Tuesday 23 February 2010

"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" good one Kate!



"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" even though I can see why that is such an irresponsible thing for Kate Moss to have said I can't help but laugh at the genius of it. If I was skinny I think I'd have to have a tee shirt with those immortal words printed across my bony chest. I can't help but walk around places such as the lovely Leicester and Liverpool city centres ( I get to go to all the glam places!) and look at all the grotesquely obese people and think 'hey, take a leaf out of Kates book!'. It does seem like the Uk is in a bit of a strange place when it comes to bodies, at one end of the spectrum we seem to have a derth of teenage girls, with boys now starting to join in as well, who are literally dying to become skinny. Starving themselves to fit in with the way many females are portrayed in the media, model like clothes horses with long gangly arms and legs. At the opposite end of the spectrum we have obese toddlers brought up by obese parents who moan about not being able to find clothes in a size 26 (although ASOS has now given them a helping hand with it's Curve range, if you're interested). I'm left wondering if there are indeed any normal people left in the world, seen as every time I go to H&M all the 10's are long gone, I'm presuming there must be. I find both extremes quite disturbing but what's the solution?

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Channelling cafe chic darling

I'm totally reliving the student diet days at the moment. This year I'm channelling the caf menu which includes gourmet broad beans drizzled in a rich orange jus on wholegrain rustic pain and fromage de cheddar on a bed of plum tomato tapenade on French campagne bread.

These dishes may be more familiar to you under the more popular names of beans on toast & cheese and ketchup on toast! Cheap, low in fat and calories and damn tasty, embrace cafe chic darlings, it's all the rage!