If there's anybody who reads my LJ who doesn't have some kind of mental or chronic illness, it's probably not clear what all the fuss is about. But for me, this is one of the best days I've had in a long time, and I've done a bunch of stuff I've been meaning to get around to. There's still stuff that needs doing - I didn't get around to picking up ( Read more... )

So I'm in Holland and Barrett, because the health food shop I actually like has closed down. I'm looking at dried fruit to put on my breakfast. Cranberries look good. "Infused with cane sugar", apparently. Because I am not a moron, I read the ingredients ( Read more... )

Banana & ginger soda bread FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN.

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Steve, Don't Eat It: The blog that makes me make noises that probably scare and upset my new housemates.

I was feeling pretty good about how many of the entries are meat products, being vegetarian and all, but then I found the one on fermented soya beans: What I find most hilarious is that there is an expiration date on the package. What could ( Read more... )

Man, I looooooooooooove spinach.

Today's XKCD is wonderful.

(And in similar news, I just wrote to Pret a Manger to thank them for specifying that their tuna is skipjack and pole-and-line-caught. Ever since I read Taras Grescoe's Bottomfeeder, fish has been bugging me, especially tuna and cod. See, I'm not just angry and destructive.)

I made zaalouk with spinach and fenugreek, and also semi-successful chapatis. Then I ate them for tea. Om nom nom nom nom. It's good to be me.

Last night I went for Moroccan food at Zagora, in Fletcher's Walk, Birmingham. It was divine. I had salad zaalouk (aubergine, spinach, tomato, olive oil and garlic cooked salad) followed by tagine rashidia (stuffed tomato, aubergine and bell pepper with tomato goo, cheese and herbs, served with vegetable-y rice). Best meal I've had in a long time. ( Read more... )

Or, as my hippie cookbook calls it, "carrot and courgette kugel". We shall see if any good comes of this.

Tonight at karate I had to stop the exercise and sit on the floor and sip my water for a while, because the room was spinning and there were flashing lights and my ears were full of pressure. It was all a bit bad!wooooooooo. I blame less-than-perfect eating & sleeping patterns* and my period and the FUCKING HEAT. Sensei says my temperature shot up ( Read more... )