Doing the maths

  After yesterday's carry on about healthy eating, and in case you missed the memo, here's a few tips for how you can make a difference in your life. Let's start with the low hanging fruit, the obvious suggestions like choosing to stay away from ultra processed food. This is anything full of preservatives, stabilisers, sweeteners and all sorts of ingredients you don't recognise and wouldn't know where to buy. I'd limit your consumption of those even if you don't care about your health but that's another conversation.

  A more subtle version of that suggestion is to really minimise the amount of ready meals (and derivatives of) and takeaways that you eat. In short, anybody who is either running a takeaway or supplying a supermarket is more interested in profit than your health so will be using cheaper, inferior and less healthy ingredients.

Part of a healthy diet. But only occasionally.

  That's the 'don'ts' taken care of so what about the 'do' list? If, as I've suggested, you're not buying food someone else has cooked, this probably means doing some cooking yourself and, before you think I'm a total killjoy, as long as you're cooking for yourself using fresh ingredients, you can eat pretty much whatever you want.

  Although, of course there is the caveat that I recommend balance so make sure to include lots of colourful vegetables with your burger and chips. Baked beans are also fine if they don't come out of a tin. (Homemade baked beans are easy and delicious as well as containing a lot less sugar). Are you starting to sense a theme yet? Of course you are, so all that's left is asking yourself if you want to embrace this idea?

  You may also want to consider eating less. Probably the easiest way is to pile less on your plate and eat slower, oh, and I'd also highly recommend making sure your meat and eggs are free range and organic. Before you stick two fingers up at me, a couple of reminders. Firstly, all I'm suggesting is that you aim to make your meals at least as healthy or slightly healthier than they are now. And secondly, you know I eat like a monk a lot of the time but I also indulge myself occasionally without rocking the boat irreparably so this new plan isn't a life sentence, just a new life style.

Kirk out

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