Interim Food

I’ve been given it some thought over the last few months and I think after years of eating crap, you can’t just start eating properly all of a sudden, even if you now have the money. Your body, if accustomed to poor food, just goes into shock if you feed it something of higher quality than normal. Your teeth have forgotten how to tear into meat. Your back teeth have all but forgotten how to grind down good food.

I think when things ease up for you recession wise and you’re ready to start eating better, when you feel you’re on the way back, you should move on to an intermediate range of food. Not Basics Range but not good food either, and not the food you can now afford to buy. It should still be food that dissolves in your mouth. It doesn’t matter any more. The Basics Range have probably cost you five years of your life, albeit probably the care home years, so you can afford to lose a few more weeks.

This on your way back food range would still melt in your mouth far too easily. It’d be a little tastier though. You want that. You want your taste buds to slowly adjust to the shock of good tasting food. This food breaks you back in.

As I myself start eating this interim food, I’ve started watching you tube videos on mastication techniques so I can reacquaint myself with the chewing that disappeared from my life when the recession saw me get swallowed up by the Basics Range. Micky Boyd has been kind enough to film himself eating in some of the finest restaurants on the South East London/Kent Borders and watching those videos of him eating his pie and mash has proved very useful. Every day I carry out empty mouthed chewing exercises in readiness for that day when I move back onto good food.

I’m confident that I will soon be chewing again.