monday's post

so I got up at about 11.05AM today after going to bed far too late (early tonight because its school tomorrow, going to make a real effort to get there on time, going to keep on my feet from when I get up to when I get to school so I can't possibly fall asleep again)

Breakfast

• nope, didn't have any breakfast but I did have a couple of little jelly sweets from my sweet shop mix

Lunch

• didn't have any lunch as such, but I finished off the last handful of sweets from the mix, the real surprise of the thing was a peppermint mojo - i'd never tried these before and it was incredibly special, like the perfect sweet and mint mixed, i'm going to get a bag of these in the next few weeks I think

Dinner 6.40PM

• for dinner we had beef stew which was a welcome change, it was pieces of nice beef (none of them too irony tasting)
• some of my mum's dumplings
• some carrots
• some pieces of well done soft potato (I don't really like soft potato but it was still alright)
• and some spring greens
• I put a fair bit of salt and pepper on everything but it was this lo-salt which is extremely frustrating because of its strong taste and fine texture, it means I always put too much on because I can't get a mild even coating with the bloody stuff
• after that I started to have a banana but after half a finger tip amount I noticed it had blue bruising on it, snapping it in half I found that the inside was like a kind of red wood kind of thing, mostly hollow too - this is the second banana i've ever had like this and i'm very interested in finding out what causes it. I'm thinking it must be some kind of disease to the banana plant, maybe something to do with insects using the plants to hatch their young? I don't know, i'm going to read up on it

Snacks 8.00PM+

• I had a bit of a snack blow out, this being my last night of freedom before school, I started with some lovely chocolate coins, I love these so much because the chocolate changes taste so much with every coin but still remains kind of nutty and creamy
• we then had some of my christmas green and blacks chocolate, which was orange with rocks of crunchy gingerbread in it - this was wonderful, I usually dislike chocolate with bits in but when the dark orange chocolate has melted away the gingerbread remains crunchy to eat which is a wonderful treat

sunday's post

I got up at about 2.20PM today, and i've had a down, anxious day because I (can't stop thinking about going back to school

Breakfast

• nah, too late for that

Lunch

• nope, I didn't have anything apart form a few of those christmas marshmallows when I was downstairs - I really should have had something because I felt terrible by dinner time

Dinner 7.15PM

• dinner was very nice, we had roast beef which was cooked perfectly
• there was also roast potatoes
• yorkshire puddings
• brussel sprouts - I don't really mind these much anymore
• cabbage
• and broccoli
• on top of a lot of the meal I put a load of horseradish, giving my self many shocks and making myself wince and my eyes water quite a few times, but I still think it was worth it
• I also put a fair bit of gravy on everything
• not as much salt as usual today (mainly because we ran out) and next to no pepper
• I also had a strange banana after all this, it was very odd, I could taste the seeds

Snacks 8.35PM+

• first I started with a couple of those marshmallows, which finished the bag, I still think they were perfect
• we then had a little bowl each of the chocolates my grandma gave us, they were all very odd, especially one that seemed to mix lemon curd, a chocolate ginger and something chewy all into one - there was one very good one, one of the best chocolates i've had in months, a white one with pink speckles, it was heaven. hard to describe but it was perfect
• then I had just a few of the sweets from a sweet mix I got from the sweet shop before christmas, they're mostly alright but a few of lost a bit of their flavour

i'm really not into peanuts at the moment

I feel like this dog who also doesn't like peanuts

saturday's post

today I got up at about 11.15, I watched a thing on the history channel about the dark ages today and I really enjoyed it

Breakfast

• nah, I didn't have anything for breakfast, but I kept at those chocolate orange little segments

Lunch 3.35PM

• before lunch I had a few more of those orange segments
• for my actual lunch I had what the deli calls a yumyum, which is what I think a churro is, it was really nice with a load of sugar on it
• with that I had a wonderful fentiman's lemonade that I really rushed drinking

Dinner 6.30PM

• dinner was really nice, we had belly pork with bits of lemon on the side
• and some bits of battered chicken pieces, my dad tried making his own batter without using one of the packet mixes today, I think it was much less sickly but he thinks he can't get the deep fryer to go hot enough
• with that we had some lemon slices and a little bowl of tescos garlic mayonnaise which was wonderful to have
• there was also some very nice chips
• and some bread from the deli (I had two pieces, which is probably a full slice)
• I also had some salad which was very nice, it was lettuce
• tomato
• and cucumber
• I forgot to have a banana after that (thats the problem with not eating in the kitchen)

Snacks 9.20PM+

• after I found out my dad had finished off the chocolate orange slices that I had planned to share with him, I had another couple of those chocolates from holland
• then a bit later on we had some pistachios which were wonderful but you get very few in a packet
• then we had some peanuts but they weren't really too nice - I think i've gone off peanuts now, they tasted too much like actual peas (I don't even know what they have to do with peas, its probably just my mind linking names and tastes together)
• I then got out some perfect marshmallows, shaped like christmas trees and some strange white things that are probably snowmen or polar bears, they were nice and big
• after that I had two glasses (one can) of boddingtons bitter, it was even worse than it was a few days ago and I really can't recommend it at all, its kind of like bad water

friday's post

on friday I got up at about 8.40AM so I could go swimming with a friend nice and early

Breakfast

• nah, I didn't have anything for breakfast because I wanted to get out nice and early

Lunch 12.25 (approx, not near a clock)

• we both agreed we were feeling faint so we went to the chippy, I had battered sausage and chips, it was lovely and i'm convinced that battered sausage is one of my new favourite foods
• a few hours afterwards I was in one of the pound shops where I got some sweets called toasted tea cakes, I had no idea what they were and when I tried them I found out that they were little coconut cakes, i'm really not sure if I like them

Dinner 7.20PM

• I was coming back from the cinema, expecting to just eat something in front of the TV but my mum had some work to do so we ended up eating together at 7.20, she did a wonderful pasta bake - most of the pasta bakes we have use a mix of pork and beef mince
• there was also a big bowl of salad which had some lettuce
• some tomato chunks
• some bits of cucumber
• some spring onion, and other little things
• I also had a slightly funny tasting banana

Snacks 8.50PM+

• first I had one of the chocolates from holland that my mum's friend sent her, it was like a little chocolate tube, with a maybe slightly alcoholy taste to it, with a white vanilla centre, and a seed topping it - this was all very interesting and kind of odd to eat because the taste didn't work in my mouth in the same way a bog standard chocolate would, it was really impressive like that but I don't know if i'm into the actual taste
• after that I had the spare portion of pasta bake which was wonderful because it had firmed up a bit
• then I shared out a nice very big tub of these terrys chocolate orange segments, you get dark chocolate orange pieces, milk, honeycomb, a crunchy one (rice crispies) and a crispy one (corn flakes) they are all wonderful but the crispy and crunchy ones are defiantly the best
• I also tried another one of those chocolates, now instead of white chocolate it had milk chocolate in a dark chocolate tower, with some sesame seeds on top of it - it was interesting again but I think I need to 'sample' them more if you know what I mean

thursday's post

on thursday I got up at about 12.20PM, today we had a strangely long (maybe 3 hours long) power cut

Breakfast

• nothing really considering it was so late but when I came down I had a few of those little amaretti biscuits which were very nice

Lunch

• nope, I didn't have any lunch, I was holding out for the power cut carrying on so we could have some kind of feast when the food started to go funny in the freezer (didn't happen)
• a bit after the power came on me and my dad went down to the shops to buy some beer for tonight though

Dinner 6.45PM

• for dinner we had a roast dinner (i'm told you're meant to have a roast on new years day but i've never heard of that before (I thought it was burns night soon, I hope we don't have haggis))
• we had roast pork, which was a wonderful treat
• with that we had yorkshire puddings
• roast potatoes
• broccoli
• peas
• and some really nice and sweet carrots
• we also had some crackling with the meat
• on my pork I put quite a bit of crab apple jelly
• and a bit less gravy than I normally would (I know it brings out the flavours if you have less, but I do love gravy)

Snacks 7.50PM+

• first my mum gave us all little bowls of some chocolate from the market from my grandma - it was in one of those mixed bags where things can just be mishaped or the flavours might be a bit off or mixed - lucky for me, the flavour that had gone into all of them was an incredibly sweet 'red' flavour from creamy heart shaped chocolates
• after that I got out my haribo jelly babies - I didn't even know if I liked jelly babies but these were amazing, its brilliant to crack up the shell on them, and they aren't greasy which I like, also all the flavours make sense apart from green, whats green?
• I also had two glasses of boddingtons bitter, which is a cans worth - this is the first time i've tried boddingtons and I don't think i'll really go for it over other beers, its head stays with it constantly which is kind of horrid and gets in the way of a beer thats kind of smooth and drinkable

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I need to be up at 8 tomorrow so I should go to bed now

wednesday's post

so on wednesday I got up at about 11.15AM, a bit late because I was so tired

Breakfast

• nah, I didn't have any actual breakfast but I did have one of those funny market biscuits on my way out of the house - it made me feel sick, I don't even really like these biscuits and I don't know why I keep on eating them

Lunch

• a bit after lunch time I had a cola wham bar, apart from it sticking to my teeth it was really nice and tangy and had a liquorishy aftertaste, I think I really should have had a humus wrap or something because I felt really faint again by the end of my day out

Dinner 7.05PM

• i'm noting it in the dinner section not the lunch, but when I got home at about half 5, I had really quite a few of those strange biscuits because I was just that hungry
• dinner was really nice, my mum made meatloaf which I love
• we also had mashed potato, she makes it very different to my dad which i'm not used to, its kind of looser - I don't know if this is worst or anything but still
• we also had wonderful gravy, I tried not to put too much on though
• there was also carrots
• and peas
• in the end of it my mum couldn't finish her meatloaf so she gave some of it to me
• I finally had a banana too, it took me ages to eat

Snacks 7.55PM+

• first we had some very special hotel chocolat chocolates that my mum had been given, I tried a chocolate brownie one first, it was nothing like a chocolate brownie but still very nice - I think one thing about them is they're very nice to look at
• I also got out my jelly belly jelly beans, now they're wonderful - I think I love all flavours apart form the pear ones. My favourite ones have to be any blue ones, popcorn and bubblegum
• edit - god, i've just forgot something crucial, sorry, I also got out some very tiny bite size amaretti biscuits, they were strangely nice, kind of like biting into the crunchiest more together little puffs of powder ever