It has been three years since I started Slimming World. I know loads about it, and it works for me very well. Over the last six months though, my habits have been slipping. I’ve started feeling like I “need” biscuits to get through deadlines, pizza to help me relax. I’ve started buying multipacks of chocolate […]
Eating
Like drinking, but with food.
Omnivore No More
When I was nine years old, and going through what my atheist parents fondly called my “God bothering phase”, I decided to give up meat for lent. No more meat for me, I thought piously. I will be kind to all the little animals and stop eating them. God will like that. Three hours later […]
Facing Friday – Self-Kindness
It has come to my attention that, over this past week, I have been being unkind to myself. On Monday, despite being omgreallygoodIwenttothegymFOURTIMES I stayed the same weight as the week before – a week I had used to consume everything I could get my grubby mitts on. On Tuesday I got up for yoga […]
Blogmas Day 14 – Chocolate Truffle Teacups
Because NO ONE likes Christmas pudding. Today, I am sharing an old family recipe* for chocolate truffle torte. This is a fine little pudding to make for any occasion – it is at heart just chocolate and cream, so everyone likes it. My Mum always made this in a big springform cake tin, which looks […]
Blogmas Day 12 – Wildly Ambitious Gingerbread Biscuits
Last week on of my friends gave the Sweet Tooth by Lily Vanilli – a charming baking book full of preposterous sweet eats such as “Popping Candy Fool’s Gold Chocolates” and “Bacon and Maple Syrup Teacakes”. She said it might come in useful for my blogging. You bet your arse it will, Jen. This kind […]
Queen of the Biscuits – on totally overthinking your food choices
I work in the kind of office where, at 11am every day, someone will come over and offer you a cup of coffee and a biscuit. It’s very civilised. Because I am British, I have extremely strong opinions about biscuits (and all kinds of baked goods). Because also I am trying to lose weight, I […]
Restaurant Review – Gino’s, Oxford
I went to Gino’s with my Mum, Dad and Paul to celebrate my birthday a couple of weeks ago. It’s a cheerful Italian place in the centre of Oxford, just by the bus stop, and when we made reservations, our email was answered by your ACTUAL Gino – major starting points. I think this is also […]