Spots or salad?

With all this talk on Chocolate and Beyond of egg custards, naughty curry and cream doughnuts, you’d think I was eating a diet of white flour, ghee, sugar and dairy fat. But I have to confess, I am fairly conscious of how much goodness from my food I’m getting (or not).

I don’t feel good – both physically and mentally – if I don’t fuel my body with nourishing food. On the occasions where my diet hasn’t consisted of sufficient amounts of vegetables and fruits, I tend to feel sludgy and stodgy and can’t wait to start eating well again. I especially know this has happened when I get spots on my forehead (and I’m happy to say blemishes are not generally my burden).

I love eating fresh food though. Okay, so I don’t think I could ever go raw, as admirable as I think it is (I can’t stop reading Karen Knowler’s blog for hints on how I can bump up the raw food content of my own diet), but I do think there is lots of room for improvement.

I’ve started increasing my intake of energy-boosting mineral-laden vegetables by using a juicer. Some of the veggies you can’t imagine eating without morphing them into an alien lifeform and covering with butter are surprisingly palatable when juiced (but not green beans, see my book review for The Big Book of Juices and Smoothies). And another bonus, it’s one way of getting health into your kids without them even noticing the shifty tricks you’re trying to pull.

A ‘gift’ of pimples is usually a sign my diet hasn’t been as superior as it should be, so as I’m a firm believer in ‘we are what we eat’ (I always thought egg custards were rather attractive myself, even the wobbly bits?), my latest Tesco Online order (lazy bones or busy woman?) is packed with goodies like Medjool dates, sunflower seeds, organic spinach and red berries.

Time to eradicate those spots and fine tune my body with fresh food, me thinks.