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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Food on the move. What to buy for breakfast? Festivals, feasts or fasts? Plan next year's meetings on a printed calendar

 


This is my friend's breakfast. A friend who I know through my Toastmasters Club Braddell Heights Advanced (More on that later.) 

I remember in London, England, buying a sandwich every day in Tesco in the UK, and a sandwich for lunch when I went shopping in Watford's shopping centre. Tesco and Marks & Spencer have now spread everywhere, even Singapore. 

Let us start with what is good in the photo. Lots of good sustenance there. So far so good. You have water, a stimulant in the caffeine, protein in the sandwich filling, some sustaining delay action food in the flour in the bread. But what is missing?

What else might you add to make a change next meal, or next repeat breakfast? We have had one family member diabetic and another with cancer so we spent hours researching healthy food. The debate goes on. Brown bread is supposed to be healthier than white bread. We bake our own, adding seeds. We try to add a piece of fruit or or mixed fruit or vegetables and seeds at breakfast or our next snack or meal. We add a glass of water to lubricate the body and brain.

Colour Coding Food

Three colours. Avoid all white or all brown.


What else might you add?

Green

Green or Greens

Greens - fruit or vegetables, apples or lettuce.


Orange, Red Or Pink

Orange or red, carrots or apples or oranges.

We have had one family member diabetic, and another with cancer, so we spent hours researching healthy food. The debate goes on.


Brown Bread

Brown bread is supposed to be healthier than white bread. I used to look for a brown bread option, reduced later in the day, or a mixture of white and brown bread sandwiches. What does the brown bread add? Roughage. Bulk.

Now when we are at home much more since Covid-19. So we bake our own bread, adding seeds.

We try to add a piece of fruit or or mixed fruit or vegetables and seeds at breakfast or our next snack or meal.


Fruit

Whole fruit is said to be better than fruit juice, as anybody diabetic learns from the government handouts. Roughage to help you move the food along and out of your body. Stop diarrhoea, or constipation.


What if you cannot afford the sandwiches or the shop has run out already?

Yogurt. Fruit. For protein add nuts.


Water

We add a glass of water to lubricate the body and brain.

Diet restrictions

I have to avoid shellfish because of an allergy. If you have an allergy, or develop one, a doctor will ask you to record everything you eat and note the symptoms and onset. This might mean eating one type of food at a time.

Useful Websites

FOOD

Allergies

Diet

Health

breakfast

Sandwiches

Coffee


For Food celebrations such as pancake day, see

https://www.calendarpedia.com/when-is/pancake-day.html

My Successful Dieting

https://how2getout.blogspot.com/2021/06/how-i-lost-so-much-weight-down-to-480.html


CALENDAR

https://wishshi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/July-to-December-2021-Calendar-scaled.jpg

(Click on three dots top right of screen to find and then click on print)

For small size whole of 2022 calendar 

www.calendarpedia.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur (Jewish Fast day)


About the Author

Angela Lansbury, is a semi-retired travel writer still researching bucket list countries and seeking out the special, unusual, people, places,  landmarks, hotels, museums and trails, fabulous foods, recipes, clothes and online souvenir shopping.

Angela Lansbury is a member of Toastmasters International.

About the Author Angela Lansbury

The Author - Quick Quotations

Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books. 

About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President  Public Relations, Immediate Past President. VPPR
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.
Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK

BHA
Past meetings have included Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on 
bha.learncool.sg/meet/bha . 

Recent meetings of BHA included an educational session on using Powerpoint for posters.
Next BHA meetings, always first Wednesday evening, 7 pm Singapore time. Next meeting is  the third Saturday afternoon, June 19th 2pm Singapore time.  Inauguration of the new committee was by the incoming Director of S, plus a lively speech on teamwork.

Next meetings will be on these dates (unless a national holiday in Singapore or worldwide)
Themes and word of the day are tentative

2021
JULY - JUBILANT JULY
Theme/WOD Jubilant
WORKSHOPS & EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS (based on level one of Pathways)
1 Your first speech or role EASY ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Articles A and The, Plurals, Tenses, Pronunciation, Singlish)
2 CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Wed July 7th 
Saturday 17th
July 4rh American Independence Day.

2021 AUGUST - AWESOME AUGUST
1 Pathway Level 1 Introductory Speeches
2 Evaluations
Wed 4th
Sat 21

2021 SEPT - SUPER SEPTEMBER
Wed 1st
Sat 18th SPEECH CONTESTS
Humorous Speech Contest
Table Topics Contest

2021 OCT - ODD OCTOBER
Wed 6th
Sat 16th

2021 NOV - NOVELTY NOVEMBER
Wed 3rd
Sat 20th Wed
Diwali Hindu Festival of lights Nov 4th.
Nov 25th American Thanksgiving.
Hanukah starts 28 Dec 8 days until Dec 6. Jewish Festival of lights, celebrated by Jesus.

2021 DEC - DARLING DECEMBER
Wed  1st (Hanukah if not previous month. Festival foods.)
Sat 18th
Speech on 

JAN 2022 - JOYFUL JANUARY
Wed Jan 5th New beginning - forget the past
Sat 15 Long-term plans = for the future/Chinese New Year (CNY for short)

2022 FEB FUN FEBRUARY
Theme Love and romance - Chinese New Year
Feb 1st and 2nd are holidays - do we move this Feb 2nd meeting date?)

Wed 2nd (Valentine's Day Mon Feb 14)
Sat 19th

2022 MAR - MARVELLOUS MARCH
Theme
Wed 2nd
Sat 19
March 1st is Christian Pancake day. 

2022 APR - APRIL'S AIMS
Wed 6th
Sat 16th
Muslim Ramadan 1-30 April.
Jewish Passover (Seder meal=Last supper) April
 16

2022 MAY - MODERNISING MAY
Wed 4th
Sat 21

2022 JUN - JUBILANT JUNE
Wed 1st
Sat 18th

Jul 6, Jul 16, Aug 3, Aug 20, Sept 7, Sept 17, Oct 5, Oct 15, Nov 2, Nov 19, Dec 7, Dec 17.
Angela The Blogger 

Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:

See many varied posts such as the post on sculptor Tom Harvey.

Please share links to your favourite posts. 


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