Friday, December 25, 2015

Beans

Neighbor stopped by with a treat. Gave her the Panettone we'd gotten from Trader Joe's a while back. Much as I love it, we've eschewed high-carb foods, and I've rather gone off anything bready or cakey generally. Planned to bring it to work, but... meh. Rather give it to neighbors. May get a very small one and call it plenty and more.

Will take parental bread-gift to work. Not sure what to do with neighbor-bread-gift yet. Likely the same fate. It will be et, surely.



So proud of Dylan for taking his health in hand, which has got us both eating better, walking more. I'm joining in mostly, not worrying that I "should" do more. Calling it better and moving along.


Researching Hogmanay, probably re-reading Hogfather, working on next week. In our small, agoraphobic, introverted way. No beans, certainly.

6 comments:

Lucy said...

We have a gift panettone sitting around, I don't much like them anyway and certainly at this time more sugary starch is the last thing I want to have to get through. I've heard they make good bread and butter pudding, but again we don't do dessert much other than the seasonally inevitable ones, might get some people round for brunch to eat it later.

All the very best for the season to you and Dylan; I think I like Christmas best as a season, not just one day.

Pam said...

Happy Boxing Day. Reading your blog always makes me happy; you seem so content with D, your cats, your house. Lovely!

Zhoen said...

Lucy,
It's still one of my favorites, but I want a slice or two, not the whole thing. Love the aroma, and that it's not too sugary.

Pam,
Oh, thank you. I like to think I'm a force for happy and not evil. Happy Box Day!

the polish chick said...

i make bread pudding from them, although this morning i finished off a chunk for breakfast as is.

eating well is its own reward. i find that when i travel i don't eat as well - and my two weeks in poland were a feast of amazing bread and dairy simply because it was so damn good - no guilt, though. my rule is thus: if i enjoy it, then no guilt. if i shove something mediocre in my face and find it meh, THEN i feel guilty. but even then not for too long, just long enough to kick me in the right direction again. right now my diet is 60% mandarin oranges because tis the season and i love them.

once again, merry and all that! and i'm with lucy - i like the season, not just the day.

Zhoen said...

pc,
Panettone pudding sounds amazing. Still, with just me eating it... not going to happen. There was a time, but I can't do that anymore. Not for obligatory external reasons, it no longer appeals to me and my body objects.

I've been eating a lot of those teensy oranges as well. Finally ate the excellent grapefruit from our lovely hand surgeon. She does this for us every year, and it's such a welcome relief from all the crap.

Nimble said...

Citrus season, yay! The pomegranates I bought in December were excellent too.