Breakfast: Shredded Wheat, Cheese Scone, Hot apple and Blackcurrant.
Lunch: Cheese Sandwich
Tea Time: Baked potato and cheese, Apple Juice
Late evening: Vegetable pie, Beetroot and parsnip salad, cottage cheese.
This was my first day with fast food as I was out at the Friends of the Earth. But I managed to get a baked potato. My other option was going to be Chips... and cheese. I am eating a whole lot of cheese!
I'm vegetarian which limits what I can eat a bit anyway. In the farm shop they had a fridge full of meat that I stayed away from. The people who did the Fife Diet (eating food within 50 miles of Fife) did have to stop being vegetarian- you need to have protein in your diet- much of which vegetarians get from soya and other beans which are mainly from abroad. For 40 days I'll be ok, but I don't know if it would be possible to be vegetarian and eat UK food for the rest of your life. I've been vegetarian for coming on for 30 years, and my diet now reminds me of what it was like eating veggie in the early 80's.
Forfiets: £1 (still eating that UK bread at work with other stuff in it.)
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Just read the blog right through from Day 1, and your pre-Lent diet made me laugh...it sounds a bit like mine! What you're doing is amazing, and a scary lesson to us all about food security. Like John Hancox said at the Orchards talk...there is only 18 hours worth of "spare" food in Scotland, gulp! Well done and keep it up. Have the headaches gone?
ReplyDeleteYes the 18 hours thing is scary. I was up in Golspie at New Year and the big supermarkets were looking pretty bare- no supplies were able to get out of the central belt. But... Local stores seemed okay.
ReplyDeleteThe Caffeine withdrawal headaches are weird. Low level- not quite enough to take a pill for (and if you did take one you would probably be getting another fix of caffeine as it's usually an ingredient). But they only last a bit over a day. The main thing I notice after that, is I feel a bit "sleepier" or less sharp all the time, but that gets better quite quickly. As I say it may all be psychosomatic.