Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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Brambling wrote: »

she has several major health issues which are caused or made worst by her weight, diet and lack of any exercise ie really high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. I may have given her some not so pleasant home truths today,

I see that often but have learnt to keep my mouth zipped unless people ask me. It took me a very long time to learn what I know, many exams and a lot of continuous development, including experience over 45 years.

We need a complete spectrum of the food groups for optimal health and personally, I look after my liver, the very important powerhouse of the body. We are what we eat and that is the end of it, fact

Good breakfast (kings meal) eaten, cold oats starter, then spelt pasta bake, little meat and crammed with bright veg, plus roasted sweet potato. A green juice in a couple of hours, spring greens/parsley/celery/carrot. Lunch will be half tin of fat sardines in olive oil, marinaded red onion and fennel, tomato, baby spinach, beetroot. Treats: 85% chocolate, yoghurt and berries, an ice cream, maybe a hm fruit bun

I made my organic order, not the juice box because I have plenty of parsley and don`t want ginger. I put my own together and cannot wait until my allotment is producing again. Tomorrow should just about clear the veg drawer before the new order arrives

Todays events, did the washing on wedding day so only pleasurable things to do, like cycling or allotment or reading or bouncing on my re-bounder. Everywhere is clean enough, might just give the downstairs a once-over wash, it cools the air anyway and I have cake to mix up, right now while oven is warm

pineapple

On the health side, I watch GPs Behind Closed Doors - though I always seem to be starting a meal when someone starts describing their bodily functions in technicolour :eek:
Some people won't make any effort to help themselves but my star prize goes to the woman with long term respiratory issues - wheezing etc. She refused to even try to cut down on her cigs as the inhaler had helped - so could she have another please. She got one of course. People like her are taking the 'p'. I would love for that GP to have said 'Actually, no'. :T

PasturesNew

I've already done 2¼ hours of bits and bobs outside this morning.... bit of painting, bit of fence preserver, bit of weeding, bit of hedge snipping ....

Not eaten yet....I'll head for the hash browns, sausages and eggs a bit later.

moneyistooshorttomention

Pineapple - by now I'm convinced that some (quite a few) people are on "self destruct" and don't realise they are.

It's quite obvious someone is self-destructive if they're whacking back the drugs/being a heavy drinker/smoking.

What is not so obvious is what I'm coming to call "hidden self-destructiveness". I'm watching this with someone at pretty close quarters now - yep...the way and amount they eat is pretty obvious (and their figure tells you that much from a mile off). Then you investigate more closely and they've made major money mistakes (which landed up in them losing a house they were buying with a mortgage) and had major destructive habits of other varieties (which have impacted on them for years and are going to cost a fortune to put right at some point - ie minor mortgage level type of money). I'd have hysterics at how much effort and loadsa money I would need to put that body right if it were mine. But I wouldnt mind betting I'm the only person that thinks of them as being self-destructive.

I've come to the conclusion there are a lot of self-destructive people around - but...yes....I DO get annoyed when they expect OUR NHS to "pick up the tab" for them being that way.

Brambling

Money our mother's are obviously not related :rotfl: mine would try to add food not take it away, which is probably why we all have a constant battle with our weight. Her grandchildren still joke about her trying to force feed them, anyone remember the housekeeper from Father Ted? Her usual trick if you succumbed and ask for a little bit was to give you a large bit on a large plate to persuade you it was small :rotfl: at her funeral tea we were there at the door when people were leaving with a plate of cakes etc as she would have wanted we all have to be careful not to fall into learnt behaviour. There was no money when we were growing up, dad grew nearly all the fruit and veg we ate and made one Victoria sponge a week with home made plum jam in the middle, to my mum a very rare treat for us was biscuits or cream cake or a Lardy cake from the bake house.

Your right about people on a mission to self destruct that describes this sister, I may have been harsh on the phone and fear that would have driven her to a cream cake or chocolate but I did tell her it was done out of love and worry. I'm the youngest and expect to probably out live my sisters in their 70s but she's only late 50s and we fear she could go first the way she's going

Farway

'Morning all.

As a child growing up during rationing I eat what there is and am grateful to have a choice and not have to go to bed hungry.

Omnivore with veggie kids. I told them if they wanted to be veggie to start cooking & buying it for themselves, I was not going to start peering at labels or making separate meals

Now the boot is other foot, only veggie stuff available when I visit them, but that is one of the omnivore blessings, I can eat it without any guilt. except for the garlic ridden stuff:eek:

Breakfast was usual pot of tea, with porridge, banana, yoghurt & honey

Lunch will be PB baguette, with last of the tinned salmon & cucumber

Dinner, probably last of the YS jumbo fish fingers, and maybe oven chips 'cos they can go on same tray in the oven

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I feel very grateful to be able to eat what I eat, to have the finances to do it and to be able to get the food in the first place. As a child I was oldest of 7 and we were poor and I mean poor but so well cared for, clean, aspirational and we ate what was put in front of us and we all ate the same food. Very basic foods, fermented foods too, I never had a roast dinner and I was able to cook well at age 9, could make a full meal for all of us and by 13 could easily cook a meal of fish and chips from scratch with one old fashioned chip pan and how we loved fridays fish and chips. I could bake, use a pressure cooker, I could clean, sew, knit and at 15 I knitted myself a dress. At 22 I made my own wedding dress and 4 bridesmaids dresses and the home made buffet for 40 people, all laid out on wallpaper tables. All skills I value now but will absolutely not be chained to a stove, not ever

We all see those people who self-destruct but many, who eat well, cannot stay thin through menopause and beyond and for a reason.

My mothers stroke ward was full of only thin women so those who are cuddly, don`t fret or you might end up miserable like stick insect viki bekham and who likes a miserable skinny old woman, or man

klew356

Hello everyone,
Motivation is low, long walk tonight some sort of dinner will be cooked and i have some lights to put in the garden. If i dip my hand in the freezer at lunchtime i will have something defrosting tonight for tea. Scrambled egg for lunch methinks, i am not feeling very inspired today. i might buy a chicken to roast which would sort evening meals for the majority of the week if i plan it right x

moneyistooshorttomention

I don't think one can generalise based on a particular size factor like "being slim might mean a stroke" - as actually I know precisely one person who has had a stroke (a couple of them in fact).

My best friend is slim these days - but had the strokes when she was a couple of stones overweight (think she must have been size 16 label size - ie size 20 real size?).

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
When it comes to other adult's life choices I tend to sit in the "not my monkey, not my circus" camp, I'm happy to respect dietary choices when catering for or dining with others and tbh expect the same considerations back.:)
My grocery order has arrived and my fridge is now laden with veg and the fruit bowl filled which makes me . Breakfast for unusually for me a couple of weetabix with milk and lunch has been mini pork pie, salad, the end of a tub of coleslaw and a piece of baguette. I'm just going to take a turkey breast steak out of the freezer to make stir fry/singapore noodles tonight.
The weather looks as though's it's brightening up a bit so after my afternoon nap I intend to get a bit more done in the garden.