Tuesday 8 January 2019

The Potato Diet

Well ... did anyone see it last night? No. Thought not. if you want to lose weight quickly for any reason - to fit better in that special dress is favourite - you can't go wrong with the potato diet.

I've managed to - temporarily - lose 7lbs in 9 days of potato heaven. And, unlike other mono-diets I still wanted potatoes as soon as I stopped doing it.

You can of course carry on for longer than a week - and permanently lose weight - but more care is needed to get in essential nutrients. I only missed 'crunch' every time I did it, so added lettuce, my fat was avocado rather than oil. And there's no way I could manage 5lbs spuds a day, I generally hovered somewhere between 2 and 3lbs.

And another top tip, cook them, let them cool, then reheat. It gives them more resistant starch. The same can be done with pasta and rice.

Bugger the Muesli today, I'm off to throw spuds in my Breville Halo+

I say, they're £30 cheaper than when I bought mine. I might get another for the tin hut, rather than taking this one back with me. I use it nearly every day because I use far less fat with chips/wedges than I did on jacket spuds.

And all my cheap Lidl veg was roasted in it before Christmas - because I don't like boiled veg - but I did use a bit more oil/fat for that. And it has many other uses ... Hmmm 🤔

Note to self ... the top rack in your freezer is completely full of roasted veg, please remember to use it...

Saturday 5 January 2019

Goodbye Christmas 2018

"Right, let's get Christmas back in the attic" ... says she eventually ... covered head to toe in chuffin 'snow' ... that clings to everything, including my glasses and my spiffing cordless sweepy thing ... had to clean the filter in that *again* because of the damn snow.

And off we jolly well go up to the bathroom ... to where I'd already woman-handled 13 cartons and bags of utter crap ... to then go on up to the attic with the aid of my faithful old retainer ... aka Oddjob.

He gets the trapdoor open and pulls down the ladder with his gadget and tootles off up with a limp ... whilst I await the long lead and plug for the lovely fluorescent lighting to arrive. I plug it in, and lo ... there is light.

"Yer know, it dunt seem five minutes since ahr were up here" ... I looked up at him in puzzled confusion ... "Well, it's not too long ago" ... I tell him.

"It were weeks ago when ahr fetched um dahn" ... "It was yesterday, you twat!" ... sounds of cogs going around ... "Ooh ahhh. Ahr forgot abaht that, I were thinking abaht when I fetched um dahn before Christmas".

And that's the story of how Christmas - but not his train sets - yes, SETS - got put away. They are currently acquiring new lighting and/or batteries for old lighting ... whilst he sits eating the chocolate barrels he filled the wagons with.

Everyone deserves an Oddjob 😉

Tuesday 1 January 2019

Happy New Year 2019

When you finish the night off dancing to the Bee Gees at 2am with your beloved ... best start to the New Year ever.

Unfortunately that same 'beloved' is still wandering around singing about getting a chuffin message to someone this morning!

Everyone deserves an Oddjob ... aka my grumpy old man 😉