Trying to Get Organised and Getting on Top of Cooking.

I've been trying to get myself organised again and into a routine so I can start cooking more again. The decorating of the last of the bedrooms has been completed and things have been moved back in out of our living room. While I've been concentrating on getting that done, we've been getting a lot of take out food and chores have been sliding in the rest of the house. It's been a bit of a downwards cycle.

Too much junk food has left me feeling drained and in a bit of a brain fog, which has not been helping me to try and catch up with everything in the house, let alone get on top of cooking for the family again.

I’m tackling it step at a time and starting with simple meals for the most part, before taking on trying too many new recipes. I'm writing lists on the whiteboard of things I want to try accomplish each day, but at the moment some things are getting carried over as I run out of time. I'm trying not to let that worry me too much as I'll not get anywhere if I get stressed about it.

I’m feeling less lethargic already and the kitchen is looking a bit cleaner than it was. I'm also starting to see some of the laundry floor again, unfortunately we're running low on hangers as we haven't had that many clean clothes at once for a while!

It's one of those things that you don't realise how much junk food affects you until you move away from it. When you get takeaways there are no ingredient lists with them, so it's hard to know exactly what is going into it.

Preservatives are in most things these days and they probably affect us more than we realise. In small animals, birds for instance, preservatives can cause them to lose the use of their legs, first, then over time, if not discontinued, can cause complete paralysis. Like the canary, they can be a indicator of what is happening in our own bodies. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise that continually eating junk food can make us lethargic.

Recently, wild magpies and crows are being brought into vets in more often, unable to use their legs properly. These are birds that will raid our rubbish bins for scraps, so what are we consuming for them to be having such issues? This is a new side to the problems of food waste.

Anyway, back to me trying to organised...

I'm taking things step at a time and sometimes its just quick meals, but as long as they aren't full of additives, then I'm not going to beat myself up about it. As I get into a better routine I can hopefully start trying out some new meals so we aren't constantly in a repeat cycle of the same meals. I have a friend helping me out with meal planning a and tips for having a list of quick meals for those days when things don't go to plan.

I have very little news on the garden while I've been focusing on getting the house straight. I did manage to transplant some onion seedlings and have had to cover my efforts with some wire, as a magpie lark seems to have decided I made a dust bath area just for it. It's too cute to get mad at, but it was a bit disappointed when it came in for its spa today.