for most of the time and for most of my life I like simple, easy food, made with real ingredients without the addition of chemicals… real butter yes please, don’t even think about offering me something called Flora ;-) , full fat milk in my coffee, all the way, red meat, you betcha…I have always thought it quite simple really, eat those things in moderation and balance it out with shed loads of the good stuff (purrlease those diet purists that pooh pooh such things as red meat in the smugness of their latest fad have always had little impact on a real girl with a budget, with real kiddos and a husband who, mostly, has an appetite for England)
So, despite this belief in real food living, in butter, and fat and cheese and carbs alongside that I have always tried to include a glut load of the green and colourful stuff to soak it all up and even it all out and it’s always worked out pretty well…
…but a few months into this year and as my life has gotten busier, there were, ahem, rather a lot more of the butter and carbs bit and a lot more of winging it in the old fruit, veggie and colourful bit…winging it had been happening too often….I noticed that I was far from stuffing my face with Maccas every mealtime but that during the daytime I was grabbing something on the run too often…and one day as I packed my the Beach Cottage kiddos a stack loads of veggies and fruit in their lunch while myself feeling already shattered, I realised duh that I was winging it too much…