The Great British Vomitorium

Well, thinking about doing something has to precede doing it, ga. Raising consciousness of a need is always worth doing.

I recently saw hinSELFness in a panel discussion program on tv.

He was quite obnoxious, sneery, patronising and aggressive, so stopped listening.

I agree reading what he has to say might be a better option.

In our house I often feed large numbers so Christmas is just more of the same really, but I do always seem to have plenty of chocolates around as it's a typical 'thank you for having me' gift. They go out in little dishes around the house and by the time we get to New Year and the hordes have left - so have the chocolates.
We have just set up a food bank in our fairly affluent little town after hearing that locals were travelling elsewhere to get food parcels. Unless it's accompanied by action of some sort I'm not sure what good there is in prompting "uncomfortable thoughts about other people's hunger".

Apart from a little bit of extra chocolate, I've not eaten anything special.
Yesterday I used up all my vegetables and made soup and a corned beef hash
which will see me through this week probably.

Gally, have a safe journey home .
Apart from my being the only consumer of mince pies and Christmas cake in our house , nothing very different from the norm has been eaten, really. The supermarket car parks are still full to bursting though, so someone somewhere is spending a fortune on food that may just find itself in the bin after a few days.

I'm returning home today after 10 days with family, to a completely empty fridge; none of the usual Christmassy left overs to pick on so I shall take this opportunity to start the new year as I mean to go on (!). I will endeavour to eat sensibly and whenI stray from the straight and narrow will just go and look in the mirror and remind myself why I am doing this.......

Apart from buying a rather more expensive joint of meat than we usually do, we haven't diverged from our usual diet at all. Can't do feasts. i simply don't find eating a lot at once is enjoyable at all. Ever.

And even then, there is something a bit yukkily smooth about himSelf isn't there. I did read one book by him about a London in which all the people were chimpanzees. Undoubtedly talented but not endearing.
But yes I agree with the sentiment - the last thing we need in this increasingly overweight country is a week (or 10 days even) of over eating and drinking. Not like we are half starved all year and a big blow out is a real treat is it?
One day was plenty for me, and for the first time ever we have no chocolate in the house post xmas. In fact normal diet has been resumed since Boxing Day.

Well, his final bite is good. He wants us to think about people who don't have enough to eat rather than, in his words, "what's on the end of our forks". He mentions the Trussell Trust and its foodbanks.

So his 'device' is to build a picture of the excessive "foodiness" of modern Britain and then to bring us down with a thump to uncomfortable thoughts about other people's hunger. A worthy sentiment and probably (hopefully) effective.

Still don't like his 'delivery' style. But that's just personal. Note to self (no pun intended): I'd have been better reading what he had to say rather than listening.