Small pleasures

Cheering and clapping for you on the other side of the pond.

I remember waaay back when the New You thread was going I tried giving up sugar. If I'm not mistaken I was preparing to lo carb. One day I took an extra cup and sat it by the coffee pot, and everytime I had coffee I put the same amount of sugar into the cup that I put into my coffee. I was shocked at the end of the day to see with my own eyes just how much sugar I was ingesting in a day just in my coffee alone. It was over 1/2 a cup.

Have you given up crisps??

Funny how your taste buds eventually adjust, isn't it. We stopped putting salt into food as we cooked it when DD started having solids, and now my desire for salt has gone right down. Things that used to be fine now seem very salty to me.

Crisps, however, that's another matter . . . (Although funnily enough DD acts as a kind of inadvertent moral pressure on that one. I don't feel that I can just pop out to the shop and buy a packet now, because I don't feel it's right to do it when she's there. Is that daft?)

Zillah

though I'll admit that most of my junk food sessions happen when the kids are in school or asleep, and their own junk food intake is carefully rationed or now. Maybe I'm not really the one to comment on other people's eccentricities!

Kerri.

I find that good quality tea makes the difference. I don't drink as much as the average Brit would I'm betting, but I do down a big Brown Betty pot or two a week. Because I don't drink it every day I buy reaaalllly good tea. Doesn't need anything but itself.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor