easter diet

- pb toast
- 5x girl guide biscuits
- 1x marshmellow egg
- 2x mini choc eggs
- 1x kinder surprise
- 1/4 'jumbo' size kinder surprise
- lunch = avocado on toast, fried mushrooms, tomatoes and courgettes, scrambled eggs
- beer
- fried bread
- dinner = beans, cauliflower, brocolli, courgette and tofu with cous cous
- vodka (straight)
- burnt popcorn
- rum (straight)
- pb toast

how to eat healthy/thrifty/easy

since i'm not really working right now i am trying to be more frugal about how i eat whilst also still being healthy. here are some things i have been eating plus pro tips

cereal

i have 'just right' because there's a box that's been in my pantry for several months, still good though

milk is cheap enough, it's one of the communal food items in the flat, along with eggs, cheese and toilet paper. we take turns at buying these things

cereal is healthy i think

not like fruit loops or coco pops or anything, the real good oaty, fruity ones

also think i'm gonna buy porridge

put a bit of banana and cinnamon in there

could be real good

oh also cereal is not limited to a breakfast food

baguette w/ cheese and hummus

baguettes are only like $1.50 and at my supermarket and i feel whimsical walking around town with a baguette under my arm

cheese is real expensive but a necessary and versatile food item

butter: i buy 'sunrise' margarine or something

hummus (optional but recommended): hummus is expensive so if you buy it you have to put it on everything

toast

pretty much the easiest and most satisfying food

favourite spreadings are peanut butter, strawberry/rhubarb jam, marmite

have with tea

preferably outside in your garden

bananas

mate, just.. bananas

noodles

i enjoy the red "original" mi goreng

more about the thrift/ease factor than the health factor

actually it's a good idea to not use the sachets provided and just put other stuff you want in it, like you can use vegetable stock and other herbs etc

tofu salad

heads of lettuce are like $1.50 or something, even cheaper if i get it from the market

grate some carrot into there, at the market i can get like 5 carrots for 80c it's fucking out of control

tofu is pretty expensive, like $5 but you can get 3 or 4 meals out of it

soy sauce to marinate the tofu in, better than just plain ass tofu

various herbs to put in marinade

crispy noodles: idk how much they are, possibly a bit of a lavish purchase but goes real good in salads

basically i just put in whatever else i have in the way of vegetables and salad dressings

roast vegetable salad

just roast up some veges and put them in an effing salad as above

tip: steal food from your parents house, they won't even notice probably

tip: don't be afraid to let other people pay for your food, learn to embrace it

tip: make meals from all the food you have in your cupboard. bound to get something good eventually.

tip: dumpster diving: haven't done this yet but gonna get into it i think

tip: generally just eat fruit and vegetables and bread

tip: get yr fruit/veges from the market, if you live in auckland go to avondale markets. it's a really nice thing to do on a sunday morning, except if you are hungover then it is pretty unbearable. i also get my bread and tofu from here sometimes. so so cheap. also get those $1 kids lucky dip things.

tip: buy the second cheapest brand of a thing, that way you can feel good because you are buying cheap but aren't getting the worst quality possible

anyone else have any good tips?

my top blogs at the moment

Whip Up

This is the best craft blog I've come across by far. It's not weighed down with lots of "hurrahs" and "lovely" and cheesy stuff like that, but helpful links, tips and ideas about craft projects. Seriously cool shit like this list of ultimate geek knit and crochet.

Rhys Rodgers

Rhys is a poet and a friend of mine. I think he is also a very special person. He threw a party and filled the bath with beanbag beans. When he performs his poetry it is quite honestly one of the most mesmerising and awesome things of all time. His blog is filled with adorable little insights into his life.

Mrs Robertson Presents

This is a food blog written by my good friend and former colleague, Mrs Robertson. She chooses a vegetable (usually one that I wouldn't think to cook with) and makes something very very delicious. I have eaten her food before and can testify to its deliciousness. I find her blog well written and entertaining, because she includes anecdotes about soundtracks whilst cooking and miscellaneous things that happen in the Robertson household.

I Op Therefore I am

This is a blog about op shops in Melbourne. Anybody can join and write about their own op shop finds. It's not always interesting or well written and I guess it's sometimes annoying seeing other people find cool things, but I really like reading about the different op shops in Melbourne.

Virgule

I have to rather shamelessly plug the Voiceworks blog. Sometimes I post writing related things there. When I say 'sometimes' I mean I have done it once, but will totally do it again in the near future.

winter watchables and other enjoyables

For a little while I've wanted to do posts on here about things I find on the internet that I think other people should see. It's also quite plainly winter and the majority of things that I see are limited to my computer screen. I generally conjure up ideas for the posts at about 4am, but now I find myself with an idea at an appropriate time. Hooray!

First item is of most importance: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trailer. There are a few different versions going around, but m'colleague Stacey was kind enough to alert me to this new version earlier today. I am so invested in the series it's a bit frightening, but not as frightening as the ratio of quality acting to graphics and CGI (1:100). Emma Watson, will your boobs remain consistent throughout in this film (see: Prisoner of Azkaban)? Will you wear Burberry as you fight Death Eaters?



Another thing I found last night is this really cool adaptation of one of Basho's renku. He is one of the early haiku masters, for those who don't know (or at least this is my limited understanding of him). It's a collection of animations called Fuyu no Hi, apparently only released in Japan and France and somewhere else. Sooo if anyone's going there anytime soon, please pick me up a copy. Youtube does have each of the different animations (there are 36) but you know.. I just want it.



Other awesome things I've found over the last couple of weeks include a blog called 'this is why you're fat' (it's not like I was wondering) that just has all these ridiculously obese combinations of food. A bouquet of bacon! A cookie dough cheesecake! The normal reaction should be "oh god how could anyone eat that stuff"!?! But I'm sure I'd find a way.

Another resident favourite is the amaaaahhzing 'what Claudia wore', a breakdown of outfits mentioned in the Babysitter's Club series by Ann M. Martin. As an avid reader of that series and all its spinoffs, I was drooling all over the nostalgia and enjoying the rampant fandom from Kim Hutt, who writes the blog.

While I'm at it, I really like the teatowels that this cool guy from Liverpool makes, this gorgeous site of felt wares that m'colleague featured on her blog recently - oh I do love Kiwis! I wish Australia had a trademe equivalent. I keep discovering awesome things that I want to make, buy, eat or do but I am so poor that the first thing I need to get is a job! In the meantime, there's always cute blogs - my housemate alerted me to this adorable food blog called Epicute. So freakin' sweet.

And also I am in love with everyone at Voiceworks mag and if you live in Melbourne I hope you're going to come to the launch of the next issue on Friday, where I will be pretending to fit in with these really nice people who have foolishly accepted me into the fold (their folds? creepy). I was also spurred on to read this speech by David Foster Wallace. I've wanted to read Infinite Jest for some time now and it seems to be really rather important.

I'm also going to, for the umpteenth time, attempt to begin to crochet. My internet will be uncapped later this week and I intend to indulge myself in various tutorials. Although I find the abundance of exclamation marks and cheeriness wholeheartedly offputting, meet me at mike's is somewhat helpful.

Anyway I think I've got half a pudding in the fridge.