I always used to have tuna, sweetcorn and pineapple pizza on the way home from the pub when I was about 15

 

Charred watermelon @GingerNinja
SACRILEGE!!!

 

Fruit loops, the lot of you 😂

 

Watermelon, radish, feta, mint and pine nut salad is really nice too

 

Cod wrapped in pancetta with watermelon salad. Mmmm.

 

Look @BarneyBobCat this is what a jam and custard crimpit looks like….

 

Well, something terrible has happened. I think I've gone off steak, usually my absolute favourite! 😩 We stopped at Tebay Services farm shop 3 weeks ago, to stock up, on the way home from holiday in Scotland and I had a lovely sirloin on the bone that evening. Unfortunately, in the early hours, I came down with the sickness and 💩 bug that my husband had while we were away and all the lot came back (sorry if you're squeamish)! I tried the below sirloin at weekend, which I'd frozen, and I struggled to eat it. I actually felt quite sick after it. I'm quite shocked and a bit gutted, especially as I had to freeze a Tebay T-bone too when I was ill, as I couldn't even look at it. I don't know if I'll ever be able to face it! Think I need counselling!! 😯

 

Just give it a while for the memories to fade and you will be grand (or you can post the meat to me!)

 

Just give it a while for the memories to fade and you will be grand (or you can post the meat to me!)

I thought 3 weeks was a while! I'll give it a bit longer, thanks for the postal option though!! 🤣

 

I still struggle with chili gone barmy after an episode about 10 years ago - sorry @DolomiTTe 🤣

 

I was really ill after mussels three years ago and I'm now scared to have them incase I've developed an intolerance. Shame as I love them 😠

 

It transpired I had a gastric infection and coincidentally ate a curry the day after it was all starting…I vommed in a bush after a postnatal visit after running down several flights of stairs in a tower block. I thought I was going to be sick on their floor.

I ate only beige food for several months. It took me close to six months to eat anything non beige and I started with carrots, peas and tomatoes.

I cannot go into a curry house even now and that was easily 12 years ago!

 

I have a Breville Toaster Oven with what is supposed to the best air fryer toaster oven. And I’ve made pizzas, baked chickens, baked breads/cookies in mine. It’s especially great if you want to bake one or two potatoes or a few chicken breasts without having to heat the entire oven.

 

I bought one of these last week, I remember my dad using one when I was a child in the 70s.

I gave it a try last night to make some thin fries to go with the piri piri chicken. Did them in beef dripping (would have been rude not to) and they are probably the best fries I've ever had! It comes with two sizes of cutter so you can make thicker chips too.

 

Daughter cooked dinner tonight. Very tasty.

 

Omg I could eat all that bread right now! 😁

 

Extra tasty because you didn't have to cook it yourself too Yum!

 

And me - bruschetta one of my all time favs!!!

 

Food coma incoming

 

Pppffffft. I've decided I'm never buying cucumber again. Urgh. I dislike them so much!

Here's a tale for you. We had friends here this weekend, then extra friends came for dinner...well, I was making Bahian curry which called for two tins of coconut milk. I may have been a touch tiddly. Maybe. Ahem. I opened one and chucked it in the pan, opened the next and thought, "Why is my coconut milk orange?"...almost chucked it in the pan in my tiddly state but didn't. Read the side and it was beans 🤣

So we had beans on toast for tea tonight when I got home late from work.

Good job I'd made the meringue nest fake Eton mess pudding before I was tiddly, all that strawberry chopping!

 

Bean vermicelli and chicken, with baby spinach and piquante peppers in a chicken stock

 

That looks yummy 😋

 

It was GN😋

 

I'd been fancying a pork chop so got a beauty from a local farm shop and had it for tea with potatoes grown in my garden 😋

 

I'd been fancying a pork chop so got a beauty from a local farm shop and had it for tea with potatoes grown in my garden 😋 View attachment 591178 View attachment 591179 View attachment 591180 View attachment 591181

Mmmm I love a pork chop! and lovely spuds

..... but where are the vegetables?

 

Wowsers @BarneyBobCat that's quite the chop!

 

I got given a random overgrown courgette today. Cut it in half and gave half to my neighbour. Part roasted it in big slices then added a sort of bolognese (mince and lentil and veg) to it then topped with cheesy breadcrumbs. It was surprisingly tasty but I have realised you really can’t eat the skin lol!

 

New one tonight, aubergine roasted with garlic, honey and goats cheese, topped with pine nuts. It was much nicer than I thought it would be! Served with a few leaves and olive ciabatta.

 

Random 2am thought.....those of you that drink alcohol and then eat...does food taste different?
I remember friends getting kebabs when drunk that they said they'd never normally eat. It's never a nice, healthy salad though is it, so maybe it would be no help to me.

My diet has been spectacularly dreadful over the summer, lived off crisps and ice cream for 3 months. Been the hottest summer ever. When the hottest part broke a week ago (down to 30) I tried sweetcorn again and garden peas. Unfortunately neither would stay down. I did manage some green beans, found some very young frozen ones, but haven't dared try them again. Feeling a bit despondent about it all.

To end on a positive note, all your food photos look like food. Which is amazing to me.

 

Oh @Jaf I’m sorry you’ve had a tough summer with food. You’ve just got to keep trying, it’s all you can do. Don’t force it though. There’s something about toddlers when having new foods needing to try a food ten times before they can actually decide they don’t like it, don’t know if that’s similar for you?

As for food and alcohol, that’s when I eat more crisps! I don’t “get” the glass of wine with food thing as I think both taste worse. I like a kebab with or without alcohol though, to be fair. I would often eat weird pizza combos though if I was drunk (like have tuna and sweetcorn on a pizza). I’m quite brave with food generally, though I always turn to beige in times of illness.

I wish I could help. I’m sad you have this battle involving something that you need to do every day.