The Big Tesco Shop

Giant Shopping Expedition With Uber Interesting Tips Surrounded By A Haze Of Yogurt-Coated Raisins Shame
having run out of seedy bread(gasp!) and turkey rashers(swoon!) i decide to make a mega list of ingredients compiled straight from my bible. Boy, it was a mega list.

But i couldn't find my rolled oats. I feel this is prophetic in many ways. However i did find nearly everything else, and have compiled this handy tip-selection for your tesco-shopping convenience:

almost all the ingredients that i couldn't find straight off were squirrelled near the bottom of the shelves - all the healthy living stuff, all the unusual ingredients, all the cheaper spices

i actually saved actual money of substance when i had onion powder, garlic salt, and cinnamon in my hand - all premium-brand, right - but found there was a whooole pound off for each of these when i bought tesco's own brand - i saved £3!! i can't quite get over it

healthy living cheese is expensive yet addictive, and comes in many addiction-sustaining varieties (i spent a lot on my cheese habit this week, but it's all lasted well, and tasty treats abound from this)

the brown rice i eat and waste so carelessly from the Tilda brand is soooo much cheaper than the normal variety! and the taste difference is negligible, says this observer.

the whole foods section at tesco is surprising filled with ingredients like Substance X and interesting bean-based concoctions

a tin of mandarins is cheaper than getting a bunch of tangerines, and you can always have both by encouraging your mother to buy the tangerines.

ry/i/vita is not as nice as "original cracker bread" and can't compete in the cardboard-like texture department

turkey slices are a lot more expensive than they used to be when i was younger

as is bread

this new-found knowledge is indispensable, so i felt i should pass it on to you guys.

Shame Of The Day: yogurt coated raisins.

Important Diet-Related Spiritual Change Of The Week: thinking yogurt-coated raisins are a) a sinful treat b) better than chocolate

I Needs Me Spinach

Trembling Workout On Wobbly Bike / Floorboards
1 x five minute warm-up in excercise shorts on squeaky bike
2 x set 20 reps bicep curls
2 x set 15 reps terrifying tricep curls involving much in the way of unstable behind-the-head action
2 x 10 reps sneaky core excerice
0 x five minute warm-down excercise on squeaky bike on account of i ran out of energy

having yet to lack the dignity needed to use a gym ball in my gym/front room, i'm still sorta stuck doing the deceptively easy core excercises which seem to endanger my poor old back, so i'm going to dig out some others to compliment my sweaty-pig regime. i do seem to give my trusty old bike a hard time, but it is sturdy enough to support my daily workout; it just doesn't do it quietly, and seems to find the damaged floorboard all by itself.

Distraction Television During Workout: the sad, sad end of the revenge of the sith - i admit fully that i often fill up to this movie

Hero Of The Day: yoda

Shock Bodily Function During This Blog Entry: 100kph sneeze

Snacks Hurrah!

Turkeylicious Snacks On Ry/i/vita
3 x crispy goodness in the form of previously untasty ry/i/vita
3 x bits of the nice deli turkey left over from this morning
1 x taaaall glass of orange juice
2 x suplimentary handfuls of sunflower seeds

...woot! and now i have to prepare for my second diet shop, which should be a bit less bamboozling when i'm not using one hand to read a hardback book in a moving vehicle at night.

Saviour Of The Day: my intellect, which handily remembered that i could snack instead of lunch!

Sucks.

No Lunch Today Because Of Stupid People Coming To The House
2 x awfully unfulfilling-looking handfuls of sunflower seeds
1 x lukewarm tea
1 x pervasive smell of kippers

bloody, bloody work. first, i couldn't get in the kitchen for the parental support unit cooking yukky kippers in a yukky haze, then i was going to rustle up some lunchy goodness, and now there's people in the house, so i can't get in the kitchen. swines.

this is all made worse by the fact there's a pork pie in the fridge i could be worrying right now.

Irritation Of The Day: knawing hunger with no way to assuage it / appetite ruined by the kitchen having the smell of all yuk in it.

Redemption Of The Day: realising i could stop whinging and have me another ubersnack whilst kicking people out of the way! hurrah!

Editorial Anxiety Of The Day: noticing that i've used the word "assuaged" twice on one blog page / wondering if i could sneak in "bourgeoise" again without anyone noticing

Family Guy

Ubergood Turkey On Crackers
4 x ry/i/vita crackers with quark (is there a ry/i/vita addicts anonymous? is there?)
4 x slices of "deli-style turkey" - often referred to, rarely seen
1 x seasoning of the pepper variety
1 x sprinkle o salt for the slightly too-dry turk-ley
1/2 of the rest of the christmassy mandarins - ho. ho. ho.
fresh pot of tea

oh - oh - oh sooooooo good. thank god i bullied my dad into getting me turkey slices from the co-op. sooooo worth it.

Icky Sticky Moment: quarkonmyfingers! quarkonmyfingers! aghh! getitoff! getitoff!

Best Family Guy Moment Experienced While Eating: meg's road rage in the slightly-off-colour season 6...

DJ Shadow

Turkey-less Breakfast Brunch
0 x turkey rashers because i ate them last night and now i'm rueful
2 x thin nimble bread that goes even thinner when you toast it
2 x (eep!) egg whites - oh, hell - watch this space for more on the "will i turn into an egg, and if so, will i just be the white?" experiments
1 x half fat cheese slice, zapped to perfection
1 x first cup of tea of the day - the best cup, as everyone knows
1 x wine glass of fruit juice

...in which i didn't really miss the turkey, and the egg should cover the protein. the cheese slice stole the show with its no-nonsense professionalism in the face of being microwaved - a nice, even melt - good spread, good spread.

Aesthetic Diet Moment Of The Day: putting the cheese slice on the egg in a pleasingly symmetrical triangle formation

Bourgeoise Moment Of The Day: drinking fruit juice out of a wine glass at half eight in the morning