I don’t weigh or count our portions but we eat more fruit and veg than protein and carbs. We have large portions of veg ... much larger than other folk we know ... a whole spring cabbage and lots of carrots between the two of us for one meal. We eat a whole Little Gem lettuce each per meal, or a whole bag of Lambs lettuce if buying salad, with accompanying toms, spring onions, beetroot etc etc etc.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, you’d like to go to dinner with my daughter, she serves up very large portions of veg, and a big selection, one of her son doesn’t like meat very much not a veggie, just not so keen, so he has piles of veg, the other one likes meat, but both boys eat anything home cooked.
The boys were weaned on veg, no jars/tins of fruit puddings. She says Daniel was weaned on grandads parsnips🙂
She’s a childminder and takes every available course so she’s got her food and nutrition certificate, she said years ago that the main cancers in the future would be bowel related, I think she’s almost right.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I don't really know how much fruit and veg I eat, but I prefer to eat veg than fruit. Fruit at breakfast with porridge, or wholemeal toast which has seeds etc in it. I only eat homemade soup [for lunch] which is veg based, lentils too if it's a ham one. Dinner will be mostly chicken, ham or fish with mainly veg. I don't usually have carbs with fish if I'm having that, and have cut down on those with most evening meals. I often snack on tomatoes when prepping dinner, especially during summer. I don't like pasta that much anyway, would rather have rice and that's brown. We have recently started swapping red meat with Quorn, as daughter has problems with red meat, so I don't know how, or if, that fits in. I don't think I eat the portion sizes that other people eat though, but I think it's daft to isolate anything and say ' this is what you should/shouldn't eat, and this is how much'. People need to look at the whole picture - what their daily habits are, including how much exercise they do, and they should be honest about the bad eating habits [crisps, biscuits, cakes etc] and address them. I don't cut out anything completely.
My sister had a friend who had lost her sense of smell and it greatly affected her eating habits.
Nice to see steephill and Hosta are living up to the Scottish stereotype though!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Not quite in Hostas case Fairygirl, he used to make lovey dresses for his two little girls and made all his ex wife’s maternity clothes. A multi talented man 😘
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Not quite in Hostas case Fairygirl, he used to make lovey dresses for his two little girls and made all his ex wife’s maternity clothes. A multi talented man 😘
Aw shucks. x To clarlify: I think I might well average 5 a day, but feel I should be eating more.
Not quite in Hostas case Fairygirl, he used to make lovey dresses for his two little girls and made all his ex wife’s maternity clothes. A multi talented man 😘
Think we should enter him for the Sewing Bee 💡
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not quite in Hostas case Fairygirl, he used to make lovey dresses for his two little girls and made all his ex wife’s maternity clothes. A multi talented man 😘
I was really just meaning the veg thing though. I think we all know there's a certain image of Scots never eating veg unless it's chips, or encased in batter and deep fried.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Ah, chips - the Glasgow salad. Chips are a rare treat for me, probably less that once a month although I do triple cook them. There is nothing like dealing with gluts from the garden to get your veg count up. Last year we couldn't move for cucumbers and aubergines. I discovered the joys of cucumber soup which is an easy way to eat lots of them. The apples mainly go to cider though, I don't think we could manage to eat over 100kg of them otherwise.
We never cook fried chips at home ... two or three times a year we have the wonderful oven chips that are prepared with beef dripping 😋 and otherwise we have fish and chips occasionally when visiting Cromer or Dunwich ... but we do have butter on our jacket potatoes
We don’t have ‘spreads’ ... goodness knows what’s in ‘em My GP agrees that a little butter is probably better for us than stuff concocted in laboratories.
Every meal here is cooked at home ‘from scratch’ ... we don’t even have a microwave. I need the space on the worktop to knead my bread dough and make my pastry.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The boys were weaned on veg, no jars/tins of fruit puddings. She says Daniel was weaned on grandads parsnips🙂
She’s a childminder and takes every available course so she’s got her food and nutrition certificate, she said years ago that the main cancers in the future would be bowel related, I think she’s almost right.
I only eat homemade soup [for lunch] which is veg based, lentils too if it's a ham one. Dinner will be mostly chicken, ham or fish with mainly veg. I don't usually have carbs with fish if I'm having that, and have cut down on those with most evening meals. I often snack on tomatoes when prepping dinner, especially during summer. I don't like pasta that much anyway, would rather have rice and that's brown.
We have recently started swapping red meat with Quorn, as daughter has problems with red meat, so I don't know how, or if, that fits in.
I don't think I eat the portion sizes that other people eat though, but I think it's daft to isolate anything and say ' this is what you should/shouldn't eat, and this is how much'. People need to look at the whole picture - what their daily habits are, including how much exercise they do, and they should be honest about the bad eating habits [crisps, biscuits, cakes etc] and address them. I don't cut out anything completely.
My sister had a friend who had lost her sense of smell and it greatly affected her eating habits.
Nice to see steephill and Hosta are living up to the Scottish stereotype though!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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To clarlify: I think I might well average 5 a day, but feel I should be eating more.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was really just meaning the veg thing though. I think we all know there's a certain image of Scots never eating veg unless it's chips, or encased in batter and deep fried.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We don’t have ‘spreads’ ... goodness knows what’s in ‘em
My GP agrees that a little butter is probably better for us than stuff concocted in laboratories.
Every meal here is cooked at home ‘from scratch’ ... we don’t even have a microwave. I need the space on the worktop to knead my bread dough and make my pastry.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.