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Isn't it satisfying ......, greek yoghurt and strawberried

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........... when you have an enjoyable meal and find that your BG is hardly affected? Tonight I had a lovely pan fried fillet of sea bass, green bean and garden pea mixture, roasted mushrooms with red peppers and three small new potatoes, followed by a decent helping of Greek yoghurt and strawberries. 7.1 before and 6.8 after two hours. Result.

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I feel as if I've been missing out for most of my life as I've only just started eating berries in any quantity (just the occasional few in a fruit salad). These days we have a big dish of mixed berries with full fat creme fraiche at least twice a week and it feels like a real luxury that has no downside.
I was trying to work out why we didn't eat them when I was growing up and I wonder whether they were less readily available before supermarkets started doing green groceries properly.
 
Yep - you had to have an allotment or a friend with a greenhouse if you didn't live in the country!

To begin with twas only goosegogs and blackberries that 'anybody' grew, then people started planting raspberry canes - but my parents didn't have a greenhouse so still no strawbs. Then they decided they'd like to grow some BUT couldn't get hold of any straw (in the industrial W Mids) to put underneath to prevent the slugs, so we never got any in the finish!
 
I didn't have strawberries till I was 16. They were a luxury we couldn't afford. I still think things like blueberries are exotic. :D

The meal sounds perfect.
 
They are now - but of course we didn't grow them here - and there was a complete absence of anything from anywhere abroad in my early years, so soon after the war.

Gang of us went on a water sports holiday in Skiathos years ago and we'd all decided to have our lunch and use the swimming pool at another hotel (pool was open to visitor as well as guests) Some German tourists got in between our group as we walked up the steps from outside so one of ours was at the front and he opened the door, and stood back holding the door for the rest of us as the Germans walked though and completely ignored him, not even a smile came his way. As we came level with him and they were out of earshot by now he said 'That's perfectly alright, anytime, hope you have a nice day too - and did you realise it's only due to the previous actions of people like your ancestors that I was never able to taste an orange when I was a little boy?' LOL
 
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