I don’t need sugar, I’m sweet enough. Stupid saying, but I really don’t crave sugar. I like savoury. It has become much clearer since lockdown and the restricted shopping. The options on what to buy have been reduced. I feel for people that need gluten free food, with the flour shortage they have their only food options grabbed by others.
For example. I use a lot of tomato puree. It use it to make sugar free sauces and dips. I use it on cheese free pizza. And a lot of other things. But if you can only buy three items of any kind it sort of reduces the options. One of the things I really like is a spicy salsa that I make myself. Anybody that knows me knows that I have a weakness for crisps – so I have taken to a bran based something (whatever is available and sugar free) dipped in my home made salsa as a snack. But both the healthy bran products and puree have been very limited.
I have never been a great supporter of the “shops selling us food that is bad for us” as the reason so many people eat badly, I think we get what we demand. But seeing how few options there are for healthy variations has started to make me wonder. There are certainly lots of unhealthy options. And there are more relatively healthy options in the sweet range than the savoury range.
On the good side I have now found a supplier of my ginger drink (sugar free 100% ginger). Saves me drinking too much coffee.
I am also getting really good results from the garden. My bottle greenhouses are working really well, so I expect a good crop later this year.
In case you are wondering – I have cut the bottle just above the soil level, and used castellations to fit it back together. It works pretty much without water. I now need some bigger bottles (5l kind) to get a system to challenge Mic’s kitchen hydroponic lab. I need to look at how I can develop this without soil.
Moving the car to make easy access for my delivery yesterday has led to some interesting responses. Neighbours have been very inquisitive. I wonder if they think I am building a toilet paper store with the wood I had delivered.
Maybe I should, but I think a fire proof safe would be the best thing to put at the center of that.
Anyway, time for my home-made sugar free tomato soup.