Robin Sieger Blog

Following on from my last trip down memory lane. I got to thinking about eating more healthily, which isn’t because I am sponsored by Krispy Kreme donuts, and have to eat 12 every day as part of a contractual obligation. It is due in part to the fact that I am on the road a great deal, which means airline food (at best) and petrol station food more often than I would like.

But to eat healthily whilst on the road is demanding and the options are limited. It requires a degree of planning and I dare say saint like self control. So the other day I decided I would boil up some brown rice (the sort that has the taste and consistency of wet cardboard) season it, and then add some finely chopped vegetables, this I would take with me and eat it at dinner time (or earlier if I got very hungry).

I got the brown rice from its place of honour in the cupboard, and started to cook it, in a light vegetable stock (to give it some flavour). Once prepared I added the chopped vegetables, and let the whole thing cool. Now I may have missed my true vocation as a TV chef on some obscure afternoon lifestyle show, because in the final stages I have a habit of adding whatever I can in terms of seasoning, and doing so with a theatrical flourish, to give the impression of it being very skilful. A dash of Turmeric, some Ground Ginger, a dab of Garam Massala, a touch of Soy Sauce and a pinch of freshly Ground Nutmeg, yes indeed the dish was a prize winner.

It was a prize winner only in my imagination, as reality soon took a front seat, because as I read the ‘use by’ date on the rice packet, I discovered, that, well to put it in context it expired in the last century. December, 1999 to be exact. It had sat anonymously in the back of the cupboard. I must have bought it whilst at my old house, and brought it with me.

Use it or lose it, is the expression that came to mind. So I checked the rest of the goods in my kitchen, and suffice to say I had a great de-clutter day.

We need to take a personal inventory of stuff in our lives that have become redundant and obsolete, and let them go.

So anyway I went and bought 12 Krispy Kremes instead…………….only joking!!!

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