Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: Rowan on June 29, 2013, 01:38:38 PM
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This made me laugh ;D I think I am a victim.
http://www.nwedible.com/2012/08/tragedy-healthy-eater.html
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Yep ;D - it is fashionable one day, bad for use the next ::)
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me too round and round in circles whats best for us whats not :-\ while my other half eats what he wants when he wants and is never ill ???
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I am doomed that's for sure.
My OH says that possibly the only thing left that is not bad for you is pepper.
When I think of when I was young there was none of this rubbish about what to eat about. We were not terribly well off and my mother had to make the pennies stretch so we ate cheap cuts of meat and white bread and butter. Full cream milk.....Don't think there was any other type on offer. Yogurt....What was that.
I want to go out with a glass of wine in one hand and a cream bun in the other......Oh and a smile on my face.
Honeyb
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Honeybun - I was thinking about our eating habits late last night. No processed foods. Not many choices of biscuits. Mums made meals from scratch. We tended to get the same meals the same nights of the week, i.e. beans on toast on a Monday for tea ...... roast dinner on Sunday.
Sometimes I think there's too much choice, it was take it or leave it when I was a kid ::)
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yep honey b lately i am thinking along these lines when i see the changes in feeding my grandkids to what i fed my three when they were little and i thankfully have 3 strapping healthy lads they always had full cream milk sugar in their tea plenty of cheese and sweets if they wanted some i never restricted them and they were never greedy with anything suppose you always want what you cant have :)
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I reckon we got away with eating a different diet in the "old days" because of the amount of exercise everything took just going about their daily life. My dad was a lorry driver which was really hard work - no power steering and having to sheet up his load several times a day was a brilliant work out. My mum did all the washing by hand with the help of her copper and her dolly and scrubbing board. Housework was harder too. Our sole heating source was the coal fire - we couldn't just turn the thermostat up when the room went cold but argued over who's turn it was to make a trip to the coal bunker with the coal scuttle. So is it not so much the diet but also the fact that we spend too much time sitting on our backsides at the computer (like me right now!) or in the car or watching tv.
You make a good point CLKD - when mum's were at home then a lot of the day could be spent making nutritious meals but for so many women nowadays their "at work" day ends around 5.30 and they then have to start again after picking up the children from the childminder/after school club. Who can blame them for going for the processed food option? I think that the younger generation of women have got it really tough - I don't know about "having it all" - it seems to be more of "having to DO it all" !!
Taz x
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I got a bit caught up in the buying very expensive stuff due to food scares.
When my son was little it was the time of mad cow disease. I ended up sending to Wales for organic meat.
I always fed my kids home cooked stuff and they did not have a clue what a Big Mac was. Now it's down to them....My influence has gone.
I don't generally buy ready meals but I am not out at work and totally understand why some people go for the quick alternatives.
Honeyb
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call me old fashioned but i have always like that way of life i was lucky enough to stay at home for my kids i know not everyone is but i cooked from scratch used to walk to the shops and carry fresh groceries nearly every day i had to get up first and light the fire for the back boiler to get the house and water warm then walk the kids to school it was always busy now i set the heating to come on as and when if i dont feel like cooking i order takeaway wouldnt dream of walking to fetch and carry shopping i drive but i would turn the clock back if i could :)
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It was only meant to be light hearted though, the blogger is an organic gardener and chef. It was very clever and amusing and that was how she meant it to be.
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there is some truth in it though :)
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Think we are lucky now because we have the choice of cooking from scratch and convenient foods and health foods :) My mum did not work and we always had lovely healthy meals to come home too, she was also into alternate health so we always had our vitamins to take too.
When we left home I don't think she did so much, and she loved Waitrose and Marks and Spencer food. I would live on M&S food ::) perhaps its those adverts ;D
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It was really funny SL but I think you have sparked an interesting discussion.
Funny how topics change and run.
Honeyb
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You can turn the clock back if you want to kerrieann. You don't have to use the car just because you can drive - not sure about the back boiler and the fire though - you may not have a chimney now. :D
I would turn the clock back to when mine were small but that's because I remember the good bits and not the awful times when they squabbled, refused to eat or go to sleep. I wouldn't want to turn the clock back to no internet, no central heating and waiting for the bus etc. though.
I haven't actually looked at the link! ;D
Taz x :)
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yes taz your right i probably remember the good bits my eldest 2 used to fight and squabble over everything :) just have to move along with the times i would miss the internet too and i suppose i forgot the times i waited for buses with bags of shopping in the rain not all good eh ;)
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You're not going to give it a go then..... ;D
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I would like to be the young me say from about 20 in 2013, think about all the exciting things that will happen in the next 50 years and more, I really don't want to miss any of it :'(
I want to be here when they find intelligent life on other planets and hopefully a cure for all the diseases and most of all a cure for old age (hopefully) and think what technology will be like.
I have a nostalgia for how it was for me up until about 15, I had a very happy childhood and grew up around the world but being a child in 2013 I think is just the best.
We have gone far from the link Taz ;D
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Hmmm a cure for old age would be a bit difficult SL unless we put a stop to any new people being born or were you thinking of shipping all the over 65's to the other planets!
Taz x
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taz think i will stick with things as they are maybe a few changes but not carrying bags of shopping, not with a bad back anyway ;D ;D
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I think I was thinking more of a healthy old age looking and feeling young until we died naturally, we would not be burden or a drain ( thinking NHS resources) and able contribute to society if we want to. Not living forever.
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Ah I understand that. Mind you if we are looking and feeling healthy which means we must be healthy then what would kill us off naturally? We need an expanding world to fit us all in!
Taz x
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Well I think that the heart must wear out eventually.
I was also thinking of the rise in pension age too, it assumes all people will be fit to work that long.
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Maybe once the heart has got to the level of unfitness where it makes us slow up and feel ill we could have a quick jab to oblivion. Yes, the rise in pension age is a worry - I can't imagine doing my job until I'm 65 - it's hard enough now to keep up with the four and five year olds ;D
Taz
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Does anyone believe that we are born with an infinite number of heart beats and once they are done then that's us.
If and when I go then I just want to go quick. Heart is counting down and when it gets to the last few hundred thousand beats I get a text message letting me know. I could then empty the fridge and do my hair and put a bit of lippy on.
If only it worked that way.
I really don't want to live as long as my mother. (Well they do say only the good die young).
Only trouble is we don't get a choice.
Honeyb
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Dad was up first to light the fire in the lounge
Mum followed to put the kettle on and prepare the toast/cereal
Mum shouted up stairs to wake us
Mum made sure we were out the door in time for the bus
Dad was already gone by then
Even when she worked there was a cooked meal on the table at night if we wanted or we could have a snack as we had school dinners
Shopping was done ona Sat.; to town 7 miles away to buy meat/fish/pastries from the butchers or market
Roast dinner on Sundays
Anyone remember Spam? or the first fish fingers or Angel Delight ;D ......... and tinned salmon, saved in our family for visitors!
As someone who is not familiar with the kitchen I admire anyone who is a keen Cook!
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As a keen "cook". I got my qualifications and did it for a living...in fact that's what i was doing when I met hubby. Well they do say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach ;D
After you have fed hundreds of people a week your keen ness kind of goes. I ended up hating food....Oh and people too ::)
I remember getting our first microwave....then how we ate really began to change.
Honeyb
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Somehow I missed some of the threads before mine :-\ ???
Genes has a lot to do with how we age ..........