Domestic goddess rating: 0% (worshipping the gods of processed food this evening… it might be seasonal but it ain’t healthy) Five-a-day: 2/5 Food miles: none
On the menu: toast, marmalade and juice (breakfast); cheese sandwich (lunch); Fray Bentos steak & kidney pie, potatoes and PSB (sometimes a girl’s gotta eat processed… supper)
Well, it was Monday evening so everyone was all over the place. Good enough excuse for some serious bad eating. I did discover however that old-fashioned unhealthy food isn’t quite as full of additives as modern unhealthy food. Did you know that apart from a shocking amount of glucose, there isn’t actually very much that’s artificial in a Fray Bentos steak & kidney? Anyway – I love ‘em and I don’t care who knows it.
On a healthier note, I was looking into this whole dried fruit thing today and discovered the second-geekiest seasonal eating website in the world (the first most geeky is the wonderful www.discoverkale.co.uk, devoted to the esoteric subject of kale and its relatives). Did you know that the UK has its very own Dried Fruit Association? Well, they’ve very kindly set up a Dried Fruit Information Service, complete with its own website. It’s got recipes and everything.
What it doesn’t tell you – probably because it’s run by dried fruit producers who don’t want you to know – is how to dry your own fruit. The search continues…
Filed under: Seasonal eating, healthy eating | Tagged: dried fruit, Fray Bentos, how to dry fruit, steak and kidney pie, unhealthy eating
