Pittza!

Why did I never think of this before? Cheats pizza. (Or you may prefer “healthy” pizza…)

Zap a pitta bread or two in the toaster, cut open, slather in passata (stick some oregano leaves in there if you’re feeling all cordon bleu), fling on some torn mozzarella, fry off some red onion and red pepper and bung them on too, shove under the grill until the mozzarella is just about the way you like it… And my very favourite touch, add some shaved courgette and a sprinkling of parmasan before finishing off.

Yummy scrummy! I only just stopped scoffing in time to take a photo!

I’m thinking it’ll make a quick, impressive lunch one day when friend’s are around! Alternatively, it might just be all I eat for quite some time. 😉

What’s your favourite, flung together meal?

Nom, nom, nom

Nom, nom, nom! That there was my dinner last night. Sometimes it really feels like an effort to eat your greens – but this was simple and delicious!

I am posting it today because I just ate syrup sponge and custard! For the longest time I have been trying to cut down my sugar intake because it messes with my energy and I’m just a little bit dependent on it! And it’s always available if I happen to be in the office at work. Which isn’t great if you happen to be one of those people that skips breakfast…

I can only assume this is how people feel when they give up smoking! Wow, how hard it is to cut down your sugar intake!

Apparently this might not all be my own weak will power though! I am fascinated with the human brain; we know so much but so little about it and what it allows us to do is just phenomenal! So I read that habits are formed in the basal ganglia which makes them largely unconscious and therefore difficult for us to break. To combat this, we need to make ourselves aware of the habit so that we begin to use the prefrontal lobes more when indulging in the habit. This brings it under our conscious control and therefore gives us the choice to stop the habit.  (Do not take my word for this nor add it to your CV as a budding neuro-scientist because I have no idea where I read it or whether it’s right.)

So far, noticing when I have eaten sugar or when I am craving sugar has done little to stop me from going right ahead and munching it all up! So clearly my neurons have not yet rewired themselves!

What do you find most difficult to cut down or out?