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Wednesday 22nd July 2015
Sugar-free breakfast
Slightly concerned by all these reports about sugar (going off at a tangent slightly, but which sugars? I think that's part of the problem. Apparently large doses of fructose are the culprit here, so when I refer to 'sugar', I'm primarily referring to fructose) being . . . well, basically bad for you . . . I've decided to investigate the possibility of ditching sugar at breakfast. See, I love my breakfast cereal (something high-fibre like All Bran), dried fruit, fruit juice and all that stuff (oh, and what about jam, marmalade, honey?!), so if I ever ditched refined sugar completely, what on earth would I eat at breakfast?! Anyway, it turns out that I only really bother with breakfast on Wednesdays and at the weekends, and then even at the weekend sometimes I just go straight to lunch. So that's like one or two breakfasts a week to think about. So where was I going with this? Oh yeah . . . we probably need to arm ourselves with some science at this point; I've gone for this - "Fat Chance" by Robert Lustig. But whilst waiting for this to arrive . . . today I concocted (what seemed like) a very odd but nonetheless gorgeous breakfast. I wanted to jot it down before I forgot.
Ingredients- Three chilli peppers
- A tomato
- Brown linseeds
- Sunflower seeds
- Pumpkin seeds
- Two eggs
- Knob of butter
- Ham
- Splash of milk
- Salt and pepper (loads of pepper)
- Boiled new potato (one or two)
- Red onion (a few slivers)
So yeah . . . I just cut everything up, bunged it all into a small pan and heated it all up until the eggs were all cooked. Absolutely gorgeous . . . or at least I thought so. R****** thought it stank but then he doesn't like eggs much. I'm kinda writing this note to remind myself: all those ingredients together do actually work (yeah, I know, it's basically a red onion / ham / chilli / tomato / potato omelette, with loads of other stuff thrown in). Christ, maybe I could have topped it all with a bit of grated cheese. Never thought of that.
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Mini football
   
Later on that day . . . well, I was looking after the boys in the morning (their school term now being over) just until M**** returned for school (her school term not being over) . . . so after a fairly leisurely start to the day, we ventured into town with the aim of A****** buying a new football. He was left with the choice of which kind to get, the size, the design, et cetera . . . and opted for this kind of mini-football thing. We took a slightly scenic route back home, going up Park Road and onto the fields at the end of Derwent Road (where it meets Quernmore Road). The boys had a little kick around with the ball and then we went through Williamson Park, back home for lunch.
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