to be delivered.
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Anyhow, sorry for the epic length of that - I'm looking for ideas for quick and healthy/nutritious stuff to try and keep us going, get us a bit healthier, a bit lighter and to help undo the damage the lack of good food has caused over the last 18 months or so.
Thanks!
I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.
Yup you are officially Rock n Roll
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Maybe keep things simple and start with soups? They don't have to take long. I do a cheat chorizo bean that takes 5min plus a bit of simmering:
Small amount of chopped chorizo for flavour, dry fry with diced onion (red is nice). Add a bit of extra bbq spice if you have some. Or paprika. Once the onion is soft pop in a tin of beans in chilli sauce, a small carton of passata and some stock - bit of a simmer and away you go! Great as a meal or smaller amount as a starter followed by a salad?Bossymoo
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Sorry to hear things have been tough Jojo.
With all those chickpeas, you can start making your own hummous, as it really helps to keep costs down. I found dried pulses a bit of a chore until I got a thermal bag and discovered I can just boil for 10 minutes and then leave them in the bag overnight and they are ready to use in the morning. They're good storecupboard items.
Dairy-free milk/yogurt - you could try making your own rice milk (cheaper than almond), and then making yogurt from that. You may need to find a vegan supplier of the yogurt starter (or use a goat/sheep milk one).
Stir-fry - particularly when you have lots of fresh veg. I find it works fantastically well as a pick-me-up. And you can marinate a very small amount of meat to use if you don't want it vegan. No need to add carbs if you're already getting enough elsewhere. And it's fine cold for lunch
Even though your freezer is small, strips of marinated steak/chicken take up very little room.
Smoothies - I know the freezer space is an issue, but I freeze any bananas/berries and odds and ends of fruit that might go over to chuck into a smoothie (either yogurt or juice based). Peel the bananas first. This stuff doesn't take up much room but does allow you a quick boost in the morning or any time you are too tired to think about food.
Get OH to start looking out for YS fruit and veg or meat rather than beige stuff now you have your carbs, pulses and spices so that you can focus on the quality of your nutrition.
And maybe buy some vitamins next time round, just in case you hit another sticky patch. Dried fruit and nuts might also be a good standby.
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seconding the thermal bag for pulses, makes everything much easier2021 GC £1365.71/ £24000
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TLDR ... and I suspect that's why you've had so few replies
Robbed from online:
"Sunshine, not food, is where most of your vitamin D comes from. So even a healthy, well balanced diet, that provides all the other vitamins and goodness you need, is unlikely to provide enough vitamin D."
Sounds like you need a few beers in the sunshine.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »TLDR ... and I suspect that's why you've had so few replies
Robbed from online:
"Sunshine, not food, is where most of your vitamin D comes from. So even a healthy, well balanced diet, that provides all the other vitamins and goodness you need, is unlikely to provide enough vitamin D."
Sounds like you need a few beers in the sunshine.
Ha ha! Sitting in a pub garden drinking beer sounds lovely, but it's not a priority spend. But it's so low, I have to take 10,000 iU weekly, compared to the usual recommended maximum of 1,000. Osteomalacia isn't very nice. Spending about half an hour outside every day between 11 and 3 for the last two and a half years hasn't helped, either.
I'm trying to get OH to cook stuff that's quick and healthier whilst being relatively economical. He needs ideas that require limited explanation, not because he's a bit daft, but because I CBA to explain them to him.
The soup idea has been really successful, though - seeing as it largely consists of 'boil or nuke veg, blitz in hot stock, add herbs', which is why I think he's up for changing his cooking to be nearer my preferences. Well, that and one of the reasons he say he kept coming back when we first started dating was 'You're a great cook. And you kept feeding me' :cool: So there is potential there, but we need ideas, because he isn't confident with my method of making stuff up on the spur of the moment cooking.
I think I will get some multivitamins as well. And recycle the takeaway leaflets the moment they come in through the letterbox.I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.Yup you are officially Rock n Roll
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Jojo - your shop sounds brilliant - but would probably keep me going for about two months!
I can see loads of different quick meals and the first thing that came to mind was 'Jamie Olivers 15 minute meals'!
recipes can be found on google.
I am with you in that I cant tolerate too much processed food - while OH can happily eat it til the cows come home. (That could be why his cholesterol level was higher than mine?)
I dislike ready meals and prefer to cook 'Fresh' veg rather than a 'ready mix' of frozen (although I do have a stash of cauli, broccoli, green beans etc in freezer).
I love stir fries and have soy sauce and roasted sesame seed oil in storecupboard - essential for adding the authentic 'chinese' taste. I keep my root ginger in the freezer and just grate a tablespoon or so into stir fries. I can have a stir fry every day without it getting boring - it takes a few minutes and as long as you add the holy trinity (garlic, ginger and soy sauce) any combination of meat and veg will turn into a meal. vary the side dishes of rice, fried rice, noodles or chips and in ten minutes you have a darn good healthy meal!
Can you tell I can live off Chinese food? must have been a peasant there in a former life as I like the simpler recipes rather than the 'richer' ones!
I love to use my slow cooker too - really cheap cuts of meat can be cooked all day (or overnight) and become fab tasty bases for meals. there is a slow cooker recipe thread on here. but you don't actually need a slow cooker to do these - just a casserole dish and a very low oven temp.
I do buy SOME ready meals - OH loves Aldis Lasagne. I cant make it like that! but it is cheap enough anyway. he also likes their Chicken pie from the chilled section - annoys me because I think mine is better but.............he likes that one!!!
er - he eats the above himself - I am wheat intolerant so do not eat bought pies pasta etc.
I think with what you have bought with good planning your diet should be fine!
remember Jojo - All things in moderation - including moderation!0 -
I found dried pulses a bit of a chore until I got a thermal bag and discovered I can just boil for 10 minutes and then leave them in the bag overnight and they are ready to use in the morning.
This is the first I have heard of a thermal bag, but sounds fascinating! I need more vegetable protein in my diet so this might be ideal.BrassicWoman wrote: »seconding the thermal bag for pulses, makes everything much easier
Eta: just googled it but am still unsure of what they actually are?Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
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Hope is not a strategy...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
VfM4meplse wrote: »This is the first I have heard of a thermal bag, but sounds fascinating! I need more vegetable protein in my diet so this might be ideal.
Eta: just googled it but am still unsure of what they actually are?
They hold in the heat and continue the cooking process. Kind of like when you bring water to a boil, add pasta, put the lid on and turn off the heat. It keeps cooking. Same idea where you bring your pan of food to a simmer, put the lid on and place it in the bag. It's like slow cooking without electricity. Preppers love them. One brand on Amazon is called Wonderbag.
Hope this helps.:)Overprepare, then go with the flow.
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VfM4meplse wrote: »This is the first I have heard of a thermal bag, but sounds fascinating! I need more vegetable protein in my diet so this might be ideal.
Eta: just googled it but am still unsure of what they actually are?
I thought the same - basically, it's an insulated bag that you put a hot pan into after boiling up the food until it's piping hot throughout. This stops the pan and stuff inside from cooling down long enough to cook it thoroughly. I'm eyeing up the fleece insulation that came with the last organic box delivery with a view to making one with an old duvet cover now.
OH hadn't heard of the way I cook pasta, which is similar (bring water to the boil, chuck pasta in, bring back to the boil, put the lid on, turn heat off and walk away for ten minutes), and I've left pans wrapped in teatowels on the side before now to finish off cooking when I've needed the hob again - but I hadn't heard of these things before now (thanks Greenbee!).
Meri, I know that's a ton of food - that's the point, to dissuade OH from going to buy a chilled pizza or just leave all the veggies in the fridge to go off because he can't think what to do with them. Making good food last over the month is second in priority.
He's rather amused by my seemingly 'buying ALL the peanut butter'. It's a massive tub - cheaper than buying just two jars of it, though. And he's already investigated the rhubarb herbal tea, which I reckon could also be lovely as a cold drink (bunging a sliced apple in there as well) or in cooking in some way. I wonder if we could use it with the duck somehow? I think it might be good in with some of the beetroot as well.
ETA: the lodger came in at short time ago and laughed her head off at the 'mad ecofriendly health nut shopping' I do, and how she can always tell when I've done a shop instead of OH, because 'the fridge is stuffed with plants everywhere, they're on the counter, on the window like flowers [pointing to the head of broccoli standing in a jug of water to keep fresher] there are beans and greens and things and what on earth is this you've bought?'. But she's a microwave rice and takeaway person.I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.Yup you are officially Rock n Roll0 -
Firstly I want to say how overcome with admiration I am with the way you have managed to pay down your debt and keep on top of bills in such difficult circumstances.
I don't have anything to add about your food plans (struggling a bit with my own at the mo, so interesting to read your ideas); but I wanted to say that I struggled on with borderline anaemia for months until someone recommended that I take a daily multivitamin with iron, and that seems to have done the trick.0
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