I must confess I’ve been struggling with my meal planning over the last few weeks, which is probably why I’ve not been so diligent about writing them up each week. After a lot of thinking about the situation I had a bit of a “Eureka” moment last week – I realised that I struggle the most on my working days. After I’ve come home from work and we’ve got the kids in bed the last thing I want to do is cook a meal. I’d been trying to find dishes to cook that were easy and quick, but even they were proving too much, so the geekdaddy and I were getting into the habit of ordering takeaway instead. And as often happens in these situations, the minute I understood the cause of the problem, I could figure out a solution…
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It’s the end of what has been a very busy few days. Our decluttering is still going OK – that means we’re getting it done but it’s coming on slowly. We’ve been pushed into action recently by the fact that it is the geekdaughter’s birthday on Wednesday, and her main presents are pieces of furniture, which we’ve had to get her room ready to receive. So this weekend saw us clearing, sorting and moving furniture around in preparation. I’ll share some photos soon!
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Recently there was a Horizon documentary on the BBC entitled “Eat, fast and live longer” (and that punctuation is very important!). The geekdaddy and I watched it on iPlayer last week, and it had quite an effect on us. It showed some pretty convincing evidence that selective use of fasting (or at least significant calorie intake limitation) could have a dramatic effect on your overall health – reducing cholesterol, blood sugars and various other stuff. If you’re interested in this I recommend actually watching the programme whilst it’s still on iPlayer.
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I’m a little late posting my meal plan this week, as it’s 10pm on Monday and I’m only just sitting down to write this post! I normally do my meal planning and online shop over the weekend, but I’m out by a day because we had a family day out yesterday to Drayton Manor, and by the time we got home and got the kids to bed I was completely exhausted and needed an early night myself! That means I’m having to play catch-up today – and I had to send the geekdaddy out on his own to pick up a couple of things for the next few nights meals before the internet shopping gets delivered.
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