Interestingly I was reading an article from a news journalist who had given up alcohol and watched the pounds slip away just by eating moderately and increasing her exercise a little…It was pretty much what I have been saying as I have shared my Healthy eating plan with you…Although my son who has returned after a few months back in the Uk commented that I looked like I needed to eat a nice burger…haha…and was also overjoyed that the lovely bottle of Tanqueray Gin he bought me ( one) of my favourite tipples…meant as I was abstaining meant he could partake…Although I did enjoy one sundowner yesterday evening…

Followed by the remains of the Chicken Chettinad masala I had previously made and a little piece of nan bread.

Today I will be doing 10,000 steps as over the last few days we have been out and about and eaten out…Time to atone for my excesses although I have lost 1.5 pounds this week it seems on average I have settled into a 1 pound loss which over a month is 4/5 pounds I am happy with that…

How is your healthy eating going? Are you finding you are beset by craving crisps, chocolate…a doughnut dripping with jam…Then head over to Sally’s new series on why and how we can get over those cravings…and we all have them..Even me…

https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/smorgasbord-health-column-new-series-what-causes-your-cravings-part-one-dehydration/

We now get to the bit where I tell you about yet another crazy diet which makes all these celebrity doctors and actors very rich and us …Well, only a fool and his money are soon parted in the pursuit of a quick solution…Which will never work and may harm your health…People have died on this die(t)…

Wacky Diet Corner…Week 2…Breatharianism…

The Breatharian Institute of America promotes the diet and offer a workshop to help you get started for the low price of just $10,000, which, according to their website: “is not a misprint”. These courses are run by Wiley Brooks who previously charged up to 25 million dollars for his courses. Occasionally Wiley eats a cheeseburger and a diet coke claiming that when he’s surrounded by junk culture and junk food, consuming them adds balance.

To say I admire the man’s entrepreneurial genius is an understatement…Nuff said…I am very slightly speechless and gobsmacked…

Time for a recipe…This is one of the first Thai salads I ever ate years ago and a favourite of Aston who loves this salad as does Lily…

I used to hate squid with a passion…..the only squid I had ever tasted was those squid rings in batter..fried to death and tasting like a rubber tyre…that is until my son bought his Thai girlfriend home and she introduced me to this amazing salad with the softest squid I have ever tasted. Doesn’t that just look amazing?

Ingredients:

• 400 gm(14 oz) baby squid.
• 5 Spring Onions. (sliced)
• 5 sm shallots.( thinly sliced)
• 20 cherry tomatoes. ( halved)
• half sm cucumber sliced and quartered.
• Coriander big bunch or again to taste…I like lots…(chop)
• Mint. ( optional)
• 1-3 birds Eye Chillies chopped( seeds optional)
• 2 tbsp Fish Sauce.
• Half lime,  juice.
• Palm Sugar ( up to 2 tbsp ) again optional I don’t use it but depends on personal preference.

Let’s Cook!

Clean the squid. Getting all membrane off and remember to pull out the plastic quill.

Cut head/parrots beak off leaving the  tentacles(the best bit)

Slice squid into 3/4 to inch slices.

Heat a small amount of water in a pan and add squid,  cook until opaque less than a minute, Drain on kitchen paper and combine with other ingredients.

Again TASTE and check to season. You cannot taste too much. It is just getting those delicious Thai flavours of sweet, sour, spicy and salty just right for you..it took me a while so just keep tasting…Enjoy!

I hope that you have enjoyed reading this and that it proves helpful to you in your healthy eating journey xx

About Carol Taylor:

Enjoying life in The Land Of Smiles I am having so much fun researching, finding new, authentic recipes both Thai and International to share with you. New recipes gleaned from those who I have met on my travels or are just passing through and stopped for a while. I hope you enjoy them.

I love shopping at the local markets, finding fresh, natural ingredients, new strange fruits and vegetable ones I have never seen or cooked with. I am generally the only European person and attract much attention and I love to try what I am offered and when I smile and say Aroy or Saab as it is here in the north I am met with much smiling.

Some of my recipes may not be in line with traditional ingredients and methods of cooking but are recipes I know and have become to love and maybe if you dare to try you will too. You will always get more than just a recipe from me as I love to research and find out what other properties the ingredients I use contain to improve our health and wellbeing.

The environment is also something I am passionate about and there will be more on this on my blog this year

Exciting for me hence the title of my blog, Retired No One Told Me! I am having a wonderful ride and don’t want to get off, so if you wish to follow me on my adventures, then welcome! I hope you enjoy the ride also and if it encourages you to take a step into the unknown or untried, you know you want to…….Then, I will be happy!

More and more of my blogging friends have joined me on MeWe…A social media site which is fairly new and which promises much without the restrictions some other social media sites are choosing to impose on many of us…Join me if you will on  mewe.com/i/caroltaylor3 

Carol is a contributor to the Phuket Island Writers Anthology: https://www.amazon.com/Phuket-Island-Writers-Anthology-Stories-ebook/dp/B00RU5IYNS

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Thank you once again for reading this post I hope you all have a creative week ahead xx