Mmmmmm food glorious food
Mmmmm food glorious food. wait a minute, am i supposed to be saying that? hell yes! Nothing tastes better than good food, except good healthy food! Yup you've guessed it, i'm feeling soo virtuous and enlightened and full.
Today i had
Breakfast - weetabix with skimmed milk (but you already know that cause i told you earlier)
Lunch - jacket potato with chicken, salad , ELF philly and spicy tomato salsa
Dinner - chicken noodle soup, juicy yummy steak, baked beans and potato wedges and heaps of spinach
mmmm talk about satiated. You are probably thinking "Thats a weird diet she is on, she's bloody well eating. and bloody well eating lots". Funny thing this healthy eating, which i noticed today at lunch. usually at work i eat sandwiches out of a packet, or summat hot out of a carton, and it never looks appealing. Today i took my lunch out of the carton (bg thanks again to the ladies at the petrol station next door for baking a spud just for me), added the salsa and philly on the side and it looked lush! i mean really lush! the colours of the lettuce and tomato and red onion against the pale white potato and the dark red spicy salsa looked divine. And i thought, so that what all those bloody experts are waffling about colours yada yada yada. The same thing again at dinner with the steak and spinach and orange beans.
So i got to thinking (again? i hear you cry), compare the appearance of the dishes mentioned above to ...a mcdonalds. bland soggy bun, limp lettuce, overipe mushy tomato and a grey beef pattie. Or a pizza (and we all love pizza) oily cheese, oily pepperoni, Or a KFC - chicken so greasy that they give you a wet wipe with your meal!!!! I read somewhere that filling your plate with different colours of fruit and vegetables means you get loads of different vitamins bleh bleh bleh But i think there is something else. Make healthy food look interesting and inviting and you will want to eat it. You'l enjoy eating it. More importantly you'll want to keep eating it I'm not sure i buy into this culture of trying to make good food look like bad food ( vegetarian kebabs where the naan bread is replaced by a huge lettuce leaf anyone?). I woud much rather eat delicious food for the food that it is rather than pretend my salad is a greasy burger. Of course, i'm no saint. i'm as suceptible to a bar of chocolate as the next person. And yeah, i wouldnt mind a pizza or a burger once in a while. But really, given the choice, even if its been a hectic day and your knackered and cant be arsed, what would you rather have? a grey burger with soggy bread? or a delicious stir fry made in minutes?