2-to-1 month...

Yesterday, Hwsgo and I went shopping together. For food for each of our respective houses. Hwsgo helpfully put my shopping in front of his at the checkout. And it was more than a little embarassing. Hswgo: mainly fruit and veg, passata, some alcohol (champagne, I think). Me: bread, potatoes, tinned soup (tomato and scotch broth), baked beans. No veg. No fruit. Now admittedly that was because I wasn't sure whether I'd be visiting the fruit and veg market at the weekend, but it still didn't look good, and Hwsgo was at pains to point out a) my terrible diet and b) the ingredients in the tins (baked beans: sugar and salt; passata: mostly tomatoes).

So we tried again today. Spent most of my shopping time in the fruit and veg section, as advised (by Hwsgo). And when we got to the checkout with that lot and counted things up, we found that it had a 2:1 ratio of healthy things to eat (like green stuff) versus less-healthy ones (like bread). And since I don't have a theme yet for this month (still being on the Tesco-less diet), it's become 2 to 1 month. Every time I buy a foodstuff that isn't on the 5-a-day list, I have to buy 2 that *are* on the list. Oh, and I have to eat in that ratio too. Buying: not so difficult. Eating: almost bloody impossible, but I will at least try. It's only a month. Only a month...

But what *is* on the list? Hwsgo assures me that potatoes aren't, and apples definitely are, but what else? Ah - looking at the NHS site, pretty much anything fruit-ish or veg-ish that's not a potato. Passata counts (annoyingly), as does veg in soup. And if I eat 2 pieces of fruit a day, that should keep my ratios up okay. It's already started though: I went out to pick up some bread, which meant coming home with 2 french sticks and 4 assorted greenish things (rocket, mango, sprouts - yum-, and something green that I've already wiped from my memory). It amused Hwsgo though...