Our house is currently a building site (without a kitchen) as we're in the process of building an extension. As you've probably guessed I love my kitchen, I love my cooker, I love my food processor and I love my juicer so I've been struggling big time! I've been kitchen-less now for about three weeks and initially thought it would be a great way to get into raw food. How wrong could I have been... the house and it's contents are coated in dust, we have no space and we're living in our bedroom and washing pots in the bath! Great!After a week of eating salads I was feeling pretty fed up so I thought I'd borrow a microwave and use this as an oppoprtunity to sample some ready-meals (all in the name of research of course). However, I gave up after four days and went back to my salads and Innocent Smoothies. So what's so bad about microwaves? Well, there's a stack of research relating them to numerous chronic conditions including cancer (just google it and prepare to be shocked!). There's also the practical consideration that microwave cooking just doesn't taste that great!
As far as I'm concerned microwave food is just salty mush; I've tried a couple of vegetarian ready-meals and was disgusted. However, I tried a Food Doctor meal (cous cous with roasted vegetables and butternut squash) and I have to say it was pretty good but don't tell anyone...
I don't think I'll be going back to microwave cooking so I'm now just counting down the days to my new kitchen...
Love Charlotte x




