How perverse and sadistic is my wife? Yesterday I wrote that I was trying to keep away from the fats and the carbohydrates. She came home read my blog and then decided that she wanted to enjoy some cooking therapy of her own. What did she make you ask? I'll tell you what she made: CHEDDAR and apple bloody BREAD. Seriously? Come on Asya - a little support please - that's just cruel and unusual. She followed that up with a cinnamon and apple tart and then a chicken and mushroom pie which I have to say looks fantastic and will be our supper tonight. Back on the solids now - my supply of beef and chilli consomme was finished at lunch today but I think I'll make some more but this time with 3 thai chilli padis in my quest for perfection.
I feel that I have been a little remiss by not responding to more of your comments so let me address that. Jamie in response to your worries about the consumption of fruit juice - don't worry we're designed to eat fruit - it doesn't make you fat. Primates (and I'm including humans in this title) have eaten fruit for as long as we have existed. You don't hear stories about people's fruit addictions unless it's part of a comedy sketch and general health guidelines recommend fruit in quantity on a daily basis. We've been eating fruit for many, many thousands of years longer than we have been eating carbohydrates such as wheat, potatoes and corn and there is no doubt in my mind that it is far better for you - whether it is juiced or "au naturel" makes little difference other than the fact that as juice it is even easier for your system to extract the beneficial nutrients. To further set your mind at rest I have not been drinking any citrus juice. Typical juices that I drink are watermelon and apple, pear juice, I did go a bit mad with a mango and banana smoothie the other day and I thought I might really push the boat out with some ripe star fruit juice tomorrow. I know that I'm tempting the fruit gods with my reckless disregard but I honestly feel that there is little reason to worry - therefore you shouldn't either. On the other hand if I was drinking vast quantities of processed fruit juice like sunny delight- there could be cause for worry. Follow this link to see what I mean Sunny delight trauma. On a less serious note you might also find something of interest here: Boy of 9 in dreadful fruit overdose. Nothing to tell you about an office yet but I'll keep you informed.
Linds how are you - lovely to hear from you - don't like the plug idea since the Mickey Finn episode. I apologise for the base crudeness but to coin a cliche - better out than in. Obviously I'm slightly worried about your comments on not taking acid? with the fruit- it's an interesting idea and the sort of thing that I might have done when a youngster but to be honest they frown on this sort of thing in Singapore and I don't much fancy being caned - apparently it's very painful. Or did you mean something else?
Anyway as you can probably tell I am in a playful state of mind at the moment and generally feeling excellent. Unless something untoward happens to my knee in the interim, I'm definitely going for a bike ride tomorrow.
you may want to try rice milk, strawberries and banana;the rice milk makes it more of a smoothie but without the fat of normal milk. hamish is a huge fan of them.hx
ReplyDeleteYou should certainly avoid a nose-bag for the front end, in these times of temperance. Nuts and oats are pretty high in carbs and protein.
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ReplyDeleteWell done for the fast and the blog! You showed great resilience doing the water / coconut water fast for as long as you did. I would have possibly tried to munch through one of my arms if I would have tried the same! The blog has been really entertaining and has become part an integral part of my commute to work.
Good luck with the fruit....just don't go bananas :-)
Darren