Lunch

Settling on a standard lunch is another way of simplifying food choices and eating wisely.

For now, I'm having a corned beef and salad sandwich on weekdays. Current bread choice is this one from Burgen, partly because it's low GI and partly because it's high in iron. Tastes good, too (I found another wholemeal one with added iron, but it tasted like pap. Much prefer this one). Sambo ends up about an inch thick with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, Spanish onion, carrot etc.

Bevvy: Diet Coke

Weekends: if I'm out and about, Subway offers healthy possibilities - current favourite is honey oat bread, 6in, not toasted, ham, Old English cheese, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, capsicum, Spanish onion, carrot and a little mayo. I wandered through a shopping centre food court a while ago, and it wasn't easy to find something appropriate - lots of brown food, fried food, food that would fall outside healthy eating parameters. I don't write this to sound smug, or like the food police - it was just really interesting to scan the offerings and see how little there was to choose from if you were aiming to eat healthily, and manage a general 'plate' of 1/2 veg, 1/4 protein, 1/4 carb, low fat food.