It's been almost 2 months since I started trying to eat more vegetables, and I'm proud to say that it's working! Although admitably, I did fall off the bandwagon, major fell off the wagon a couple of times, but I've taken to eating a lot more vegetables nowadays. And quite liking it too!
More than trying to do difficult things, which is really quite my habit, it's also a permanent way of life that I want to adopt, to eat more healthily and liking eating healthily instead of doing it just for weight loss or control or just because I have to. So finally I am starting to enjoy eating green things.
I know I broke my promise to give weekly updates of the food I eat, with pictures and all, but so what. Haha. There's nothing you can do about it. I'm afraid you'll just have to put up with my lying tendencies as well as my tendency to be unreasonably arrogant. Fine, break up with me, see if I care!
Anyway, being the lazy and lousy cook that I am, I started with cooking lots of vegetable soups, since my stir fries always end up, well, weird, and I'm not exactly very fond of raw vegetables. Luckily for me, and obviously, since I'm such a smart girl, my stir fries are now quite tasty, so there's the option of stir-frying a couple of different types of vegetables for dinner while lunch's usually something really simple like porridge or a tuna sandwich or something.
So now, my plan is for world domination, the vegetable world that is. I plan to try every single type of vegetable I can lay my hands on, yes, even the weird ones. I've tried boxthorn and spinach and cabbage and what western cooks call 'bok choy'. I've yet to try things like asparagus and aubergines. And although I'd really like to try some of Nigella or Jamie's recipes, but I'm not even sure where I can find their version of spinach and water-cress. Sure we have things with the same name, but I don't think they're the same, plus I can't imagine eating them raw.
Sad to say though, I have yet to enjoy the benefits that supposedly come with eating more healthily, like weight loss and bee-yoo-tee-ful skin and the likes of that. Why why WHY?! When will I be slim and beautiful? What does it feel like to be slim and beautiful, oh, and voluptous? Will I ever find out the feeling? Maybe the former two, possibly, but the latter will have to remain a mere dream. *Sigh*
What will be really fun will be to go to somewhere else where they have things like courgettes and zuchinnis and rhuburb, which will be the other side of the world. I keep seeing them being used in recipe shows but I can't get my hands on them. Grrrr....
If, and when, I ever get a garden like Jamie's, I'm going to plant vegetables. Won't that be fun?! ANd interesting to boot, considering I can't quite differentiate my green leafy vegetables much, relying on labels or people to tell me what they are. I might just pull up poison ivy instead of rocket leaves for dinner from my own garden. I can just see the headline now, "Stupid person poisons herself".
Does it make you feel stupid, to be reading the blog of a person who ain't that bright? Well, I assure you that my intelligence is by no means a reflection of yours.
So what shall my next challenge be? Any ideas anybody?
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