Alright. As referred to a couple of days ago, here’s what Eating like an Adult means to me:

• Wine is for weekends (and so is any other alcohol)
• Take breakfast and lunch to work every day
• Cook dinner most nights
• All baked goods consumed must be home made
• If goods are going to be baked, a raw option must be seriously considered first
• Food preparation and planning is essential. Bulk shopping and cooking will happen on Sundays or Monday nights
• One coffee per day- two on weekends
• Work towards the long black with milk. Work away from the latte.
• Craving something sweet? Eat fruit
• Craving something sweet? Eat some good fat
• No bread, no rice
• Eat as little sugar as possible. The WHO recommends 6 teaspoons a day- aim for that
• Dessert is a sometimes food. So is chocolate.
• Have Loving Earth or Pana Chocolate in the house at all times, and eat sparingly when required
• Re-visit raw chocolate mousse
• In times of Take-Away, there will be no rice and no roti consumed
• No diet soft drink. No full-sugar soft drink. No juice.
• Water and mineral water, lots of it
• Focus on good protein and lots of vegetables at meal times
• Protein doesn’t need to be meat
• Make home made hommus
• Love cooking. Invest time into cooking. Reinvigorate cooking as a hobby.
• Figure out how to satisfy the 3 pm craving at work. Cook or bake accordingly.
• Eating out? Soup is a good choice. You always enjoy it more than you think you will.
• Eating out? Choose the most delicious looking meat-and-veg dish you can see on the menu. You might like the idea of the pasta, but you’ll like the taste of the other dish more.
• Choice between salad and chips? Go the salad
• Read the packets. Stick with the natural stuff. If you’re going to eat pre-made, then make sure the ingredient list looks like a recipe list.
• Control the food fomo. When there’s lots of food on offer, take only what you need (not what you want)
• Listen. Is your body hungry? Are you bored? Are you dehydrated?
• Know what qualifies as a special occasion. Choose your moments to indulge/celebrate.
• Do not indulge on a daily/weekly basis
• If you’re going to eat like a kid, at least make it worth doing (don’t eat the really bad high-calorie food. Eat the really good high-calorie food. Choose the cheese over the chips)
• The following foods are not to be eaten every single day, but nor are they to be associated with guilt when consumed:
  – Sweet potato
  – Cheese
  – Loving Earth or Pana Chocolate
  – Any ‘raw’ home-baked goods
  – Corn
  – Barley/Quinoa
• Eat nothing from service stations. Eat nothing from fast food outlets.

So there you go. I might come back to this list and add stuff- I might decided some of it’s not so adult after all. I might call this list The Rules- or I might find that restrictive, and not. We’ll see!