Last night we both stood in the kitchen wearily.
It has been a long week. Nothing bad, nothing worrying. Just long. We’re both working in what is referred to as “the silly season” here, which is basically the month of August. People with kids take weeks off as it’s summer holidays, and this means if you’re stupid enough to be working, you’re a stand-in for pretty much everyone. We’re both stand-ins for a number of people. People may go on holiday, but work doesn’t. Things are busy. Times ten. Make that twenty.
Last night we stood there, unprepared for and unmotivated in what the hell to make for dinner. My wrist was killing me, I have a lovely summer cold, and although I fell off the Dukan Diet I have been watching food very carefully, not aided by raging PMS that is so severe that I would mow down a herd of nuns for a piece of a crouton. We stood there, dejected.
“What can I make you for dinner?” Alastair asked kindly.
I shrugged. Healthy salad? Lean piece of fish? Diet something? In the end, honesty prevailed.
“I just want to get drunk and eat bread,” I replied with a whimper.
I lurched upstairs, took a bath, and finished a not-so-good book that I kept hoping would pull out of the nosedive but didn’t (it was not YA. That said, I do not for a minute recommend “Across the Universe”, which is YA. Skip that one.) When I got out of the bath and came downstairs – my joints aching less, my cough eased, my mood dusky shades instead of the black inky darkness it had been – there in the kitchen was dinner: an uncorked bottle of wine, slices of homemade wholegrain bread, and a giant hunk of aged cheddar.
Sometimes it’s nice to give in to the darkside.
-S.
I love it when our husbands know exactly what we need…or even just listen when we tell them. :)
Come to the dark side, we have bread! ;)
That sounds seriously good right now.
Oh, he’s a love, for sure!!
I need to find me someone like that.
You have an excellent husband.
Oh momma. I know those weeks and days well. I’m glad you got exactly what you needed.
xoxo
That sounds like a delicious dinner…
good boy!
Every single dietician I’ve spoken to in my life – and there have been many – has said the same thing: it’s actually counterproductive to deny yourself a craving, because you end up eating your weight in celery and diet cream cheese and still end up being grouchy as hell.
I wish I had cheese, speaking of which. Your blog makes me hungry a lot…
Sometimes what you really need is bread and wine and cheese. I certainly agree with D about what I’ve been told by dieticians, not to mention what’s worked for me with weight-loss (this is why I’m a Weight Watchers convert, it has enough little nitpicky things that fit the control I used to throw into eating disorders, but actually encourages me to eat and to eat healthy, but not deny cravings so I can have the comfort food/craving and still be ‘on plan’).
Bread and cheese. My idea of heaven.
Ehhh. A keeper!
Go Alastair! :)
I’m glad you splurged diet-wise. I’m w/ Penelope; Weight Watchers is the most reasonable “get it off and keep it off” method of losing weight I’ve seen (and used). About 10 years ago I was 20 lbs overweight and used WW to get the weight off and keep it off.
The good thing about it is that it has built in “splurges”, and there’s a lot of food that is 0 points, so (especially if you like vegetables or popcorn) there’s always something you can eat that’s relatively tasty but won’t ruin a week’s “dieting”.
But I agree, well done Alastair.
Huzzah!
I miss alcohol. Quite a lot.
Fifteen weeks to go, or thereabouts, until I can have wine for dinner if I feel like it. I think I probably will, somehow.
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Go Alastair indeed! The Durkan Diet which I’ve tried and religious followed, well just for a few weeks but definitely long enough to know that it’s not sustainable long term. You need variety in your diet! And really everything in moderation!
There have been times when Evil Rob has had ice cream for dinner—at my insistence. Can’t seem to do it myself; just not filling in the right way.
Alastair sounds like a man that knows exactly what you need at any given time, and delivers.
Sometimes it’s not just nice to give in to the darkside, it’s nice to cherish it once in a while. Especially where good food is concerned.