WEEK 9 - Food for Thought

One of my more favoured past-times is eating. When I am not think worldly thoughts while out training, I am regularly envisaging what my next meal will be. I often return from sessions famished and head straight to the cupboard. Last week was a prime example - I hunger flatted majorly on my ride about 15km from home. I was in all sorts as it was about to start pouring down rain, so I had to ride quick to beat the downpour, but I was sooo hungry that even pedalling was difficult...ah the dilemma. The motivation to get home was the reward of a crunchy bowl of corn flakes at the end (because that was literally all that was in the cupboard). When I finally made it home (dizzy head and all) and dumped my bike, I downed the bowl of my favourite cereal without even taking off my helmet. Almost instantaneously my energy returned and I could once again think intelligent thoughts...disaster averted.

Cornflakes and honey are my number one food at the moment. I have a habit of consuming the same food religiously for weeks on end, until there comes a stage where I can't even look at the food let alone eat it. I often find that because I eat more than the average person, it is quite a task to constantly think of foods to eat, therefore being the very reason I will consume copious amounts of the same food until I can no longer. So cornflakes is that food at the moment. It's sad because I know there will be a time when they'll have to leave my life, but for now we have a pretty good thing going on.

When looking for a snack I try to pick foods that taste good, are cheap, will fill me up, and have some nutritional value (the latter often lacking). At the moment my 'vogue' foods are the trusty cornflakes and honey, choc honeycomb muesli bars from Aldi (soo good, but so not good for you), bbq chickens (they've almost reached their limit), white bread cheese toasted sandwiches (supporting the lack of nutritional value dilemma I face) and spaghetti bolignaise (I don't think I'll ever tire of a good spag bog).


Other foods that have been done to death and therefore are no longer on the menu include porridge, milkshakes (made entirely of just milk), tinned tuna, tinned chicken, protein powder, red capsicum (weird), fish fingers, muesli, egg+rice+soy sauce (used to be a favourite lunch item), eggs on their own (which is very disappointing as I really did used to enjoy a good egg and they are very good for you), Cheerios, Le Rice, apples and Continental pasta packs.

As you can see , there in no consistency in the type of foods that I obsess over. Once I find a food I like, I will stick to it until my taste buds have had enough. It is quite possibly not the best eating habits to have, but gone are the days when I would come home after a hectic day at school and dinner would be served on the table, so one must do what one must do to survive the daily rigours of hunting, gathering and cooking for oneself. As such I must be off to make some dessert (vanilla ice cream with milo on top...mmm!)

On other unrelated notes, I start back at uni tomorrow (part-time Nutrition...very appropriate), and have just updated the news section on my website, check it: www.madeleineoldfield.com

Until next time,

Eat an Aldi choc honeycomb museli bar...you will never look back.