The Anonymous Widower

A Cure For Obesity

There was a discussion on BBC Radio 5 yesterday about the link between obesity and lack of exercise. So I texted in my four pennyworth.

I’m going away for a few days, so I cleared up the junk mail in my hall. There was enough from fast food restaurants to heat my house for a couple of days. Perhaps if you’re obese you could be sentenced to delivering these leaflets, as the exercise might help.

The program liked it and read it out.

But on a serious note, should it be made illegal for fast food companies to distribute leaflets through peoples doors without a paid-off licence.

Perhaps someone should be paid to distribute simple recipes through the doors.

How many people receiving a very tasty and healthy recipe from say Sainsburys, would actually buy the food and cook it?

I’ve lived with only two women for most of my life; my mother and my wife. Neither were innovative cooks and often we ate the same food in rotation. As an example, I can’t remember either finding a recipe in the paper or seeing it on the television and then cooking it.

I may lack cooking skills, but I am not unadventurous, so if I see a simple recipe, I’ll often buy the ingredients and cook it.

Perhaps to improve the food in this country, we all need to be less afraid of experimenting.

Last night I cooked this simple fish recipe from Mary Berry. Tonight, I’ll cook a sausage and bean casserole from Lyndsey Bareham in The Times. This gives me two portions, one for tonight and one for the fridge. As I’m going away tomorrow until Friday, the second portion will be there ready when I return late on Friday, if I need it.

October 14, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | Food, Health | Obesity