Parents ruin food

Parents ruin food, they really do.

Today's original eating plan was:

2 x scrambled eggs for  breakfast
1 x small handful of unsalted nuts (mmm, almonds!)
1 x beef mince and bean wrap with tomato salsa
Something and something.



Dad decided to take a day off today and as such, I ended up being involved in many of his errands. I got awoken early being told that I had a McDonalds breakfast muffin waiting for me which I wasn't going to deny being half asleep. Already, I had a bad start. I was hauled around a few shops and I was positively dying from thirst as I'd usually have a litre of water by this time. The weather being pretty warm did not do me any favours. After much nagging, I finally got two small bottles of water, huzzah!

Of course, a dodgy lunch was wanted. I refused to have McDonalds for lunch, although I did succumb to a 30c cone after staring at some teenagers eating them. Let this be yet another strike for the lesson of "never look at something tempting - walk away". I ended up being able to hold off until home where I did manage to get my awesome wrap.

For dinner, I had enough left over for another wrap and thought I'd make something similar with some spinnich thrown in. But alas, Dad had other plans. It was two for one schnitzel night at the pub on Mondays, so we trotted off to that because he couldn't be bothered cooking after a long day. I had it as healthy as I could, no cheese and with baked veggies and mash that I ate about a quarter of. So not a terribly bad dinner.

A few lessons were learned or reminded of today.

1. If you're going to be running around a lot, you know you won't be bothered cooking - always prepare meals the night or even weekend before.
2. Parents don't really care what you want to do or eat, "they know best".
3. Always carry water and nuts/celery/carrots if you're going out, no excuses!
4. Holding your ground is hard when surrounded by people eating bad things. See lesson no.3.


-MM