This book is based on the mediterranean diet, lots of vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, olive oil, cheese, meat and oily fish, which is the dietary stuff I already eat, but I wouldn't say I was overly healthy. And having eaten this way for years am beginning to get very bored with it so am back to reintroducing some of the foodstuffs I cut out all those years ago.
I picked Clare Moseley's book looking for inspiration. But after my disastrous attempts at making inedible sauerkraut and kombucha whose recipes I followed to the letter, it only leaves me to introduce 3 more things from the list into my diet. However I am only allowed a matchbox size portion of cheese a day and I eat that anyway, (that's the tiny matchbox not the large!), live yogurts which I also eat and kefir milk, now that is something I cannot find round here. So nothing new there then. I will give some of the recipes a go but have cooked most of the variations of these over the years so was looking for some really new recipes to look forward to trying. I am slipping out of good eating habits of years duration into old habits which I gave up. And it seems I'm not alone in this!!
Many years ago it was a new eating lifestyle but years later... boredom really does set in I'm afraid there's only so many ways you can cook tofu, quorn and halloumi as curry, chilli etc dishes, and I've cooked them all, as "new lifestyle diets" don't seem to have as many new recipes around to try as opposed to other diets. And I rarely feel full! Which is probably why I keep a very large, very well stacked fruit dish.