A necessity

We had snow... our little one loved it

When I wrote my ' like the old days' post last month and mentioned soup making, I didn't realise that it would become a necessity.

The sore mouth has meant I've eaten quite a lot of soup, some days having it for both lunch and dinner. Weetabix has also featured heavily. The soup was quick to make and I could sit down to peel and chop veg when my legs were wobbly.

I've been using up the carrots I bought cheaply in the supermarket before Christmas,  along with long forgotten about bags of frozen veg. With added onions, garlic, water, stock cubes and seasoning, the veg has become something tasty and relatively easy to eat.

I've still got bags of parsnips, so I'll be using some of them later in the week to make curried parsnip soup as a change from carrot, broccoli and cauliflower. The rest will be roasted with onions, carrots, peppers and tomatoes, and will be the main part of more meals for me, just adding some protein like tinned mackerel.

Anything from Christmas that I might have been tempted by has now been eaten, and I'm hoping I'll feel well enough for some gentle exercise tomorrow. 

Simple food, some exercise, and feeling more in control makes me feel a lot better as a whole, but I am longing for my mouth to feel OK enough to eat a chopped Granny Smith apple with Greek yoghurt and a sprinkle of muesli, as it's my favourite thing to eat.