My plumber just left which is why I'm running a little late. Sorry to anyone who thought they might be able to wriggle their way out of this today...

Food so far:

Breakfast - crunchy nut cornflakes (packet recycled, will be buying today!) with semi-skimmed milk. Not organic. Tea also with milk, no sugar.

Lunch - wholemeal slice of supermarket bread, ketchup and a fancy pork and leek sausage with far too thick a skin. Sausages are just total disasters for anyone who really wants to know what they're eating. The packaging was gone from mine (leftovers) but it did say 73% meat. That's relatively high on sausages, but for those who didn't know, 'meat' can include all kinds of nasties. There's an allowable level of fat anyway, but it can also include all kinds of gristle and tendons! Glad I finished lunch before starting here, and I'm not going down for a second one.

Here's an unexpected ingredient - turmeric in my hard (boiled) sweets last night. They have some goodies in like vitamin C and fruit juice but the turmeric surprised me, even in sweets from Singapore. I assume it's for colour (they were apple flavoured, so green). I'd far rather they use turmeric for colour than a chemical derivative.

Anybody found anything nasty yet?? I'm going grocery shopping later so I shall try to take my awareness with me, though I don't have a huge amount of time for reading labels.

Maybe by the end of the week we might have all found something so revolting we can actually cut that item out altogether... That's not a challenge, but if you do resolve to cut something out as a result of this, or to buy differently then then of course we all want to know.

Just saw an article about the connection between what we eat and our mental health. The reseachers admit that this is only an early finding but it's certainly nothing we don't already suspect. To boil it down - eat more fatty acids (fish!). For the full article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4610070.stm

no major surprises, but we still need the reminders. There was another article linked from that about one man's fight with chronic depression.

So what's going on in your house/head this fine Monday?? Doesn't have to just be food. If you haven't checked in from last week's challenge perhaps there's something you can discreetly do to fix that. You can still take your action even if you're too shy to tell us about it.

Kerri.