The Healthy Lunch.
I reasoned that if I was at home all day, I would make nice healthy cooked lunches to eat, low in fat, high in nutrients – very earth motherish. Well it starts well. I get up early to prepare a packed lunch for Michelle almost every day – spinach salad with parma ham, olives and sundried tomatoes or perhaps an olive roll with hummus, lettuce and feta cheese – or maybe something special, homemade tabbouli with toasted pita and falafel… a whole range of ‘earth mother’ delights.

But after making my own lunches now for close on 17 months I can tell you it’s a myth. Really, just a myth. It doesn’t happen, well at least it doesn’t happen to me. Once I’ve finished the packed breakfast fruit salad and gourmet lunch for Michelle, I start doing the things I do during the day, you know, all the bits and pieces you have to get done. Filing, cleaning, tidying, washing blah blah blah – all the things you do when you’re a house ‘person’ keeping the house. When lunchtime comes all those magical recipes and good intentions have flown away… I usually end up eating a toasted cheese sandwich or noodle soup – or more commonly picking at leftovers in the fridge….

I guess I’m going to have to work on that.