Fruit, veg & water!

Tuesday 28th March 2023

One day or day one.

I didn't go swimming yesterday, Aryn hadn't been good over the weekend and he asked me to keep my phone close incase his stomach got worse again, so instead I went for a walk.  Managed half hour, pain kicked in about 20 minutes in but I'm definitely improving, just keep working on it.  Nikki is trying different things, massage, cupping, reflexology, I'm a challenge for her now, we've got the pain on the move and she's given me some stretches to do at home too.  

I had to fetch Aryn for his appointment anyway so he only did half day, the appointment went well, we're going to switch it up with his medication but she also said he needs to up his water to 2.5 litres a day and stop with the capri sun apart from as a treat here and there.  He already drinks up to 1.5 litres daily which he's been doing since January, so I'm going to try and help by upping my own too.  If we both have a glass of water in the morning then another with our dinner, that's going to help, I've just drunk 1/2 pint whilst waiting for the kettle to boil which is about 285ml.  Drinking water we all know is good for us!

Next she said he needs to eat 5 fruit and veg a day, 2 fruit and 3 veg to be precise, again this is good for both of us.  We nipped to the shop afterwards to get some and we were talking about the price, thankfully we can afford it still, but there are lots of people out there struggling right now to pay bills and food costs have risen dramatically, he said, 'eating fruit shouldn't be a privilege' how on the nail was that comment and how sad that it's a reality!

The fruit and veg thing will be a challenge because of course, he doesn't like all of them, thankfully he likes some and I can work from there.  I did 80g of carrot sticks to show him how small that portion was, we both had a portion each.  I could eat those daily to be honest and they're only 50p for a big bag. 

I really enjoyed dinner, roasted pepper, corn on the cob and spinach with brown rice, the microwave stuff is still only 38p in Aldi, but has gone up to 50p in Sainsburys (a 12p increase in the last two weeks!) I know I can buy and cook it from scratch but it honestly takes ages to cook and I'm not sure it tastes any good, even the nurse said yesterday she has success getting people to switch bread and pasta to wholemeal but not so much the rice and I have to say that was okay last night and Aryn puts sweet chilli sauce onto his so he doesn't care.

The fish was Birds Eye lightly dusted fish fillets with sea salt and rosemary, I loved the coating but I thought the fish had a taste, I've noticed it before in other fish, it's like an earthy taste (I can't think how else to describe it) but Aryn said he really liked it. 

The last thing she asked him to do was walk more, so unless it's raining he can walk to school as well as walking home. If he does that I'll be able to go swimming earlier.

Isn't it madness how I'll do all these things to help him but when it's just for me, I forgot and it trails off!

I'm looking forward to this weeks chat again, it helped me yesterday, it's about getting back on track and feelings of self blame, interesting stuff if I do say so myself.

I was thinking tuna pasta bake but I've just looked and only have 1 tin of tuna, I could nip to Aldi on the way back lunchtime I suppose, yeah I think I will, as Aryn left his corn on the cob, so I'll take the corn off that and use it, I can also hide some other veggies in it.  Plus its the high fibre pasta we have which is a double whammy winner :) 

Breakfast, I'm thinking eggs to use them up but I don't think I have any bread, might have a roll left, need to eat a banana, one of the five a day lol.  It's not easy is it, especially as I'm not a massive fruit fan, maybe tinned stuff would help.  Deep sigh....  We can't both be eating Strawberries, I can't afford them, he likes them, I'll eat pears and bananas, I don't have to like the fruit, I just need to eat it!  

On that honest note, I'll say have a great day, 

Mwah, luv ya 

Love me xx