A new approach to gluten-free food - eat your greens, purples, reds, yellows and orange veggies.
Eat a little organic bread, eat less - it becomes easier as the days become sunnier and warm, drink plenty of liquids and cut down on the sugar...Easy peasy, ,hey!!!!
Get out and about more, exercise, walk, dance, swim or garden, even housework done vigorously, will help keep you fit and slim - well, that's the theory I believe!
OK so far? Still it's not easy to become fitter or slim but it is easy to eat the food that could be right for all of us.
Variety is the answer with less red meat, much less sugar and definitely very much less of any sugary drinks your children may encourage you to buy; or less wine, less white wheat bread and cakes and biscuits. Instead eat organic bread, gluten-free breads or biscuits, if you need some bread in your diet - well, we all do now and then, or some really good wholemeal or wholemeal/white mixtures with seeds, Just eat less of most items and much less of the really bad-for-you items - like cakes, biscuits, red meat, wines and spirits, sugary drinks - even potatoes and dairy products should be eaten in moderation.
OMG I remember my Nan telling me, years ago, how she used to eat just one ounce of cheese per week, while my Grandmother told me there comes a time in every woman's life when she simply has to eat less, much less of everything, because she has reached an age when she just doesn't need so much food!!! Really, truly we all don't. The appetite decreases and then one can't eat so much because the appetite has lost that edginess and enthusiasm for food. Simply put, food fills one up much more quickly, satisfying those hunger and food needs very quickly which frankly is a little depressing.
Well, not really since for simply ages your body has been demanding food on a very regular basis making it almost routine to eat at particular times or seasons of the day or for a whole range of emotional needs and experiences. Meal times become routine as the body demands its needs are met.
Food is so necessary. so delicious. so comforting, so fattening, so messy and ultimately so gorgeous I find it very hard to resist: frankly, any lessening of those old hunger pangs and cravings is an absolute blessing!
And there's no photos in this blog because they just remind me how good food can look, particularly the two chocolate cakes I made earlier for a friends function today...... hehehe!
Well, that's how I feel about food and its presence in my life - comforter, fuel, satisfier, pure enjoyment, intense delight and happiness tool......
So what about you? Do you have food thoughts to share? Lets chew the fat over our combined foodie thoughts and feelings and maybe we could each help one another with the food and eating hang-ups we share!!!
Daisy xxx
PS one photo only and one which may be happily shown ...
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| a recent supper of own garden grown purple dwarf beans, baby tomatoes, Richard's cucumbers, baby potatoes and green salad |
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