Tastes change

[khskel]

Our office (HQ of a building society) has a staff restaurant and most days I get a fresh salad for lunch. Fridays I normally have chicken and bacon Caesar salad. Today one of the main options was homemade steak pudding with chips and mushy peas. This used to be a firm favourite of mine . The catering supervisor kindly weighed the portions for me so I could work out the carbs. It was good but I realised I would have enjoyed the salad much more!

 

[Northerner]

Know what you mean 🙂 I used to have a 'tradition' on my 'diagnosis day' each year of throwing caution to the wind and slobbing out on the unhealthiest, stodgiest, carb-laden c**p I could find. Then, one year, I discovered that when I was choosing my gross-out in the supermarket...I was reading the backs of the packets and choosing the healthiest options or even putting things back!!! 😱

I often fancy having a pizza, but know I wouldn't enjoy it unless I made it myself with fresh ingredients! 🙂

 

[KookyCat]

It's funny isn't it, how some foods lose their appeal. I genuinely love a good salad (a proper salad none of that limp lettuce and a piece of cucumber nonsense) and would choose it over most things in a restaurant. I was yearning for a bag of crisps last week so I got some walkers cheese and onion, I only ate them because I'd injected for them, didn't enjoy them at all, would have enjoyed my yoghurt much more. I think one of the positives of diabetes is it makes you a mindful eater, I do miss San Pel lemon in summer though, hideously rammed with sugar but the sharpness of the lemon just offsets it nicely....that said there's nothing better than iced sparkling water to me, jolly lovely

 

[Bloden]

My mate Jacqui gave me a bottle of Loxa extra virgin olive oil - lush! - and now I can't go without my lunch-time salad.😛 It's also fab dabbed on toast, with a sliced tomato rubbed into the toast (like they do in Catalonia) - ñam ñam (yum yum in Spanish🙄). Roll on lunch...😛

 

[khskel]

My mate Jacqui gave me a bottle of Loxa extra virgin olive oil - lush! - and now I can't go without my lunch-time salad.😛 It's also fab dabbed on toast, with a sliced tomato rubbed into the toast (like they do in Catalonia) - ñam ñam (yum yum in Spanish🙄). Roll on lunch...😛

mmmmmm pa amb oli