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Food Got You Down?

November 18th 2010 18:03

For the last while I felt down, not up, un-perky, demotivated, grumpy, tired, sore, and just overall icky. I thought grumpy thoughts, spouted tired greetings and did unmotivated work. I stopped posting on this blog. I sat around eating couscous with jam and chocolates and pasta and I wondered why I was feeling so lacklustre.

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France is not the place to give up dairy

September 20th 2010 22:24

One of the few restricted diets with which I am not well acquainted is dairy-free. So when my room mate informed me that she might have to go dairy-free for a while (apparently she finds it much easier to recover from things like colds if she doesn't eat dairy) I thought it would be an awesome idea to give it a go as well. All I can say is Epic Fail.

I think the longest time I managed to spend without slipping up was 16 hours. I was asleep for eight of those

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Special Dietary Requirements: Vegetarians

September 7th 2010 22:03

Chances are that you have a friend who is a vegetarian (or vegan, or pescatarian, or pollotarian, or ovo-lacto-vegetarian). It's hard to come across firm statistics, but I've seen figures of between 2% and 5% of Australians who describe themselves as vegetarians. If you're anything like me, you like to have people at your house, and you like to serve them something special. If you're very like me, you even secretly hope they like your food so much that they talk about it when you're not there. Now it turns out that vegetarians and the like are often the easiest guests to impress, if only because they are so often served a bowl of limp lettuce while everyone else has a steak on the BBQ.

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Special Dietary Requirements: Gluten-Free

August 12th 2010 12:13

Since so many of our foods are wheat-based here in Australia and the West, it can be difficult to cook for someone who doesn’t eat gluten. And the most difficult of all your gluten-free guests will be a person with an extreme case of coeliac disease.