Joggers never smile

So is it porage or porridge or are they interchangeable? I suspect that like whisky, the former only applies to the stuff if it's made north of the border in Jocko-Gilly Land. Either way, I have eaten the stuff twice now on consecutive days after a gap of about 30 years, give or take.

The experiment, such as it is, is to see if it really does keep you full and lessen the temptation to snack for most of the day, so that a good breakfast need only be followed by a good dinner late on. I'm not sure that it worked yesterday per se as a banana, some chicken bits and a crisp bread with peanut butter all happened at various times. We'll see if today works better; I maple syrup-ed it today whereas yesterday I sultana-ed it. Both tasty, but one may work better than the other.

I guess the real trial would be if I can somehow drag myself out of my pit earlier on week days and make some porridge for breakfast before going to work. Breakfast during the week rarely happens as I have long since traded it for an extra half hour in bed, though I have recently managed an entire cup of coffee before heading for the tube.

Frankly, eating for a healthier life-style is arse. Though I have rediscovered the aforementioned porridge, which is a bonus. Fruit is something you eat only occasionally and vegetables are largely decorative. I love fish, but chips are out (except oven chips maybe once a week). I can see myself trying to survive on orange juice, chicken, Greek salads, porridge and coffee (thank God for coffee); it's either that or cardboard. Everything with flavour seems to be verboten.

All the decent cheeses: stilton, cheddar, wensleydale etc, are also supposed to be avoided. I can live without mayo, but Soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce are similarly out. Too much salt apparently, so it is difficult to flavour the cardboard that is good for you.

I now see why 'healthy' people are so miserable; they eat bland cardboard and run around grimacing a lot looking unhappy and stressed. Hardly surprising with that life style, is it?

Joggers never smile

So is it porage or porridge or are they interchangeable? I suspect that like whisky, the former only applies to the stuff if it's made north of the border in Jocko-Gilly Land. Either way, I have eaten the stuff twice now on consecutive days after a gap of about 30 years, give or take.

The experiment, such as it is, is to see if it really does keep you full and lessen the temptation to snack for most of the day, so that a good breakfast need only be followed by a good dinner late on. I'm not sure that it worked yesterday per se as a banana, some chicken bits and a crisp bread with peanut butter all happened at various times. We'll see if today works better; I maple syrup-ed it today whereas yesterday I sultana-ed it. Both tasty, but one may work better than the other.

I guess the real trial would be if I can somehow drag myself out of my pit earlier on week days and make some porridge for breakfast before going to work. Breakfast during the week rarely happens as I have long since traded it for an extra half hour in bed, though I have recently managed an entire cup of coffee before heading for the tube.

Frankly, eating for a healthier life-style is arse. Though I have rediscovered the aforementioned porridge, which is a bonus. Fruit is something you eat only occasionally and vegetables are largely decorative. I love fish, but chips are out (except oven chips maybe once a week). I can see myself trying to survive on orange juice, chicken, Greek salads, porridge and coffee (thank God for coffee); it's either that or cardboard. Everything with flavour seems to be verboten.

All the decent cheeses: stilton, cheddar, wensleydale etc, are also supposed to be avoided. I can live without mayo, but Soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce are similarly out. Too much salt apparently, so it is difficult to flavour the cardboard that is good for you.

I now see why 'healthy' people are so miserable; they eat bland cardboard and run around grimacing a lot looking unhappy and stressed. Hardly surprising with that life style, is it?