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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2013 10:47:57 GMT 1
On an island off Greece, long ago, and on a sun-kissed beach, there stood a taverna...
With a fisherman I shared a bottle of the local hooch, Retsina. It leaves an unpleasant after-taste. I chewed gum after it, and offered 'Stavros', the fisherman, some. He took a stick, broke it in half, and put half back...
Sticks of gum aren't big, but still too big for Stavros. He just took what he needed...
Portion sizes have been smaller for me ever since. When confronted with food the only consideration is 'What do I need?'. Not 'What do I want?' It's easy to want more than you need...
So I eat like a trencherman when I've been harnessed to the plough all day, and like a mouse when I've been reading all day..
So does Jake. After a while it becomes second-nature to eat less than you could. To avoid feeling bloated becomes a goal in itself, because feeling bloated is not nice...
And before any of you say "Yes, but what about your drinking, annon!" I'd like to point out that I don't drink half as much as I'd like to....
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Post by **JamDan** on Mar 26, 2013 10:53:20 GMT 1
Its hard to eat like a mouse though when you want to eat like a trencherman.........................
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2013 13:35:24 GMT 1
Thanks, Jamdan. It's only hard at first...
I think that we're hard-wired to eat what's put before us, and that dates from a time when hunger was a real threat to life...
Worse, we also, in modern times, eat 'what we fancy', not what we need...
Like the last woman with whom I dined out. Who ordered a steak au poivre then left half of it. But still ordered an outrageous dessert of the type knickerbocker glory...
Jake got the other half of the steak - I just knew that he'd tolerate the 'poivre'.
Show me a woman who wipes her plate clean with a 'bout de pain' and I'll show you something rare. So rare, I'm still single....
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Post by Ali on Mar 26, 2013 16:56:38 GMT 1
I think my generation got hard-wired to clearing the plate coz our parents grew up in war-time and on ration books. Not a bad thing though I think, to be careful and consider waste.....
However, I tend to eat little really, well it seems that way, coz survive like a shetland pony .... don't need much to keep me going.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2013 17:04:11 GMT 1
It is very rare for me to leave food on the plate at home .I never order dessert out if I havent finished the main meal.
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Post by Em on Mar 27, 2013 9:28:51 GMT 1
Ali is correct I think. If you have been in a situation where you have little and what you have is essential you don't waste. I eat what's on my plate if I finish I have dessert if I don't I don't.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2013 13:00:47 GMT 1
Em, if it doesn't work out with your partner please let me know...
Bought some new season Charlotte potatoes today. Produced in France. God only knows what they had to do to them to get them up at this time of the year...
Beautifully scrubbed and presented the packaging still advises to 'Wash before Use'. Why?
In an outbuilding I have half a sack of last season's maincrop bought from a farmshop. I know that in store they're kept cool - down to 4C - but these have been stored at ambient temperatures for weeks with me. No sign of chitting. My homegrown crop chitted weeks ago. Chemical growth retardant must be what my bought potatoes are sprayed with...
Grow your own - now's the time. Eat in season and make do with chitting last year's potatoes at this time of year. Or die young....
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Post by bisdu on Apr 17, 2013 17:06:01 GMT 1
couldn't agree more with anon we eat far more than we need. But Ali you are quite right too. I was brought up that you didn't leave the table until you finished. Saturdays wer hell coz my mother worked that day and my father cooked lunch - every week a plateful of sausages which i HATED - I spent a good deal of my childhood saturdays sitting at the table staring at congealed sausages. Eventually it wore me down and i now eat whatevers put in front of me and I have the wieght to prove it. Going back to Anons point; I once spent a lunch time sitting peoplewatching in a french restaurant - the type you get by the supermarket. I noticed that the fat people didn't necessarily eat chips and the thin ones salad - quite often it was the other way round. The difference between then was that the thin people ate slowly with a small quantity on the fork and also waited for the mouthful to be totally swallowed before stabbing another chip - most put the knife and fork down between mouthsful. The fatties on the other hand ate quickly with larger quantities and recharged the fork as soon as the first forkful went into the mouth. I have tried eating like this and if you can maintain it you usually get bored before you get to the end and therefore eat less....the big problem is you have to concentrate , as soon as your mind goes onto something else you revert to type.
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Post by 4STIX on Apr 17, 2013 19:01:48 GMT 1
Why are married women heavier than single women? Single women come home, see what's in the fridge and go to bed….Married women come home, see what's in bed and go to the fridge.
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Post by bisdu on Apr 17, 2013 19:25:51 GMT 1
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