Blog-Vember My Day on A Plate
5 Nov 2012
Inspired by the furore on Twitter yesterday about Pete Evans’ description of his Day on A Plate, resplendent with its activated almonds, here is #mydayonaplate blog. This post may contain traces of gluten, nuts and irony.
7:00 – Glass of water
7:02 – Two cups earl grey tea – no milk. One straight after the other.
7:17 – Muesli, honey (Honey Delight Spring Harvest), full cream milk, yoghurt (Country Valley) and a seed and fruit cereal topping to stop me dying of boredom – may contain linseed, not sure, but little bits get stuck in my teeth.
8:14 – Water while standing around waiting for coffee (HURRY UP!)
8:35 – Double shot latte
9:12 – Early grey tea
11:04 – More water and earl grey tea
Thoughts turn to second breakfast. Stupid worthy muesli.
11:47 – Two lady finger bananas – because the Cavendish banana is just horrible.
12:03 – At least six Haighs dark chocolate pastilles.
12:29 – More water
12:47 – Lunch of left over chicken, chorizo, olives, potatoes with salad from the garden of sorrel, cos lettuce and parsley.
3:00 – Soda water from my Soda Stream that I take to work every day to stave off the 3 o’clock desk slump. There is nothing so cheering as that PFFFFTTT as the lid turns and my personal carbon sequestration project is unleashed. The tiniest Cherry Ripe ever.
3:12 – Rest of the soda water – after I found I was still slumping
Narrowly avoided a vile cup of coffee.
5:40 – Vodka, lime and soda.
5:55 – Half of one of toddler’s spicy-ish meatballs – just to make sure they weren’t poison.
6:20 – Nuts (yes really) almonds included!
7:15 – Half of the freshly picked sugar snap peas from the garden on the way back to the kitchen – quietly curse myself for not planting four times as many pea plants.
7:40 – THIS
Haloumi and green salad
Grilled haloumi with a salad made of spinach, sorrel, fennel, parsley, mint, lemon juice and olive oil.
Soda with lime.
Every single thing I ate for dinner except the haloumi and the olive oil grown by me. The olive oil was grown by Homeleigh Grove.
I am reserving the right to eat some more and perhaps drink some more tea. Probably jasmine picked by virgins but I really haven’t decided yet.
Have food trends gone too far? How important is balance and eating well to you?
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