Soup for breakfast

I'm coeliac and am supposed to be as close to dairy free as possible, and this makes eating trixy. One meal that has proved trixier than all the others is breakfast, as I refuse to pay loads for gluten free cereals and soy milk and want to just eat 'normal' foods. As such, I have decided that I am going to experiment with soup for breakfast. I'm normally in a rush in the morning, so I shall grab a portion from my big batch and take it to work with me to eat when I get there. We shall see how this goes.

In the slow cooker right now there is:

The remains of some celery that is limp and lacklustre
3 small onions
A couple of large handfuls of red lentils
One tin value chopped tomatoes
One tin coconut milk
4 small chillies found in the freezer that are bastardy hot
1 chicken stock pot

I shall leave it on low overnight and in the morning I shall wake to delightful breakfast soup that is gluten and dairy free. And even if it's not delightful I'l still have to eat it, cause I'm poor right now and can't afford a supermarket trip.

New Year, New Blog

As it's the 1st January, it seemed the ideal time to create a new blog. Expect complaining, irregular posting and general grumpiness.

I've been very clear about NY resolutions this year, in that I don't intend to make any. It always seems that as soon as I declare I will do something, I promptly fail. So instead, this year I'd just like to be better. I'd like to take better care of my health, as I'm still just getting to grips with being diagnosed coeliac and really need to work on getting my gut healthy again. I'd like to be better at my job (although as I'm already an awesome librarian, this one might be trixy). I'd like to be better with money and be able to save properly. I'd definitely like to be better at looking after the garden, but the fear of snails and slugs makes this one bloody hard.

So generally, this blog is just about the little things I'm doing to improve my life. And obviously angry rants too.